There were many, many joyous things about tonight, and the camerapeople agreed with me on some of them (did you see how they kept flicking back to Jennifer Garner? "Let's see what HER reaction is even though she hasn't been nominated for anything! She's just so FUCKING BEAUTIFUL and a SWEETHEART and a BADASS and JENNIFER FUCKING GARNER WE CAN'T HELP OURSELVES"), but mostly, here is what the main ones are:

- Ellen and Diablo are out partying right now. And when Diablo cried, I was crying too. I love her. Her movie meant so much to me; I'm so glad to see her so happy and so honored. THANK YOU, DIABLO. YOU WIN. "Diablo Cody has gone from being an exotic dancer to an Academy Award-nominatedWINNING screenwriter! I hope you're enjoying the pay cut." Ellen said to fucking Regis on the fucking red carpet show that "it is sincere and honest and genuine and it also has a sense of optimism mixed with truth." Go Ellen Page. She was so the most beautiful person there tonight. I'M EVEN COUNTING JENNIFER. Ellen had better hair.

- Jon Stewart is the most wonderful person in the world. He let Markéta Irglová speak. I was JUST complaining about that and then we got back from commercial and he was gesturing to her to speak. EVEN IF IT WASN'T HIS DECISION, WHATEVER, I still just am going to bask forever in the glory of Jon Stewart's existence. I really, really think he is perfect. <3 And I love that Jon Stewart and Steve Carell have like taken over Hollywood. It shows that even if you don't take any of the bullshit seriously you can still be the darling of the whole show. And Steve Carell's performance in Little Miss Sunshine was INCANDESCENT.

I could get mad about things or have long opinions on dresses, but I'll just do that in conversations: for now, for this journal, that's it, that's what I'm taking from tonight. Maybe that and Tilda Swinton's acceptance speech. And now it's time to eat toast.

(ELLEN AND DIABLO HELD HANDS AND MADE VICTORY FISTS TOGETHER. IT WAS WONDERFUL. I WISH I WERE THEIR FRIEND.)

(P.S.: There should be an Oscar for Hottest Woman and Sydney Tamiia Poitier should have won it. Ahem.)

sastrugi made my day by pointing me to another fabulous Ellen Page interview in The Guardian:

It was precisely because Juno's screenwriter, former stripper Diablo Cody, had given Juno such sassy dialogue (think Buffy, think My So-Called Life, think Dawson's Creek before it got schmaltzy) that Page took the part. She doesn't accept the criticisms that Juno and her pals are too clever by half. "I don't speak the same way as Juno, but I definitely had my own language with my friends and in that sense I could relate to that," she says.

Page thinks everyone underestimates modern teens. "We are so used to seeing one idea of what a young man or woman is in the popular media," she says, adding that it is "suffocating" how homogeneously young people are represented on screen. She wants to know if we have Laguna Beach in the UK, the OC rip-off about beautiful young airheads in California. "If you like that, awesome. I don't want to sound like a judgmental piece of poop. But we need other options, you know?"

... Page is in no doubt that the pressure put on women in the media is unhealthy. "It's absolutely disgusting," she says. "It needs to stop because it's nothing but hurtful for everyone involved." She says she isn't too bothered at the prospect of being photographed buying a pint of milk without having brushed her hair - "Oh, that's just who I am, so they are always going to get that," she says, while admitting that "of course" she sometimes feels the pressure.

"People judge you left, right and centre, and you see people judging other people because they are a size four [an eight in the UK] and it is disgusting." She has no time for gossip magazines. "They just make you feel like crap and make you go out and buy things to fill that void. They propel the consuming machine," she says. "We all have our insecurities. I would like to say, 'Oh, I don't care what people say about me.' And to a certain extent, I don't, I reeeally don't. But as a young person it's like, come on. And it's not like guys don't get it at all, but women are sooooooo harshly judged."

Particularly, she believes, in the movie business. "I hate how box-office failures are blamed on an actress, yet I don't see a box-office failure blamed on men," she says. Such as? "Like when The Golden Compass came out. Daniel Craig was in it, and Nicole Kidman was in it, and people were just ragging on Nicole Kidman the whole time." She also bemoans the lack of meaty leading roles for women. "I think a lot of the time in films, men get roles where they create their own destiny and women are just tools, supporters for that," she says. "I guess it's because we live in a patriarchal society, where feminism is a dirty word."

Page, naturally, is happy to be described as a feminist, and is gobsmacked to have recently discovered that "40% of women in America or less" consider themselves feminists. "If it's about equality for the sexes, then who wouldn't be?" she asks. It is no surprise coming from the woman who, musing on how gender roles are imposed on children by society, says: "As a girl, you're supposed to love Sleeping Beauty. I mean who wants to love Sleeping Beauty when you can be Aladdin?"

*cries* I think I might actually have to marry her. ELLEN! YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL! YOU ARE SMART AND FUNNY! YOU UNDERSTAND THAT FEMINISM = EQUALITY! AND YOU PLAY SOCCER! AND GUITAR! LET'S RUN AWAY TOGETHER!

Clearly this is going to be an Ellen Page day. I keep thinking about her, so now I'm reading interviews, and ... EVERYTHING I READ JUST MAKES ME MORE AND MORE ADORING OF HER. She is ... unbelievable. She is so ... so much like Juno. And so badass. I LOVE it when you read more about a celebrity and find out that THEY are as invested in their projects as YOU are. She chose the script for Juno, because she LOVED it. Just like all of the Firefly cast loved Firefly.

( A survey of interviews I've read, i.e. Proof of Ellen Page's Utter Wonderfulness. )

She just makes me feel normal. She makes me feel okay. She's done for young women what it has always been my mission in life to do: Inspire them to be themselves.

And she's my age, too. Well, a few months older, but. OMG ELLEN MARRY ME. I'VE NEVER BEEN SKINNY-DIPPING YOU COULD TAKE ME. :DDD

And I have learned from lily_268 that when you love something you should picspam it. So here it is: An Ellen Page Picspam.

( I kept it manageable -- only five photos. Which means this might end up being a Part One, hee hee. )

ELLEN PAGE. If this didn't make you the tiniest bit happier about your day, I DON'T KNOW WHAT WILL.