Tilde Swinton appeared stunned when she was announced as the best supporting actress. And she insisted during back-stage interviews that she wasn’t faking it. She expected Rudy Dee to win. “I really just had a reverse ‘Zoolander’ moment when I think I heard someone else’s name and suddenly heard my own,” she said. “I’m still recovering from that moment, and I have no idea what happened after that.”

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Ever since they made “Blood Simple,” the Coen brothers have edited their films under the pseudonym Roderick Jaynes. They had asked the academy, if they won, could they have two statues, but the academy said no because only one name was listed on the credits. It didn’t matter because Jaynes didn’t win, anyway. But had he * they * won, the Coens would have set an Oscar record by being the first filmmakers to win four awards for the same movie.

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