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A-listers including Emma Stone, Anya Taylor-Joy and Sterling K. Brown gathered on the red carpet Sunday for Hollywood’s biggest night, the Academy Awards. (March 10)Published 9:00 AM MST, March 10, 2024Updated 4:23 PM MST, March 10, 2024Share

The 2024 Oscars are underway at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Here’s what to know:

Red carpet: A show of black, red and metallics dominated as stars arrived for Hollywood’s big night.
Host: Jimmy Kimmel, who hosted last year’s ceremony, is emceeing for the fourth time.
Nominations: “Oppenheimer” leads the pack with 13 nominations, though other films, including “Barbie,” “Killers of the Flower Moon” and “Poor Things” are in the mix.
How to watch: The show is streaming via ABC.com and the ABC app with a cable subscription. You can also watch through Hulu Live TV, YouTubeTV, AT&T TV and FuboTV.

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WINNER, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: “Oppenheimer”Share

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SEE: The little Godzillas storm the Oscars

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Masaki Takahashi, from left, Takashi Yamazaki, Kiyoko Shibuya, and Tatsuji Nojima accept the award for best visual effects for "Godzilla Minus One" during the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello) — Masaki Takahashi, from left, Takashi Yamazaki, Kiyoko Shibuya, and Tatsuji Nojima accept the award for best visual effects for “Godzilla Minus One” during the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

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Kris Bowers calls for more music education in public schools

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Kris Bowers stood up for teachers, when accepting the Oscar for best documentary short for “The Last Repair Shop.”

“‘The Last Repair Shop’ is about the heroes in our schools who often go unsung, unthanked and unseen,” Bowers said. “Tonight, you are sung, you are thanked and you are seen.”

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AP’s Mstyslav Chernov accepts Oscar for best documentary

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“Cinema forms memories, and memories form history.”

Mstyslav Chernov, director of “20 Days in Mariupol” and AP journalist

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The Oscar for ’20 Days in Mariupol’ is a first for the AP

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Speaking on the red carpet of the Academy Awards, Mstyslav Chernov – director of documentary “20 Days in Mariupol” – says its important the “world understands the seriousness of what’s going on and the urgency of what’s going on” in Ukraine. (March 10)

“20 Days in Mariupol,” Mstyslav Chernov’s harrowing chronicle of the besieged Ukrainian city and the international journalists who remained there after Russia’s invasion, won The Associated Press its first Oscar in the 178-year-old news organization’s history.

The AP and PBS’ “Frontline” team behind the documentary feature received a standing ovation from the audience.

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WINNER, BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM: “20 Days in Mariupol”Share

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WATCH: AP’s interview with Kris Bowers, winner for ‘The Last Repair Shop’

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WINNER, BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM: “The Last Repair Shop”Share

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What’s competing with the Oscars

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This aerial view shows Crypto.com Arena in downtown Los Angeles, Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2023. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

It’s a busy day in L.A.: the Clippers and the Lakers vs. the Oscars.

Los Angeles’ two NBA teams are both home on Sunday, with the Clippers playing a noon Pacific game against the Milwaukee Bucks, and the Lakers playing at 6:30 p.m. against the Minnesota Timberwolves.

The Lakers played on Oscar Sunday last year, too — against the Knicks, which led to Denzel Washington and Spike Lee going to that arena instead of the Dolby Theatre for the Oscars.

The Lakers and Clippers don’t go head-to-head with the Grammys. That show takes over the arena where those teams play; the Dolby Theatre is about 9 miles (14.5 kilometers) away from Crypto.com Arena.

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The rules for a good acceptance speech: Fast, funny and from the heart

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Spanish actor Javier Bardem accepts the Oscar for best supporting actor for his work in "No Country for Old Men" at the 80th Academy Awards Sunday, Feb. 24, 2008, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill) — Spanish actor Javier Bardem accepts the Oscar for best supporting actor for his work in “No Country for Old Men” at the 80th Academy Awards Sunday, Feb. 24, 2008, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

One person speaks for a group. Include a little heart, and a little humor. Relish the moment. And keep it under 45 seconds. That’s the often-disregarded annual acceptance-speech guidance Academy President Janet Yang gave Oscar nominees at their luncheon.

Not everyone ignores the advice. Yang showed a video of the platonic ideal of a speech — Javier Bardem’s 2008 acceptance of best supporting actor for “No Country for Old Men.”

