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Hello and welcome to Euronews Culture’s liveblog for the 96th Academy Awards, or Oppenheimer night, as it shall henceforth be known.
This is it – the end of another awards season.
The 96th Academy Awards take place tonight in Los Angeles at the Dolby Theatre, with Jimmy Kimmel hosting the show for the fourth time.
Follow along with us, as our resident (and perpetually sleep deprived) film geek David Mouriquand keeps you up to speed on the evening’s proceedings live.
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More red carpet…
Emma Stone just arrived… And we really hope that she’s going to get her second Oscar for her role in Poor Things. We love the film, and as good as Lily Gladstone is in Killers of the Flower Moon, Stone’s performance is the bolder of the two. Time will tell. Either way, we’re winning.
Did anyone nominateRoger Federer for anything??
Regardless, happy to see you, Roger. Suave as ever. And potentially auditioning for Bond, by the looks of things. Incidentally, apparently the Bond producers were so impressed with Cillian Murphy in Oppenheimer that he’s become the frontrunner.
We love the idea of Murphy as 007. What do you think?
Punishing your bladder
While we’re waiting for the red carpet to end and the ceremony to get started, would you care for an anecdote of no small amusement?
In case you were wondering, the average duration of a Best Picture nominee this year is 138 minutes. The shortest is The Zone of Interest, clocking in at 105 minutes; the longest is Killers of the Flower Moon at a whopping 206 minutes.
If Hitchcock was right about the length of a film needing to be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder, then this year’s vintage has absolutely no consideration for your vesica urinaria.
**Red Carpet -**We’re going to keep the red carpet action to a minimum here, but I won’t resist posting a few pics of our faves…
It’s Paul Atreides’ sister on the red carpet…
Everyone’s seen Dune Part Two by now, right?
Billie Eilish is on the red carpet… If she wins the award for Best Song for ‘What Was I Made For?’ from Barbie tonight, the 22-year-old will become the youngest two-time Oscar winner in history. She previously picked up an award for the James Bond anthem ‘No Time to Die’ in 2022.
It’s only Wim Wenders, his wife, and Koji Yakusho, here for Perfect Days in Best International Feature. One of our favourites. We interviewed the legendary director – check it out here.
Rita Moreno in the house, looking the glorious mother of crows. Love this for her.
Jamie Lee Curtis is here!!! She won a Best Supporting Actress last year for Everything Everywhere All At Once. What a legend.
For instance, Celine Song has arrived at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles…
Here’s hoping that Past Lives, one of our favourite films of 2023 doesn’t go home empty handed… With only two nominations, it does seem a little likely though…
Nominations recap
Here are the number of nominations for the films vying for Oscar glory:
- Oppenheimer – 13 nominations
- Poor Things – 11 nominations
- Killers of the Flower Moon – 10 nominations
- Barbie – 8 nominations
- Maestro – nominations
- American Fiction – 5 nominations
- The Holdovers – 5 nominations
- Anatomy of a Fall – 5 nominations
- The Zone of Interest – 5 nominations
- Past Lives – 2 nominations
And we are open for business…
There’s a slight air of inevitability about the ceremony, with Christopher Nolan’s ambitious biopic Oppenheimer tipped for a massive sweep, following previous wins at the Golden Globes, the Critics Choice Awards, the BAFTAs, and the Screen Actors Guild Awards.
It has become an unstoppable awards juggernaut, and we’d be very surprised if it doesn’t bring home the most trophies tonight.
Still, who knows? Maybe the Oscar gods will be fickle and we’re in for an evening of surprises…