Oscars 2024: Oppenheimer takes finest movie as Al Pacino makes slip up | Ents & Arts Information

Oppenheimer has swept this 12 months’s Oscars, successful seven Oscars together with finest lead actor, finest director and finest image.

The highest prize of the evening was introduced by The Godfather star Al Pacino – who appeared to leap the gun by saying the winner earlier than itemizing the nominees.

The film had been anticipated to rule the evening, and did not disappoint, probably resulting in Pacino showing to hurry up the entire announcement course of, peeping into the envelope and saying “I see Oppenheimer”.

Director Christopher Nolan – who’s considered one of Britain’s most commercially profitable filmmakers – gained his first Oscar for his three-hour epic about J Robert Oppenheimer, the daddy of the atomic bomb.

All 4 of the appearing prizes had been introduced in a brand new means – by a number of former winners of the prize.

Greatest actor, which was introduced by stars together with Matthew Mcconaughey, Nicolas Cage and Brendan Fraser, was gained by Oppenheimer star Cillian Murphy, who known as himself “a really proud Irishman” and devoted his prize “to the peacemakers in every single place”.

The 47-year-old star kissed his spouse earlier than heading to the stage, the place Murphy informed producers Nolan and Emma Thomas that making the movie had “been the wildest, most creatively satisfying journey”.

He ended his speech by talking in Irish, saying “Go Raibh Maith Agat” which suggests thanks.

Greatest actress – introduced by performers together with Charlize Theron, Sally Area, Jessica Lange and Jennifer Lawrence – went to Emma Stone for her efficiency as Bella Baxter in Poor Issues.

Saying breathlessly as she entered the stage, “my gown is damaged… I believe it occurred throughout I am Simply Ken!” Stone mentioned the win felt “overwhelming”.

She mentioned she was “panicking” the opposite evening “about one thing like this occurring” however was suggested by the movie’s director Yorgos Lanthimos to “take herself out of it”.

She additionally paid tribute to her daughter, who she mentioned could be three in a couple of days, saying she beloved her “greater than the entire sky”.

The primary prize of the evening went to Da’vine Pleasure Randolph, who gained finest supporting actress.

It was introduced by actresses together with Jamie Lee Curtis, Lupita Nyong’o, Rita Monero and Regina King.

Nyong’o was tasked with summing up Randolph’s efficiency in The Holdovers, revealing that she wore her grandmother’s glasses within the movie and saying: “What an honour to see the world although your eyes and hers,” which drew a tear from the actress within the viewers.

Accepting her prize, Randolph mentioned: “God is so good. I did not assume I used to be supposed to do that as a profession.”

She went on: “For therefore lengthy I believed I wanted to be totally different, and I’ve realised I simply wanted to be myself.”

She additionally talked about “being the one black woman within the class,” and being compelled to forge her personal path, earlier than giving a shout out to her publicist as one in one million – however forgetting to say their identify.

The most effective supporting actor prize was given out by actors together with Ke Huy Quan, Sam Rockwell and Mahershala Ali.

Marking the primary prize of the evening for Oppenheimer, the gong went to Robert Downey Jr who joked: “I might wish to thank my horrible childhood and the Academy, in that order.

He went on to pay tribute to his spouse, Susan Downey, saying: “I might wish to thank my veterinarian, I imply my spouse, she discovered me a snarling rescue (pet and) you really liked me again to life. That’s the reason I am right here.” He additionally gave a shout out to his lawyer and stylist too.

On a extra critical be aware, the primary time Oscar-winner mentioned: “What we do is significant, and the stuff we resolve to make is necessary”.

It has been fairly the 12 months for the 58-year-old star, whose had a clear sweep of wins this award season, having beforehand gained on the BAFTAs, Golden Globes, Display Actors Guild and Critics’ Alternative awards.

Achievement in cinematography, which was introduced by singer and actress Zendaya, additionally went to Oppenheimer.

Poor Issues took 4 prizes, in addition to finest actress for Stone, it took three on the trot earlier within the evening – finest manufacturing design, finest make-up and hairstyling and finest costume design.

To current the costume prize, there was a skit referencing the 1974 Oscars which infamously noticed a unadorned streaker run throughout the stage, with wrestler John Cena handing out the gong seemingly bare -except for the envelope containing the winner’s identify. He went on to be wrapped in a curtain to protect his modesty.

Greatest authentic screenplay went to French movie Anatomy Of A Fall, with director and co-writer Justine Triet joking that it could assist her by her “mid-life disaster”.

She mentioned she and husband Arthur Harari got here up with the concept for the movie once they had been caught in the home in the course of the pandemic and altering their youngsters’s nappies.

