Oscars 2015: Seven things I saw backstage

11 HOURS at the Oscars — on the red carpet, inside the press interview room and in the bathroom (thanks to a dodgy spring roll) — here’s what our reporter saw.

HOLLYWOOD, CA - FEBRUARY 22: Actress Julianne Moore arrives at the 87th Annual Academy Awards at Hollywood & Highland Center on February 22, 2015 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)

YESTERDAY I spent 11 hours at the Oscars — on the red carpet, inside the press interview room and in the bathroom (thanks to a dodgy spring roll I ate backstage).

As all the glitz and glamour was broadcast to more than 250 countries around the world, there were some other fun, interesting and touching moments happening behind the scenes.

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Here’s what I saw:

• Several reporters in the press interview room (where Oscar winners chat to the media a few minutes after stepping off stage) in tears after watching Graham Moore’s emotional acceptance speech.

• Common and John Legend pausing their post win press conference momentarily to get an Oscars update. “Who just won?” said Common.

“Julianne Moore? You all knew she was getting that though, right? Who won best actor anyway?

“Eddie Redmayne,” replied a reporter, which prompted John Legend to say, “I knew he was getting that, too.”

Common and John Legend, winners of the Best Original Song Award for Glory from Selma.

• The 350 or so journalists in the interview room groaning with disappointment when an Oscar winner (from one of the not so high profile categories) arrived for her press conference halfway through Lady Gaga’s amazing Sound Of Music medley.

• Maintenance crews armed with steam vacuums working furiously to try and dry parts of the red carpet that were saturated by rain. Most of the red carpet was covered by a plastic tent but there were gaps in a few places.

• Julianne Moore revealing backstage that her husband knew she’d win an Oscar for Still Alice.

“He was the first person to see the movie.,” she said.

“When we walked out of there, he said, ‘You’re going to win an Oscar’. And I was like, ‘Come on’.

“I swear to God, that’s what he said to me. And I just couldn’t believe he said that.”

Best Actress winner Julianne Moore backstage with her statuette.

• Patricia Arquette raising a few eyebrows in the press room when she expanded on her acceptance speech and said more about equal rights for women.

“It’s time for all the women in America and all the men that love women, and all the gay people, and all the people of colour that we’ve all fought for to fight for us now.”

Patricia Arquette poses with her Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Boyhood.

• Oscar winner Graham Moore (Best Adapted Screenplay) sharing a funny story about not backing himself for the win:

“My high school friends and I have had an Oscar pool every year as a group of friends for the last 15 years, 18 years, something like that, since high school,” he said backstage.

“And I will say that I have historically been the most winning predictor among my group of friends on who was going to win the Oscar, but I think I lost the pool tonight because I did not have myself.

“So I’m getting a lot of text messages from my friends back in Chicago who are proud of me for winning an Oscar but even more proud that they have won the Oscar pool.”

Graham Moore, winner for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Imitation Game.