Bardem thanked the writer-director Coen brothers, mocked his absurd haircut in the movie, gave his mother a heartfelt tribute in Spanish — and did it all in 37 seconds.

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The feeling is just the same

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Awards show mainstay Jon Batiste performed “It Never Went Way” from “American Symphony,” a documentary that follows Batiste as he attempts to write a symphony while his wife battles leukemia.

Batiste has said that “It Never Went Away’’ ”began as a lullaby” for his wife “so she could have a restful aura in the hospital room.”

On the Oscar stage, he performed at a grand piano in front of a large screen depicting images of Batiste with his wife, the author Suleika Jaouad.

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Another rare feat for Godzilla

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“Godzilla Minus One’s” victory for best visual effects is the first time in the creature’s long history he has won an Oscar. The Japanese film also pulled off the rare feat of having its director win a visual effects Oscar. It was last done by Stanley Kubrick for 1968’s “2001: A Space Odyssey.”

“The moment we were nominated we felt like Rocky Balboa,” the director and visual effects supervisor Takashi Yamazaki said from the stage.

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Oscanheimer continues in the film editing category

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“Oppenheimer” has won for best film editing. It marks the first nomination and win for Jennifer Lame, who thanked her collaborators, including director Christopher Nolan, for the award.

Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito gave the award out, joking about how they both tried to kill Batman — portrayed by Michael Keaton — and lost, as Mr. Freeze and the Penguin, respectively.

▶ Read more about the craft behind “Oppenheimer.”

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Behind the documentary nominee ‘Four Daughters’

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This image provided by Kino Lorber shows Ichraq Matar, Eya Chikhaoui, Hend Sabri, Nour Karoui, Tayssir Chikhaoui in the movie Four Daughters, filmed in Tunis, Tunisia. The film about a Tunisian family and the radicalization of two teenage daughters who joined the Islamic State is up for one of the most prestigious film awards in the world. (Kino Lorber via AP)

Olfa Hamrouni doesn’t know much about her granddaughter; not her favorite toy nor food — is it the pasta the child’s mother loves, or something else?

The Tunisian grandmother doesn’t even let her mind go there. “I don’t want to know. What for but more heartache?” she said.

For now, she just fights for 8-year-old Fatma. The child has spent virtually all her life with her mother and aunt — Hamrouni’s eldest daughters — raised in detention in Libya, where the women wound up after leaving home as teenagers and joining Islamic State group extremists.

The real-life story of Hamrouni and her children is the focus of “Four Daughters,” an Academy Award nominee for best documentary feature film. On camera, there are many layers to Kaouther Ben Hania’s film: It’s about the radicalization of two teenage girls; an intimate portrait of a chaotic, and often dysfunctional, family life; and reflections on generational trauma, patriarchy, motherhood and adolescence.

▶ Read more about the documentary feature.

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WINNER, BEST FILM EDITING: “Oppenheimer”Share

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The subtle ‘Taxi Driver’ reunion happening at the Oscars

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Director Martin Scorsese acknowledges the proper grammar of Robert De Niro's famous line in the movie "Taxi Driver", which he directed, during a skit as he is honored by the Hasty Pudding Theatricals as their Man of the Year at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., Thursday, Feb. 13, 2003. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa) — Director Martin Scorsese acknowledges the proper grammar of Robert De Niro’s famous line in the movie “Taxi Driver”, which he directed, during a skit as he is honored by the Hasty Pudding Theatricals as their Man of the Year at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., Thursday, Feb. 13, 2003. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Martin Scorsese, Jodie Foster and Robert De Niro were all nominees, 47 years after “Taxi Driver” was nominated for best picture, best actor (De Niro), best supporting actress (Foster) and best score.

Scorsese, 81, is nominated for directing “Killers of the Flower Moon.” De Niro, 80, was up for best supporting actor in the same film. And Foster, now 61, was nominated for her performance in “Nyad.” She was just 14 when “Taxi Driver” was nominated.

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Godzilla finally has an Oscar

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Takashi Yamazaki poses for a portrait during the 96th Academy Awards Oscar nominees luncheon on Monday, Feb. 12, 2024, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Godzilla has been to Tokyo, Hong Kong, Paris, San Francisco, Boston, Moscow, London and Hawaii. But before now, he’d never been to the Oscars.

