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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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WATCH: Al Pacino causes confusion announcing Oscar for best picture
It wasn’t a fumble on the level of the infamous La La Land / Moonlight debacle of 2017, but Al Pacino’s unusual form of announcing the Best Picture winner at Sunday’s Oscars still sowed confusion among viewers.
Look back at the moment here:
Why Oppenheimer was a deserving winner of the Oscar for Best Picture
As had been predicted by most, Christopher Nolan’s atomic bomb epic Oppenheimer scooped the night’s highest honour, Best Picture.
Although there was significant competition from the likes of Poor Things, the Cillian Murphy-led drama was the favourite to win – and according to columnist Louis Chilton, for good reason.
He wrote of Oppenheimer’s win: “It speaks to a renewed appetite for serious, grown-up films, about real-world issues. To say it has ‘saved cinema’ is reductive – but if any film can make that claim, it’s this one.”
You can read the comment piece in full, below:
Why Oppenheimer was a deserving winner of the Oscar for Best Picture
Though 2023 was a banner year for cinema, one film truly stood apart from the rest. When it comes to the Academy Awards Best Picture race, Louis Chilton thinks it was always an Oppen and shut case
Where was Wes Anderson and why didn’t he accept his award?
Wes Anderson won his very first Oscar on Sunday, scooping the statuette for Best Live Action Short Film for The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar.
Despite it being a major career achievement, the filmmaker wasn’t present to accept the award – however, Anderson had a very understandable reason for skipping the ceremony.
Ellie Muir reports:
Where was Wes Anderson at the Oscarsand why didn’t he accept his award?
Filmmaker was nominated for eight Oscars over the past 22 years but had never previously won
How Ryan Gosling’s I’m Just Ken performance at the Oscars referenced another iconic routine
If you thought Gosling’s dance scene looked familiar, you’d be right. It seems that Gosling and his choreographers made a number of references to Marilyn Monroe’s iconic performance of “Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend” in the 1953 film, Gentleman Prefer Blondes.
Roisin O’Connor looks at the similarities between the performances in the piece below.
Ryan Gosling’s Oscars performance referenced another iconic routine
‘Barbie’ star seemed to reference performances by Marilyn Monroe and Madonna when he brought ‘I’m Just Ken’ to the Academy Awards
Oscars viewers are ‘begging’ John Mulaney to present the Academy Awards next year
After Jimmy Kimmel’s pretty tepid and unfunny performance, many are calling for The Bear star to step in for the 2025 ceremony.
The calls came after Mulaney left the audiences in stitches with his “hilarious” introduction for the Achievement in Sound category.
Read more here:
Oscars viewers are ‘begging’ John Mulaney to present next year
‘I am on my hands and knees begging you to host the Oscars’, wrote one viewer
Paul Giamatti wore In-N-Out cuff links at Oscars
Paul Giamatti wore In-N-Out cuff links to the Oscars in a nod to his viral celebration at the fast food chain following the Golden Globes in January.
Ryan Gosling leaves Oscars crowd in stitches as he performs I’m Just Ken
One of the biggest highlights of the night had to be Barbie star Ryan Gosling performance of “I’m Just Ken”.
He began his performance in the crowd, sitting in his seat wearing a hot pink suit embellished with rhinestones, matching gloves, a cowboy hat, and a pair of sunglasses.
The actor then went on to dance onstage alongside an entourage of back-up dancers in matching hats.
Get the full lowdown here:
Ryan Gosling leaves Margot Robbie and Oscars crowd in stitches with I’m Just Ken
Gosling was a vision in pink for the much-anticipated performance of his hit song
The meaning behind Emma Stone’s Taylor Swift reference
During her acceptance speech for the Best Actress prize, Stone addressed her daughter with a reference to a song by her old friend Swift, saying: “I love you bigger than the whole sky, my girl.”
Louis Chilton explains the meaning behind it all here:
The meaning behind Emma Stone’s Taylor Swift reference at the Oscars
Stone made the reference when addressing her three-year-old daughter
Comment: ‘Jimmy Kimmel’s Oscar monologue was tepid and unfunny’
The Independent’s film editor Adam White was not a fan of Kimmel’s fourth outing as Oscars host.
“Kimmel wasn’t – despite Donald Trump’s assertion, posted to his social media site Truth Social mid-show – the worst Oscar host ever,” he writes.
“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.”
Read the full take here:
Jimmy Kimmel’s Oscar monologue was tepid and unfunny – it’s time for a new host
With lukewarm gags about ‘Madame Web’ and Christopher Nolan’s ‘porn addiction’, the recurring Academy Awards host struggled to brighten a melancholy ceremony
Everything Donald Trump has said about the Oscars
During last night’s Oscars, host Jimmy 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.
Here, we have collated everything Trump has said about the Academy Awards in his various rants over the years:
Everything Donald Trump has said about the Oscars as Jimmy Kimmel reacts to criticism
The former US president claimed that Kimmel is ‘the worst host ever’ – echoing previous criticisms of the annual awards show
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