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11-03-2024
LONDON/ BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA: The biggest night in the entertainment calendar is finally upon us, the 96th Oscars.
Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, which has 13 nominations, is expected to sweep up at the ceremony later.
Many film fans will also be cheering on Barbie, last year’s biggest hit at the box office, which has eight nods.
US television host Jimmy Kimmel will be presenting the awards from Los Angeles, with the show starting at 16:00 (PT), 19:00 (ET) and midnight (GMT).
Here are all the hot talking points and things to look out for at the ceremony (we’ve already placed a bet on Margot Robbie wearing pink).
More formally known as the Academy Awards, the Oscars have been recognizing big screen talent since 1929.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, based in Los Angeles, annually nominate and vote across more than 20 categories including best picture, best actor and best actress.
While film awards ceremonies including the Golden Globes and the Baftas attract plenty of attention, the Oscars is the pinnacle of achievement in the awards season calendar. The awards are voted for by Academy members.
Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, about the life of the man who helped develop the atomic bomb, is leading the charge with 13 nominations including best picture, best actor (Cillian Murphy) and best supporting actress (Emily Blunt).
Titanic, Ben Hur and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King jointly hold the record for the most wins with 11, so could Oppenheimer match it or even do better?
Its British-born filmmaker Nolan is the hot favorite to pick up best director. While his films have collected Oscars previously, the man behind movies including Interstellar, Inception and The Dark Knight Rises has never won this prestigious category.
In fact, despite his pedigree, he’s only been nominated for best director once previously (Dunkirk in 2018). This is surely his year.
Four out of five nominated directors this year are European (Nolan has dual US/British citizenship but he was born and grew up here so we’re claiming him).
If, as widely expected, Oppenheimer’s Robert Downey Jr picks up the award for best supporting actor, it will also be a first Oscar win for him.
Chasing down Oppenheimer with 11 nods is Yorgos Lanthimos’s brilliantly bizarre Poor Things. Its star, Emma Stone, is a frontrunner in the best actress race alongside Lily Gladstone from Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon. If Gladstone triumphs and it’s hard to call at this point, she will be the first Native American to win the award.
Killers of the Flower Moon, about the murder of members of the Osage Indian tribe by white settlers who are after their oil, scored 10 nominations in total.
Scorsese has now been nominated for a best director Oscar 10 times, which makes him the most nominated living director in Academy Awards history. He’s also the oldest best director nominee at 81.
His long-time collaborator Thelma Schoonmaker is the most nominated editor in history with nine nods, and this could be a record-breaking fourth win for her. (Int’l Monitoring Desk)