And now he has one.

▶ Read more about Godzilla’s newest frontier.

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WINNER, VISUAL EFFECTS: “Godzilla Minus One”Share

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Will this be John Williams’ last Oscar nomination?

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FILE - Composer John Williams poses on the red carpet at the 2016 AFI Life Achievement Award Gala Tribute to John Williams in Los Angeles on June 9, 2016. Williams is nominated for an Oscar for original score for "The Fabelmans." (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File) — Composer John Williams poses on the red carpet at the 2016 AFI Life Achievement Award Gala Tribute to John Williams in Los Angeles (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)

At age 92, composer John Williams may very well make Academy Award history by becoming the oldest Oscar winner of all time. The 54-time Oscar nominee and five-time winner could break a record held by James Ivory, who, in 2018, took home the Academy Award for best adapted screenplay for “Call Me by Your Name” at age 89. That is, if he wins for his “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” score.

In 2022, Williams told AP film writer Jake Coyle that he believed “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” may be his final score.

“At the moment I’m working on ‘Indiana Jones 5,’ which Harrison Ford — who’s quite a bit younger than I am — I think has announced will be his last film,” he said at the time. “So, I thought: If Harrison can do it, then perhaps I can, also.”

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BEHIND THE LENS: What to look for while photographing the Oscars

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AP photographer Chris Pizzello has made photos at many an Oscars. Here’s how he captures the moments sure to go down in the annals of cinema:

In one sense, the Oscars is one of the easier shows to shoot because the lighting is generally classic and consistent, not constantly shifting like, say, the MTV Awards. But the fact that the Oscars is the biggest of them all plays on your mind a bit, because it’s really important that you not miss anything. You’re shooting entertainment history after all.

Harrison Ford, left, and Ke Huy Quan react onstage when "Everything Everywhere All at Once" wins the award for best picture at the Oscars on Sunday, March 12, 2023, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello) — Harrison Ford, left, and Ke Huy Quan react onstage when “Everything Everywhere All at Once” wins the award for best picture at the Oscars on Sunday, March 12, 2023, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

The Oscar show photographers are up in a projection booth at the very top of the Dolby Theatre. Not only are we far away from the stage, but it is also surprisingly quiet up there. We are behind glass so the sound of the show is muted, which makes it difficult to follow the usual speaking cues of those onstage.

Elizabeth Banks, left, and an actor dressed in a costume from her movie "Cocaine Bear" present the award for best visual effects at the Oscars on Sunday, March 12, 2023, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello) — Elizabeth Banks, left, and an actor dressed in a costume from her movie “Cocaine Bear” present the award for best visual effects at the Oscars on Sunday, March 12, 2023, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

For gear, I have two cameras set up on the same tripod, one with a 600mm lens for tight shots of the winners and another with a 100-400mm zoom for slightly wider shots and musical performances, where it’s important to show the scale of the production. A third camera around my neck is fitted with a 24-105mm lens for ultra-wide shots of the stage, which comes in handy for overall scene setters and the In Memoriam section.

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Robert Downey Jr. wins his first Oscar and Oscanheimer begins

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“I’d like to thank my terrible childhood and the academy in that order,” he started his speech. “I needed this job more than it needed me.”

“I’m gonna thank my stylist in case no one else does,” he added.

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WATCH: Protesters near the Oscars call for Gaza cease-fire

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WINNER, BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Robert Downey Jr. for “Oppenheimer”Share

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WATCH: AP’s interview with Robert Downey Jr. on ‘Oppenheimer’

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Robert Downey Jr. says he came away from Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” thinking about how “context is so critical” to understand significant moments in history. The film tells the story of the theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, who oversaw the development of the first atomic bomb during World War II. Downey plays former chairman of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission Lewis Strauss, a key figure in revoking Oppenheimer’s security clearance.

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John Cena and a strategically placed envelope take center stage at Oscars

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John Cena pointed out the importance of costumes — by not wearing one.

The wrestler-turned-actor was brought onstage by host Jimmy Kimmel for a bit where Cena was supposed to be nude, a nod to how the Oscars in 1974 was interrupted by a male streaker. Cena told Kimmel he decided at the last minute to not go ahead with the bit, as the audience kept laughing.

“The male body is not a joke,” Cena told Kimmel.

