Los Angeles: Lights, camera, action! The glitz and glamour of the 96th Academy Awards have descended upon the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles. As celebrities strut down the red carpet, excitement builds for a night celebrating the best of cinema. Christopher Nolan's biopic Oppenheimer was leading the pack with 13 nominations, followed closely by Poor Things and Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon.
Oppenheimer, which is for adults only (R-rated), was the big winner at the Oscars 2024. It won seven out of 13 awards it was nominated for, including Best Picture and Best Director for Christopher Nolan, who won his first Oscar.
Many members of the Oppenheimer team won their first Oscars this year, including Cillian Murphy for Best Actor, Robert Downey Jr for Best Supporting Actor, Hoyte van Hoytema for Best Cinematography, and Jennifer Lame for Best Film Editing.
Emma Stone won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in Poor Things, beating out the expected favourite, Lily Gladstone from Killers of the Flower Moon. This is Stone's second Best Actress Oscar; she won her first in 2017 for La La Land.
Billie Eilish made history by becoming the youngest person to win two Oscars at the age of 22. She won best song for What Was I Made For? from the Barbie movie.
The 2023 Oscars came at a tough time for Hollywood. There were labour disputes between major studios and actors/writers unions, leading to costly strikes and a halt in film production. Much of the debate was about how streaming has changed the industry and affected talent earnings.
Returning for the fourth time as host was the ever-entertaining Jimmy Kimmel. Having previously hosted in 2017, and 2018, and returning in 2023, Kimmel is sure to bring his signature humour to the stage once again. Jimmy started the ceremony with jokes about the Academy snubbing Greta Gerwig, the length of nominated films, and Robert De Niro's girlfriend, who is much younger.
Below are the nominees in several top categories while winners are marked in bold.
Here's the Oscars 2024 Winners' List (Updating Live)
- BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
- Emily Blunt, Oppenheimer
- Danielle Brooks, The Color Purple
- America Ferrera, Barbie
- Jodie Foster, Nyad
- Da’Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers (WINNER)
- BEST ANIMATED SHORT
- Letter to a Pig
- Ninety-Five Senses
- Our Uniform
- Pachyderme
- War Is Over! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko (WINNER)
- BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
- The Boy and the Heron (WINNER)
- Elemental
- Nimona
- Robot Dreams
- Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
- BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
- Justine Triet and Arthur Harari, Anatomy of a Fall (WINNER)
- David Hemingson, The Holdovers
- Bradley Cooper and Josh Singer, Maestro
- Samy Burch, May December
- Celine Song, Past Lives
- BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
- Cord Jefferson, American Fiction (WINNER)
- Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach, Barbie
- Tony McNamara, Poor Things
- Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer
- Jonathan Glazer, The Zone of Interest
- BEST HAIR AND MAKEUP
- Golda
- Maestro
- Oppenheimer
- Poor Things (WINNER)
- Society of the Snow
- BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
- Barbie
- Killers of the Flower Moon
- Napoleon
- Oppenheimer
- Poor Things (WINNER)
- BEST COSTUME DESIGN
- Barbie
- Killers of the Flower Moon
- Napoleon
- Oppenheimer
- Poor Things (WINNER)
- BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE
- Io Capitano, Italy
- Perfect Days, Japan
- Society of the Snow, Spain
- The Teacher’s Lounge, Germany
- The Zone of Interest, United Kingdom (WINNER)
- BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
- Sterling K. Brown, American Fiction
- Robert De Niro, Killers of the Flower Moon
- Robert Downey Jr., Oppenheimer (WINNER)
- Ryan Gosling, Barbie
- Mark Ruffalo, Poor Things
- BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
- The Creator
- Godzilla Minus One (WINNER)
- Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
- Mission: Impossible—Dead Reckoning Part One
- Napoleon
- BEST EDITING
- Anatomy of a Fall
- The Holdovers
- Killers of the Flower Moon
- Oppenheimer (WINNER)
- Poor Things
- BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT
- The ABCs of Book Banning
- The Barber of Little Rock
- Island in Between
- The Last Repair Shop (WINNER)
- Nai Nai & Wai Po
- BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
- Bobi Wine: The People’s President
- The Eternal Memory
- Four Daughters
- To Kill a Tiger
- 20 Days in Mariupol (WINNER)
- BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
- El Conde
- Killers of the Flower Moon
- Maestro
- Oppenheimer (WINNER)
- Poor Things
- BEST LIVE-ACTION SHORT
- The After
- Invincible
- Knight of Fortune
- Red, White and Blue
- The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (WINNER)
- BEST SOUND
- The Creator
- Maestro
- Mission: Impossible—Dead Reckoning Part One
- Oppenheimer
- The Zone of Interest (WINNER)
- BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
- American Fiction
- Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
- Killers of the Flower Moon
- Oppenheimer (WINNER)
- Poor Things
- BEST ORIGINAL SONG
- “What Was I Made For?”, Billie Eilish and Finneas, Barbie (WINNER)
- “I’m Just Ken,” Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt, Barbie
- “The Fire Inside,” Diane Warren, Flamin’ Hot
- “It Never Went Away,” Jon Batiste, American Symphony
- “Wahzhazhe (A Song for My People),” Osage Tribal Singers, Killers of the Flower Moon
- BEST ACTOR
- Bradley Cooper, Maestro
- Colman Domingo, Rustin
- Paul Giamatti, The Holdovers
- Cillian Murphy, Oppenheimer (WINNER)
- Jeffrey Wright, American Fiction
- BEST DIRECTOR
- Jonathan Glazer, The Zone of Interest
- Yorgos Lanthimos, Poor Things
- Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer (WINNER)
- Martin Scorsese, Killers of the Flower Moon
- Justine Triet, Anatomy of a Fall
- BEST ACTRESS
- Annette Bening, Nyad
- Lily Gladstone, Killers of the Flower Moon
- Sandra Hüller, Anatomy of a Fall
- Carey Mulligan, Maestro
- Emma Stone, Poor Things (WINNER)
- BEST PICTURE
- American Fiction
- Anatomy of a Fall
- Barbie
- The Holdovers
- Killers of the Flower Moon
- Maestro
- Oppenheimer (WINNER)
- Past Lives
- Poor Things
- The Zone of Interest
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