Oscars 2024: How to watch and who is nominated

The largest evening within the leisure calendar is lastly upon us – the 96th Oscars.

Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, which has 13 nominations, is anticipated to brush up on the ceremony later.

Many movie followers will even be cheering on Barbie, final yr’s greatest hit on the field workplace, which has eight nods.

US tv host Jimmy Kimmel shall be presenting the awards from Los Angeles, with the present beginning at 16:00 (PT), 19:00 (ET) and midnight (GMT).

Listed below are all the recent speaking factors and issues to look out for on the ceremony (we have already positioned a wager on Margot Robbie sporting pink).

Extra formally referred to as the Academy Awards, the Oscars have been recognising massive display expertise since 1929.

The Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences, based mostly in Los Angeles, yearly nominate and vote throughout greater than 20 classes together with finest image, finest actor and finest actress.

Whereas movie awards ceremonies together with the Golden Globes and the Baftas entice loads of consideration, the Oscars is the top of feat within the awards season calendar. The awards are voted for by Academy members.

Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, concerning the lifetime of the person who helped develop the atomic bomb, is main the cost with 13 nominations together with finest image, finest actor (Cillian Murphy) and finest supporting actress (Emily Blunt).

Titanic, Ben Hur and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King collectively maintain the file for essentially the most wins with 11, so may Oppenheimer match it and even do higher?

Its British-born filmmaker Nolan is the recent favorite to select up finest director. Whereas his movies have collected Oscars beforehand, the person behind films together with Interstellar, Inception and The Darkish Knight Rises has by no means gained this prestigious class.

In actual fact, regardless of his pedigree, he is solely been nominated for finest director as soon as beforehand (Dunkirk in 2018). That is absolutely his yr.

4 out of 5 nominated administrators this yr are European (Nolan has twin US/British citizenship however he was born and grew up right here so we’re claiming him).

If, as extensively anticipated, Oppenheimer’s Robert Downey Jr picks up the award for finest supporting actor, it is going to even be a primary Oscar win for him.

Chasing down Oppenheimer with 11 nods is Yorgos Lanthimos’s brilliantly weird Poor Issues. Its star, Emma Stone, is a frontrunner in the perfect actress race alongside Lily Gladstone from Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon. If Gladstone triumphs – and it is exhausting to name at this level – she would be the first Native American to win the award.

Killers of the Flower Moon, concerning the homicide of members of the Osage Indian tribe by white settlers who’re after their oil, scored 10 nominations in complete.

Scorsese has now been nominated for a finest director Oscar 10 occasions, which makes him essentially the most nominated dwelling director in Academy Awards historical past. He is additionally the oldest finest director nominee at 81.

His long-time collaborator Thelma Schoonmaker is essentially the most nominated editor in historical past with 9 nods, and this could possibly be a record-breaking fourth win for her (she presently holds the joint file with three wins).

Until you have been hiding below a rock since Christmas (and we have all felt like doing it on this climate), Barbie director Greta Gerwig and the movie’s star, Margot Robbie, missed out on particular person nominations after they have been introduced in January.

Barbie did land eight nods in complete although, with America Ferrara and Ryan Gosling recognised in the perfect supporting actress and supporting actor classes respectively. However it’s nonetheless not Kenough for some.

All of the movies above are up for the coveted finest image prize, and are joined by French courtroom drama Anatomy of a Fall, romantic drama Previous Lives, Leonard Bernstein biopic Maestro, incisive satire American Fiction, heat comedy story The Holdovers and chilling Nazi drama The Zone of Curiosity.

The Barbenheimer juggernaut that sparked a thousand memes has accomplished the Oscars no hurt this yr; the business success of those two movies which have put bums on seats and in addition gained over the critics, could convey new audiences to this yr’s occasion.

Whereas some classes seem to have all of it wrapped up – The Holdovers’ Da’Vine Pleasure Randolph and Oppenheimer’s Robert Downey Jr have picked up just about each movie prize going within the run-up to the Oscars – there may nonetheless be some surprises in retailer.

The race for finest actress between Stone and Gladstone is simply too near name, however may Gladstone’s current Display Actors Guild (SAG) win get her over the road? That is what occurred with Michelle Yeoh final yr.

Nevertheless, Stone has the showier function as Poor Issues’ charming protagonist Bella Baxter, whereas Gladstone’s dignified and resilient Molly Kyle in Flower Moon is a extra understated half that enjoys significantly much less display time. It is an intriguing contest.

Finest actor can also be up within the air with Paul Giamatti (The Holdovers) and Cillian Murphy (Oppenheimer) in a two-horse race, though Murphy appears to have his nostril in entrance following current wins at Bafta and SAG. If he wins, he would be the first Irish-born actor to triumph, though Daniel Day-Lewis, who holds each British and Irish citizenship, has gained three finest actor Oscars beforehand.

