Well, that was fun! I mean, I admit that I tend to enjoy the Oscars more than most people (unless Seth MacFarlane is hosting, because screw that guy), but I did enjoy the live chat we were doing with the Dissolve Facebook folks. You know who you are; I love you.

In sartorial choices this year, I am pleased to say that jewel tones are popular. It turns out the fashion trend is for the peak lapel, and now, I know the names of three kinds of lapel. Jacob Tremblay was adorable, and Brie Larson’s dress was exactly my favourite colour. Like, exactly.

Chris Rock was a good host who apparently raised a ton of money for his daughters’ Girl Scouts. One of the highlights of the evening to me was watching Morgan Freeman and Michael Keaton steal people’s cookies.

Obviously, there was a lot of talk about race, and not just because they’d already hired Chris Rock as host months ago. So of course Sacha Baron Cohen as Ali G made some absolutely cringeworthy jokes, the worse since “We Saw Your Boobs,” in my opinion. Could they have just, you know, not? Everyone seemed to be acknowledging that it was a conversation we needed to be having, and then he went and did it in the most tone deaf way possible.

The conceit with presentation order—and I took notes so I’d remember presentation order—this year was that we were going through categories in the order in which they actually do their work, with a few exceptions. It’s an interesting idea, and the only problem is that there are a few categories which have to be shoehorned in somewhere because they don’t fit the conceit.

Screenplay: So of course, this is where we start. Honestly, I can’t have much of an opinion on The Big Short, which I haven’t seen. Of the two I did see, the screenplay wasn’t really what made or broke the movies. As for Spotlight, I didn’t really think it had much of a chance. However, it wasn’t competing against any of the real power house nominees, so I’m not sure why that’s true—and Bridge of Spies has Spielberg all over it, so it was handicapped going in.

Supporting Actress: I mean, yeah, Alicia Vikander was one of the best parts of The Danish Girl. But it was a bad movie, and I’m so tired of the Long-Suffering Wife being the winning roles.

Costume: Inasmuch as costumes are part of world-building, I guess I’m okay with this. And it’s true that genre movies seldom win in this category, so that’s good, too.

Production Design: Like I said, it was a good year in this category, and I’m glad to have been wrong. This was some intense world-building.

Makeup and Hair: Again, I think the thing that Mad Max: Fury Road did best, other than stunts, was was its world-building. The problem I had with the costumes, though, was that I kept hoping maybe someone would find those women some proper clothes. To prevent sunburn, if nothing else.

Cinematography: I’m conflicted on this one. Because the cinematography was practically the only thing I liked about The Revenant, a film I disliked a lot. It was stunning visually, even if it bored the pants off me in every other way.

Editing: I thought going in this was a strong category for Mad Max. I like to hope that someone will learn the lesson from this that not all action movies have to be edited the same way, since the movie was deliberately not like every other action movie, but I’m not counting on it.

Sound: I did like that one of the winners acknowledged that, yeah, it certainly was a loud movie.

Visual Effects: I was frankly stunned. It felt, a bit, like a loss for practical effects, perhaps ironic given that Tron was deemed ineligible back in the ’80s because too many of its effects were produced in a computer.

Animated Short: Another stunner. There’s a certain humour to the fact that a lot of people I know were mad when the Chilean guys won, and I do think the short was better in a purely technical sense. I mean, we can argue story and theme and all that, but the sheer amount of work involved in the animation of “Bear Story” was really something.

Animated Feature: As I write this, I am watching Inside Out for the second time today, because my son loves it. If he understood what was going on, this would be his favourite win. Also, I liked that one of the makers was wearing Bing Bong’s lapel pin.

Supporting Actor: I very seldom actually respond with happy noises to wins. Irritated ones are, I must confess, much more likely. This one got a happy noise. Mark Rylance was very good, and I wasn’t expecting the movie to win anything, because Spielberg. I do feel kind of feel sorry for Mark Ruffalo, who apparently was partway out of his seat before the “ylance” part.

Documentary Short: So okay, sometimes, you do get something out of making a documentary short, and it’s not just that Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy had already one. It’s that Pakistan has changed laws over this short. Pakistani law is intensifying to protect women against honor killings. So hooray!

Documentary Feature: Is Joshua Oppenheimer the new Spielberg?

Live Action Short: This is another one I just wasn’t expecting. It was delightful, but I’m not sure that’s a high priority in the category.

Foreign Language Film: Again, I haven’t seen any of these. But Son of Saul was, I believe, the favourite.

Original Score: Ennio Morricone’s first nomination was in 1978, and he hadn’t won yet. Inside Out wasn’t nominated. I’m good with this.

Original Song: And then there’s this. Not to mention that this was one of the worst Oscar performances I’ve ever seen. I was weirdly fixated by the one for the Fifty Shades of Grey song, which was the Oscar’s tribute to both Cirque du Soleil and BDSM?

Best Director: I’m really starting to dislike Iñárritu personally. I’m also not pleased with the conflation of best and most; Matt Damon was pretty pointed on the red carpet about having actually had fun making The Martian.

Best Actress: Hers wasn’t the best performance in the movie, but since Brie Larson was Room‘s only nominee, well, okay. I also like how she was hugging people who appeared to be seat-fillers during one of the bumpers.

Best Actor: And thus, said my friend Liz, dies a great meme. Fassbender was robbed.

Best Picture: Did not see this coming. I’m happy about it, very happy, but did not see it coming.

So there it was. What did you guys think?