It may have been a winning night for Jason Segel’s friend and “Man or Muppet” composer Bret McKenzie, but for Segel the ceremony proved bumpy. The Muppets and How I Met Your Mother star was seen cracking up with Best Supporting Actor nominee Jonah Hill and Muppets scribe Nick Stoller when Segel told EW that some buttons had accidentally popped off his tuxedo shirt earlier this evening. His solution? Double-stick tape. ”Every woman at the Oscars apparently has double-stick tape”

“When you’re not a star, we were trying to do more medium values. But for the sake of pulling our leading lady out of the crowd, I used the white hat with the black bow and I used the white color with the little bow to create a little contrast in there so your eye goes to her in the midst of all the madness.” Oscar-nominated costume designer Mark Bridges

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There’s one in every class photo, isn’t there? In the photo taken at yesterday’s prestigious Oscar luncheon for the 2012 nominees at the Beverly Hilton Hotel you can spot Best Original Song nominee, legendary musician Sergio Mendes (“Real in Rio” from Rio) in the fourth row on the left giving bunny ears to fellow nominee, Best Animated Short Film nominee Brandon Oldenburg (The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore) who obliged him with a funny face.  (Sorry Armie Hammer, this might be the photo-bomb to end them all.)

Of course, there’s plenty more to marvel at at this virtual Where’s Waldo? of Hollywood. (Except in this case, everyone is Waldo and Waldo is very, very beautiful and rich.) The top row has some heavy-hitting power clusters, including Brad Pitt, Meryl Streep and Rooney Mara, as well as Michelle Williams next to Aaron Sorkin and Steven Spielberg with Martin Scorsese on the far right. (Now that would have made for a memorable bunny ears pose.)

Upon further inspection you’ll also find Jean Dujardin sandwiched between Glenn Close and his Best Actor competition George Clooney; funny guys and first-time nominees Jonah Hill and Bret McKenzie standing next to one another;  and Community fans — rejoice! — there’s even a Dean Pelton Easter egg thanks to Jim Rash earning a nod for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Descendants. (Rash sort of looks like a little bit like the Oscar statuette, no?)

Check out a larger version of the photo here and see if you can spot other 2012 nominees like Viola Davis, Melissa McCarthy, Max Von Sydow, Bérénice Bejo, Octavia Spencer, Nick Nolte, Janet McTeer, and Annie Mumolo.

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Congratulations, you’re finally an Oscar nominee. 
GARY OLDMAN: I’m in shock. If you were to take the temperature of the past couple of weeks with SAG and the Globes, we weren’t really expecting anything. I’ve never been nominated before, so I’d gone beyond the point of expecting it. It’s thrilling news.

Oscar snubs Michael Fassbender, Leonardo DiCaprio, ‘Tintin’: Which omission hurts the most?

Shame, indeed. Despite being one of the biggest breakout stars of 2011, thanks to his mesmerizing performance as a sex addict in the harrowing drama Shame, Michael Fassbender was surprisingly not called among the nominees for this year’s Academy Awards. Long considered a shoo-in for a Best Actor nominee, Fassbender was edged out by first-time nominee Gary Oldman for Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and dark horse nominee Demián Bichir for A Better Life. (EW’s Dave Karger hoped Oscar voters would take notice, and it seems like they most certainly did.)

But Fassbender wasn’t the only shocking snub in the Best Actor category. Ryan Gosling was a triple threat in 2011 with his acclaimed turns in Drive, The Ides of March, and Crazy Stupid Love. (Though the latter would have been in the Best Supporting Actor race.) Between breaking up street fights, being a good sport about your, uh, supporting actor, and of course, turning in great performances, fans of Gosling and Fassbender are no doubt wondering this morning, ‘Jeez, what’s a guy have to do to get an Oscar nomination?!’

Joining Fassbender and Gosling in the notable snubs in the acting races are Golden Globe and SAG nominee Leonardo DiCaprio for J. Edgar (Best Actor), Gosling’s Drive co-star Albert Brooks (Best Supporting Actor), and We Need To Talk About Kevin‘s Tilda Swinton, who lost her spot in the Best Actress race to The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo‘s Rooney Mara.

As if awards show perennials like DiCaprio and Swinton getting left out weren’t surprising enough, there were plenty of other baffling snubs in other categories. A Golden Globe nominee, Will Reiser’s equal parts hilarious and heartbreaking autobiographical 50/50 was omitted from the Best Original Screenplay race. Hollywood legend and three-time Oscar winner Steven Spielberg was snubbed from the Best Director category for War Horse. While The Adventures of Tintin won the Globes’ Best Animated Feature trophy, it was no match for out-of-left-field choices like A Cat in Paris and Chico & Rita. And lest we remind Harry Potter fans, the Deathly Hallows — Part II was left out of all of the major categories.

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