The Cinderella comparisons came before she even won her first Oscar — consider it her glass slipper, though we hope she didn't leave it on a stairway somewhere later in the evening.

Sure, last night's Independent Spirit Awards could have served as Nyong'o's Best Night Ever as it was her birthday and she took home the award for Best Supporting Female, but that didn't include dancing with a giant hat on live television.

Some nominees make fashion missteps on Oscar night. Not Nyong'o. Not tonight. Not on her Best Night Ever. Already one of awards season's most fashionable It Girls, the "12 Years a Slave" star wowed the Oscars red carpet with a stunning pale blue Prada gown, a plunging, utterly dreamy number that served as the perfect culmination of months of equally impressive sartorial choices.

Once in the Dolby Theatre, Nyong'o approached everything with her trademark style, including grooving with Best Song nominee Pharrell as he (and his now-trademark big hat) jammed to his "Happy" and hopping in host Ellen DeGeneres' record-breaking selfie.

When it was finally time for her to take the stage to accept her statue, it was only after she hugged her brother, Liza Minnelli, Brad Pitt and Chiwetel Ejiofor in quick succession.

Nyong'o didn't even need to make it to the stage to have one of the most memorable wins in recent history, but she did — Jennifer Lawrence, you can keep your adorable stumbles — where she gracefully accepted her Oscar with a moving and heartfelt speech, sharing with the audience, "It doesn't escape me ...

Pharrell Williams had plenty to celebrate on Oscar night. In addition to a high-energy, candy-colored performance that rocked the house, he raised more than $44,000 for his educational nonprofit by selling off his famous giant brown Grammy hat
.

And not to worry, he had another one for his Oscars debut performance of hit single "Happy,"
 an identical black Vivienne Westwood-designed lid to go with those formal shorts.

After putting the Grammy hat up for auction on eBay
 last month, the winning bid was submitted by an unlikely party.

Completing the mini-meme about how Skateboard P's 10-gallon wonder looked a lot like their official logo, roast beef sandwich chain Arby's announced that it had snatched up the "Mountain" hat for $44,100.

"@Pharrell You're welcome," Arby's announced on Twitter. "We're HAPPY to support a great cause & get our hat back."

The proceeds will go to Pharrell's educational nonprofit From One Hand to Another.

After sneaking a new song
 out on us last week, Coldplay sprung another surprise on us Monday morning (March 3) with the reveal of the details on their upcoming sixth album.

The nine-track Ghost Stories is due out on May 19, with pre-orders available now on iTunes. After the ambush minimalist preview of the track "Midnight," they also announced that the album's official first single will be "Magic," which is available for download with pre-orders.

Not much is known about the follow-up to 2011's experimental Mylo Xyloto, but "Midnight" and "Magic" both hint that the group may have moved away from the radio-friendly anthems that have made them arena stars across the planet into a more introspective, quiet zone.

Set to a spare drum machine-like beat, warm, subtle keyboards and a throbbing bass, "Magic" features the lines, "Call it magic/Call it true/Call it magic when I'm with you."

The song follows a mostly midtempo path, with singer Chris Martin staying in a reflective, sing/talk pocket until climbing into his signature falsetto midway through, at which point echoey U2-like guitars bleed into the mix.

The full track listing for Ghost Stories: 1. "Always In My Head"

2. "Magic"

3. "Ink"

4. "True Love"

5. "Midnight"

6. "Another's Arms"

7. "Oceans"

8. "A Sky Full Of Stars"

9. "O"

A deluxe edition of the album with three bonus tracks will be available at Target. The band will headline the opening night of the first U.S. iTunes Festival at SXSW on March 11, with the performance streamed live and on-demand for free through the iTunes store.

The 2014 Oscars were pretty. But not, like, pretty, pretty. More of a "rugged, dirty pretty." Like Oscar-winner Matthew McConaughey; not like Oscar-winner Jared Leto, according to host Ellen DeGeneres, who provided the vast majority of the funnies during the three-plus hours of the show.

That's a long show, so Ellen did many of the hot-seat actors and filmmakers a solid and ordered some pizza — but then, left them with the bill. Good thing Pharrell was there to lend his hat to the cause of collecting to pay the poor, star-struck pizza guy.

Here are a few of the best jokes of the evening:

1. The Hunger Games
According to Ellen, the crowd in the Dolby Theatre reminded her of the kill-or-be-killed plot of the hit movie, saying, "It is the Hunger Games." Which, consequently, spurred her to ask the audience if they were hungry. She then proceeded to actually order pizza. The pizza guy showed up midway through the show, and hungry stars gobbled up the slices.

2. "It's so different."
Ellen hosted the Oscars seven years ago. Seven years ago, Meryl, Cate Blanchett, Judi Dench and Leonardo DiCaprio were all nominees. A little bit of deja-new for her this time around?

3. The Wine Captain
Ellen poked fun at all the nominees in her opening monologue, as Oscar hosts are wont to do. Her shout-out to newcomer Barkhad Abdi, who played the pirate leader in "Captain Phillips," got a round of laughs when she referred to the Somali actor as a "sommelier," and shouted, "Who's the wine captain now!"

