Argo was one of two notable crowd-pleasers in Canada, along with the eventual audience award winner Silver Linings Playbook, but it was always going to mean more to Academy voters.
Here are some of the notable crowds and characters braving the pathogens, wild currents, and politics of the New York City waterways.
On Tuesday, of course, his lecture drew a friendly, studded-with-dance-notables crowd, though one of the evening's most intriguing moments came during a question-and-answer session.
One young rebel is notable in his crowd for wearing a nose ring.
The betaworks-backed platform, then Alphaworks, has already run a number of notable deals including crowd-funding parts of Gimlet Media's financing as well as Giphy's Series A round.
The Players is notable for a young crowd, including a number of female spectators, but the all-day, increasingly horrible drinker remains.
The Fifty Seven Fifty Seven restaurant, also designed by Mr. Pei, is usually described as a "soaring" space notable for the power crowd it attracts at breakfast and lunch.
As the Spaniard drove a perfect race to give his adoring countrymen the result they dreamed of at a Circuit de Catalunya that was notable for a meagre crowd, Hamilton looked like an also-ran for most of the afternoon.
A notable member of the crowd, according to Seth Kamil, president of Big Onion Walking Tours, was Mayor William Gaynor, who walked every day from his home in Park Slope to City Hall.
When I meet Bay on the morning after the gig – a happening notable for a) the crowd knowing word-for-word songs from an album that hasn't even come out yet and b) a lot of people wearing fedoras, Bay's trademark, like an Indiana Jones convention – I ask if he had driven past the poster on the way to Koko.
The room is filled with press, and there are a few other notable faces in the crowd.
