Oscars 2014: Pizza, Travolta and the rest

Brad Pitt passes a slice of pizza to Meryl Streep after host Ellen DeGeneres took orders from the crowd on Sunday, March 2.

Director Steve McQueen, left, celebrates with the cast and crew of "12 Years a Slave" as they accept the Academy Award for best picture.

Leonardo DiCaprio, left, congratulates Matthew McConaughey for winning the best actor Oscar for "Dallas Buyers Club." DiCaprio, who starred in "The Wolf of Wall Street," was also up for the award.

Cate Blanchett reacts after winning best actress for her role in "Blue Jasmine."

Angelina Jolie and Sidney Poitier present Alfonso Cuaron with the best director Oscar for "Gravity."

Pink sings "Over the Rainbow" while scenes from "The Wizard of Oz" are projected in the background. The performance was a tribute to the film's 75th anniversary.

DeGeneres channels Glinda the Good Witch from "The Wizard of Oz."

Glenn Close presents the annual "In Memoriam" tribute.

Bette Midler sings "Wind Beneath My Wings" during the "In Memoriam" segment.

Lupita Nyong'o hugs McQueen after winning best supporting actress for her role in "12 Years a Slave."

Amy Adams greets Bill Murray on stage. While reading the names of those nominated for best achievement in cinematography, Murray also mentioned director Harold Ramis, his "Ghostbusters" co-star who died last month at the age of 69.

DeGeneres takes a moment during the show to orchestrate a selfie with a group of stars. Bradley Cooper, seen in the foreground, was holding the phone at the time. "If only Bradley's arm was longer," DeGeneres tweeted. "Best photo ever." It reportedly became the most retweeted post of all time.

U2 performs its Oscar-nominated song "Ordinary Love" from the movie "Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom."

Darlene Love sings while accepting the award for best documentary feature ("20 Feet from Stardom").

Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Ezra Koenig of Vampire Weekend perform a duet of "The Moon Song."

DeGeneres gives Cooper scratch-off lottery tickets -- a "consolation prize" because he didn't win the Oscar for best supporting actor.

Nyong'o dances with Pharrell Williams during his performance of "Happy."

Jared Leto shakes hands with an audience member after winning the best supporting actor Oscar for his role in "Dallas Buyers Club."

Anne Hathaway presents the award for best supporting actor.

DeGeneres takes a selfie on stage near the start of the show.

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• John Travolta totally messed up the pronunciation of "Idina Menzel"


• Ellen committed to her pizza joke


• Pharrell's shorts did not go over well

(CNN) -- WTH John Travolta?

By most estimations, the Oscars show was somewhat staid this year. Some of Ellen DeGeneres' jokes fell flat, no one got bleeped, and at one point whatever was happening on Amy Adams' phone was way more interesting than the actual show.

But there were a few things that happened that the Internet has fallen in love with -- other than Ellen's selfie, we mean. Things like:

1) John Travolta, learn to pronounce Idina Menzel, please

Perhaps he is not a Broadway fan or missed all of the hubbub about "Frozen."

Whatever the reason, John Travolta butchered singer Idina Menzel's name while introducing her performance of the Oscar-winning song "Let It Go" from "Frozen." Suddenly "Uh-deen-a Men-zelle" became "the wickedly talented" "Adele Dazeem."

Umm, what?

Dude, that wasn't even close. We expected better from someone who started his intro with "There will always be a special place in my heart for the movie musical."

2) That pizza guy

Yep, that was an honest-to-goodness pizza delivery that happened during the show. Ellen joked about sending out for some pies, and sure enough, a deliveryman from Big Mama's & Papa's Pizzeria appeared. He didn't give his name, but word is his co-workers were cheering for him.

"Who's your favorite movie star? They're here," Ellen quipped to him.

Of course she passed the hat (Pharrell's, naturally) to take up a collection for his tip, though it looks like he left without collecting it. The chain, which has stores throughout Los Angeles, wasted no time in tweeting about the delivery, as did pregnant actress Kerry Washington, who DeGeneres wanted to make sure got a slice.

It has to be good if @TheEllenShow ordered it for her friends! http://ift.tt/1i7dcyZ

— Big Mama's & Papa's (@BigMamasNPapas) March 3, 2014

"Yes! @TheEllenShow - There IS gluten-free pizza!!!!" Washington tweeted.

Yes! @TheEllenShow 😃 There IS gluten-free pizza!!!! #OSCARS #greenroom http://t.co/CA89kQhaPR

— kerry washington (@kerrywashington) March 3, 2014

3) '12 Years a Slave' beef?

Kudos to John Ridley for winning the Oscar for best adapted screenplay for "12 Years a Slave." But he noticeably did not thank the film's director, Steve McQueen. And McQueen's reaction in the audience to Ridley's win didn't look very joyous. Actually, it appeared that at some points McQueen's hands didn't even touch and instead there was a faux-clap.

Wow.

Hollywood journalist Nikke Finke tweeted that her sources were "attributing John Ridley-Steve McQueen cold shoulder at Oscars tonight to dispute over screenplay credit."

4) No love for Leo

Once again Leonardo DiCaprio was passed over for an Academy Award, and once again fans roared.

DiCaprio lost the best actor award to Matthew McConaughey, and many were not pleased. It marks the fourth snub by the Oscars for Leo, who was nominated this year for "Wolf of Wall Street" but has previously lost with nominations for "What's Eating Gilbert Grape," "The Aviator" and "Blood Diamond."

"Poor Leo you could see he is trying to hold back the tears," tweeted one fan with a pic of what looked to be a dejected Leo responding to his name not being called.

And then there was the "And this is where I'd put my Oscar ... if I had one" illustration of the actor.

Poor Leo you could see he is trying to hold back the tears😢 http://ift.tt/1eKtx9u

— maya∞ (@nicelyariana) March 3, 2014

i just snorted so loudly in a public place laughing at this. poor leo. worst start to week #robbed http://ift.tt/1eKtx9A

— Harriet Sweeney (@HarrietIshbel) March 3, 2014

Better luck next year?

5) Pharrell comes up short(s)

Yes, it is Los Angeles, where it's sunny and warm, and maybe Pharrell was just overjoyed that the Oscars red carpet was spared the predicted rainstorm. Otherwise, we have no way of understanding why Pharrrell Williams showed up in shorts.

Pharrell's shorts. Discuss. (Side note: his wife's suit is FIERCE.) #oscarsredcarpet http://ift.tt/1dTPezI

— ANDPOP (@andpop) March 3, 2014

The singer-songwriter-producer and his wife appeared on the red carpet with her in a feminized version of a tux, and him in formal wear only from the waist up. He may have been "Happy" with his fashion choice, but many weren't.

"No, Pharrell. JUST NO. NEVER. #Oscars," said one tweet.

"Pharell is slowly turning into a park ranger," tweeted one viewer, who clearly was paying homage to our favorite Pharrell fashion item, his Smokey the Bear-like hat.

No, Pharrell. JUST NO. NEVER. #Oscars

— Chris Jancelewicz (@CJancelewicz) March 2, 2014

Pharell is slowly turning into a park ranger.

— Robin Rodgers (@robinemily110) March 2, 2014

We would like to think Pharrell made up for it with his rousing performance of his song "Happy" from "Despicable Me 2," which got the crowd moving.

After all, anyone who can get Meryl Streep to shimmy can't be all bad, right?