i mean, the british nominees today — are you going to slag them off? it depends what they're wearing! ironically, the massive red carpet coverage added to the growing media saturation of celebrities at the time, eroding their specialness and their power to transfix, and making the oscars less of a draw. the great thing about the oscars is that it's live television and anything can happen, like when a streaker appeared at the ceremony in 197a. last year, my colleague, peter bowes, was broadcasting live on sunset boulevard when will smith suddenly shocked everyone who was watching the ceremony by slapping chris rock. we don't know what happened, there's a lot of conjecture right now, but i feel very sad about it. this year, i was back, commenting on the proceedings for bbc news with peter at the hollywood roosevelt hotel, site of the first oscars. well, i think that we will both agree that it was actually a good awards show. the conclusion was that it had been a pretty good academy awards. see you next year hopefully. look forward to it.