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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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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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ICYMI: Oscars 2024 full winners list
The biggest night in film finally arrived, with the 2024 Oscars bringing an end to this year’s awards season.
It was a night of fierce competition with Oppenheimer, Poor Things, and Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon leading the tally of nominations, earning 13, 11, and 10 nods respectively.
As expected, though, Christopher Nolan’s atomic bomb epic cleaned up, with Nolan, Murphy, and Robert Downey Jr all earning their first ever Academy Awards thanks to their involvement in the film.
Other big winners of the night included Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things, which took home four prizes including Best Actress for Emma Stone.
Click below for a complete list of all the 2024 Oscar winners.
Watch: ASL interpreter gives amazing performance of Ryan Gosling’s I’m Just Ken at Oscars 2024
Everything Donald Trump has said about the Oscars
During tonight’s Oscars, 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.” In response, Kimmel joked: “Isn’t it past your jail time?”
Unusually, this is not the first time Trump has gone after the Oscars.
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The former US president claimed that Kimmel is ‘the worst host ever’ – echoing previous criticisms of the annual awards show
Emma Stone makes poignant Taylor Swift reference in emotional Oscars speech
In her speech, Stone thanked her family, including her parents, her brother, and her husband Dave McCary. “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 technicolor. I love you bigger than the whole sky, my girl.”
The last line is in fact an interpolation of a lyric from Swift’s song “Bigger Than the Whole Sky”, as featured on the album Midnights (3am Edition).
Stone and Swift are known to be friends in real life, with the pair having met when they were both teenagers.
Fans have widely interpreted the song as being written about grief or the loss of a loved one, with many theorising that the song is about miscarriage.
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Emma Stone makes poignant Taylor Swift reference in emotional Oscars speech
Stone made the reference when addressing her two-year-old daughter
Christopher Nolan bicep curls Oscar trophies in the winners’ room
“It means I can do [bicep] curls” – Christopher Nolan reacts to winning two Oscars backstage.
“I feel ready and I’m very grateful to receive these two awards,” he adds.
Emma Stone accepts Best Actress Oscar with broken dress
While accepting the Oscar for Best Actress for her role as Bella Baxter in Poor Things, Stone revealed that the zipper on her dress had broken, leaving the corset-style bodice gaping in the back.
As Stone walked up to the stage to accept the Oscar, she gestured to her back, before making her way to the microphone stand.
“Oh boy. Um, my dress is broken,” Stone said, as she addressed the audience, while turning around to show the style mishap. “I think it happened during ‘I’m Just Ken’. I’m pretty sure.”
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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
Oppenheimer wins top prize and Christopher Nolan wins first Oscar for Best Director
Rounding out the night as its biggest winners were Christopher Nolan and Oppenheimer.
One person who will be pleased is my colleague Louis Chilton who wrote a pre-emptive explainer on why the film was a worthy winner of the Best Picture gong.
“There’s much to admire about Oppenheimer,” writes Chilton. “A structurally complicated work, the film flits between three timelines: Oppenheimer’s early life and the development of the atom bomb; a 1954 security hearing in which Oppenheimer gets a calamitous grilling; and the 1959 US Senate confirmation hearing of oily politician Lewis Strauss (Robert Downey Jr).
“... But it’s also a film with something big and significant to say – and, even more importantly, it’s somehow managed to get people to listen.”
Read more:
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
Cillian Murphy wins Best Actor
In what seemed like a dead cert, Cillian Murphy has won Best Actor for his eponymous role as Robert J Oppenheimer.
“It’s been the wildest, most exhilarating, most creative journey we’ve been on,” he told the audience. “All my fellow nominees, I remain in awe of you, truly. I’m a very proud Irish man standing here tonight.
“We made a film about the man who created the atomic bomb, and for better or for worse, we’re all living in Oppenheimer’s world – so I’d like to dedicate this to the peacemakers everywhere.”
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 spoke 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.
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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
Ryan Gosling leaves Margot Robbie in stitches as he performs ‘I’m Just Ken’ with special guest
Gosling 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.
Sitting in the seats surrounding Gosling, his Barbie co-star Margot Robbie and Billie Eilish (who won Best Song together with her brother Finneas for their song in Barbie) were spotted on camera cracking up.
Relive the moment 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
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