In a year that largely stuck to script, host O’Brien’s antics and the It Was Just an Accident director’s stare at Kevin O’Leary got the internet talking

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Jafar Panahi, the Iranian political dissident and director of the excellent film It Was Just an Accident – a best international feature nominee from France, as it was made without the permission of the Iranian government – looked, well, not impressed by Shark Tank judge and Marty Supreme castmember, Kevin O’Leary, on the red carpet. If there’s one moment that transcended the Oscars this year, it’s this dead stare.

immortal clip and the Oscars haven’t even started yet https://t.co/K1X1bOdgA3

Prison now the second-greatest indecency brought upon Jafar Panahi. https://t.co/MV3itRZKpz