Christopher Nolan, Cillian Murphy and Robert Downey Jr took home Academy awards for the atomic bomb drama, while Emma Stone won a surprise best actress honour
And that’s your lot! We’re winding this liveblog down now, but keep an eye on the Guardian homepage today/tomorrow for more reaction and analysis of this year’s awards. And we’ll leave you with this rather handy roundup of everything that happened at the 76th Academy Awards, the night when absolutely nothing surprising happened but everyone had a good time anyway. Thanks for reading!
More on the in memoriam segment (1.58am), which in fine Oscar tradition has annoyed quite a few people by omitting a number of prominent Hollywood names. This year the Academy tried to mitigate against the usual social media ire by including some stars in a long roundup list at the end of the segment, but as it was impossible to see that list on TV, everyone’s annoyed regardless. Some of the deceased stars relegated to the big list included The Wire’s Lance Reddick, sitcom pioneer Norman Lear and British film-making great Terence Davies. That last one, in particular, really stings. Will they ever get this segment right?
Julia Fox, seen here wrestling with a pop-up tent, really does operate at a different frequency to the rest of Hollywood – more power to her:
Julia Fox says she would be Weird Barbie: "Obviously!" https://t.co/5TZAUZCDrW pic.twitter.com/6BdTTczShK
— Variety (@Variety) March 11, 2024
Bit of a Guardian exclusive, this: Wes Anderson wasn’t at the Dolby theatre to claim his first ever Oscar, but there’s a good reason why – he starts shooting his next film first thing tomorrow. In an email to the Guardian, Anderson shares what he would have said if he had been at the ceremony to pick up his award:
If I could have been there, I (along with Steven Rales) would have said “Thank you” to: the family of Roald Dahl (Luke and Liccy); the team at Netflix (Ted/Scott/Racheline/Lisa/Catherine/many others); Benedict and Ralph and Ben Kingsley and Dev and Richard and Bob and Adam and Jeremy and John and Jim and Rich and Jim and Polly and more; and also I would have said: if i had not met Owen Wilson in a corridor at the University of Texas between classes when I was 18 years old, I would certainly not be receiving this award tonight -- but unfortunately Steven and I are in Germany and we start shooting our new movie early tomorrow morning, so I did not actually receive the award or get a chance to say any of that.
Who triumphed and who tumbled at this year’s Academy Awards? And what on earth is a ‘codpiece envelope’? This article on the Oscars winners and losers will hopefully explain all:
Just woken up and want to know what happened last night, but only have three minutes and five seconds to spare? The Guardian’s video team have chopped down all three and a bit hours of this year’s Oscars into a compact highlights reel:
That clever lot on the Guardian film desk got 11/12 of their Oscar predictions right. The only wrong one? Best actress, the hardest to call race of the night:
Best picture Oppenheimer
Best actor Cillian Murphy
Best actress Lily Gladstone Emma Stone
Best supporting actor Robert Downey Jr
Best supporting actress Da’Vine Joy Randolph
Best director Christopher Nolan
Best song What Was I Made For?
Best adapted screenplay American Fiction
Best original screenplay Anatomy of a Fall
Best documentary 20 Days in Mariupol
Best animated film The Boy and the Heron
Best international film The Zone of Interest
Alexander Payne’s guest for the evening was his daughter. They both look like they had a blast:
We’ll have a full rundown of the best Oscar after-party photos little later. To whet your appetite though, here’s Robert Downey Jr and friend:
And Da’Vine Joy Randolph and friend (and spectacular dress):
Messi the dog relieving himself on Matt Damon’s walk of fame star (see 3:04am) was, of course, a Kimmel-engineered bit. He and Damon have been engaged in a vicious and very entertaining faux-feud for decades. The Damon-Kimmel feud even has its own Wikipedia page.
The Oscars after-parties are in full swing. Here’s Barry Keoghan at the Vanity Fair one, in a quiet understated outfit. Kidding, he’s dressed as some sort of intergalactic matador:
Barry Keoghan and Sabrina Carpenter at the Vanity Fair Oscars after-party. https://t.co/UNgGySGz3r pic.twitter.com/x7gktVBO7Y
— Variety (@Variety) March 11, 2024
The Oscars was a night of such intense virality that I’ve just done a PCR test on this article and the big red line came up straight away:
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