Best Picture:

Oppenheimer
American Fiction
Anatomy of a Fall
Barbie
The Holdovers
Killers of the Flower Moon
Maestro
Past Lives
Poor Things
The Zone of Interest








Best Actress:

Emma Stone, Poor Things
Annette Bening, Nyad
Lily Gladstone, Killers of the Flower Moon
Sandra Hüller, Anatomy of a Fall
Carey Mulligan, Maestro









Best Actor:

Cillian Murphy, Oppenheimer
Bradley Cooper, Maestro
Colman Domingo, Rustin
Paul Giamatti, The Holdovers
Jeffrey Wright, American Fiction







Best Supporting Actor:

Robert Downey Jr., Oppenheimer
Sterling K. Brown, American Fiction
Robert De Niro, Killers of the Flower Moon
Ryan Gosling, Barbie
Mark Ruffalo, Poor Things









Best Supporting Actress:

Da’Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers
Emily Blunt, Oppenheimer
Danielle Brooks, The Color Purple
America Ferrera, Barbie
Jodie Foster, Nyad









Best Director:

Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer
Jonathan Glazer, The Zone of Interest
Yorgos Lanthimos, Poor Things
Martin Scorsese, Killers of the Flower Moon
Justine Triet, Anatomy of a Fall







Best Animated Film:

The Boy and the Heron
Elemental
Nimona
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Robot Dreams






Best Short Animated Film:

War Is Over! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko
Letter to a Pig
Ninety-Five Senses
Our Uniform
Pachyderme









Best Short Live Film:

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
The After
Invincible
Knight of Fortune
Red, White and Blue”








Best International Feature Film:

The Zone of Interest (United Kingdom)
The Teachers’ Lounge (Germany)
Io Capitano (Italy)
Perfect Days (Japan)
Society of the Snow (Spain)








Best Costume Design:

Poor Things
Barbie
Killers of the Flower Moon
Napoleon
Oppenheimer








Best Makeup and Hair Styling:

Poor Things
Golda
Maestro
Oppenheimer
Society of the Snow








Best Cinematography:

Oppenheimer
El Conde
Killers of the Flower Moon
Maestro
Poor Things







Best Editing:

Oppenheimer
Anatomy of a Fall
The Holdovers
Killers of the Flower Moon
Poor Things







Best Sound Editing:

The Zone of Interest
The Creator
Maestro
Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One
Oppenheimer










Best Production Design:

Poor Things
Barbie
Killers of the Flower Moon
Napoleon
Oppenheimer








Best Visual Effects:

Godzilla Minus One
The Creator
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One
Napoleon







Best Writing (Original Screenplay):

Anatomy of a Fall
The Holdovers
May December
Maestro
Past Lives





Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay):

American Fiction
Barbie
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
The Zone of Interest









Best Documentary (Long):

20 Days in Mariupol
Bobi Wine: The People’s President
The Eternal Memory
Four Daughters
To Kill a Tiger









Best Documentary (Short):

The Last Repair Shop
The ABCs of Book Banning
The Barber of Little Rock
Island in Between
Nai Nai & Wai Po






Best Music (Original Score):

Oppenheimer
American Fiction
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Killers of the Flower Moon
Poor Things






Best Music (Original Song):

What Was I Made For? – Billie Eilish
Barbie

The Fire Inside – Becky G
Flamin’ Hot

I'm Just Ken – Ryan Gosling
Barbie

It Never Went Away – Jon Batiste
American Symphony

Wahzhazhe (A Song For My People) – Osage Tribal Singers
Killers of the Flower Moon

^ Winners above in bold.

Warm-hearted, hilarious, and enjoyable: The 96th Oscars were the best in years (https://www.vox.com/culture/2024/3/11/24096929/2024-oscars-winners-losers-jimmy-kimmel-poor-things-ryan-gosling-cillian-red-pins)

2023 was the year movies were finally back — and the 96th Academy Awards reflected what a good time at the cinema we all had.

In Memoriam segment was the worst (https://parade.com/news/fans-call-out-oscars-worst-in-memoriam-segment-ever-2024#:~:text=Fans%20Call%20Out%20Oscars%20For%20'Worst'%20In%20Memoriam%20Segment%20Ever&text=During%20the%2096th%20Annual%20Academy,have%20been%20a%20little%20lackluster.)

During the 96th Annual Academy Awards on Sunday, March 10, the producers took a moment to honor the film stars and legends who passed away over the last year—but fans online are finding the presentation to have been a little lackluster.

Oscar viewership rises 4% (https://www.marketwatch.com/amp/story/oscars-viewership-rises-only-a-bit-despite-boost-from-barbie-and-oppenheimer-260074df#:~:text=An%20estimated%2019.5%20million%20people,from%20last%20year's%20estimated...)

An estimated 19.5 million people watched Sunday night's 96th Academy Awards ceremony on ABC. That's the biggest number drawn by the telecast in four years. But that upward trend comes from an all-time low during the pandemic, and is up just 4% from last year's estimated...

Al Pacino and Oscars producer express regret over awkward Best Picture announcement (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/al-pacino-oscars-best-picture-explained-1235849601/#:~:text=The%20'Godfather'%20star%20omitted%20the,in%20a%20statement%20issued%20Monday.)

The 'Godfather' star omitted the nominees' names because he was following the Academy's script for the night, he says. "I just want to be clear it was not my intention to omit [nominees]," Pacino said in a statement issued Monday.


