Ellen DeGeneres said it was her aim to make history tonight, and she achieved it - by making a selfie of epic star wattage the most retweeted tweet ever.

Along with awards host Ellen, the pic featured (deep breath) Jennifer Lawrence, Channing Tatum, Julia Roberts, Kevin Spacey, Brad Pitt, Lupita Nyong’o, her brother Junior, Angelina Jolie, Bradley Cooper, Meryl Streep and Jared Leto.

'If only Bradley's arm was longer,' she quipped in the caption.

Within an hour the shot had been retweeted 1.5 million times, smashing the previous 775,000 record held by President Obama.

'This is true: we just broke Twitter,' she announced live on stage. 'We just got an email. We made history.'

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