Precious Gabby Sidibe has had Hollywood smiling and crying for months now with her giddy personality and uncensored enthusiasm. I love how she makes Gerard Butler and Billy Butler squirm even after they've retreated into bromantic shtick for safety "Sexy. I like where this is going. Maybe we should get a bottle of champagne and see where the night takes us"

Sidibe's next project The C Word is a series pilot for Showtime starring Laura Linney. If she sticks with TV comedy we see a million Emmy Awards coming her way.

How busy is Supporting Actor winner Christoph Waltz? Very very busy. The Austrian born actor is weighing plenty of offers after his evil Nazi breakthrough in Inglourious Basterds. He's now vacated Talking Cure, a David Cronenberg project about legendary psycho-analysts Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung. If the offers are so good you're willing to give up a Cronenberg picture, your career must be hot. The film will now star Michael Fassbender and Viggo Mortensen so it isn't hurting for awesome potential with his absence.

Oh look, it's George Takei and his husband (pictured left) attending the Oscars! Living the a gay dream. That wasn't a question but aren't they adorable?

When will an out gay actor win an Oscar? Each year at the Oscars, there seems to be a new 'first!'. This year'sbreakthroughs included the first African American screenwriting winner(Geoffrey Fletcher for Precious) and the first female director (Kathryn Bigelow for The Hurt Locker).Which makes you wonder when they'll finally give an Oscar to an out gayman or lesbian. They've given Jodie Foster two statues in the past butshe wasn't really out. The closest they ever come was probably Sir IanMcKellen for Gods and Monsters (1998… he lost to Roberto Benigni) or, well, Sir Ian McKellen for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001… he lost to Jim Broadbent in Iris). But generally they prefer actors who are only playing gay. It's easy to imagine, for example, that Colin Firth would have won this year for A Single Man, had Jeff Bridges Crazy Heart stuck with its originally scheduled 2010 release.

How long until Jeremy Renner's people issue some sort of "statement"? I'm not trying to egg on Cuddlegate 2010 but you know how Hollywood panics about these 'so and so is gay!' viral gossip things. I personally love that Renner is so affectionate with peers. Out director Lee Daniels got a kiss from Jeremy when he won at the Spirit Awards last Friday, Jeremy's co-presenter Jodie Foster offered a pat on the back 😉

Will last year's screenwriter Dustin Lance Black (Milk) be back at the Oscars in no time? None other than Clint Eastwood has now signed on to direct Black's next screenplay, a biopic about J Edgar Hoover. They seem like odd bedfellows to me but who knows.

Don't you wish Maggie & Jake would make another movie together? Seeing them together on the red carpet again reignited my Gyllenhaalism.

Too early to start thinking about next year's Oscars? There's already Best Actress buzz for gay favorites Anne Hathaway (co-starring with Jake Gyllenhaal in Love & Other Drugs) and Julianne Moore (co-starring with Annette Bening in The Kids Are All Right… already reviewed here at Towleroad).

Did you like Neil Patrick Harris' opening song? We're guessing that that 'why did the prisoner drop his soap' lyric broke the record for 'fastest an Oscar ceremony ever got to a gay sex joke.' Two minutes and four seconds! That whole number was so extraneous. Not that we don't like seeing NPH in sparkly clothing.

We like seeing NPH in anything.

The Oscars. Not as gay as the Tonys… but they try.

NATHANIEL ROGERS
…dreams of naked gold men with swords this time of year. He blogs daily at the Film Experience.

OSCAR AFTERMATH.
You may have already shaken off Hollywood's big night already (such an awkward show this year) but those of us who struggle with Oscar-Mania… it takes about a week to work its way through the system. We'll get back to regular columns next week. For now, lingering Oscar questions like…

Will the statues convince people to check out the smaller movies? The Hurt Locker, Precious are Up in the Air are now out on DVD. The Hurt Locker's sales are booming post-Oscar.

Gerard Butler. Would you hit that?