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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.”

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.