Beating off popular competition (think Sandra Bullock for Gravity), Cate Blanchett walked away with the Best Actress Oscar for Blue Jasmine; and the actress couldn't stop smiling!

And, as she's been doing through this awards season, she did have a shoutout to her Blue Jasmine director Woody Allen. Allen has been embroiled in a controversy after Dylan Farrow, his 28-year-old daughter with Mia Farrow, accusing him of sexually assaulting her when she was seven years old. Allen has denied the allegations but it has cast a shadow over Blue Jasmine.

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