Oscars 2024 recap: highlights and winners
The 2024 Oscars are underway, and Jimmy Kimmel is emceeing the ceremony.
RetainersDa’Vine star Joy Randolph took home the top award of the evening — the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress — for her role in the Focus Features film directed by Alexander Payne. “I didn’t think I was meant to do this as a career,” Randolph said, his eyes welling with tears. “I started out as a singer, and my mother said, ‘Go across this street to the theater department. There’s something for you there. And I thank my mother for doing this.'” As Randolph thanked her many loved ones who supported her throughout her career, she reflected on her path toward self-acceptance. For a long time. “I’ve always wanted to be different,” she added. “Now I realize I just need to be myself, and thank you for seeing me.”
“I would like to thank my terrible childhood and academics in that order,” Robert Downey Jr. said in his acceptance speech for Best Supporting Actor. the Oppenheimer The star also thanked his wife, Susan, whom he likened to a vet who “found a snarling pet and loved me back to life.” He also indicated that he needed this role Oppenheimer More than the movie needed, and he ended his speech to thank his entertainment lawyer of 40 years, who, as Downey noted, spent those years “trying to get me insurance and save me from ants.”
The UK received its first Oscar for Best International Film for A24 Area of interest Winning this category. Writer and director Jonathan Glazer accepted the award on behalf of the United Kingdom, and said: “All our choices have been made to reflect and confront us in the present. I am not saying look at what they did then, but look at what we are doing now.” Our film shows where dehumanization leads to its worst; It has shaped all of our past and present. said Glazer, who referenced his longtime collaborator and producer James Wilson. “Now, we stand here as men refuting their Judaism and the Holocaust hijacked by occupation that has led to conflict for so many innocent people – whether the victims of October 7 in Israel or the ongoing attack on Gaza, they all are. Victims of this dehumanization.”
The award for best documentary went to 20 days in MariupolWhich director Mstislav Chernov pointed out was the first Ukrainian film to win an Oscar. “I’ll probably be the first director on this stage to say, ‘I wish I’d never made this movie,'” Chernoff said. He added: “I wish I could exchange this for a Russia that would never attack Ukraine, and would never occupy our cities.” “We can be sure that the record of history will be corrected and that the truth will prevail, and the people of Mariupol and those who gave their lives will never be forgotten,” the director added. Because cinema forms memories, and memories form history.
Neon Anatomy of a fall The film won Best Original Screenplay, with director Justine Tritt and her writing partner Arthur Harary receiving the Academy Award. “I think this will help me through my midlife crisis,” Tritt said.
American fantasy A writer-director has won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for the Amazon MGM Studios film, based on the novel by Percival Everett. Erase. “I’ve talked a lot about how many people died in this movie, and I’m afraid that sometimes comes across as vindictive, and I don’t want to be vindictive — I’m not a vindictive person anymore,” Jefferson said in his speech. Which received great applause from the audience. “It’s a call to acknowledge and acknowledge that there are a lot of people who want the opportunity that I had. I understand that this is a risk-averse industry, I understand that. But $200 million movies are also a risk, and it doesn’t always work out but you take the risk anyway.” Instead of producing one film worth $200 million, try producing 20 films worth $10 million.
The wonderful story of Henry Sugar Director Wes Anderson received his first Oscar for Best Live Action Short, but the director was not present to accept the award. Nor did Hayao Miyazaki, who received his second Academy Award for Best Animated Feature The boy and the heron. The Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Film went to The last repair shopwhile animated shorts went to The war is over! Inspired by the music of John and Yoko. My last director was joined on stage by Sean Ono Lennon, the project’s executive producer.
In the categories of handicrafts, scout Bad things It won Academy Awards for Best Makeup, Hairstyling, Production Design, and Costume Design Oppenheimer It won the award for best cinematography and editing. The award for Best Visual Effects went to Toho’s team Godzilla minus one. The film, directed by Takashi Yamazaki (who was part of the Oscar-winning visual effects team), is the first of its kind in cinema history. Godzilla Imtiaz was nominated for an Academy Award. Area of interest It beat out more formidable competition to win the Academy Award for Best Sound.
Stopping the show was Ryan Gosling’s electrifying performance Barbie“I’m Just Ken”, which featured a full lineup of Kens – plus songwriter Mark Ronson and Slash on guitar and Barbie Co-stars Simu Liu and Kingsley Ben-Adir join Gosling on stage. Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell received a standing ovation for their performance of Barbie’s song “What Are You Made For?” American Symphony Jon Batiste performed the love song “It Never Went Away” from the Netflix doc, while Becky G performed Diane Warren’s 15-nominated song. Flamin Hot Tune to “The Fire Within.” The Osage Singers also performed the original tribal song “Wahzhazhe (Song for My People)” from Moonflower Killers.
The Academy Award for Best Original Song went to Eilish and O’Connell, their second win after writing a James Bond theme song. No time to die. OppenheimerLudwig Göransson also achieved his second win for Best Original Score.
Kimmel returned to emcee the event for the fourth year, lightly toasting the nominees in the front rows of the audience before ending his monologue to note the resilience of the actors and writers who walked the picket lines during last year’s dual WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. “As pretentious and superficial as it can be, at its heart it’s a union city. “It’s not just a bunch of heavily Botoxed, Hilly Pepper juice drinking, diabetes prescription abusers, gluten-sensitive Nebo kids with a Chihuahua who’s always shaking, “This is an alliance of hard-working, mentally tough American workers, women and men who would 100 percent certainly die if we had to even touch a shovel handle,” Kimmel joked, before inviting crew members onto the stage to take a bow.
The ceremony, which was scheduled to start an hour earlier than usual, was postponed slightly after pro-Palestinian demonstrators blocked traffic in Hollywood, preventing many guests from heading to the Dolby Theater. (“Don’t worry, (the show) is going to end very, very late,” Kimmel quipped. “We’re already over by five minutes — I’m not kidding.”) The war between Israel and Hamas was directly referenced during the red carpet, with stars like Billie Eilish, Finneas O’Connell, and Rami Youssef, Mahershala Ali, Mark Ruffalo, Mark Ronson, and Ava DuVernay wear red Artists4Ceasefire pins in support of ending the fighting and providing humanitarian aid to Palestinian civilians in Gaza.
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