--- title: Marie Kondo Was at the Oscars So Everyone Made The Same Joke description: The Tidying Up star was at the 2019 Oscars because she loves a good mess. canonical: https://time.com/5536933/marie-kondo-oscars-2019/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-02-25T14:44:05.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:57:41.055Z og:title: Marie Kondo Was at the Oscars So Everyone Made The Same Joke og:description: The Tidying Up star does love a good mess. og:url: https://time.com/5536933/marie-kondo-oscars-2019/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb4f37b88fc75bef6/698945d2e76ad2834c6343c1/mariekondooscars2019.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 5232 og:image:height: 2943 og:image:alt: 91st Annual Academy Awards - Arrivals og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Marie Kondo Was at the Oscars So Everyone Made The Same Joke twitter:description: The Tidying Up star does love a good mess. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb4f37b88fc75bef6/698945d2e76ad2834c6343c1/mariekondooscars2019.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Everyone Had a Field Day With Mess Maven Marie Kondo's Oscars Presence > Sponsored content. 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Neilson Barnard—Getty Images by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Feb 25, 2019 2:44 PM UTC Unless you’re Billy Porter, it’s hard to stand out on the red carpet at [the Oscars](http://time.com/5534976/oscars-2019-winners/). Amid a sea of glittering gowns, sleek tuxedos, and hairsprayed up-dos on the heads of movie stars, studio bigwigs, Hollywood insiders, and assorted A-listers, one diminutive star in a pink Jenny Packham gown managed to stand out—_Tidying Up_ star [Marie Kondo](http://time.com/5348480/marie-kondo-konmari-boxes/). When the de-cluttering aficionado arrived on the red carpet at the [awards show](http://time.com/5536906/emma-stone-emily-oscars-2019/), she sparked joy among the at-home red carpet commentators, who couldn’t help but all make exactly the same (good) joke. What was the joke? That the Netflix star and author of _The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up_ was in attendance, because she loves a mess and the Oscars usually has plenty to go around. > [](https://twitter.com/TheAcademy/status/1099797651946491904) > [](https://twitter.com/ira/status/1099794990761271296) > [](https://twitter.com/helleoin/status/1099886450554953728) > [](https://twitter.com/Samara%5FMcCann/status/1099886561259282433) > [](https://twitter.com/ezwrites/status/1099797478034030593) > [](https://twitter.com/asteel2/status/1099796181255970818) > [](https://twitter.com/stubbsr/status/1099823963096535040) > [](https://twitter.com/sophopitop/status/1099822784094572544) By the end of the show, some Oscars watchers were hoping that Kondo could focus her life-changing magic on cleaning up some of [the messiness](http://time.com/5530295/2019-oscars-ceremony-mess/). > [](https://twitter.com/Rachel%5FSemigran/status/1099858730382970880) > [](https://twitter.com/thorsofasgard/status/1099886920056729600) > [](https://twitter.com/phoebobuffayyy/status/1099801449658085376) > [](https://twitter.com/lsirikul/status/1099890161226211328) > [](https://twitter.com/samanthalui%5F/status/1099887251327090693) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5536933/marie-kondo-oscars-2019/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5536933/marie-kondo-oscars-2019/"},"headline":"Everyone Had a Field Day With Mess Maven Marie Kondo's Oscars Presence","datePublished":"2019-02-25T14:44:05.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:57:41.055Z","description":"Of course, the Tidying Up star was at the 2019 Oscars.","url":"https://time.com/5536933/marie-kondo-oscars-2019/","keywords":["Newsfeed","awards","onetime","oscars 2019"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb4f37b88fc75bef6/698945d2e76ad2834c6343c1/mariekondooscars2019.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb4f37b88fc75bef6/698945d2e76ad2834c6343c1/mariekondooscars2019.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"91st Annual Academy Awards - Arrivals","caption":"Marie Kondo attends the 91st Annual Academy Awards at Hollywood and Highland","creditText":"Neilson Barnard—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5536933/marie-kondo-oscars-2019/","name":"Everyone Had a Field Day With Mess Maven Marie Kondo's Oscars Presence"}}]}] ```