The last-minute jitters

Katherine Heigl, captured in a frame below, wasn't kidding when she told the Oscar audience she was nervous.

Behind the scenes, a stagehand asked if she was OK.

''I just need a cigarette,'' she said, bumming one from a security guard and heading out to a loading dock.

Photograph: Getty Images 

Cameron Diaz also had a bad moment when she couldn't quite say the word ''cinematography'' on stage, and she was slow to recover from the flub afterward.

''I couldn't say my category,'' Diaz said to Amy Adams.

''You did great,'' Adams reassured.

Later in the evening, Diaz confessed her mistake again to Jennifer Garner.

''It made you charming,'' Garner soothed. ''It made you cuter, like the world didn't know you were cute.''

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