The Academy Awards, while never lacking in fashion misses, offered some surprise hits last night on the red carpet.

Actress Cameron Diaz was a stunner in an embellished Oscar de la Renta strapless gown that was a spot on combination of glamour and fun.

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Kathryn Bigelow is the first woman to win in an Oscar for best director, but she hopes that she won’t be the last.

“I hope that I’m the first of many," she said backstage at the Academy Awards Sunday. "Of course, I’d love to think of myself as just a filmmaker, and I long for the day that the modifier can be a moot point, but I’m ever grateful if I can inspire some young, intrepid, tenacious male or female filmmaker and have them feel that the impossible is possible.”

Best actor Oscar winner Jeff Bridges has a few things in common with his hard-drinking, country star character Bad Blake in “Crazy Heart.”

“The music - that's where I most identified with Bad,” Bridges said, adding that he’s “been writing and playing since a kid.”

But unlike Bad, Bridges has never had four wives – just one strong marriage to a great wife, whom he thanked during his Oscar acceptance speech.

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