A donkey, a giant bear (someone in disguise) scaring the Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai or the Top Gun-style parachute that the presenter, Jimmy Kimmel, entered with, gave a touch of color to the 95th Oscar Awards gala that exalted ‘Everything at once in all parts’. These were some of the anecdotes of a ceremony that has tried to leave the past behind, in which a slap from Will Smith eclipsed everything else.

Host Jimmy Kimmel entered the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles parachute flyingwinking at one of the nominated tapes of the night ‘Top Gun: Maverick’, and also at one of the great absentees: Tom Cruise.

The slap that Will Smith gave to comedian Chris Rock in the last edition of the Oscars he slipped into the gala several times thanks to jokes of host Jimmy Kimmel, who warned at the beginning of the night against any attempt to hit him.

After posing on the carpet in a black Versace with transparencies, Lady Gaga gave a low-frills performance of ‘Hold My Hand’ on stagethe main song of ‘Top Gun: Maverick’, and she did it with her makeup removed and dressed in ripped jeans and a black T-shirt.

Despite the fact that it was a gala with a majority of novice nominees, there were also moments of memory and nostalgia such as the one starring Hugh Grant and Andie MacDowell, one of the most iconic couples in cinema of the nineties, protagonists of ‘Four weddings and a funeral’ (1994), who today presented an award. Also by John Travolta, who introduced the video of the deceased of the year remembering his eternal partner in ‘Grease’, Olivia Newton-John.

One of the most endearing characters from ‘Almas en tormento de Inisherin’ also got on stage, jenny the donkey, that has appeared held by Jimmy Kimmel, with a red bow around his neck.

other animal that sneaked into the gala was a giant bearthis time false, referring to the controversial film ‘Cocaine Bear’ and which has accompanied actress Elizabeth Banks to deliver the Oscar for best special effects.

The particular sausage fingers of Michelle Yeoh in ‘Everything at the same time everywhere’ they sneaked into the galain David Byrne and Mitski’s rendition of the film’s title track, ‘This is a Life.’

The night of “Mom, I won an Oscar”: It is the phrase that Ke Huy Quan said between tears when remembering his 84-year-old mother. And a very similar one was pronounced by Jamie Lee Curtis, when at the end of his speech he remembered her parents, now deceased, the actors Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis, two nominated stars who never won an Oscar. He looked up, as if he were addressing them, and yelled, “I’ve won an Oscar.”