As families gathered around their televisions last night to watch the Academy Awards, they may have noticed something special among the glitter, the gold, and the endless Hollywood self-adulation: a lot of love for Mom.

Moms won big on Sunday night.

As moms made dinner, worked graveyard shifts, helped with homework, and performed a million other tasks for their families, some of Hollywood’s elite, so often out of touch with traditional families, realized the good things in life came from what Mom did for them way back when.

“A special thank you tonight to my mother, Skippy O’Connell, who 39 years ago got me a job in sound,” O’Connell said in his acceptance speech.

“It must be nerve-wracking getting up there receiving your Oscar, very emotional, and as you take the stage, you think back to those who supported you before all the fame,” one Boston-area high school student, who was focused on the fashions and not the liberal banter, told LifeZette.

“You know who that is?” she continued. “It’s Mom. Your mom sees who you are, but can also imagine who you can be: your best self.”

Veteran sound mixer Kevin O’Connell won Best Sound Mixing for “Hacksaw Ridge,” alongside colleagues Peter Grace, Robert Mackenzie, and Andy Wright, and was emotional after taking the stage.

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O’Connell has had 21 past Oscar nominations, and was the most-nominated person in Oscars history without a victory, according to People.com.

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He dedicated the long-awaited win to his mother, who jump-started his career.

“A special thank you tonight to my mother, Skippy O’Connell, who 39 years ago got me a job in sound,” O’Connell said in his acceptance speech. “And when I asked her how I could thank her, she told me, ‘You can work hard. You can work really hard, and someday you can win yourself an Oscar, and you can stand on the stage, and you can think me in front of the whole world.’ Mom, I know you’re looking down on me tonight, so thank you.”

“Hacksaw Ridge” tells the story of Desmond Doss during World War II.

“It’s just an unbelievable story and he was an unbelievable man,” Andrew Garfield, 33, told Lara Spencer during ABC’s “Oscars Opening Ceremony: Live From the Red Carpet.” The Mel Gibson-directed film tells of Doss, a private who entered the bloodiest battle of World War II’s Pacific theater with nothing to protect himself but his Bible and his faith in God.

The real Doss became the first American to receive the Medal of Honor without having ever fired a shot.

Garfield, nominated for Best Actor for the film, said, “He healed and treated the enemy. He didn’t see skin color, he didn’t see separation. All he saw was sacred human life.”

Garfield brought his parents, Lynn and Richard Garfield, and two friends to the Oscars — and also expressed love for his mom. “My mum is cool as a cucumber about all this stuff,” he told E! News’ Ryan Seacrest on the red carpet. “She doesn’t really care about this stuff.”

The real Doss became the first American to receive the Medal of Honor without having ever fired a shot.

Dev Patel, Best Supporting Actor nominee for the film “Lion,” told the Daily Mail on the red carpet of his mom, “She encouraged me to act in the first place. She always told me to work hard and do my best and I’ve followed her instructions. She’s worked hard all her life and I hope that I’ve followed her example.”

Kenneth Lonergan, who won Best Original Screenplay for “Manchester by the Sea,” thanked his stepfather in his acceptance speech; he is caring for his mom.

“A special thanks to my stepfather, Mike Porter, who has taken care of my mother for the last five years in a way that is an example to everyone who has ever come across his path,” he said.

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