Oscars: Melissa Leo and the F-bomb — forgive, or forget you?

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The F-word achieved a bit of respectability this award season, going undercover as in the title of Cee Lo Green’s Grammy-nominated hit, ‘Forget You,’ and starring in a key scene in ‘The King’s Speech.’ But it took Melissa Leo to unforgettably turn it back into the F-bomb at the 83rd Academy Awards on Sunday night.

Overwhelmed upon winning the Oscar for supporting actress and having declared herself ‘kinda speechless,’ ‘The Fighter’ actress blurted, ‘When I watched Kate [Winslet] two years ago it looked so ... easy’ (you fill in the blank, OK?).

Backstage, Leo apologized. ‘Those words — I apologize to anyone if they were offended,’ she said. ‘There’s a great deal of the English language that is in my vernacular.’

The Oscars were, she said, ‘an inappropriate place to use that word in particular.’

Coming off supporting actress wins at the Golden Globe Awards in January and the Spirit Awards on Saturday, Leo had walked down the Oscars red carpet Sunday looking incredibly excited in her gold and cream Mark Bauer gown.

‘This dress was made especially for me,’ she said before the show started. ‘I saw it on a dummy a month and a half ago, but it’s so cold now!’

Forgettably cold, perhaps?

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— Christie D’Zurilla and Jessica Gelt