Oscars 2024 highlights: Oppenheimer is Best Picture, Cillian Murphy is Best Actor, Nolan finally wins Best Director

Oscars 2024 highlights: The 96th Academy Awards concluded with seven wins for Oppenheimer. Poor Things collected second most awards.

Cillian Murphy, winner of the Best Actor Oscar for "Oppenheimer", joins Emma Stone, winner of the Best Actress Oscar for "Poor Things", Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Best Supporting Actress Oscar winner for "The Holdovers", and Robert Downey Jr., Best Supporting Actor Oscar winner for "Oppenheimer", in the Oscars photo room.(REUTERS)

Oscars 2024 highlights: Emma Stone, Emily Blunt, Ryan Gosling and other stars gathered on Sunday to celebrate the best performances in film at the 96th Academy Awards, a ceremony that turned into a toast to blockbuster atomic bomb drama Oppenheimer. It nabbed seven wins out of 13 nominations. ...Read More

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• Mon, 11 Mar 2024 09:10 AM

  Oscars 2024: Read our review of Oscar-winners

• Mon, 11 Mar 2024 08:40 AM

  Oscars 2024: Billie Eilish breaks records

  Oscar-winning siblings Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell made Oscar history Sunday night by becoming the youngest-ever two-time winners of the Best Song trophy. Billie and Finneas took home the award for the song What Was I Made For? Read full story here.
• Mon, 11 Mar 2024 08:26 AM

  Oscars 2024: Check out more from our Oscars coverage

• Mon, 11 Mar 2024 08:16 AM

  Oscars 2024: Best looks from red carpet

  The Oscars 2024 red carpet has long been the most-anticipated annual event, with celebrities serving unforgettable looks. This year too, Hollywood A-listers, including Zendaya, Oscar winner Robert Downey Jr, Emma Stone, Emily Blunt, Ryan Gosling, Florence Pugh, America Ferrera, Best Song nominee Billie Eilish, and Anya Taylor-Joy, among others created red carpet magic. Scroll down to see the best red carpet looks. Check out the photo gallery here.

• Mon, 11 Mar 2024 08:04 AM

  Oscars 2024: Full list of winners

  Oppenheimer and Poor Things emerged as the biggest winners of the evening, scoring seven and four wins each. Check out full list of winners here.

• Mon, 11 Mar 2024 07:53 AM

  Oscars 2024: Best Picture

  Oppenheimer won its seventh award of the night, Best Picture. The award was presented by Al Pacino. Producer Emma Thomas accepted the award. “The movie was what it was because of Chris Nolan,” she said.

• Mon, 11 Mar 2024 07:45 AM

  Oscars 2024: Best Actress

  Emma Stone wins Best Actress for Poor Things. She plays Bella Baxter in Yorgos Lanthimos' movie. She broke her dress and showed it to the audience as she accepted her Oscar on stage. “I think it happened during I'm Just Ken,” she said.

• Mon, 11 Mar 2024 07:36 AM

  Oscars 2024: Best Director

  After eight nominations, Christopher Nolan has finally won an Oscar. He won the Best Director trophy for Oppenheimer. The Hindustan Times review of the movie read, “It’s an effective ‘biopic’ to the extent that it refuses to blandly blaze through bullet points and rattle off a set of highlights from his life. Instead, it takes you inside his mind. Often quite literally.”

• Mon, 11 Mar 2024 07:33 AM

  Oscars 2024 live updates: Best Actor

  Cillian Murphy won Best Actor for Oppenheimer. He played Father of the Atomic Bomb J Robert Oppenheimer in the Christopher Nolan movie. He was been lifting awards from all awards shows for the role.

• Mon, 11 Mar 2024 07:31 AM

  Oscars 2024 live updates: In Memorium

  The In Memorium segment honoured Indian art director Nitin Chandrakant Desai, Michael Gambon, Matthew Perry and others. Singer Andrea Bochelli sang Time To Say Goodbye.

• Mon, 11 Mar 2024 07:13 AM

  Oscars 2024 live updates: Best Song

  Billie Eilish and Finneas have won their second Oscar: Best Song. They won it for Barbie song What Was I Made For. They earlier won for No Time To Die. “I am grateful for this song, this movie,” Billie said in her acceptance speech.

• Mon, 11 Mar 2024 07:12 AM

  Oscars 2024 live updates: Best Original Score

  Ludwig Goransson wins his second Oscar ever for the Original Score of Oppenheimer. This is his second win after Black Panther.

• Mon, 11 Mar 2024 07:06 AM

  Oscars 2024 live updates: Ryan Gosling belts a perfect I Am Just Ken

  The Dolby Theatre was washed in pink lights as Ryan Gosling wore all pink outfit his I'm Just Ken performance. The actor recruited Slash, Simu Liu and Ncuti Gatwa to join him on stage too. He got Emma Stone, Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie singing along in the most electric performance of the evening.