4. The Impersonator
Academy Award-winner Liza Minnelli attended ...

What would the Oscars be without Jimmy Kimmel's annual post-awards special? Well, they would still be the Oscars, of course, but we would be robbed of several hilarious spoofs starring seemingly every A-list actor. In 2012, there was "Movie the Movie" with Antonio Banderas, Edward Norton, Josh Brolin and George Clooney. In 2013, there was with "Movie the Movie 2V" with Angelina Jolie, Rachel Weisz, Jessica Chastain and Samuel L. Jackson. This year, Kimmel looked to top his previous efforts by releasing a series of parodies — four, to be exact — each based on famous YouTube videos.

The first one, inspired by the "Charlie Bit My Finger" clip, was about a brotherly rivalry between famous actor siblings Chris and Liam Hemsworth. Co-starring Meryl Streep (with a British accent) as their mother and Tom Hanks as a mysterious monk (just go with it), the film follows the story of Chris and his attempt to get revenge on Liam after he bit him as a child. The name of the movie? "Bitman Begins," directed by Christopher Nolan.

Next up was Queen Latifah starring as Sweet Brown in "Sweet Brown: Ain't Nobody Got Time for That." Latifah stars as Brown, a woman who unintentionally changes the trajectory of history by inspiring Barack Obama (played by Barkhad Abdi) to run for president and Steve Jobs (played by future "Star Wars" villain Adam Driver) to name his company Apple. Basically, it was "Forrest Gump" for 2014 with the "ain't nobody got time for that" lady. Favorite Jimmy Kimmel punching bag Matt Damon ...

Aw, look at that! Kelly Osbourne is proving that she's buried the hatchet with Lady Gaga by pretending to choke her at Elton John and David Furnish's 22nd Annual AIDS Foundation 2014 Oscars viewing party. Either that, or Kelly's straight-up strangling the "

...I'm going to go with scenario A.

In case you don't remember, the feud between these two has popped into the media every couple of months over the past year or so. There was Mother Monster's open letter urging Kelly to stop contributing to a culture of bullying, the "Fashion Police" host's Cosmopolitan, plus a whole lot of cake drama on "The X Factor" U.K.

But, by the looks of this photo, Gaga and Kelly have laid the past to rest, something I always approve of. Welp, I guess there's nothing more to say except: Yaaas, Gaga. And Kelly, you reconcile so good. Oh my god, yaaas!

Stick with us for complete Oscars coverage including all the Oscar winners, show moments and fashion highlights.

The McConaissance has reached its pinnacle. Matthew McConaughey, star of such throwaway rom-com fare as "Failure to Launch," "Fool's Gold" and "How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days," is now the proud owner of one heck of a hard-won Best Actor Oscar for his full-bodied turn in "Dallas Buyers Club."

McConaughey's steady rise to awards-season glory has been years in the making, as the continued king of thrice-repeated "alrights" and persistent preacher of the "just keep livin'" mode of, well, living, has worked hard to round out his once-throwaway résumé with daring parts. Otherwise ignored by the Academy for such films as "Killer Joe," "Mud" and "Magic Mike," McConaughey's stirring portrayal of a tough-talking good old boy who discovers he has HIV in Jean-Marc Vallee's fact-based film was instantly hard to ignore.

The actor already made the awards-season rounds before grabbing his Oscar, including wins at the Screen Actors Guild Awards and last night's Independent Spirit Awards, both times winning alongside co-star Jared Leto as Best Supporting Actor, who picked up his very own Oscar earlier in the show (also his first).

McConaughey had plenty of competition in the category — facing off with four-time nominee Leonardo DiCaprio, rising star Chiwetel Ejiofor, twice-nominated Bruce Dern, and one-time winner Christian Bale — but the continued heat on his performance and the inevitability that he would eventually snag his own Oscar proved to be hard to match.

The actor's acceptance speech didn't disappoint, as the clearly overjoyed (and obviously a touch overwhelmed) winner took to the stage to dole out the usual ...

Many critics believed the 2014 Oscar for Best Actress was a given, and the Academy confirmed their predictions Sunday night (March 2), as Cate Blanchett became the proud new owner of a gold statuette.

Presenter Daniel Day-Lewis handed the Academy Award to a visibly humbled Blanchett, who took the stage and urged the audience, "Sit down: You're too old to be standing!"

She thanked the Academy, saying, "As random and as subjective as this award is, it means a great deal in a year of — yet again — extraordinary performances by women."

Blanchett honored her fellow nominees, telling Amy Adams, "Your performance in 'American Hustle' blew my mind," and telling Sandra Bullock about "Gravity": "I could watch that performance to the end of time — and I sort of felt like I had!"

To Julia Roberts, she said, "Julia: 'hashtag, suck it.' You know what I mean?" She extolled Judi Dench's long career of acting devotion by explaining that she wasn't present due to working on a film sequel in India. Blanchett also thanked her "Blue Jasmine" director, Woody Allen, for casting her, calling his screenplay "extraordinary," as well as citing her co-star Sally Hawkins as "sublime."

Blanchett finished her speech with a message to the industry, suggesting that while it believes "films with a female at the center are niche experiences," the truth is that "audiences want to see them, and they earn money — the world is round, people!"

The actress, who brilliantly portrays the complicated and unhinged Jasmine French in Allen's film, was a front-runner after earning top honors at the ...