Greatest tailored screenplay went to American Fiction, a movie a few Black creator satirizing offensive tropes of Black leisure in his e book, and discovering his work is a success regardless of his finest efforts to showcase its failings.

Accepting the prize, author and director Twine Jefferson thanked his collaborators on the movie for “trusting a 40-year-old black man who’d by no means directed something earlier than,” and gave a shout out to the following technology of author and administrators on the market hoping to carry their work to the display screen.

Actors Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt paired as much as pay tribute to the stunt folks in showbiz, with the pair mock-squabbling which noticed Gosling criticise Oppenheimer for “using on the coat tails of Barbie all summer time,” and Blunt accusing Gosling of “drawing on his six pack”. Their jokes had been warmly obtained by the viewers.

English movie The Zone Of Curiosity, directed and written by Jonathan Glazer, took finest worldwide movie.

Referencing the themes of his unsettling holocaust drama, Glazer mentioned: “Our movie exhibits the place dehumanization leads, at its worst.

He went on: “Proper now, we stand right here as males who refute their Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation which has led to battle for therefore many harmless folks.

“Whether or not the victims of October the seventh in Israel, or the continued assault on Gaza, all of the victims, this humanization, how can we resist?”

His feedback drew a spherical of applause from the viewers, and tears from his main actress, Sandra Huller.

Greatest reside motion quick movie went to The Great Story Of Henry Sugar, directed by Wes Anderson.

A brief movie impressed by the music of John and Ono Lennon – Warfare Is Over! – took finest animated quick movie, with Lennon’s son Sean who was an govt producer on the present a part of the crew accepting the prize.

Stepping as much as the microphone, Sean mentioned: “My mom turned 91 in the present day, and it is Mom’s Day in the present day within the UK, so might everybody simply say ‘Completely satisfied Mom’s Day Yoko'”.

The visible results prize – introduced by odd couple Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito, the celebrities of comedy movies Twins and Junior – went to Japanese epic Godzilla Minus One.

Created by Takashi Yamazaki – who additionally oversaw the visible results – it was a seeming underdog within the class due to its small crew (35-peope) and relatively small finances ($12m). They introduced two mini-reptilian monsters on stage to simply accept their prize.

Schwarzenegger and DeVito additionally gave out the most effective editor prize, which went to Oppenheimer.

The Boy And The Heron, written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki, took finest animated characteristic movie.

Greatest documentary quick movie went to The Final Restore Store, a movie celebrating music schooling in public faculties throughout America.

Greatest documentary characteristic went to twenty Days in Mariupol, which harrowingly paperwork the early days of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Accepting the prize, the movie’s director Mstyslav Chernov spoke movingly as he accepted the prize, saying: “That is the primary Oscar in Ukrainian historical past, and I am honoured. However I would be the first director on this stage to say I want I might by no means made this movie, I want I might change this for Russia by no means attacking Ukraine, and taking up our cities…”

In the course of the evening, many ceremony attendees wore crimson lapel pins from Artists4Ceasefire, calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. Exterior of the ceremony round 300-500 pro-Palestinian protesters made their means down Sundown Boulevard shouting “ceasefire now” and “free Palestine” forward of the present.

The In Memoriam part of the evening – which included a tribute to Associates star Matthew Perry – was accompanied by a rendition of Time To Say goodbye by opera singer Andrea Bocelli and his son Matteo.

There have been performances on the evening from all of the nominated acts in the most effective track class – Billie Eilish and her brother Finneas bought a standing ovation after singing What Was I Made For, the primary efficiency of the evening.

There have been additionally performances from Becky G, singing Diane Warren’s The Fireplace Inside, from Flamin’ Sizzling, Jon Batiste and Dan Wilson’s It By no means Went Away from American Symphony, and Scott George’s Wahzhazhe (A Music for My Individuals) from Killers Of The Flower Moon.

However the efficiency of the evening was from Barbie star Ryan Gosling, who sang energy ballad I am Simply Ken with ten backing dancers, accompanying big Barbie cardboard cutout heads and a shock cameo from Weapons And Roses guitarist Slash.

Beginning out his efficiency from his seat within the viewers, Gosling paraded onto the stage, wearing a scorching pink swimsuit, gloves and completely nailed his efficiency to the delight of the viewers.

After all of the performances, the unique rating was introduced by Depraved stars Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo, going to Oppenheimer.

They adopted up with finest authentic track which went to Billie Eillish for What Was I Made For. The one win of the evening for Barbie.

Accepting her second Oscar aged simply 22, Eilish mentioned: “I had a nightmare about this final evening!” She thanked the movie’s director Greta Gerwig, whereas her brother Finneas thanked Margot, and so they each thanked their mother and father.

Eilish additionally thanked her “finest pal Zoe, for enjoying Barbie’s with me once I was little”.