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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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COMMENT: Jimmy Kimmel’s Oscar monologue was tepid and unfunny. It’s time for a new host
Jimmy Kimmel wasn’t – despite Donald Trump’s assertion, posted to his social media site Truth Social mid-show – the worst Oscar host ever. But his opening monologue wasn’t especially funny, inspiring light titters rather than belly laughs. But it fit a melancholy ceremony nearly derailed by a protest right outside the venue, and an industry uncertain about its own future.
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With lukewarm gags about ‘Madame Web’ and Christopher Nolan’s ‘porn addiction’, the recurring Academy Awards host struggled to brighten a melancholy ceremony, writes Adam White
How the 1990s Cork music scene helped make Cillian Murphy an Oscar-winning star
If you were young and carefree and lived in Cork in the early Nineties, at some point you’d have come across an up-and-coming new band led by a skinny frontman with an earnest gaze and a sensible haircut. The group was Sons of Mr Green Genes – freewheeling funk ragamuffins who took their name from a wacky Frank Zappa song. Their singer was a shy teenager named Cillian Murphy.
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Decades before he became an Oscar winner for his performance in ‘Oppenheimer’, the Irish actor was one of a group of ‘goofy teenagers’ trying to make it as rock stars. Ed Power speaks to friends and peers who knew the star when he was trying to get his band – named Sons of Mr Green Genes – off the ground
The truth behind Anatomy of a Fall’s dog’s appearance at the Oscars
While it appeared like Messi, the four-legged star of Anatomy of a Fall, was in the audience at the Oscars, it’s been revealed that his “attendance” was all thanks to a little movie magic.
In a pre-recorded clip of the moment, the Border Collie can be seen sitting in one of the auditorium’s seats, surrounded by a group of stand-ins applauding.
He may not actually have been there, but his cameo was much-loved by viewers.
Jimmy Kimmel says he was told not to read out Donald Trump’s criticism at the Oscars
Oscars host Jimmy Kimmel has revealed that he was told not to read out Donald Trump’s criticism of the ceremony live on air.
During last night’s Oscars, which saw Oppenheimer and Poor Things both win big, Kimmel read aloud a statement posted by Trump on his social media site Truth Social in which the former US president attacked the presenter’s hosting abilities.
“Has there EVER been a WORSE HOST than Jimmy Kimmel at The Oscars,” Trump wrote. “His opening was that of a less than average person trying too hard to be something which he is not, and never can be…Also a really bad politically correct show tonight, and for years – Disjointed, boring, and very unfair. Why don’t they just give the Oscars to those that deserve them. Maybe that way their audience and TV ratings will come back from the depths. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
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Kimmel hit back at the former President, joking: ‘Isn’t it past your jail time?’
Ryan Gosling’s wife, Eva Mendes, tells Barbie star to ‘come home’ after Oscars
Ryan Gosling’s wife, actor Eva Mendes, shared a hilarious message with the Barbie star after he performed the Oscar-nominated song “I’m Just Ken”.
“You took Ken all the way to the Oscars, RG. Now come home, we need to put the kids to bed,” she wrote, alongside a photo of her posing in Gosling’s pink blazer, black cowboy hat and sunglasses.
The couple, who have been together since 2011, share two daughters, Esmeralda Amada, nine, and Amanda Lee, seven.
Billie Eilish reminds friend that she already won an Oscar in 2022
Billie Eilish remained humble, even as she had to remind her friend that she had already won an Oscar in 2022.
Speaking to ExtraTV ahead of her second Academy Award win, the pop star, 22, shared the text her friend sent her after she received her second nomination.
“She was like, “If you win you’re gonna be halfway to EGOT...’ and I was like ‘Girl, I have one. I love you babygirl, but I have one,” Eilish recalled.
The “Ocean Eyes” singer made history as the youngest person to win two Oscars. She won the first award in 2022 for Best Original Song for the title song of the 2021 James Bond movie No Time to Die.
Meanwhile, Eilish has won nine Grammys. Therefore, she will have to win an Emmy and a Tony to earn EGOT status.
Oscar award pundits argue Lily Gladstone should’ve campaigned for Supporting Actress
Best Actor nominee Colman Domingo attends Vanity Fair Oscar Afterparty
Colman Domingo (Rustin)
Best Supporting Actor nominees attend Vanity Fair Oscar Afterparty
WINNER: Robert Downey Jr (Oppenheimer)
Sterling K Brown (American Fiction)
Mark Ruffalo (Poor Things)
Best Supporting Actress nominees attend Vanity Fair Oscar Afterparty
WINNER: Da’Vine Joy Randolph (The Holdovers)
Emily Blunt (Oppenheimer)
Danielle Brooks (The Color Purple)
America Ferrera (Barbie)
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