Oscars 2024 live: Emma Stone, Sydney Sweeney and Kim Kardashian show off glam looks at lavish afterparty
Hollywood stars from Margot Robbie to Robert Downey Jr gathered to honour the best in cinema, at a ceremony led by late-night veteran and four-time Oscars host Jimmy Kimmel
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The 2024 Oscars was a glittering night that saw Oppenheimer and Poor Things win big while Killers of the Flower Moon went home empty-handed.
You can find a list of all the winners here.
The Academy Awards, which aired in the UK on ITV, were once again hosted by late-night titan Jimmy Kimmel. In his opening monologue, the host took aim at Sony’s Madame Web, disgraced French actor Gerard Depardieu and Oppenheimer nominee Robert Downey Jr.
Among the performers was Ryan Gosling who stunned the audience with his typically vibrant rendition of “I’m Just Ken” from Barbie.
One of the most talked-about moments of the night came when John Cena took to the stage totally naked in a streaking skit gone awry with Kimmel.
Then, after the ceremony, the celebrities headed to the Vanity Fair Oscar Party to let their hair down and bask in the end of another glitzy awards season.
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Paul Giamatti moved to tears at Oscars by co-star Da’Vine Joy Randolph’s powerful acceptance speech
Paul Giamatti was reduced to tears by Da’Vine Joy Randolph’s acceptance speech at the 2024 Oscars.
The actor, who appeared alongside Randolph in the boarding school-set drama The Holdovers, was seen growing visibly emotional as his co-star accepted the prize for Best Supporting Actress.
Randolph won the award for her role in the film as a grieving mother, while Giamatti was nominated for Best Actor for playing a curmudgeonly professor.
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Randolph took home the Best Supporting Actress trophy for her work alongside Giamatti in ‘The Holdovers’
Robert Downey Jr looks ‘unimpressed’ after Jimmy Kimmel targets his addiction history in Oscars joke
Fans have criticised Oscars host Jimmy Kimmel after the comedian cracked a joke about Robert Downey Jr’s past drug addiction in his opening monologue.
The 96th Academy Awards took place on Sunday (10 March), with Hollywood stars, including Ryan Gosling, Lily Gladstone, and Cillian Murphy, descending on the prestigious Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles for the star-studded ceremony.
Hosting duties fell once again to late-night veteran Jimmy Kimmel, who is hosting the event for the fourth time since 2017.
As is customary, Kimmel, 56, began the ceremony with a joke-filled opening monologue, which playfully took aim at a number of celebrities in the crowd, including Christopher Nolan, Ryan Gosling, and Cillian Murphy.
One joke that has fallen flat with viewers, however, was made at the Iron Man star’s expense.
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Robert Downey Jr looks ‘unimpressed’ after Jimmy Kimmel targets his addiction history in Oscars joke
‘Robert Downey Jr if you want to Will Smith slap Jimmy Kimmel I don’t blame you,’ wrote one viewer
Jonathan Ross leaves ITV viewers cringing over pre-Oscars show
Jonathan Ross’s presenting of ITV’s Oscar coverage has been dubbed “hell on earth” and “a nightmare”.
The Academy Awards, which is taking place in Los Angeles, has returned to terrestrial television in the UK for the first time since 2004, when the annual ceremony was poached by Sky.
Ahead of the Jimmy Kimmel-fronted main event, Ross introduced ITV’s coverage of the night alongside a number of in-studio guests including actors Richard Armitage and Fay Ripley. But his jokes went down like a lead balloon among viewers, with many taking to Twitter to complain about his material.
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Ross joked that he assumed Robert Downey Jr would be playing Tony Stark in ‘Oppenheimer’, among other misfiring gags
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Mark Ruffalo celebrates pro-Palestine protest that shut down Oscars
The Oscars were scheduled to start an hour earlier than usual this year. Still, its start was delayed by about five minutes by a huge pro-Palestinian protest that obstructed the red carpet and kept some of the biggest stars from arriving at the show on time.
The hundreds of protestors could be heard shouting: “Ceasefire now! Free Palestine.”
Mark Ruffalo was among many celebrities who wore a red pin in support of an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.
In a TikTok video, the Poor Things star can be seen raising his fist in solidarity while shouting: “The Palestinian protests shut down the Oscars tonight. Humanity wins!”
Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt confront Barbenheimer ‘rivalry'
In one of the best presenting skits of the night, Emily Blunt and Ryan Gosling hilariously confronted the Barbenheimer rivalry.