• Mon, 11 Mar 2024 06:59 AM

  Oscars 2024 live updates: Best Sound

  The Zone of Interest wins Best Sound. Talking to Radio Atlantic, the film’s sound designer, Johnnie Burn said that him and the director, Jonathan Glazer, decided they would not use sounds from actors. Instead Burn collected real sounds from the streets of Europe and repurposed them for a soundscape of cruelty happening just out of view.

• Mon, 11 Mar 2024 06:50 AM

  Oscars 2024 live updates: Best Live Action Short

  The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar by Wes Anderson wins Best Live Action Short. “In the first of Wes Anderson's four adaptations of Roald Dahl short stories for Netflix, The Wonderful Life of Henry Sugar, the director applies his trademark aesthetic of symmetry and visual extravaganza to match the fantastical narrative world of the author. The result is a delightful 40-minute short that gently illuminates the spirit,” read the HT review.

• Mon, 11 Mar 2024 06:46 AM

  Oscars 2024 live updates: Best Cinematography

  Hoyte Van Hoytema wins Best Cinematography for Oppenheimer. “It was constantly close-ups, close‑ups, close-ups, talking, talking, talking. The challenge was, ‘How the hell do we make this interesting?’” said van Hoytema about Oppenheimer.

• Mon, 11 Mar 2024 06:38 AM

  Oscar 2024 live updates: Best Documentary Feature

  20 Days in Mariupol wins first Oscar ever for Ukraine. In the film, an AP team of Ukrainian journalists trapped in the besieged city of Mariupol struggle to continue their work documenting atrocities of the Russian invasion. As the only international reporters who remain in the city, they capture what later become defining images of the war: dying children, mass graves, the bombing of a maternity hospital, and more.

• Mon, 11 Mar 2024 06:36 AM

  Oscars 2024 live updates: Best Documentary Short

  The Last Repair Short wins Best Documentary Short. The film's synopsis read: Since 1959, Los Angeles has been one of the few United States cities to offer and fix musical instruments for its public school students at no cost. Those instruments, numbering around 80,000, are maintained at a Los Angeles downtown warehouse by handful of craftspeople. The film profiles four of them, each specializing in an orchestra section, as well as students whose lives have been enriched by the repair shop's work.

• Mon, 11 Mar 2024 06:32 AM

  Oscars 2024 live updates: Downey with the boys

  

  Robert Downey Jr. poses with the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for "Oppenheimer", along with Ke Huy Quan, Sam Rockwell, Mahershala Ali, Christoph Waltz and Tim Robbins, in the Oscars photo room at the 96th Academy Awards in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, U.S., March 10, 2024. (REUTERS)

  Robert Downey Jr. poses with the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for "Oppenheimer", along with Ke Huy Quan, Sam Rockwell, Mahershala Ali, Christoph Waltz and Tim Robbins, in the Oscars photo room.

• Mon, 11 Mar 2024 06:26 AM

  Oscars 2024: Best Film Editing

  Jennifer Lame won Best Film Editing award for Oppenheimer. “When I first read that script, I tore through it. It was pared down to the essentials, but it’s so rich. It’s intimidating when you work on a movie whose script is so perfectly planned out, and then you have to edit that. I wanted the audience to experience what I felt when I first read that script when they watched the movie. And that’s really hard to do,” Lame said about her work in Oppenheimer.

• Mon, 11 Mar 2024 06:19 AM

  Oscars 2024: Best Visual Effects

  Godzilla Minus One wins Best Visual Effects award. All 610 of the film's visual effect shots were handled by a crew of 35 artists at Shirogumi's Chōfu studio, under the supervision of Yamazaki and direction of Kiyoko Shibuya.

• Mon, 11 Mar 2024 06:10 AM

  Oscars 2024: Best Supporting Actor

  Robert Downey Jr wins his first Oscar ever for Oppenheimer. “I'd like to thank my terrible childhood,” he said. This is Robert's third nomination. He played the jealous Lewis Strauss in Christopher Nolan's film.

• Mon, 11 Mar 2024 06:01 AM

  Oscars 2024: Best International Feature

  The Zone of Interest won Best International Feature. This was UK's third win in the category. The Hindustan Times review of the movie read, “There's simply no other film in recent memory quite like Jonathan Glazer's The Zone of Interest. Seldom does one come across a film as bone-chillingly immediate as this one; it refuses to leave the mind and spirit. This is a film about the Holocaust, but one that stays away from depicting the genocidal regime in all its brutality. But this is also a film that is very much about human complicity, about affinity for survival in a deeply unfair and brutal world.” Zone of Interest is also nominated in Best Picture category.

• Mon, 11 Mar 2024 05:48 AM

  Oscars 2024: John Cena is naked!

