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Your support makes all the difference.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: Why Emma Stone’s Best Actress Oscar win over Lily Gladstone doesn’t feel right
Emma Stone seemed visibly shocked when Michelle Yeoh announced her as the Best Actress winner at Sunday’s Oscars.
Though Stone’s performance in Poor Things as a woman brought back to life with a baby’s brain is one of the season’s most praised, Lily Gladstone was the favourite to take the Oscar home, for her performance as a Native American woman grieving her family in Killers of the Flower Moon.
Gladstone’s win would have marked the first time a Native American woman had won a Lead Actress award at the Academy Awards. Yet, Stone racked up her second Oscar win, following her 2017 success with La La Land.
According to The Independent’s film critic Clarisse Loughrey, Stone’s win wasn’t the right call.
“She’s a fabulistic creation, given flesh-and-blood relatability through Stone’s contributions,” she wrote of the Poor Things protagonist, Bella Baxter.
“And, yet, for many, the win didn’t quite feel right. And it seemed as if Stone might be inclined to agree.” Read the comment piece in full below:
Emma Stone’s Best Actress Oscar win over Lily Gladstone doesn’t feel right
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
Robert Downey Jr fans think he made coded dig at Marvel during Oscars speech
Robert Downey Jr closed out an awards season full of wins by scoring the Best Supporting Actor award at Sunday’s Academy Awards.
As well as thanking his wife, Susan Downey, the Oppenheimer actor reflected on what his involvement in the atomic bomb epic meant to him.
“Here’s my little secret: I needed this job more than it needed me,” he said. “Chris [Nolan, the director] knew it, [producer Emma Thomas] made sure that she surrounded me with one of the greatest cast and crews of all time.”
However, some viewers have claimed that Downey Jr’s speech contained a swipe at Marvel, for whom he played Tony Stark / Iron Man in several projects.
Louis Chilton reports:
Robert Downey Jr fans think he made a coded dig at Marvel during his Oscars speech
Iron Man star won the award for Best Supporting Actor for his work in ‘Oppenheimer’
How did Emma Stone make a Taylor Swift reference at the Oscars?
During her Best Lead Actress acceptance speech, an emotional Emma Stone took a moment to acknowledge her family for their support and love – and even squeezed in a Taylor Swift reference.
“I really just want to thank my family, my mom, my brother, Spencer, my dad, my husband, Dave. I love you so much,” she said. “And most importantly, my daughter, who’s gonna be three in three days and has turned our lives technicolour.
“I love you bigger than the whole sky, my girl. So thank you so much.”
The last line is a reference to a lyric from Swift’s song “Bigger Than the Whole Sky”, which features on her 10th studio album Midnights (3am Edition).
Stone and Swift are known to be close friends in real life, having met when they were both teenagers; Swift’s song “When Emma Falls in Love” is widely believed to have been written about Stone.
Roisin O’Connor reports:
The meaning behind Emma Stone’s Taylor Swift reference at the Oscars
Stone made the reference when addressing her three-year-old daughter
WATCH: John Cena presents Oscar Best Costume Design award naked
John Cena forgot his black tie while presenting the award for Best Costume Design, in a shoutout to one of the Oscars’ wildest moments of years gone by: when a streaker invaded the stage in 1974.
How to watch the Oscars films from home
After sweeping up at the Oscars, if you’re yet to watch either Oppenheimer or Poor Things, they’re both available to stream from the comfort of your home.
Oppenheimer is available on either Amazon Prime or Apple TV, while Poor Things can be streamed on Disney+ for free (the price of the subscription has been slashed to £1.99).
Party time! Billie Eilish, Christopher Nolan and Robert Downey Jr attend Vanity Fair Oscar’s afterparty
What better way to celebrate winning the highest honours in film than letting your hair down with hundreds of your peers?
Winners Billie Eilish, Christopher Nolan and Robert Downey Jr were among the many who turned up to the Vanity Fair afterparty following Sunday’s ceremony.
Here’s a snapshot of how the party unfolded:
How to read your way through the Oscars 2024
Spurring the age-old argument about whether the book really is better, half of the best picture nominations at this year’s Oscars were based on literature.
The roster included Poor Things, Oppenheimer, Killers of the Flower Moon and the Zone of Interest – with American Fiction securing the win for best screenplay, adapted from Erasure by Percival Everett (£8.99, Amazon.co.uk).
From biographies of iconic historical figures to eye-opening discussions of race in the media and even female Frankenstein-like tales, the nominees covered something for every genre and taste.
So whether you’re grabbing your popcorn or your reading glasses, these stories are not to be missed. You can find the 2024 best picture nominated books below:
The books behind the Oscar nominees, from Poor Things to Oppenheimer
What was better, the book or the film? Now you can decide
Paul Giamatti moved to tears at Oscars by co-star Da’Vine Joy Randolph’s powerful acceptance speech
Sunday’s Academy Awards kicked off with the reveal of Best Supporting Actress, won by Da’Vine Joy Randolph for her performance in The Holdovers.
Her emotional acceptance speech moved several members of the audience, including her co-star (and Best Actor nominee) Paul Giamatti.
“For so long I have always wanted to be different. And I now I realise I just needed to be myself, and I thank you for seeing me,” Randolph said through tears.
“I didn’t think I was supposed to be doing this as a career, I started off as a singer, and my mother said to me, go across that street to that theatre department, there’s something for you there. And I thank my mother for doing that, I thank all those people who have been there for me, ushered and guided me, I am so grateful to you beautiful people out there.”
Louis Chilton reports:
Paul Giamatti moved to tears by Da’Vine Joy Randolph’s powerful acceptance speech
Randolph took home the Best Supporting Actress trophy for her work alongside Giamatti in ‘The Holdovers’
Billie Eilish matches rare awards feat last achieved by Celine Dion in 1998
After stunning viewers at home and in the Dolby Theater audience with her performance of the Barbie hit “What Was I Made For?”, Billie Eilish continued Sunday’s ceremony on a high by winning her second Best Song Oscar.
She won for the first time in 2022 with her Bond theme, “No Time To Die”.
Sharing the award with her brother and frequent collaborator Finneas O’Connell, Eilish is now the first artist since Celine Dion to win both Song of the Year at the Grammys and the Oscar for Best Original Song in the same year.
Roisin O’Connor reports:
Billie Eilish matches rare awards feat last achieved by Celine Dion in 1998
Eilish, 22, is the only artist to achieve the feat in her lifetime
Our favourite unpopular Oscar wins of all time
Not every Oscars ceremony results in a happy audience consensus over the winners; sometimes, some ceremonies have caused major upsets around who and what emerged victorious.
Here’s The Independent culture desk’s pick of our favourite unpopular Oscars wins of all time:
‘I love Suicide Squad!’: Our favourite unpopular Oscar wins of all time
From ‘American Beauty’ winning Best Picture to the eternal controversy over Marisa Tomei’s win for ‘My Cousin Vinny’, Oscar history is filled with divisive victories endlessly debated by film fans. Here our culture desk go to bat for some of the most controversial…
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