Responded the host: “Mine is.”

Cena — with an oversized envelope strategically placed over his midsection — eventually moved onto center stage, then realized he, uh, couldn’t open the envelope.

“Costumes, they are so important,” Cena said. “Maybe the most important thing there is.”

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A Marvel-ous category in best supporting actor

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It’s Iron Man vs. the Hulk as Robert Downey Jr. and Mark Ruffalo are up for best supporting actor.

Sterling K. Brown also played a small but important part in Marvel’s “Black Panther” as N’Jobu, Killmonger’s father.

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The presenters for best supporting actor

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Five past winners are presenting this category:

Sam Rockwell
Tim Robbins
Ke Huy Quan
Christoph Waltz
Mahershala Ali

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What were these awards made for? An explanation of the ‘below-the-line’ categories

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This image released by Searchlight Pictures shows on the set of "Poor Things." (Atsushi Nishijima/Searchlight Pictures via AP) — This image released by Searchlight Pictures shows on the set of “Poor Things.” (Atsushi Nishijima/Searchlight Pictures via AP)

Of the 23 categories awarded tonight, several are “below-the-line” or technical awards. Here’s what voters are looking for:

Production design: Awards the creator of the overall look of a film, from the sets to the locations to the props.

Sound: Awards the work of the range of people who design, record, mix and edit the sound for a film.

This image released by Apple TV+ shows a scene from "Killers of the Flower Moon." (Apple TV+ via AP) — This image released by Apple TV+ shows a scene from “Killers of the Flower Moon.” (Apple TV+ via AP)

Cinematography: Awards the film’s photographer for its lighting and camera work.

Best original score: Awards the writer of a movie’s background music.

Hair and makeup: Awards makeup artists and hairstylists, naturally, but with an emphasis on prosthetics and character transformations.

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Downey and Gosling vie for supporting actor

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Robert Downey Jr. could soon win his first Oscar, coming more than 30 years after his first nomination, for “Chaplin.”

Downey has had a triumphant awards season for playing Lewis Strauss in “Oppenheimer,” and he’s expected to top it off with an Oscar.

Also nominated is Ryan Gosling in his epic turn as Ken in “Barbie.”

The others in the category are Robert De Niro, “Killers of the Flower Moon,” who has won two acting Oscars and been nominated eight times, along with Sterling K. Brown for “American Fiction” Mark Ruffalo for “Poor Things.”

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‘The Zone of Interest’ makers deliver anti-war statement with Oscar win

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Jonathan Glazer’s hands shook as he accepted the Oscar for best international feature for “The Zone of Interest.”

“Our film shows where dehumanization leads, at its worst,” Glazer said.

“Right now we stand here as men who refute their Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation which has led to conflict for so many innocent people, whether the victims of October the 7th in Israel, or the the ongoing attack on Gaza, all the victims, this humanization, how do we resist?”

Glazer said he hopes the film will draw attention to current conflicts in the world.

“All our choices are made to reflect and confront us in the present. Not to say, Look what they did then, rather look what we do now, Glazer said. “Our film shows where dehumanization leads at its worst. It shaped all of our past and present.”

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‘Poor Things’ costume designers worked through translators and masks

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The woman behind the fabulous, fantastic costumes in “Poor Things” says the staff of Hungarians and Brits hadn’t even met each other when they teamed up in Budapest for the movie.

They were wearing masks and communicating through translators but that didn’t seem to slow down the amazing look of the film.

“Somehow we all managed to make it work,” said Holly Waddington during her acceptance speech as she won the Oscar for costume design.

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An early bupkis for ‘Barbenheimer’

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“Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” have been blanked at the Oscars so far.

Five of the 13 categories “Oppenheimer” is up for have come up and so have four of the eight for “Barbie.”

Both have taken a back seat to “Poor Things,” which has already taken three awards.

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‘Wahzhazhe (A Song for My People)’

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Scott George, who wrote “Wahzhazhe (A Song for My People)” from “Killers of the Flower Moon,” performed the song alongside Osage performers. A camera panned above them, showing a group of musicians hitting the same drum, and dancers circling them in front of red and yellow lights.

George is the first Osage writer to be nominated for an Oscar — he is up for best original song.

