Best Selfie Ever: Recreating Ellen's A-List Oscar Photo in 8 Easy Steps

By Kelli Bender

03/02/2014 at 11:30 PM EST

Ellen DeGeneres' Oscars selfie

Courtesy Ellen DeGeneres

She started off with lotto ticket consolation prizes and promises of pizza (she delivered!), but Ellen DeGeneres came to the Academy Awards with a different mission: earn the most re-Tweets ever.

And she did it, crashing Twitter at the same time.

To achieve this social network feat, the host unleashed a masterful plan. DeGeneres entered the Oscar crowd and crafted the most star-studded selfie the Web has ever seen. Jennifer Lawrence! Kevin Spacey! Brad Pitt! There isn't a hashtag that does this celebrity group justice. While the comedian made the accomplishment look easy, this selfie took careful work.

Behold, a step-by-step guide on how to form the ultimate celebrity selfie.

1. Scan the crowd and chat up Steve McQueen

2. Play nicely with Liza Minnelli

3. "Lupita, you gonna have some pizza?"

4. Negotiate details with Meryl Streep

5. Convince Julia Roberts to join in

6. Recruit Channing Tatum and Bradley Cooper

7. Then Kevin Spacey, Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Lupita Nyong'o, Jared Leto and J-Law

8. Get Bradley to shoot

Annnnnd PRESTO!

DeGeneres's epic group photo has the most re-Tweets of all time, beating out President Obama's reelection announcement in 45 minutes, according to Mashable. Way to make it happen!

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