Oscars 2023: Two decades on the Vanity Fair party red carpet

Over the years, I have broadcast as Danny Boyle danced for joy with the cast of Slumdog Millionaire, congratulated Kate Winslet on no longer being the “Colin Montgomerie of the Oscars” after winning for The Reader, following five defeats in a row, and, in 2011, I witnessed a truly extraordinary encounter involving GMTV’s reporter and Tom Hanks.