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WINNER, INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM: “Zone of Interest”Share

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9 sec ago

The story behind ‘Society of the Snow’

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J.A. Bayona’s “Society of the Snow” provides a fresh look at the 1972 Andes plane crash, a tragic tale that’s been told many times. Survivor Gustavo Zerbino praised the Netflix film.

When Gustavo Zerbino watched “La Sociedad de la Nieve,” the 1972 plane crash survivor felt as if he was being submerged “into boiling water,” reliving the roughly 70 days he and his teammates were stranded in the snow-covered Andes mountains.

Zerbino praised J.A. Bayona’s raw and unfiltered film, which was released as “Society of the Snow” on Netflix in the U.S. Bayona’s movie is based on Pablo Vierci’s book of the same title, and follows the story of the Uruguayan Air Force plane disaster.

▶ Read more from AP’s feature on “Society of the Snow,” nominated for best international feature.https://www.youtube.com/embed/rNL-FJpjI-U?enablejsapi=1

J.A. Bayona’s “Society of the Snow” provides a fresh look at the 1972 Andes plane crash. Uruguayan actor Enzo Vogrinic says the desire to tell the tragic story he grew up hearing about made him ready to “endure everything” during the film’s production.

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Vanessa Hudgens breaks some news on the red carpet

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Vanessa Hudgens opened the Oscars red carpet pre-show with news of her own: She’s expecting.

The 35-year-old actor-singer turned to the side, revealing a baby bump under her gown.

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How Hayao Miyazaki learned of his Oscar win

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FILE - In this Nov. 8, 2014, file photo, Hayao Miyazaki arrives at the 6th annual Governors Awards in Los Angeles. Miyazaki’s “The Boy and Heron,” is nominated for best animated feature. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File) — FILE – In this Nov. 8, 2014, file photo, Hayao Miyazaki arrives at the 6th annual Governors Awards in Los Angeles. Miyazaki’s “The Boy and Heron,” is nominated for best animated feature. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)

Toshiko Suzuki, co-founder of Studio Ghibli and close collaborator of Hayao Miyazaki, told reporters at the small animation studio in Tokyo that they both watched the award ceremony on TV.

Miyazaki, who did not attend the Los Angeles ceremony, had vowed earlier he wasn’t going to show joy too much “as a Japanese man,” but he was moved to tears, Suzuki said.

“These things are just luck. I am happy from the bottom of my heart. That’s the only way to put it,” Suzuki said.

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‘Poor Things’ makes it a triple

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This image released by Searchlight Pictures shows Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone on the set of "Poor Things." (Atsushi Nishijima/Searchlight Pictures via AP) — This image released by Searchlight Pictures shows Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone on the set of “Poor Things.” (Atsushi Nishijima/Searchlight Pictures via AP)

“Poor Things” became the first multiple Oscar winner of the night with back-to-back-to-back wins for hair and makeup, production design and costumes.

The three victories have made it already a big night for Yorgos Lanthimos’ film with many big nominations to come, including best director for him and best actress for Emma Stone.

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An AP Stylebook PSA: It’s daylight saving time

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Not daylight savings time!

This is the second year in a row, for the record, in which the Oscars have fallen on the same day the clocks have sprung forward.

▶ Read more about daylight saving time.

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WINNER, COSTUME DESIGN: “Poor Things”Share

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Beautiful Things?

BY MARIA SHERMANShare

What is a film without an all-star hair and beauty team? What would be “Poor Things” without Willem Dafoe’s prosthetics? Nadia Stacey, Mark Coulier and Josh Weston, the team behind “Poor Things,” won for makeup and hair.

Catherine O’Hara and Michael Keaton presented the award, joking that without those behind the scenes, the public would know what actors really look like. Shudder at the thought!

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A rich haul for ‘Poor Things’: Inside its sumptuous, monstrous craft

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This image released by Searchlight Pictures shows Emma Stone and Yorgos Lanthimo on the set of "Poor Things." (Atsushi Nishijima/Searchlight Pictures via AP) — This image released by Searchlight Pictures shows Emma Stone and Yorgos Lanthimo on the set of “Poor Things.” (Atsushi Nishijima/Searchlight Pictures via AP)

“Poor Things” is a Frankenstein-esque fantasia about a young woman (Emma Stone) reanimated by a demented surgeon (Willem Dafoe), but the behind-the-scenes work that went into crafting the movie’s wildly warped world may be the film’s greatest act of mad science.