As the Oppenheimer and Barbie star took the stage to celebrate the stunt community’s contributions to the film industry, Gosling greeted Blunt with a “frosty hello”.
“I’m just happy that we can finally put this Barbenheimer rivalry behind us,” Gosling said.
“That’s right, here’s Ken and Kitty just leaving all that fodder in the dust, right?” Blunt responded. “And the way this award season has turned out, wasn’t that much of a rivalry anyway, so just let it go!”
“It’s true, you guys are doing very well. Congratulations,” Gosling conceded. “But you know, I think I kind of figured out why they call it Barbenheimer and they didn’t call it Oppenbarbie.
“I think you guys are at the tail end of that because you were riding Barbie’s coattails all summer.”
ICYMI: Barry Keoghan and Sabrina Carpenter made their first public appearance as a couple
Saltburn’s Barry Keoghan and singer and actor Sabrina Carpenter made their first public appearance as a couple at the Vanity Fair Oscar Afterparty.
Keoghan, 31, and Carpenter, 24, were photographed together at the star-studded event hosted by the magazine’s editor-in-chief Radhika Jones.
Meanwhile, a video of Carpenter running to the Irishman after being photographed at the afterparty has gone viral.
The two are rumoured to have been romantically linked since December 2023 when they were spotted leaving a “romantic” dinner together in Los Angeles.
Emma Stone’s Best Actress Oscar win over Lily Gladstone doesn’t feel right – and Stone herself seems to know it
Emma Stone’s wild-eyed look, as she clambered up on stage to receive the Oscar for Best Actress, said it all: she didn’t think she was going to win. Perhaps, even, she wasn’t quite sure she was meant to win. Her turn as Bella Baxter in Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things, about a reanimated woman with a baby’s brain who rediscovers the world step by step, sensation by sensation, is truly joyous. She offers us Bella’s curiosity, her fierce intellect, her unsteady limbs, her wildfire emotions – all without ever demeaning or infantilising her. She’s a fabulistic creation, given flesh-and-blood relatability through Stone’s contributions.
And, yet, for many, the win didn’t quite feel right. And it seemed as if Stone might be inclined to agree.
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Emma Stone’s Best Actress Oscar win over Lily Gladstone doesn’t feel right – and Stone herself seems to know it
The ‘Poor Things’ star’s performance in Yorgos Lanthimos’s film is truly joyous. But, writes Clarisse Loughrey, her triumph poses questions about what art we choose to celebrate in a fractured world
Greta Gerwig fangirls and Billie Eilish’s new gold accessory: My surreal night at the Vanity Fair Oscar party
I’m standing in between Usher and Emily Blunt, who is telling her husband, John Krasinski that she’s cold. Not too far ahead, I spot Jennifer Lawrence chatting to a friend. Then I see Sydney Sweeney. And Kim Kardashian. All of us are in a queue. Not just to get into the Vanity Fair Oscar party but to have our photos taken on the red carpet that currently stretches between us and its entrance. It takes longer than it should for me to realise that nobody needs to take any photos of me. So I tiptoe past everyone trying not to look too much like the Pink Panther until I reach the door, where I wind up having to wait because Jessica Biel and Justin Timberlake are getting a photo with the Haim sisters.
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As the Hollywood crowd settles into a night of celebrations, Olivia Petter examines what really happens at one of the award season’s most exclusive afterparties
Why wasn’t Wes Anderson at the Oscars?
Director and filmmaker Wes Anderson won his first Oscar last night for his best-live action short film, The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, based on the late author Roald Dahl’s short story of the same name.
Anderson, however, wasn’t able to make the awards show, as he is currently in Germany filming for his next movie, The Phoenician Scheme, which stars Michael Cera, Benicia Del Toro and Bill Murray.
“If I could have been there, I (along with Steven Rales) would have said “Thank you” to: the family of Roald Dahl, the team at Netflix, Benedict and Ralph and Ben Kingsley and Dev and Richard and Bob and Adam and Jeremy and John and Jim and Rich and Jim and Polly and more,” the 54-year-old said in a statement.
“And also I would have said: if I had not met Owen Wilson in a corridor at the University of Texas between classes when I was 18 years old, I would certainly not be receiving this award tonight – but unfortunately Steven and I are in Germany and we start shooting our new movie early tomorrow morning, so I did not actually receive the award or get a chance to say any of that.”
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Filmmaker was nominated for eight Oscars over the past 22 years but had never previously won
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