While I will argue for Casino Royale here, I do want to take this moment to say.

While that's some good at least…shit dude, there's a time and a place for that sort of thing. Live on national television handing off the Best Picture award wasn't exactly the ideal for either of those parameters.

Watching the responses online, the later it got into the night, the angrier people got when NPH would bring that up again. I'm not sure if that was his idea or the writers', but it really wasn't that funny.
Best response though was Robert Duvall. NPH tried to get him in on it and he just gave this "…what the Hell is…

Ramis actually JUST made it into last year's crawl. It was close, but they made a spot for him.

Second least.
He managed a few entertaining lines. Which just puts him ahead of the trainwreck that was Sean Penn's presentation of the Best Picture winner.

-Joan Rivers (hey, Spaceballs qualifies her here)
-Elaine Stritch (Small Time Crooks and ParaNorman among other things)
-Jan Hooks (yeah, she was more TV, but did some film work, including, surprisingly Batman Returns)
-Christine Cavanaugh (shitloads of VA work, and for the Oscars' relevance, the voice of Babe)
and
-Leslie…

Not just that line. The entire "I need three things from you" conversation is prettymuch 'This is all you need to know about the ending' when paired with the joke they started the night with.

To be fair, this was the same ceremony that started with Anna Kendrick casually dropping a huge spoiler for Gone Girl.

Not really his style. From the way he seems to express it, and just his general attitude, it seems more like he'd just avoid it rather than outright heckle it. Especially in a case like this where his actions could be misinterpreted as defending the original from an imitator.

Re: point 3 - right now I show the count as up to five left out, though I'll concede I may be one of the few people who really gives a damn about one of them.

I'm still silently impressed to see the Weinstein PR machine was only able to snag Best Adapted.

I was about to say that, goofiness of Rocket and Groot aside, Guardians was too safe a movie for awards.

"Where's Christopher Plummer when you need him?" — Since it's related to The Sound of Music, likely not answering their calls.

Made all the more awkward by the timing.

We'll know for certain if they start handling foreign like they did with best animated this year:
"Forget showing footage. Just throw up a quick representative sketch. We've got celebs we need to showcase!"

The saddest part - for all the horrific shit Congress does, it's the president that will get the blame.
I mean, unless a Congressman does an unspeakable act as an individual, they as a group have prettymuch gained carte blanche to run the country ragged.

I'm starting to wonder how much of last night's limper humor was a result of their writers keeping hosts on a tight leash since the MacFarlane blowout. Cause when Neil was slipping barbs at the Academy, it was some of his best stuff. The rest of the time I just wanted him to stop for his own sake.

I'm not sure if he outright didn't play, but Phoenix did go on record as saying he wasn't that fond of playing the campaigning game anyway.

The first draft of The Winter Soldier had Medea taking Nick Fury's place.

It's okay. It was a clown.
In some states, they aren't even legally considered human.