The 96th Academy Awards had been offered on Sunday evening in Los Angeles, the place a lot of Hollywood’s largest stars gathered to rejoice the 12 months’s greatest 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 evening with probably the most Oscar nominations (13) and gained seven, together with Greatest Image, Greatest Director, Greatest Actor and Greatest Supporting Actor.
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“We made a movie in regards to the man who created the atomic bomb,” Cillian Murphy, who gained Greatest Actor for his portrayal of Oppenheimer, stated in his acceptance speech. “And for higher or worse, we’re all dwelling in Oppenheimer’s world. So I want to dedicate this to the peacemakers in every single place.”
Listed below are a number of the different greatest 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 Greatest Supporting Actor Oscar for his function as Lewis Strauss in Oppenheimer.
“I would wish to thank my horrible childhood and the academy, in that order,” Downey stated, earlier than thanking his spouse, Susan Downey.
“She discovered me a snarling rescue pet that liked me again to life,” he stated. “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 track didn’t win — the trophy went to the opposite Oscar-nominated Barbie track (“What Was I Made For?,” by Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell) — however his stay efficiency introduced the home (er, Dolby Theatre) down.
He wore a pink go well with and gloves in what seemed to be an homage to the 1953 Marilyn Monroe basic Gentleman Favor 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 Greatest Actress, blamed Gosling. “My gown is damaged,” Stone stated. “I believe it occurred throughout ‘I am Simply Ken.’”
Stone then gave a passionate, tearful speech, during which she thanked all of her fellow Greatest Actress nominees (Lily Gladstone, Carey Mulligan, Sandra Hüller and Annette Bening), the previous Greatest Actress recipients who launched them (Michelle Yeoh, Sally Subject, Jennifer Lawrence, Charlize Theron and Jessica Lange), her husband, mother and father and daughter, Louise, who turns three this week.
She “has turned our lives technicolor,” Stone stated.
A virtually nude John Cena offered an Oscar
In a nod to the infamous 1974 Oscars streaking incident, Cena offered the Academy Award for Greatest Costume Design to Poor Issues whereas sporting nothing however what seemed to be a skin-colored piece of fabric protecting his nether areas.
He used the envelope containing the winner’s title to cowl himself up earlier than swiftly altering outfits when the lights went down.
Geopolitics had been on show — each inside and outdoors the theater
The continued 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 Greatest Documentary Characteristic.
“I want I might have by no means made this movie,” Chernov stated. “I want to have the ability to change this [for] Russia by no means attacking Ukraine, by no means occupying our cities.
“Cinema types recollections and recollections type historical past,” he added. “Due to Ukraine.”
Stars — together with Mark Ruffalo, Billie Eilish and others — wore crimson pins calling for a ceasefire in Gaza amid the Israel-Hamas warfare.
Outdoors, a bunch of a couple of thousand protesters gathered just a few blocks away from the crimson carpet, calling for a direct ceasefire in Gaza.
In keeping with the Los Angeles Occasions, the LAPD “had bolstered patrols within the space in anticipation of protests.” In keeping with police, only one arrest was made.
Kimmel learn Trump’s imply tweet
Simply earlier than the Oscar for Greatest Image was (slightly awkwardly!) offered to Oppenheimer, Kimmel informed the viewers he needed to learn aloud a evaluate of his internet hosting efficiency he had seen on-line. It was a submit from former President Donald Trump.
“Has there EVER been a WORSE HOST than Jimmy Kimmel at The Oscars,” Trump posted on Reality Social. “His opening was that of a lower than common particular person attempting too laborious to be one thing which he’s not, and by no means will be. Do away with Kimmel and maybe substitute him with one other washed up, however low cost, ABC ‘expertise,’ George Slopanopoulos.”
I’m stunned you’re up this late,” Kimmel stated in response. “Is not it previous your jail time?”
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