The 96th Academy Awards have been offered on Sunday evening in Los Angeles, the place a lot of Hollywood’s largest stars gathered to have fun the yr’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 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 concerning the man who created the atomic bomb,” Cillian Murphy, who gained Greatest Actor for his portrayal of Oppenheimer, mentioned 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 all over the place.”
Listed here are a few 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 Greatest Supporting Actor Oscar for his position as Lewis Strauss in Oppenheimer.
“I might prefer 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 beloved 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 costume
Ryan Gosling’s Oscar-nominated Barbie music didn’t win — the trophy went to the opposite Oscar-nominated Barbie music (“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 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 just accept the Oscar for Greatest Actress, blamed Gosling. “My costume is damaged,” Stone mentioned. “I believe it occurred throughout ‘I am Simply Ken.’”
Stone then gave a passionate, tearful speech, by 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 Discipline, Jennifer Lawrence, Charlize Theron and Jessica Lange), her husband, dad and mom and daughter, Louise, who turns three this week.
She “has turned our lives technicolor,” Stone mentioned.
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 overlaying 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 have been on show — each inside and outdoors the theater
The continuing wars in Ukraine and Gaza have 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 Function.
“I want I might have by no means made this movie,” Chernov mentioned. “I want to have the ability to trade this [for] Russia by no means attacking Ukraine, by no means occupying our cities.
“Cinema kinds recollections and recollections kind historical past,” he added. “Because of Ukraine.”
Stars — together with Mark Ruffalo, Billie Eilish and others — wore crimson pins calling for a ceasefire in Gaza amid the Israel-Hamas struggle.
Outdoors, a bunch of a couple of thousand protesters gathered just a few blocks away from the crimson carpet, calling for an instantaneous ceasefire in Gaza.
In accordance with 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 Greatest Image was (relatively awkwardly!) offered to Oppenheimer, Kimmel instructed 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 exhausting to be one thing which he isn’t, and by no means might be. Eliminate Kimmel and maybe exchange 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?”
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