  

  John Cena goes all out to promote Ricky Stanicky.

  In a bit, John Cena appears completely nude on the Oscars stage to present the Best Costume Design award. He was egged on by Jimmy Kimmel to do so.

• Mon, 11 Mar 2024 05:46 AM

  Oscars 2024: Best Costume Design

  Poor Things wins Best Costume Design, taking the tally to 3. “The only brief really was that he didn’t want it to be overtly like a period drama and he didn’t want it to be overtly like a science fiction film,” designer Holly Waddington said about Lanthimos in an interview.

• Mon, 11 Mar 2024 05:39 AM

  Oscars 2024: Best Production Design

  Poor Things nabs another win. It won Best Production Design. Director Yorgos Lanthimos asked the production design team to create a fantastical world that was a throwback to the old-school style of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s Black Narcissus, with miniatures, painted backdrops, and rear screen projection.

• Mon, 11 Mar 2024 05:36 AM

  Oscars 2024: Best Makeup and Hairstyling

  Poor Things wins Best Makeup and Hairstyling. Nadia Stacey, chief hair and make-up artist for Poor Things said in an inteview: ‘Bella's hair was left down intentionally as a marker of her non-conformity to society, as we see all the women around her with period hairstyles. As the film goes on, the hair grows at an accelerated rate, too. So I changed the length as she moves through her journey ending up with 44-inch hair wefts.’

• Mon, 11 Mar 2024 05:31 AM

  Oscars 2024: Billie Eilish and Finneas perform

  Billie Eilish and her brother Finneas performed their song What Was I Made For, which is nominated for Best Song. The song, from box office hit Barbie, went viral last year. It is about Barbie's changed life once she learns her world is not real.

• Mon, 11 Mar 2024 05:23 AM

  Oscars 2024: Best Adapted Screenplay

  American Fiction wins Best Adapted Screenplay. The film is about a frustrated novelist who's fed up with the establishment that profits from Black entertainment that relies on tired and offensive tropes. To prove his point, he uses a pen name to write an outlandish Black book of his own, a book that propels him to the heart of hypocrisy and the madness he claims to disdain.

• Mon, 11 Mar 2024 05:19 AM

  Oscars 2024: Best Original Screenplay

  Anatomy of a Fall wins Best Original Screenplay, a first for the French film this evening. “This has been a crazy year,” said director-write Justine Triet as she accepted the award.

• Mon, 11 Mar 2024 05:15 AM

  Oscars 2024: Inside pics of Barbies bonding

  

  Greta Gerwig embraces Margot Robbie before the Oscars show at the 96th Academy Awards in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, U.S., March 10, 2024. REUTERS/Mike Blake (REUTERS)

  Greta Gerwig embraces Margot Robbie before the Oscars show at the 96th Academy Awards. None of them are nominated for Best Director or Best Actress.

• Mon, 11 Mar 2024 05:09 AM

  Oscars 2024: Best Animated Feature

  The Boy and the Heron wins Best Animated Feature. The film is Hayao Miyazaki's latest film. The team wasn't present to accept the award.

• Mon, 11 Mar 2024 05:08 AM

  Oscars 2024: Best Animated Short

  War is Over won Best Animated Short. It is inspired by the Music of John & Yoko and is an anti-war story by Sean Lennon and Dave Mullins that features John & Yoko’s iconic anti-war holiday song ‘Happy Xmas (War Is Over)’.

  Directed by Dave Mullins, produced by Brad Booker and exec produced by Yoko Ono Lennon and Sean Ono Lennon with music by Thomas Newman, the film has been created as a co-production of Lenono Music, ElectroLeague, WetaFX and Epic Games.

• Mon, 11 Mar 2024 04:56 AM

  Oscars 2024: Best Supporting Actress

  Da'Vine Joy Randolph wins Best Supporting Actress for The Holdovers. “God is so good,” she said through tears in her acceptance speech. Lupita N'yongo, Jamie Lee Curtis, Regina King and others made the announcement after introducing each nominee.

• Mon, 11 Mar 2024 04:43 AM

  Oscars 2024: Jimmy Kimmel kicks off ceremony

  Jimmy Kimmel is back to host the Oscars for the fourth time. He kicked off the ceremony with repeated mentions and jokes about Barbie. “Ryan you are so hot. Let's go on a camping trip and not tell our wives,” he said to Ryan Gosling. He also mentioned how Greta Gerwig was not nominated for Best Director. He blamed the voters for it.

• Mon, 11 Mar 2024 04:27 AM

  Oscars 2024: Ariana Grande arrives on red carpet

  Ariana Grande arrived for the ceremony in a pink, poofy outfit and her curls tied in a pony. She talked about her film Wicked that is up for release later this year, as she met co-star Michelle Yeoh on the red carpet.

