Oscars 2024: How to watch and who's nominated

The biggest night on the entertainment calendar, the 96th Oscars, is finally here.

Christopher Nolan's “Oppenheimer'' has been nominated in 13 categories and is expected to top the list at subsequent awards ceremonies.

Many movie fans will also be rooting for Barbie, last year's biggest box office hit.

American television host Jimmy Kimmel will present the awards from Los Angeles, with shows starting at 4pm PT, 7pm ET and midnight GMT.

Here are all the talking points and highlights from the ceremony (we're already betting on Margot Robbie wearing pink).

The Oscars, officially known as the Academy Awards, have been recognizing talent in the big screen world since 1929.

The Los Angeles-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominates and votes in more than 20 categories each year, including Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Actress.

Film awards shows like the Golden Globes and BAFTAs get a lot of attention, but the Oscars are the pinnacle of the awards season calendar. The award is decided by a vote of Academy members.

Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer, a film about the life of the man who helped develop the atomic bomb, was nominated for 13 awards, including Best Picture, Best Actor (Cillian Murphy), and Best Supporting Actress (Emily Blunt). , is on top.

“Titanic,'' “Ben-Hur,'' and “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King'' hold the record for most wins with a combined 11, but Oppenheimer has no chance of matching or surpassing that. Is it possible to surpass it?

British-born director Nolan is the frontrunner for the Best Director award. Although his films have won Oscars before, the actor, whose films include Interstellar, Inception and The Dark Knight Rises, had never won in this prestigious category.

In fact, despite his pedigree, he has only been nominated for Best Director once before (for 2018's Dunkirk). This year is definitely his year.

Four of the five directors nominated this year are European (Nolan has dual American and British citizenship, but we're making a case for him because he was born and raised here). .

If Oppenheimer's Robert Downey Jr. wins Best Supporting Actor, as many expected, it will be his first Oscar win.

Following Oppenheimer with 11 nods is Yorgos Lanthimos's wonderfully bizarre “Poor Things.” Emma Stone, who stars in the film, is a front-runner in the Best Actress race, along with Lily Gladstone, who starred in Martin Scorsese's “The Flower Moon''. If Gladstone wins, it's hard to tell at this point, but she will become the first Native American to win the award.

Killers of the Flower Moon, about the murder of members of the Osage Indian tribe by white settlers seeking oil, received 10 total nominations.

Scorsese has now been nominated for the Best Director Oscar 10 times, making him the most nominated living director in Academy Award history. At 81 years old, he is also the oldest candidate for Best Manager of the Year.

His longtime collaborator Thelma Schoonmaker is the most nominated editor of all time with nine nominations, and this could be her record-breaking fourth win (currently She holds the joint record with three awards).

Unless you've been hiding under a rock since Christmas (we've all been tempted to hide in this weather), Barbie director Greta Gerwig and the film's star Margot Robbie announced in January missed out on individual nominations.

However, Barbie received a total of eight nominations, with America Ferrara and Ryan Gosling winning Best Supporting Actress and Best Supporting Actor, respectively. But for some it's still not enough.

All of the above films are up for the coveted Best Picture award, including the French courtroom drama Anatomy of the Fall, the romantic drama A Past Life, and the Leonard Bernstein biopic Maestro. , a sharp satire of American fiction, a warm comedy tale, The Holdovers, and a chilling Nazi drama, The. zone of interest.

Babenheimer's big hit, which sparked a thousand memes, did no harm to this year's Oscars. The box office success and critical acclaim of his two films may draw new audiences to this year's event.

It seems all is said and done in some categories, with Da'Vine Joy Randolph in The Holdovers and Robert Downey Jr. in Oppenheimer winning almost every film award heading into the Oscars, but still There may be some surprises in store. .

The lead actress contest between Stone and Gladstone is too close to call, but with Gladstone's recent Screen Actors Guild award, will she be able to cross the line? That's what happened to Michelle Yeoh last year.

But while Stone plays the flashy role of Vera Baxter, the charming protagonist of Poor Things, Gladstone's dignified and resilient Molly Kyle in Flower Moon is more It's a modest role and his screen time is quite short. That's an interesting contest.

The Best Actor award is also in a two-horse race with Paul Giamatti (The Holdovers) and Cillian Murphy (Oppenheimer) following recent wins at the BAFTAs and SAGs. Murphy appears to be at the forefront. If he wins, he would be the first Irish-born actor to win the award, although Daniel Day-Lewis, who has both British and Irish nationality, has previously won the Best Actor Oscar three times.

