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Witherspoon reacts with her Oscar at the 78th annual Academy Awards in Hollywood

Hollywood’s big night
Big winners, winning moments from the 78th Annual Academy Awards

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Walking the Oscar red carpet
It’s all sparkle and flash as Hollywood dons its fanciest fashions for the Academy Awards.

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‘I don’t even know who’s nominated’
Jennifer Tilly knows when to hold ’em and when to fold ’em, and Sunday night the one-time Oscar nominee was shunning Hollywood’s Academy Awards for a high-stakes poker game in Las Vegas.

“This is the first time in 15 years I haven’t attended the Oscar parties or gotten swept up in Oscar fever,” Tilly told The Associated Press. “I haven’t even seen ‘Brokeback Mountain.’ I don’t even know who’s nominated.”

The actress, who was nominated for an Oscar for the 1994 film “Bullets Over Broadway,” skipped the Oscars this year to compete in the 2006 National Heads Up Poker Championship on the Las Vegas Strip.

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She was eliminated in Saturday’s first round, but said Sunday she had no regrets. After all, she won last year’s World Series of Poker ladies event.

“In this, I have the prospect of winning half a million dollars,” she said. “In movies, I have the prospect of the film going straight to video.”

Maybe next year
Veteran sound mixer Kevin O’Connell lost his bid Sunday for an Oscar, but he can still lay claim to another Academy Award landmark — having the most nominations without a win.

O’Connell’s work on “Memoirs of a Geisha” earned him his 18th Oscar nomination in 24 years. But he lost to the team behind “King Kong.”

The sound mixer was philosophical about his Oscar streak when he was nominated earlier this year.

“There’s 300 to 400 films every year. Five of them get that phone call, and I’ve gotten it 18 times,” he told The Associated Press last month.

Air violist
Superstar violinist Itzhak Perlman owned the Oscar stage for a few minutes Sunday night with a moving medley of the year’s nominated film scores.

But it was air violist extraordinaire Richard Neely who had a rehearsal audience buzzing at the Kodak Theatre on Saturday.

Neely is an old hand at playing the stand-in, having accepted hundreds of fake Oscars at rehearsal ceremonies over the years.

So has actor Ron Waldron, who sat in this year for George Clooney, Tom Hanks and composer John Williams. He’s also played Steve Martin, Billy Crystal, Jon Voight and Michael Caine in a 22-year career.

Unlike so many real people, Waldron had no trouble keeping his acceptance speech brief.

“I’d like to thank Steven Spielberg,” he said. “And I’d like to thank the Academy.”

Uh-oh, he forgot to mention his mother.

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