• Mon, 11 Mar 2024 04:17 AM

  Oscars 2024: Messi is ready for the show

  

  Messi the dog at the Oscars.

  Anatomy of a Fall's star doggie Messi was spotted in his seat at the Oscars ceremony. Messi grew to worldwide popularity after starring in the movie.

• Mon, 11 Mar 2024 04:16 AM

  Oscars 2024: Bradley Cooper, Ryan Gosling arrive

  Best Actor nominee Bradley Cooper and Best Supporting Actor nominee Ryan Gosling are here. Both of them looked handsome in black suits. Bradley is nominated for self-directed Maestro and Ryan played Ken in box-office hit Barbie.

• Mon, 11 Mar 2024 04:10 AM

  Oscars 2024: Best Picture predictions

  Barbenheimer dominated the year, and Oppenheimer has a clear path to victory, but it’s been a great year for movies in general – with three foreign language films, an exploration of Native American exploitation, a biting satire of the modern African American experience, and much more. Check out our guide to Best Picture nominees here.

• Mon, 11 Mar 2024 04:03 AM

  Oscars 2024: Traffic snarls at Dolby Theatre

  Stars are arriving at the 96th Academy Awards, where protests over Israel's war in Gaza are snarling traffic near the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Protesters have shut down the flow of traffic to the Oscars red carpet, causing many attendees to get out of their cars and walk to the Dolby Theatre.

  Scattered demonstrations were held in the vicinity around the Oscars on Sunday. Los Angeles police, which had expected protests, beefed up their already extensive presence. The Dolby Theatre and the red carpet leading into it are cordoned off for several blocks in every direction, though protesters disrupted traffic near security checkpoints on Sunset Blvd.

• Mon, 11 Mar 2024 03:58 AM

  Oscars 2024: Emily Blunt and John Krasinski

  

  John Krasinski and Emily Blunt pose on the red carpet during the Oscars arrivals at the 96th Academy Awards in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, U.S., March 10, 2024. REUTERS/Sarah Meyssonnier (REUTERS)

  Emily Blunt and John Krasinski were spotted on the red carpet, twinning in white. Emily is nominated in Best Supporting Actress category for Oppenheimer.

• Mon, 11 Mar 2024 03:45 AM

  Oscars 2024: Pictures from rehearsals

  Before the main event, several Hollywood stars such as Zendaya, Jennifer Lawrence and Lupita N'yongo were at Dolby Theatre on Saturday to rehearse. Check out their photos here.

• Mon, 11 Mar 2024 03:42 AM

  Oscars 2024: Emma Stone arrives

  Best Actress nominee Emma Stone, presenter Anya Taylor Joy, Best Supporting Actor nominee Sterling K Brown were all spotted on the red carpet. Emma is nominated for Poor Things while Sterling is nominated for American Fiction.

• Mon, 11 Mar 2024 03:31 AM

  Oscars 2024: Ceasefire pins on red carpet

  Billie Eilish, Poor Things star Ramy Youssef and more celebrities wore red pins in support of Artists for Ceasefire at the Oscars red carpet. Also sporting the Artists for Ceasefire pins on Sunday’s Oscars red carpet were Nimona actor Eugene Lee Yang, director Misan Harriman, behind best live action short nominee The After, and writer-director Kaouther Ben Hania, of best documentary feature nominee Four Daughters.

• Mon, 11 Mar 2024 03:24 AM

  Oscars 2024: Billie Eilish and America Ferrera arrive

  

  Billie Eilish, left, and America Ferrera arrive at the Oscars on Sunday. (Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

  Oscar nominees tonight, singer Billie Eilish and Barbie actor America Ferrera were spotted bonding on the red carpet. Billie wore a black and white outfit and America chose a shimmery, fitted pink number.

• Mon, 11 Mar 2024 03:20 AM

  Oscars 2024: Where to stream the show?

  Indian viewers can watch the Oscars 2022 ceremony live on Disney+ Hotstar from 4:00 AM on Monday, March 11. Here's where to watch the show from around the world.

• Mon, 11 Mar 2024 03:17 AM

  Oscars 2024: Vanessa Hudgens is pregnant!

  Actor Vanessa Hudgens, who is hosting the red carpet pre-show, was among the first to arrive. She was spotted in a black dress with a huge baby bump! Congratulations to the mother-to-be.

• Mon, 11 Mar 2024 03:14 AM

  Oscars 2024: Protests outside Dolby Theatre

  Hundreds of pro-Palestine protestors also took to the streets on Oscars night. "While you're watching, bombs are dropping," one sign read. "The Oscars are happening down the road while people are being murdered, killed, bombed," said 38-year-old business owner Zinab Nassrou. Security has been beefed up at the event with police saying they would hope for a peaceful protest and safety of those attending the event.