Though Yorgos Lanthimos’ earlier films — at least leading up to “The Favourite” — were more spare productions, “Poor Things” fuses all the tools of classic Hollywood filmmaking — grand sets, miniatures, sumptuous costumes — with subtler touches of modern technology. The movie is, itself, a Frankenstein.

Only the scars (not counting the ones on Dafoe’s elongated face) don’t show in the magpie design of “Poor Things.” The film’s style is rooted in an 1890s Victorian setting, but it expands surreally from there.

▶ Read more about the work that went into the film.

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WINNER, BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN: “Poor Things”Share

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2 min ago

WATCH: AP’s interview with Celine Song on ‘Past Lives’

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Director Celine Song’s acclaimed feature film debut “Past Lives” is a modern-day love story about two childhood friends who are reunited as adults years after one moves away from South Korea. In this extended interview, Song speaks with The Associated Press about her inspirations, building chemistry between her actors, and why it was essential to portray variations of Korean family dynamics.

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Why wasn’t “Anatomy of a Fall” nominated for best international feature?

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In this category, countries select their film of choice. France selected “The Taste of Things” as its Oscar submission over “Anatomy of a Fall,” provoking surprise.

“The Taste of Things” ended up falling short of a nomination.

In accepting the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, “Anatomy of a Fall” director Justine Triet spoke passionately about the protests that have roiled France this year over reforms to pension plans and the retirement age. Several protests were held during Cannes this year, but demonstrations were — as they have been in many high-profile locations throughout France — banned from the area around the Palais des Festivals. Protesters were largely relegated to the outskirts of Cannes.

“The protests were denied and repressed in a shocking way,” said Triet, who linked that governmental influence to that in cinema. “The merchandizing of culture, defended by a liberal government, is breaking the French cultural exception.”

Some speculated that was the reason for the country’s snub.

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WINNER, BEST MAKE-UP AND HAIRSTYLING: “Poor Things”Share

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7 sec ago

Cord Jefferson calls on movie industry to take more risks

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Cord Jefferson accepts the award for best adapted screenplay for "American Fiction" during the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello) — Cord Jefferson accepts the award for best adapted screenplay for “American Fiction” during the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Cord Jefferson implored the movie industry to take more risks during his acceptance speech for his Oscar for adapted screenplay for “American Fiction.”

“I understand that this is a risk adverse industry, I get it, but $200 million movies are also a risk,” he said.

Appearing to be doing some very quick math in his head, Jefferson called on the industry to try “making 20 $10 million dollar movies” or “50 $4 million dollar movies.”

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They were made for the Oscars

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Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell performed their “Barbie” ballad “What Was I Made For?” on a rotating neon pink stage. They were the first of five scheduled performances — every song nominated in the best original song category will receive the same treatment, which will include another “Barbie” cut: the Ryan Gosling-performed ‘80s power balled “I’m Just Ken.”

If Eilish wins in the category, she will become the youngest person to ever win two career Oscars at age 22.

A few moments into the performance, the curtains behind the sibling duo lifted to reveal a string orchestra — taking the soft, saccharine song and blowing it up to enormous size. Break out the tissues.

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Triet and Harari couple up for original screenplay win

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Justine Triet and Arthur Harari became the first of a half-dozen nominated couples to win an Oscar with their original screenplay victory for “Anatomy of a Fall.”

The longtime partners with two kids together co-wrote the movie during the coronavirus pandemic.

Triet, who is also nominated for best director for the film, said from the stage that in order to write the movie, “we hooked them up to cartoons for peace. There was no line between work and diapers.”

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Only 2 songs from a movie can be nominated for best song

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This image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows Margot Robbie in a scene from "Barbie." (Warner Bros. Pictures via AP) — This image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows Margot Robbie in a scene from “Barbie.” (Warner Bros. Pictures via AP)

“Barbie” is the first film since “La La Land” in 2017 to have two nominees for best original song: “I’m Just Ken” and “What Was I Made For?” Dua Lipa’s “Dance the Night” was left out after the final cut.

Four films in the past have had three songs nominated: “Enchanted,” “Dreamgirls,” “Beauty and the Beast” and “The Lion King,” but a rule installed in 2008 now allows for only two per movie.

