PlayThe Brits managed to get in on the act in Los Angeles during Oscar night with Daniel Day-Lewis' odds-on Best Actor win and Tilda Swinton's surprise Supporting Actress award and amusing speech the highlights.
Day-Lewis was rewarded with his second Oscar for his amazing, intense performance as oil prospector Daniel Plainview in Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood, beating the likes of George Clooney and Johnny Depp.
Helen Mirren, last year's Best Actress winner for The Queen, was given the task of handing out the gong for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role to Day-Lewis for his ferocious turn.
Referring to Mirren Day-Lewis, who already has one Best Actor Oscar on his mantelpiece for My Left Foot back in 1990, joked: "That's the closest I will ever come to getting a knighthood."
He added: "Deepest thanks to members of the Academy for whacking me with the handsomest bludgeon in town. This sprang like a golden sapling out of the mad beautiful head of Paul Thomas Anderson."
Meanwhile, Swinton had previously cracked up the Bafta audience after winning their award for her excellent performance as a corporate attorney in Michael Clayton opposite Clooney and Tom Wilkinson.
The 47-year-old actress, who held off Ruby Dee, Cate Blanchett, Saoirse Ronan and Amy Ryan to win, jested: "I have an American agent who is the spitting image of this award. Really, truly the same shape head and the buttocks. Tony Gilroy (writer/director) walks on water."
Swinton also went on to comment about her co-star George Clooney's turn in the Batman suit, which elicited a hearty laugh from the audience as the former ER star played along with her gag.
Irishman Glen Hansard shared the Best Original Song award with Czech actress Markéta Irglová for their moving Falling Slowly from the small independent movie Once.
Hansard declared: "We made this film two years ago on two handicams for a hundred grand. It's been an amazing thing and it means alot to us."
Even though Brit Daniel Barker missed out in the Best Live Action Short category for The Tonto Woman, Suzie Templeton and Hugh Welchman did win in the Best Animated Short one for Peter and the Wolf.
There was also a British presence in the winner's circle for the Makeup and Visual Effects categories with La Vie en Rose and The Golden Compass triumphing respectively.
British movie Atonement managed to snag Original Score for Italian composer Dario Marianelli, however it lost out to No Country for Old Men in the last and biggest award of the evening.
Veteran Roger Deakins missed out in the Best Achievement in Cinematography category, despite his two nominations for No Country for Old Men and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.