Ryan Gosling’s “I’m Just Ken” Oscars performance was an irony-meets-sincerity spectacle (https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2024/03/oscars-im-just-ken-ryan-gosling-barbie/677716/)

When will John Mulaney be named Oscars host? (https://www.today.com/popculture/awards/john-mulaney-oscars-jokes-host-rcna142755)

A Few Late Thoughts On The 96th Oscars (https://unobtainium13.com/2024/03/11/a-few-late-thoughts-on-the-96th-oscars/)

Posted on March 11, 2024 by Lisa Marie Bowman

Last night, the Oscars (https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/33299-the-annual-academy-awards-general-discussion/page/284/) actually ended early.

Not that early, of course. In fact, towards the end of the show, Jimmy Kimmel came out and did his usual anti-Trump schtick just to pad out the running time so that the Oscars managed to make it to the allotted 3 hour and 30 minute mark. (And yes, it is schtick. The late night hosts need Trump just as much as Trump needs them.) The thing is, though, the Oscars usually run over by a good 30 minutes. The show ending on time means that it ended early. This is the first Oscar telecast, in my lifetime, to end on time. I could actually go out and do stuff after the show ended. It was fun!

As for the show itself, it was a relatively smooth production. No one got slapped. There were no major technical snafus. As to be expected, there were a few embarrassing acceptance speeches. I thought Zone of Interest was a powerful film and I also thought Under The Skin was brilliant but I can still do without ever having to listen to Jonathan Glazer give another speech. One can only imagine how Martin Amis would have reacted to Glazer’s “speech.”

(Martin Amis wrote the novel that served as the basis for the film that won Glazer an Oscar. Amis never had much use for the wimpy or the self-important.)

Ryan Gosling’s performance of I Am Ken was the highlight of the show. Of course, then the song failed to win the Oscar. It reminded me a bit of how, in 2021, the entire broadcast was designed to end with Chadwick Boseman receiving a posthumous award, just for a confused Joaquin Phoenix to read Anthony Hopkins’s name instead. Sometimes, the voters really do just vote for who or what they think should win, regardless of the preferred narrative.

In fact, for all the hype, Barbie wasn’t much of a factor in the awards. It won one Oscar, for the song that wasn’t I Am Ken. The Academy was far more impressed with Poor Things. Still, Barbie did better than Killers of the Flower Moon, which won not a single award. Poor Things‘s Emma Stone defeating Lily Gladstone was the upset of the evening. Am I the only one who briefly got worried that Poor Things would somehow win Best Picture over Oppenheimer?

The big winner, of course, was Oppenheimer. My top film of 2023 was Past Lives but Oppenheimer was a close second. (Until Glazer gave his speech, Zone of Interest was my third pick.) Robert Downey, Jr. became the first former SNL cast member to win an acting Oscar. Christopher Nolan accepted his Oscar from Steven Spielberg, which felt like a real changing-of-the-guard moment. Cillian Murphy won Best Actor. I would have voted for Paul Giamatti but Murphy still deserves a lot of credit for holding Oppenheimer together.

Godzilla is an Oscar winner! Yay!

All in all, it was a good show. Occasionally, it was even fun. It was very efficient, as if the Academy specifically picked this year to show ABC that it actually could put on an orderly show that didn’t preempt the entire network’s programming by an extra hour. My advice for next year would be to stop doing the thing where five previous winners came out to praise the current nominees. (That bit has always felt a bit condescending and I would much rather see clips of the nominated performances.) And maybe get John Mulaney to host because Jimmy Kimmel has become just way too impressed with himself.

Now, 2023 is done. Onward to 2024!

(Actually, you know what I haven’t done, yet? I haven’t posted my picks for the best of 2023. I’ll do that this week, even though I doubt anyone cares at this point. But I’ve posted my lists every year and I’m not going to break tradition now. I just have a handful of movies to watch today and tomorrow….)

Oscars 2024 Review: 10 Ups & 6 Downs (https://whatculture.com/film/oscars-2024-review-10-ups-6-downs?rf=homepage)

A mostly satisfying night - with a few stumbles.

BY JACK POOLEY
UPDATED: MARCH 12TH, 2024

It once again feels like it's taken an eternity to get here, but awards season is finally over, signaled of course by the season-capping Oscars ceremony (https://www.lipstickalley.com/threads/the-2022-94th-annual-academy-of-motion-picture-arts-and-sciences-oscars-awards-show-viewing-thread.4852196/).

It's felt like an especially long-in-the-tooth road to the Academy Awards (https://officialfan.proboards.com/thread/632249/2024-academy-awards) this year due to most of the winners seemingly being set in stone for many months now, and yet, the predictable-on-paper show nevertheless threw in a few compelling curveballs to keep the night interesting.

Following up last year's fantastic ceremony dominated by Everything Everywhere All at Once, this year's broadcast similarly offered up a satisfying slate of winners in most categories while keeping the show bounding along at a pacy clip.

It certainly wasn't perfect - they still can't get the In Memoriam segment right, for one - but on the balance of its merits, this was certainly one of the better Oscar ceremonies in recent times, if not ever, serving as a solid template for what the Academy Awards (https://www.datalounge.com/thread/34107295-oscars-2024-official-thread-3) should be in the modern era.

And so with that in mind, here's everything that left film fans punching the air with glee, and then cursing the Oscars' very existence the next moment...