3 of the 4 acting winners got their first Oscars

BY MALLIKA SEN contributing from the Associated Press

Of the four acting winners, three were newly minted Oscar honorees.

Da’Vine Joy RandolphRobert Downey Jr. and Cillian Murphy each claimed their first statuettes. Downey, though, had been nominated twice before.

Da'Vine Joy Randolph accepts the award for best performance by an actress in a supporting role for "The Holdovers" during the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Da’Vine Joy Randolph accepts the award for best performance by an actress in a supporting role for “The Holdovers” during the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Robert Downey Jr. accepts the award for best performance by an actor in a supporting role for "Oppenheimer" during the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Robert Downey Jr. accepts the award for best performance by an actor in a supporting role for “Oppenheimer” during the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Cillian Murphy accepts the award for best performance by an actor in a leading role for "Oppenheimer" during the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Cillian Murphy accepts the award for best performance by an actor in a leading role for “Oppenheimer” during the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Emma Stone accepts the award for best performance by an actress in a leading role for "Poor Things" during the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Emma Stone accepts the award for best performance by an actress in a leading role for “Poor Things” during the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Emma Stone was the only repeat winner, picking up her second career Oscar and second best actress trophy. Stone joins Frances McDormand and Hilary Swank as the only two-time best actress winners this century.

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Emma Stone’s dress has been fixed

BY RIO YAMATShare

Emma Stone accepts the award for best performance by an actress in a leading role for "Poor Things" during the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Emma Stone accepts the award for best performance by an actress in a leading role for “Poor Things” during the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Backstage, best actress winner Emma Stone says she was sewn back into her dress after it broke.

She explained her dress had come apart in the opening to her acceptance speech.

“I think I blacked out,” Stone said of her win. “I’m very surprised.”

▶ Read more about Stone’s best actress win.

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Meet Emma Thomas, the woman behind Christopher Nolan’s films

BY JAKE COYLEShare

Emma Thomas, left, and Christopher Nolan accept the award for best picture for "Oppenheimer" during the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Emma Thomas, left, and Christopher Nolan accept the award for best picture for “Oppenheimer” during the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

“I think any of us who make movies know you kind of dream of this moment … but it seemed so unlikely that it would ever happen,” “Oppenheimer” producer Emma Thomas said.

Thomas is Christopher Nolan’s producing partner — and also his wife.

When nominations were announced back in January, she was asked whether “Oppenheimer” felt like the culmination of the couple’s collaboration.

“It definitely feels like a film that was made with all the things we’ve learned together over the years. It all came together on this film,” she told the AP. “But I’m hoping it’s not the culmination. I’m hoping that we’ll get to make another one. (Laughs) We’re at the midway point!”

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WATCH: Christopher Nolan reacts to his first Oscar win

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AP at the Oscars: The great equalizer at the Oscars? The car line

BY JULIE PACEShare

The scene after the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Julie Pace)
The scene after the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Julie Pace)

Julie Pace, AP’s executive editor and senior vice president, is attending the Oscars for the first time in support of “20 Days in Mariupol.” She has been providing occasional updates from a guest’s perspective:

Following the show, nominees like Lily Gladstone and previous winners including Nicolas Cage joined the rest of the crowd to wait for their cars. Some huddled by heaters that dotted the red carpet and recapped the night.

“Ticket 1221! You win a ride to wherever you’re going. Have a blast,” an announcer called out as a lucky group headed to their waiting car.

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How to watch the Oscars afterparties

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESSShare

Michelle Yeoh, left, winner of the Oscar for lead actress, and Florence Pugh arrive at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party on Sunday, March 12, 2023, at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
Michelle Yeoh, left, winner of the Oscar for lead actress, and Florence Pugh arrive at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party on Sunday, March 12, 2023, at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Oscar winners, and even stars who aren’t at the ceremony, flock to the Vanity Fair party after the show is over.

The AP will livestream stars arriving beginning at 8 p.m. Eastern on YouTube.

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Vanity insanity: What the afterparty scene is like

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Vanity Fair throws the afterparty of afterparties after the Oscars.

The guest list at the magazine’s Beverly Hills bash is AAA-list, with athletes, authors and rock stars joining movie stars and newly minted Oscar winners, who earn an instant invite.

The dress code could be called “loosened black tie.” Many remain in ceremony finery, but you might see Jason Momoa in a tuxedo jacket over a bare chest, or Greta Gerwig kicking off high heels and pulling on checkered Vans.

The food is high-end lowbrow, or low-end highbrow. In-N-Out Burger abounds, often chased with Dom Perignon.

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The return of the blockbuster winner, and other fun facts about ‘Oppenheimer’

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With the best picture win for “Oppenheimer,” it’s the highest-grossing best picture winner since “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King” in 2003.

According to distributor Universal, it’s also the first best picture winner released theatrically in July since 1994’s “Forrest Gump” and the first film to win Oscars for best picture, actor and supporting actor in more than 60 years. The last film to do that was “Ben-Hur” in 1960.

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Pacino made quick work of announcing ‘Oppenheimer’ as best picture

BY TIM REYNOLDSShare

Al Pacino presents the award for best picture during the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Al Pacino presents the award for best picture during the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

The reviews are in … and Al Pacino got some attention for how best picture was unveiled at the end of the Oscars.

“I have to go to the envelope for that. And I will. Here it comes. And my eyes see ‘Oppenheimer,’” Pacino said.

It seemed to catch the Dolby Theatre off-guard, as if the other nine nominees were to be announced as well.

One social media post that quickly went viral simply said: “Al Pacino should have given out every award tonight.”


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