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Oscars 2024 Live Updates: Brendan Fraser arrives at the Oscars.
Oscars 2024 live updates: Jamie Lee Curtis, Rita Moreno, Simu Liu and more stars gathered Sunday to celebrate the best film performances at the annual Academy Awards, a ceremony expected to become a toast to the hit drama about the Oppenheimer atomic bomb. Talk show host Jimmy Kimmel would return for the fourth time to host the film industry’s highest honors from the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles. The live broadcast on ABC begins at 4 pm PDT (2300 GMT), an hour earlier than usual.…Read more
As the stars began to arrive on the red carpet, hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters, angry over the conflict between Israel and Gaza, shouted and slowed down traffic in the blocks surrounding the Dolby Theater in Hollywood.
Oppenheimer, the three-hour drama directed by Christopher Nolan, led the pack with 13 nominations. The film was the favorite to win the prestigious best picture award, capping its victory at other major awards this year.
Cillian Murphy, the Irish actor who played physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer while leading the race to build the first atomic bomb, is considered the favorite for best actor. Murphy’s main competition, according to awards experts, is The Holdovers star Paul Giamatti.
Best actress could go to Lily Gladstone for Killers of the Flower Moon, the real-life story about an assassination plot to seize the lucrative Osage oil rights in Oklahoma in the 1920s. If she wins, Gladstone would be the first Native American actress to win an acting Oscar.