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The purple carpet unravels
Gwilym Mumford
Good day and welcome to The Guardian’s liveblog for the 96th Academy Awards, AKA the 2024 Oscars, AKA the primary annual “what number of little gold males can we load into Christopher Nolan’s arms earlier than he topples over” awards.
Sure, if you’re to consider the bookmakers, business insiders and, erm, us, tonight might be an entire stroll for Oppenheimer, the nominal finest image frontrunner because it was launched manner again in July. With a good wind, Nolan’s movie would possibly even bother the report for many Oscar wins too. So it could be price tuning in to see historical past being made, if nothing else.
However there’s a lot else, trustworthy: a titanic Stone-on-stone tussle between Emma Stone and Lily Gladstone for finest actress, a star-stuffed roster of awards presenters (Spielberg! Theron! Nyong’o! McConaughey! Pacino! Zendaya!), musical performances from Billie Eilish, and 65 Kens and a Ryan Gosling, and far more in addition to.
The massive information although – for these of us sat in a starkly lit UK newsroom into the wee small hours, at the very least – is that this 12 months’s ceremony begins an hour sooner than typical, at 11pm GMT, and 16:00 PT/19:00 ET. And the organisers have mentioned that the ceremony will final a sprightly three and a half hours – that’s a shade over the runtime of Killers of the Flower Moon, or 1 and 1/sixth of an Oppenheimer.
The purple carpet motion is already underway, with Hen Store Date star (and, briefly, roving Guardian reporter) Amelia Dimoldenberg amongst these on awkward interview duties – although she’ll do properly to high Ashley Graham’s wince-inducing encounter with Hugh Grant from final 12 months. We’ll have pics and perception from the Guardian vogue workforce, after which it’s the ceremony itself in simply three quick hours time. Be a part of us!
