Kristen Stewart clearing her throat didn’t bother me like it did some people, but the horror movie tribute that followed felt completely out of place in a ceremony that didn’t feature any horror films in the running for Best Picture. Perhaps a sci-fi homage would have been more appropriate, considering Avatar and District 9, but then The Twilight Saga: New Moon’s Stewart and Taylor Lautner would have had to present some other award.

(Never mind the fact that despite the presence of vampires, werewolves, and — most frightening of all — humans, the Twilight Saga movies aren’t really horror films.) Also, as it’s been pointed out elsewhere, what Stewart and Lautner were given to recite was incorrect. There were Oscar-winning horror movies long after The Exorcist, including Alien, Aliens, and The Silence of the Lambs — which won Best Picture.