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The 96th Academy Awards were presented Sunday night in Los Angeles, where many of Hollywood’s biggest stars gathered to celebrate the best of the year’s cinema.
Christopher Nolan’s sweeping epic about J. Robert Oppenheimer —the American physicist credited with being the “father of the atomic bomb”—came into the night with the most Oscar nominations (13) and won seven, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor and Best Actor of Distribution.
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“We made a movie about the man who created the atomic bomb,” Cillian Murphy, who won Best Actor for his portrayal of Oppenheimer, said in his acceptance speech. “And for better or worse, we all live in Oppenheimer’s world. That’s why I would like to dedicate this to peacemakers around the world.”
Here are some of the other best moments from the 2024 Academy Awards.
Robert Downey Jr. won his first Oscar
Robert Downey Jr. won the first Academy Award in his more than 40-year career, taking home the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Lewis Strauss in oppenheimer.
“I would like to thank my terrible childhood and the academy, in that order,” Downey said, before thanking his wife. Susana Downey.
“She found me a snarling rescue pet that brought me back to life,” he said. “That is why I am here.”
Ryan Gosling’s performance in ‘I’m Just Ken’ flopped Emma Stonedress
Ryan Gosling’s Oscar nominee Barbie The song did not win: the trophy went to the other Oscar nominee. Barbie song (“What Was I Made For?” by Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell), but its live performance brought the house down (i.e. Dolby Theatre).
She wore a pink suit and gloves in what appeared to be an homage to Marilyn Monroe’s 1953 classic. Gentlemen prefer blondes. And an army of other Kens joined Gosling, as did Barbie director Greta Gerwig, co-stars America Ferrera and Margot Robbie, and even Slash.
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poor things Star Emma Stone, who suffered a wardrobe malfunction at some point before going on stage to accept the Best Actress Oscar, blamed Gosling. “My dress is torn,” Stone said. “I think it happened during ‘I’m Just Ken.'”
Stone then gave a passionate, tearful speech in which she thanked all of her fellow Best Actress nominees (Lily Gladstone, Carey Mulligan, Sandra Hüller and Annette Bening), the former Best Actress winners who introduced them (Jamie Lee Curtis, Mary Steenburgen, Lupita Nyong’o, Rita Moreno and Regina King), her husband, her parents and her daughter, Louise, who turns three this week.
She “has turned our lives into Technicolor,” Stone said.
An almost naked John Cena presented an Oscar
In a nod to the famous 1974 Oscars incident, Cena presented the Academy Award for Best Costume Design to poor things while wearing nothing but what appeared to be a piece of skin-colored cloth covering her nether regions.
He used the envelope containing the winner’s name to cover himself before quickly changing clothes When the lights went out.
Geopolitics were on display, both inside and outside the theater.
The ongoing wars in Ukraine and Gaza were on the minds of many Sunday, both inside and outside the Dolby Theater.
Mstyslav Chernov, director of 20 days in Mariupol, gave a powerful speech while accepting the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature.
“I wish I had never made this movie,” Chernov said. “I wish I could change this to Russia never attacking Ukraine, never occupying our cities.
“Cinema forms memories and memories form history,” he added. “Thanks to Ukraine.”
Stars including Mark Ruffalo, Billie Eilish and others wore red badges calling for a ceasefire in Gaza amid the war between Israel and Hamas.
Outside, a group of about a thousand protesters gathered a few blocks from the red carpet, calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.
According to the Los Angeles Times, the Los Angeles Police Department “had beefed up patrols in the area in anticipation of the protests.” According to the policeonly one arrest was made.
Kimmel read Trump’s evil tweet
Just before the Oscar for Best Picture was (quite clumsily!) presented to oppenheimer, Kimmel told the audience that he wanted to read aloud a review of his hosting performance that he had seen online. It was a post by former President Donald Trump.
“Has there EVER been a WORSE PRESENTER than Jimmy Kimmel at the Oscars,” Trump posted on Truth Social. “His opening of him was that of a below average person trying too hard to be something he is not and can never be. Get rid of Kimmel and maybe replace him with another washed up but cheap ABC ‘talent,’ George “Slopanopoulos.”
“I’m surprised you’re up so late,” Kimmel said in response. “Haven’t you already spent your time in jail?”