--- ---  # Everyone Had a Field Day With Mess Maven Marie Kondo's Oscars Presence by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Feb 25, 2019 2:44 PM UTC  Marie Kondo attends the 91st Annual Academy Awards at Hollywood and Highland on Feb. 24, 2019. Marie Kondo attends the 91st Annual Academy Awards at Hollywood and Highland on Feb. 24, 2019.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) Marie Kondo Was at the Oscars So Everyone Made The Same Joke ```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"}}]}] ```