Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue, ACADEMY AWARDS edition... Starting with EMINEM for some reason performing an 18-year-old song from an 18-year-old movie in the middle of the 2020 Oscars. He has an album to promote, so there's that. Immediately after the performance, Eminem tweeted an apology for not showing up when he actually won his Oscar all those decades ago. It's been suggested he skipped that ceremony because he didn't want to perform a clean version of "LOSE YOURSELF," which, if true, would be weird because the Oscar producers bleeped Sunday's performance into a clean version anyway. Also weird: Why haven't the Oscars, the GRAMMYS or any other awards show figured out how to mute one microphone without muting everything else? Also also weird: Why are we still muting anything on live TV in 2020? Also also also: It's Black History Month. Why not give that slot to THREE 6 MAFIA?... Something wonderfully new was Icelandic cellist HILDUR GUÐNADÓTTIR becoming the first woman since 1998 to win the Oscar for Best Original Score, for JOKER. She's one of only seven women ever nominated for scoring—in 92 years. She's also, as the LA TIMES' RANDALL ROBERTS pointed out, the only Oscar winner who's performed with both THROBBING GRISTLE and SUNN O))), not to mention the Icelandic band MÚM, of which she was a member. The last woman to win the category, ANNE DUDLEY (for THE FULL MONTY, in a year where there were separate scoring Oscars for dramas and comedies/musicals), is the only Oscar winner who's been in the ART OF NOISE. "To the girls, to the women, to the mothers, to the daughters who hear the music bubbling within, please speak up," Guðnadóttir said in her acceptance speech. "We need to hear your voices." Dear Hollywood producers: Please listen to those voices. (Nice added touch, sort of: A medley of the five nominated scores was conducted by WORLD OF WARCRAFT composer EIMEAR NOONE, the first woman ever to conduct anything at an Oscars ceremony. "Sort of" because that's all she was asked to conduct)... BILLIE EILISH and FINNEAS O'CONNELL borrowed something from the BEATLES, performing a hushed, emo version of "YESTERDAY" for the In Memoriam segment. It was—fine? And it very much suited the moment... CYNTHIA ERIVO went from something blue to something glorious over the course of her show-stopping performance, with a gospel choir, of the freedom song "STAND UP," which she co-wrote and sang in HARRIET, for which she was also nominated for Best Actress. That particular nomination combo is becoming strangely commonplace... JANELLE MONÁE is the best non-host host the Oscars have ever had... And, finally, a note for anyone from the Grammy Awards production team who may be reading. The first major Oscar of the night, BRAD PITT's Best Supporting Actor award, was handed out 15 minutes into the show. This year's first major Grammy, Eilish and Finneas' Song of the Year award, came two hours and 40 minutes into the broadcast... A fire at a lacquer manufacturing plant in Banning, Calif., "will present a problem for the vinyl industry worldwide," which may prove to be an understatement... This is how insane music copyright claims have become... RIP NELLO SANTI.