Kevin Costner

A moment of calmness, but also coolness, as one Kevin Costner—he of a little show called Yellowstone; you may have heard of it—made his way down the Oscars red ...

Costner seems to know the power of a good pair of shades deployed with purpose. Costner is no stranger to the red carpet, and neither is Baumgartner. But this time around, Costner brought an extra element to his black-tie look by adding a pair of black sunglasses. A moment of calmness, but also coolness, as one Kevin Costner—he of a little show called Yellowstone; you may have heard of it—made his way down the Oscars red carpet with his wife Christine Baumgartner. This isn't exactly a rare occurrence.

Oscar-winning filmmaker Kevin Costner paid heartfelt tribute to movies and moviemakers at the Academy Awards ceremony.

Little wonder, then, that many folks in the Twitterverse have been suggesting — if not be demanding — that Costner be considered for a solo hosting gig at next year’s Academy Awards ceremony. Before presenting the prize to The Power of the Dog director Jane Campion, Costner waxed eloquent about one of his earliest exposures to the magic of the movies, a Cinerama screening of How the West Was Won he viewed when he was just seven years old. During an Oscarcast widely considered to be one of the all-time worst in the show’s checkered history — and not just because of a certain, ahem, onstage altercation — C&I reader favorite Kevin Costner brought a much-needed touch of class to the proceedings Sunday evening while introducing the Best Director award.