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Cord Jefferson’s urban lit forerunner in adapted screenplay

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“American Fiction” is the fifth movie to earn Black writers an Oscar for adapted screenplay. The first Black winner in the category was Geoffrey S. Fletcher, in 2009. Fletcher adapted the novel “Push” by “Sapphire” into “Precious.”

Jefferson adapted Percival Everett’s “Erasure,” a satire of urban literature. In it, the lead character is inspired to adopt a pseudonym and alter ego to release a novel that has some parallels to “Push,” an acclaimed and controversial novel about a pregnant teen from Harlem that begins in broken English, but becomes more traditional as the girl learns to read and write.

At the time, Sapphire (a pen name for Ramona Lofton) was a little-known poet who received a large advance and attracted the interest of Hollywood.

▶ Read more about urban lit authors’ reaction to the movie.

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WINNER, BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: “American Fiction”Share

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The inspirations behind the adapted screenplay nominees

BY HILLEL ITALIEShare

From a Pulitzer Prize-winning biography to the annals of Mattel, here are the sources of this year’s Oscar nominees for best adapted screenplay:

“American Fiction”
Filmmaker Cord Jefferson worked from Percival Everett’s 2001 satire “Erasure,” about a Black literary author who unexpectedly gets rich writing a parody of “urban fiction,” a hot genre at the time Everett’s book came out.
▶ Read more about urban lit authors’ reaction to the movie.

“Barbie”
The source for “Barbie,” co-written by director Greta Gerwig and husband Noah Baumbach was … Barbie — the doll, the icon, the product and, in the eyes of the academy, a preexisting character that made the film ineligible for the original screenplay category.

“Oppenheimer”
Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” distills the 700-page “American Prometheus,” a biography of atomic bomb “father” J. Robert Oppenheimer that was written by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin and won the Pulitzer in 2006.

“Poor Things”
“Poor Things,” written by Tony McNamara, is based on a 1992 novel by the late Alasdair Gray that sets a “Frankenstein”-like story in the author’s native Glasgow.

“The Zone of Interest”
Jonathan Glazer’s “The Zone of Interest” reworks Martin Amis’ Holocaust novel of the same name, which the late British author had structured around infidelity among Nazis stationed at Auschwitz.

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WINNER, BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: “Anatomy of a Fall”Share

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Scribes sitting in wait for screenplay awards

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The two Oscars given to writers for screenplays are coming up. Here’s a look at the nominees.

For best original screenplay: Justine Triet and Arthur Harari for “Anatomy of a Fall,” Samy Burch and Alex Mechanik for “May December,” David Hemingson for “The Holdovers,” Celine Song for “Past Lives” and Bradley Cooper and Josh Singer for “Maestro.”

For adapted screenplay: Cord Jefferson for “American Fiction,” Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach for “Barbie,” Christopher Nolan for “Oppenheimer,” Tony McNamara for “Poor Things” and Jonathan Glazer for “The Zone of Interest.”

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Miyazaki sets a few milestones with ‘Boy and the Heron’ win

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This image released by GKIDS shows Mahito Maki, voiced by Luca Padovan in English and Soma Santoki in Japanese, left, and Grey Heron, voiced by Robert Pattinson in English and Masaki Suda in Japanese, in a scene from Hayao Miyazaki’s “The Boy And The Heron." (Studio Ghibli/GKIDS via AP) — This image released by GKIDS shows Mahito Maki, voiced by Luca Padovan in English and Soma Santoki in Japanese, left, and Grey Heron, voiced by Robert Pattinson in English and Masaki Suda in Japanese, in a scene from Hayao Miyazaki’s “The Boy And The Heron.” (Studio Ghibli/GKIDS via AP)

“The Boy and the Heron” is only the second hand-drawn animation winner in this category. The first was another Miyazaki film, “Spirited Away,” 21 years ago.

Miyazaki was not at the Oscars to receive his award. Presenters Chris Hemsworth and Anya Taylor-Joy accepted on his behalf.

Miyazaki is also the oldest director to win in the category.

▶ Read more from our feature on the renaissance of older filmmakers.

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Animated feature is Spidey versus a bird, the elements, a wizard and a robot

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The Oscar for best animated feature is coming up.The nominees include “The Boy and the Heron,” directed by legendary 83-year-old animator Hayao Miyazaki for his Studio Ghibli. He has said the World War II-era fantasy may be his last film.

