The 96th Academy Awards had been introduced on Sunday night time in Los Angeles, the place lots of Hollywood’s largest stars gathered to have fun the 12 months’s finest in movie.
Christopher Nolan’s sweeping epic about J. Robert Oppenheimer — the American physicist credited with being the “father of the atomic bomb” — got here into the night time with probably the most Oscar nominations (13) and gained seven, together with Finest Image, Finest Director, Finest Actor and Finest Supporting Actor.
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“We made a movie concerning the man who created the atomic bomb,” Cillian Murphy, who gained Finest Actor for his portrayal of Oppenheimer, mentioned in his acceptance speech. “And for higher or worse, we’re all residing in Oppenheimer’s world. So I wish to dedicate this to the peacemakers in all places.”
Listed here are a number of the different finest moments from the 2024 Academy Awards.
Robert Downey Jr. gained his 1st-ever Oscar
Robert Downey Jr. gained the primary Academy Award in his 40-plus-year profession, nabbing the Finest Supporting Actor Oscar for his function as Lewis Strauss in Oppenheimer.
“I might wish to thank my horrible childhood and the academy, in that order,” Downey mentioned, earlier than thanking his spouse, Susan Downey.
“She discovered me a snarling rescue pet that cherished me again to life,” he mentioned. “That is why I am right here.”
Ryan Gosling’s ‘I’m Simply Ken’ efficiency broke Emma Stone’s gown
Ryan Gosling’s Oscar-nominated Barbie tune didn’t win — the trophy went to the opposite Oscar-nominated Barbie tune (“What Was I Made For?,” by Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell) — however his dwell efficiency introduced the home (er, Dolby Theatre) down.
He wore a pink swimsuit and gloves in what gave the impression to be an homage to the 1953 Marilyn Monroe traditional Gentleman Want Blondes. And a military of different Kens joined Gosling, as did Barbie director Greta Gerwig, co-stars America Ferrera and Margot Robbie — and even Slash.
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Poor Issues star Emma Stone — who suffered a wardrobe malfunction someday earlier than taking the stage to simply accept the Oscar for Finest Actress, blamed Gosling. “My gown is damaged,” Stone mentioned. “I feel it occurred throughout ‘I am Simply Ken.’”
Stone then gave a passionate, tearful speech, wherein she thanked all of her fellow Finest Actress nominees (Lily Gladstone, Carey Mulligan, Sandra Hüller and Annette Bening), the previous Finest Actress recipients who launched them (Jamie Lee Curtis, Mary Steenburgen, Lupita Nyong’o, Rita Moreno and Regina King), her husband, dad and mom and daughter, Louise, who turns three this week.
She “has turned our lives technicolor,” Stone mentioned.
An almost nude John Cena introduced an Oscar
In a nod to the infamous 1974 Oscars streaking incident, Cena introduced the Academy Award for Finest Costume Design to Poor Issues whereas carrying nothing however what gave the impression to be a skin-colored piece of material protecting his nether areas.
He used the envelope containing the winner’s title to cowl himself up earlier than swiftly changing outfits when the lights went down.
Geopolitics had been on show — each inside and outdoors the theater
The continuing wars in Ukraine and Gaza had been on the minds of many Sunday — each inside and outdoors the Dolby Theater.
Mstyslav Chernov, director of 20 Days in Mariupol, delivered a strong speech whereas accepting the Oscar for Finest Documentary Function.
“I want I’d have by no means made this movie,” Chernov mentioned. “I want to have the ability to alternate this [for] Russia by no means attacking Ukraine, by no means occupying our cities.
“Cinema varieties recollections and recollections kind historical past,” he added. “Because of Ukraine.”
Stars — together with Mark Ruffalo, Billie Eilish and others — wore crimson puns on calling a ceasefire in Gaza amid the Israel-Hamas struggle.
Exterior, a bunch of a couple of thousand protesters gathered a number of blocks away from the crimson carpet, calling for an instantaneous ceasefire in Gaza.
Based on the Los Angeles Occasions, the LAPD “had bolstered patrols within the space in anticipation of protests.” According to police, only one arrest was made.
Kimmel learn Trump’s imply tweet
Simply earlier than the Oscar for Finest Image was (rather awkwardly!) introduced to Oppenheimer, Kimmel informed the viewers he wished to learn aloud a evaluate of his internet hosting efficiency he had seen on-line. It was a put up from former President Donald Trump.
“Has there EVER been a WORSE HOST than Jimmy Kimmel at The Oscars,” Trump posted on Fact Social. “His opening was that of a lower than common particular person making an attempt too exhausting to be one thing which he’s not, and by no means may be. Do away with Kimmel and maybe substitute him with one other washed up, however low-cost, ABC ‘expertise,’ George Slopanopoulos.”
I’m shocked you’re up this late,” Kimmel mentioned in response. “Is not it previous your jail time?”
