How, when and where to watch the Oscars 2024

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America’s most glamorous election contest is finally coming to an end. If it is Oscar weekend.

Only marginally shorter than its political counterparts (and with no less lobbying), the path to the 96th Oscars ceremony will likely lead toward what the industry and casual moviegoers have been betting on: a wildly popular blockbuster about to clean up. , with “Oppenheimer” in pole position to claim best film and many other categories.

Comparisons Progress is already being made to 1998 and 2004, when “Titanic” and “The Return of the King” swept their respective competitions on their way to a record 11 Oscars each. Despite its 13 nominations, Christopher Nolan’s epic take on the life and times of the father of the atomic bomb is unlikely to dominate to that extent, but since when has Hollywood (or the industry press) allowed the really get in the way of a good movie? history?

We’ll find out exactly how well.”oppenheimer” and company. do it on Sunday at 7 pm EST, when the ceremony begins on ABC in the US (for international programming, look here). The transmission will also be available to stream on abc.com and the ABC app. It will also be available via subscription on Hulu Live TV, YouTubeTV, AT&T TV and FuboTV.

The presenter and the presenters.

A stellar year for movies shouldn’t allow the ceremony to lack movies to celebrate, and ABC will be waiting for grades will continue to increase after a better 2023, after a historic low in 2022.

Jimmy Kimmel returns as host for the fourth time, and A-list presenters will include Steven Spielberg, Sally Field, Jennifer Lawrence, Dwayne Johnson, Rita Moreno, Al Pacino, Zendaya and Michelle Pfeiffer. And in a flourish not seen since the 2009 ceremony, five previous winners He will reportedly take the stage to present the acting categories.

Producers hope to unleash some spray-tanned magic with this year’s programming coup, having successfully convinced Ryan Gosling to take the stage to sing the nominated “Barbie” song “I’m Just Ken” before that the character returns to his turn. -tie box (and presumably before Billie Eilish performs and probably wins the category with “What Was It Made For?”). Also performing will be Jon Batiste with “It Never Went Away” from the movie “American Symphony,” Becky G with “The Fire Inside” from “Flamin’ Hot,” and Scott George and the Osage Singers will perform “Wahzhazhe (A Song for My People) ” from “Killers of the Flower Moon.”

The ceremony will have to create some surprises, since at this point certain categories are practically guaranteed. Nolan is almost guaranteed to win the best director award (it would be his first Oscar), while Da’Vine Joy Randolph has claimed almost all gongs as a supporting actress for her role as a grieving mother in Alexander Payne’s “The Holdovers.” The same goes for supporting actor Robert Downey Jr., who plays Lewis Stauss, Cillian Murphy’s thorn in the side in “Oppenheimer.”

In addition, “The area of ​​interest”, Jonathan Glazer’s breakthrough Holocaust film, looks like a favorite for the best international film award – it would be the UK’s first win for a film spoken in German and filmed in Poland. What would have been his closest rival, the winner of the Palme d’Or by Justine Triet”Anatomy of a fall”, was cut at knee level when France did not present it for consideration. (The call for reform in this category sounds louder with each passing year.)

Sandra Hüller of “Anatomy” faces Emma Stone and Lily Gladstone in perhaps the most undecided of the major categories, best leading actress. Gladstone and Stone split the Golden Globes, with Stone winning the BAFTA and Glastone winning the SAG award, leaving this contest in an excellent position. Gladstone would become the first Indigenous-identified person to win the award, while Stone would claim her second best actress title at the age of 35.

Could there be disagreements? At best, not likely. In other places yes. If Gladstone falls short, “Killers of the Flower Moon” (10 nominations) could go home empty-handed. It would be the second time in a row that a Martin Scorsese masterpiece has been overlooked, following 2019’s geriatric gangster epic “The Irishman,” which flopped despite also receiving 10 nominations. If Stone falls short, there is a slim chance that Yorgos Lanthimos will win the Golden Lion.”poor things(11 nominations) goes home without winning, although it should come out ahead in the categories of best production design and/or best costume design, where its strongest competition is “Barbie.” (It was a big year for women in aesthetically dazzling existential crises.)

The animated film is a direct shootout between “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” and “The Boy and the Heron.” In one corner is the top superhero movie of 2023, while in the other, a beautifully melancholy work from the father of Japanese animation Hayao Miyazaki. The friendly neighborhood Spider-Man still has the lead, alone, but he has to fall further, given that he was once considered a possible best picture nominee.

There will be surprises, there always are. And he remembers: if your favorite doesn’t win, your love for that movie, that performance, that work of art, is no less valid. “The creation of art is not a democratic process,” Steven Spielberg once wrote, so it remains deeply strange to rely on just one of our movie ratings. But people love awards and audiences like to see a show. And if Hollywood knows how to do one thing, it’s how to show it off in a big way.