totalfilm.com's crack squad of coffee-quaffing hacks covered every moment of last night's Oscar ceremony - live on Twitter.

Our people in London and LA sponged up the whole thing, from red carpet arrivals to red-eyed winners and losers.

Even Dep Ed Jamie - a man who still gasps at the technological wonder of fountain pens - managed to find the Twitter button.

So, pull up your morning brew and sticky pastry and relive the whole bleary, blingy business... (Timings are UK GMT, as we saw it).

1:30am

And here... we... go!  Hugh Jackman - and particularly producers Bill Condon and Laurence Mark - had a lot to prove after promising a revamped Oscar show with plenty of surprises.

Jackman's opening patter could have come straight from the old fashioned Oscar playbook - chit-chat with the front-row stars, little bit of self-deprecation (a gag about Australia - cue cut to Baz Luhrmann).

But while his opening musical number proved to be a mixed bag, it mostly succeeded, with a recession-nudging take on how to stage this year’s Best Picture nominees on a budget.

We loved his cheap-as-chips sweding of The Dark Knight and the Benjamin Button budget “aging” was ace.

 

1:36am
Extra points to good sport Anne Hathaway, who proved she's got quite a pair of pipes.

After the musical bit, came the audience interaction portion of the evening. Nice Ricky Gervais-written gag in the direction of Mickey Rourke ("I want you to say whatever is on your mind because you know we have a seven-second delay. But if you win, we switch to a 20-minute delay.")