In finest image, may The Holdovers pull an Argo, successful finest image for a movie by which the director (Alexander Payne) is not nominated for finest director? It can take some doing to overtake the Oppenheimer steamroller, however stranger issues have occurred.

Barely within the realms of fantasy now, but when Rustin’s Colman Domingo additionally pulls off an enormous shock by successful the Oscar for finest actor for taking part in homosexual Civil Rights activist Bayard Rustin, he would be the first Afro-Latino actor to win the prize. And there are individuals of color in each performing class.

Jodie Foster was nominated for finest supporting actress for her portrayal of the homosexual swimming coach Bonnie Stoll in Nyad. It is the primary time two homosexual actors have been nominated for taking part in two homosexual characters in the identical yr.

There’s progress elsewhere, too. However it’s gradual progress. Anatomy of a Fall’s Justine Triet is simply the eighth girl to be nominated for finest director (the Oscars director department is product of up 75% males). Nevertheless a file three movies directed by ladies – Triet, Gerwig and Celine Track (Previous Lives) – are up for finest image (out of a attainable 10).

Different classes are additionally price taking note of – the brief movie and brief animation classes are buckling below the pressure of stardust this yr.

Each shortlists are price trying out in their very own proper however some names you would possibly recognise embrace Wes Anderson, who has directed The Fantastic Story of Henry Sugar, a Roald Dahl adaptation starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Ralph Fiennes and Dev Patel.

In the meantime, David Olewoyo stars in Misan Harriman’s The After, which tackles grief.

And Robbie Robertson may choose up a posthumous Oscar for finest rating for Killers of the Flower Moon. He sadly died aged 80 in August final yr.

Dave Mullins, who labored at Pixar for 20 years, wrote and directed animated brief Conflict is Over! Impressed by the Music of John & Yoko. The well-known pair’s son, Sean Lennon, is the chief producer.

Anybody who’s anybody shall be there, is the brief reply. Many of the nominees shall be gracing the purple carpet (we predict it is purple anyway, final yr they switched to a champagne color but it surely bought soiled in a short time).

Presenters embrace Zendaya, Al Pacino, Lupita Nyong’o, Dangerous Bunny, Dwayne Johson, Regina King, Matthew McConaughey, Mahershala Ali, Ke Huy Quan, Brendan Fraser and Michelle Pfeiffer.

By no means thoughts the A-listers, we’re hoping Messi, the canine from Anatomy of a Fall, makes one other star look.

The most effective music nominees will all carry out, together with Barbie’s Ryan Gosling and Mark Ronson with I am Simply Ken. Gosling gave a hilarious reaction to the music’s win on the Critics’ Selection Awards earlier this yr – bemused and virtually suspicious.

Billie Eilish will even sing her Barbie observe, the favorite to win, What Was I Made For?

US late evening presenter Jimmy Kimmel returns to internet hosting duties this yr – will probably be his fourth time, together with his stint on the helm final yr, which marked a easy return after the chaos of 2022’s ceremony when Will Smith slapped one of many awards presenters, Chris Rock.

Kimmel joked when his return was introduced: “I at all times dreamed of internet hosting the Oscars precisely 4 occasions.” We wager it is not his final, although.

The 2024 Oscars will air stay on Sunday 10 March from the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, the place the ceremony has been held since 2002.

The present will be watched within the US on ABC and on numerous streaming companies. It is also broadcast around the globe in additional than 200 territories.

Within the UK, you would possibly really be capable of keep awake to look at this yr. The awards begin an hour earlier and the clocks in Los Angeles – PST – go ahead an hour on Oscars Sunday. The present begins at 16:00 (PT), 19:00 (ET) and midnight (GMT). UK viewers can watch on ITV and ITVX from 22:30.

In addition to Nolan, different Brits within the working embrace Emily Blunt (Oppenheimer), Carey Mulligan (Maestro), Jonathan Glazer (director, The Zone of Curiosity), Jacqueline Durran (costume design, Barbie) and Holly Waddington (costume design, Poor Issues).

And what about this for an effort? Particular results whizz Neil Corbould (who already has two Oscars below his belt) is up for 3 this yr within the visible results class for The Creator, Napoleon and Mission: Inconceivable – Lifeless Reckoning Half One.

In the meantime, if Sandra Huller picks up finest actress (Anatomy of a Fall) she would be the first German to take action in 60 years.

It is also the primary time two worldwide movies not within the English language have been nominated for finest image in the identical yr (Anatomy of a Fall and The Zone of Curiosity).

Learn extra about among the movies on this yr’s Oscars race: