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Ben Affleck, Jennifer Lawrence and other Oscar winners weigh in on victory

(CBS News) What does it feel like to win an Oscar? To find out, CBS News' Ben Tracy spoke with some of the night's biggest winners.

Special feature: Oscars 2013

"Argo" won the night's grand prize of Best Picture, even though Ben Affleck wasn't even nominated for Best Director. He did get an Oscar as a producer of the film. Affleck, stunned by the surprise that Michelle Obama was announcing the winner from the White House, said, "I was kind of hallucinating when that was happening. I mean, honestly, I was just asking these two guys outside, like, 'Was that Michelle Obama?'"


Twenty-two-year-old actress Jennifer Lawrence had a very unscripted moment on her way up to collect her Oscar for Best Actress. Her fall on the stage's stairs brought the audience to its feet.

Lawrence said later, "What went through my mind when I fell down? Uh, a bad word. That I can't say. That starts with 'F.'"

Oscar's host Seth McFarlane got plenty of laughs onstage but was also widely panned on Twitter for what some considered tasteless humor, such as his joke about Lincoln: "The actor who really got into Lincoln's head was John Wilkes Booth."

The show itself seemed more about music than movies, with 12 musical performances, including songs by Jennifer Hudson and Barbra Streisand.

George Clooney said, "Well, there was, by the end, I was like, now it is the Tonys. And I actually said to (my guest), it is the Tonys."

Adele belted out her James Bond theme, which won her an Oscar for Best Song.


Another Bond girl, Shirley Bassey, paid tribute to the 50-year-old franchise with a rendition of "Goldfinger."

Adele said of the night, "It was an honor to be with Barbra Streisand and Shirley Bassey. So fabulous."

Christoph Waltz, Best Supporting Actor winner for "Django Unchained," won his second Oscar in just three years.

Asked where his Oscar will go, Waltz said, "Next to No. 1...In a cupboard."

Best Supporting Actress winner Anne Hathaway may feel differently. She apparently dreamed a dream about winning her award.


She was asked about what "it" meant in her speech when she said "it came true" -- Hathaway replied tearfully, "I had a dream. And it came true."

There was other history made during the show. Daniel Day-Lewis won his third Best Actor Oscar, for Lincoln, becoming the first actor to win that same award three times.

But don't feel too bad for the losers: They all got a gift bag with swag apparently worth about $48,000.

For Ben Tracy's full "CBS This Morning" report, watch the video above.

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