Also up for the award is “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse,” the trippy, web-slinging sequel to the film that won this Oscar in 2018.

Other nominees include Pixar’s fire-and-water tale “Elemental,” Netflix’s medieval-style sci-fi fantasy “Nimona,” and “Robot Dreams,” a wordless Spanish-French tale of the friendship between a dog and a robot. It hasn’t been widely distributed in the U.S. yet.

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WINNER, BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM: “The Boy and the Heron”Share

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Accepting Oscar, Sean Ono Lennon shouts out his mom, Yoko Ono

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It’s Mother’s Day in the U.K., and Sean Ono Lennon asked the audience to shout: “Happy Mother’s Day!”

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A Howard Stern reference from Jimmy Kimmel at the Oscars

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Listeners of Howard Stern’s show on Sirius XM know that he and Oscars host Jimmy Kimmel have a long friendship.

And Stern had to enjoy Kimmel dropping a reference to his longtime producer Gary Dell’Abate.

“Baba Booey to you sir,” Kimmel said coming out a commercial break. Baba Booey, as Stern fans know, is Dell’Abate’s nickname.

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WINNER, BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM: “WAR IS OVER! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko”Share

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More than a half-hour into the telecast, only one award has been handed out

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A second is quickly on its way, though.

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Student Academy Awards at 50

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Spike Lee already had several big moments with the Oscars by the time he finally won a competitive statuette in 2019.

His first came almost 40 years earlier, in 1983, when he was a film student at New York University. Lee submitted his master’s thesis film “Joe’s Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads,” starring Monty Ross, to the Student Academy Awards. And it won.

The Student Academy Awards may not be as glitzy or high profile as the Oscars, but in its 50 years it has proven to be a vital launching ground for emerging filmmakers. Inclusion and access may sound like recent buzzwords, but the film academy has been striving to break down barriers to entry for decades.

▶ Read more about the Student Academy Awards from November.

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2024: When the tastes of Oscar voters and the general public finally align?

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A woman walks past advertisements for the films "Oppenheimer," from left, and "Barbie," on Thursday, July 20, 2023, at the Landmark Theater in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello) — A woman walks past advertisements for the films “Oppenheimer,” from left, and “Barbie,” on Thursday, July 20, 2023, at the Landmark Theater in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

After years of smaller movies like “Nomadland” and “Coda” winning best picture, a blockbuster movie looks likely to win the top award.

“Oppenheimer,” the Christopher Nolan movie about the man who guided the creation of the nuclear weapons dropped on Japan in World War II, took in close to $1 billion at the box office. The pink-themed, box-office powerhouse “Barbie” movie is also in the mix.

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Da’Vine Joy Randolph opens awards with a weeping win

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Da’Vine Joy Randolph wept as she accepted the night’s first Oscar — and hers.

“God is so good,” she said through tears as she accepted best supporting actor for “The Holdovers” for her first Academy Award nomination.

“I’ve always wanted to be different,” she said, “now I realize I just have to be myself.”

In a format expected to be repeated all night in the acting categories, the Oscar was presented by five past winners: Mary Steenburgen, Regina King, Lupita Nyong’o, Jamie Lee Curtis and Rita Moreno. Each introduced one nominee they have a connection to with a long personal tribute.

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Kimmel thanks those who didn’t cross during strike, vows to stand with them

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The 148-day strike that shut down production in Hollywood last year was part of Jimmy Kimmel’s Oscars monologue.

“For five months, this group of writers, actors, directors, the people who actually make the films said ‘We will not accept a deal‘ … well, not the directors, you guys folded immediately,” Kimmel said. “But the rest of us said we will not accept a deal without protections against artificial intelligence.”

He quickly pointed out that actors can now stop worrying about being replaced by AI, and instead go back to fearing being replaced by more attractive actors.

Kimmel also thanked the behind-the-scenes workers in Hollywood who now have a labor fight going on of their own, bringing dozens of truck drivers, lighting workers, gaffers, grips and more onto the stage as a thank-you.

“Thank you for standing with us,” Kimmel said. “And also, we want you to know that in your upcoming negotiations, we will stand with you too. And I’m going to make sure this show goes really long tonight so you get a ton of overtime.”

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WINNER, BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Da’Vine Joy Randolph, “The Holdovers”Share

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