In the Best Picture category, is there a chance that The Holdovers will beat Argo and win Best Picture when its director (Alexander Payne) is not nominated for Best Director? It took some effort to overhaul Oppenheimer's steamroller, but a strange thing happened.

It's a bit of a fantasy now, but Rustin's Colman Domingo also won the Best Actor Oscar for his role as gay civil rights activist Bayard Rustin, making him the first person to win the same award. He will be an Afro-Latinx actor. And there are people of color in every acting category.

Jodie Foster was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for her role as gay swimming coach Bonnie Stoll in Nyad. This is the first time that two gay actors have been nominated for playing two gay characters in the same year.

There is also progress elsewhere. But progress is slow. Justine Triet, for Anatomy of a Fall, is the eighth woman to be nominated for Best Director (75% of the Oscars' directing categories are held by men). However, a record three films by female directors were selected for Best Picture (out of 10): Tollett, Gerwig, and Celine Song (Past Lives).

Other categories are also worth looking at. This year, the short film and animated short categories are suffering under the weight of Stardust.

Both shortlists are worth checking out in their own right, but Wes Anderson, who directed Roald Dahl's The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Ralph Fiennes and Dev Patel; Some of you may know.

Meanwhile, David Orewoyo stars in Misan Harriman's The After, which tackles grief.

And Robbie Robertson could posthumously win an Oscar for Killers of the Flower Moon. He sadly passed away in August last year at the age of 80.

Dave Mullins, who worked at Pixar for 20 years, wrote and directed the animated short The War Is Over! Inspired by John and Yoko's music. Sean Lennon, son of the famous duo, will serve as executive producer.

The simple answer is that anyone can participate. Most of the nominees will be on the red carpet (I think it'll be red anyway, but last year they switched to champagne, but it got dirty quickly).

Presenters include Zendaya, Al Pacino, Lupita Nyong'o, Bad Bunny, Dwayne Jawson, Regina King, Matthew McConaughey, Mahershala Ali, Kee Hui Quan, Brendan Fraser, and Michelle Pfeiffer. Masu.

Never mind the A-listers, we hope to see Messi, the dog from Anatomy of a Fall, star again.

All of the Best Song nominees will perform, including Barbie's Ryan Gosling and I'm Just Ken's Mark Ronson. Gosling had a hilarious reaction to the song's win at the Critics' Choice Awards earlier this year, saying he was embarrassed and almost incredulous.

Billie Eilish also sings the winning Barbie doll, “What Was I Made For?”

American late-night presenter Jimmy Kimmel will return to hosting this year. It's his fourth time including hosting last year, but it's a successful return to the 2022 ceremony after Will Smith was involved in a chaotic incident in which he slapped one of the ceremony's presenters. Chris Rock.

“I've always dreamed of hosting the Oscars exactly four times,” Kimmel joked when his return was announced. But we're sure it won't be his last.

The 2024 Oscars ceremony will be broadcast live on Sunday, March 10th from the Dolby Theater in Hollywood, where the ceremony has been held since 2002.

The show is available on ABC and various streaming services in the US. It is also broadcast in over 200 territories around the world.

In the UK, you might actually be able to wake up and watch it this year. The awards ceremony starts an hour early for him, and on Oscar Sunday, Los Angeles (Pacific Standard Time) clocks will be an hour ahead for him. Shows start at 16:00 (PT), 19:00 (ET), and midnight (GMT). Viewers in the UK can watch 22:30 on ITV and ITVX.

In addition to Nolan, the cast includes Emily Blunt (Oppenheimer), Carey Mulligan (Maestro), Jonathan Glaser (director of Zone of Interest), Jacqueline Durand (costume designer, Barbie), and Holly Waddington (costume designer). , “Pua'') are listed as candidates. thing).

So how about this as an effort? Special effects master Neil Corbould (who has already won two Oscars) won three visual effects categories this year for The Creator, Napoleon and Mission: Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part 1. is named in the.

Meanwhile, if Sandra Haller wins Best Actress (for Anatomy of the Fall), she will be the first German to win the award in 60 years.

It is also the first time that two non-English international films have been nominated for Best Picture in the same year (Anatomy of a Fall and Zone of Interest).

Read more about some of the movies in this year's Oscar race here.