Surprise cameos, Zendaya and plenty of Kenergy: All you need know about Oscars

Or no longer it’s a ways the ultimate night within the movie calendar, full of Hollywood glamour, never-ending celebrities, and of direction a complete haul of puny gold men.

Or no longer it has been a year of two halves – with months-lengthy industry strikes followed by the viral phenomenon that became Barbenheimer re-invigorating the movie world.

Now, as we way the 96th Annual Academy Awards, all eyes are on the flicks and stars who would possibly well presumably well also very effectively be taking dwelling a prize. That is every thing you can test from the night.

When and where?

The Oscars – showbiz’s ultimate night of the year – takes region on the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles tonight.

The crimson carpet kicks off at 7.30pm UK time followed by the celeb-packed ceremony from 11pm UK time.

Your total occasion shall be liveblogged right here at Sky News – so you can apply every moment, from the elope up to the crimson carpet, the stars arrival handsome up to the ceremony and into the Arrogance Magnificent after occasion.

The ceremony will air within the UK on ITV.

Is there a theme?

This year, organisers notify the show camouflage’s all about human connection, with a highlight on emotion and creativity.

They have got promised “something special and stunning” within the direction of the In Memoriam section, which can honour stars of the industry – each in entrance of and within the back of the digicam – we now have lost within the final year.

They moreover hinted at some unexpected company on the night, advising fans to gaze out for “reunions, acknowledgements of the previous and shock cameos”.

Who’s online page hosting?

The ceremony’s hosted for the fourth time by unhurried-night, US talk show camouflage host Jimmy Kimmel.

Academy Award bosses have described him as “relaxed and cheerful” within the role (as effectively he must composed be after three old outings). They moreover acknowledged he will get enthusiastic with the total job of the show camouflage, “working for months” and even serving to select presenters.

The 56-year-aged beforehand hosted in 2017, 2018 and 2023 – so he must composed be prepped and willing for any unexpected occasions, having made it by way of 2017’s harmful La La Land and Moonlight most effective image announcement mix-up.

He wasn’t there to ogle Will Smith’s equally harmful slapping of comedian Chris Rock in 2022, with the show camouflage hosted by Amy Schumer, Regina Corridor and Wanda Sykes that year.

What movies are up for awards?

Oppenheimer leads the nominations pack with 13; Yorgos Lanthimos’ Downhearted Issues has 11; Martin Scorsese’s Killers Of The Flower Moon has 10 and Greta Gerwig’s Barbie has eight.

Of direction, final summer season became in point of fact a anecdote of proper two movies – as a result of of Oppenheimer and Barbie’s identical-day liberate the unexpected portmanteau “Barbenheimer” became a allege and supplied a welcome enhance to the summer season box office after months of industry strikes.

While Barbie won the box office war with $1.4bn (£1.1bn) in world ticket gross sales, Oppenheimer is the sure chief for perchance one of the top image trophy.

The movie about the elope to assemble the atomic bomb has taken the tip prizes on the Golden Globes, Conceal Actors Guild Awards and BAFTAs.

Might perchance well perchance there be any upsets on the night?

Might perchance well perchance anything in fact derail Oppenheimer from being the gigantic winner of the night?

Christopher Nolan – who is one of Britain’s most commercially profitable filmmakers – has never won an Oscar, despite being nominated for most effective image twice sooner than (for Inception and Dunkirk).

Or no longer it’s undoubtedly no longer possible, but when Martin Scorsese, who’s 81, pipped him to it for Killers Of A Flower Moon he’d create historic previous because the oldest most effective director winner.

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In perchance one of the top actor elope it’s Oppenheimer star Cillian Murphy within the lead, with The Holdovers leading actor Paul Giamatti moreover in with a (limited) likelihood.

Neither have won this award sooner than, each give enormous performances, and each are known for being all-round true guys. Nonetheless, Murphy’s wins on the SAGS, Globes and BAFTAs point out he’ll perchance rep it.

Possibly perchance one of the top nail-biter of the night is in perchance one of the top actress category, where it’s Emma Stone versus Lily Gladstone.

Stone will perchance clutch the prize on the night, but when Gladstone pulls it out of the rep she’d was the first particular person of Native American heritage to ever rep an acting Oscar.

Meanwhile, if Sandra Huller wins as a substitute, and she’s effectively-deserving after appearing in two of the flicks up for most effective image (Anatomy Of A Tumble and Zone Of Interest), she would possibly well presumably well presumably be the first German-born actor to rep the category in bigger than 60 years.

In perchance one of the top supporting actress category, Da’Vine Pleasure Randolph is a shoo-in, while if the Oppenheimer charm holds Robert Downey Jr will clutch most effective supporting actor (his closest competitors is Barbie’s Ryan Gosling).

Both Randolph and Downey Jr would possibly well presumably well presumably be first-time Oscar winners.

And while Oppenheimer will nearly absolutely rep most effective image, must composed Anatomy Of A Tumble, Zone Of Interest or Past Lives rep the gong, it will probably presumably well presumably build most effective the 2d time ever that a non-English language movie has won a feat first achieved by Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite in 2020.

Any snubs we must composed know about?

Barbie will have got eight nods, but it’s star – Margot Robbie – and director – Greta Gerwig – had been left out within the chilly when it came to nominations in perchance one of the top actress and most effective director categories.

The omissions led some to dispute it’s a ways a case of existence imitating art, with the misogyny of the movie mirrored within the industry snub.

Their Barbie co-star Gosling known as it “disappointing,” adding that while he became “honoured” to be nominated for most effective supporting actor for “portraying a plastic doll named Ken, there would possibly well be no longer this type of thing as a Ken with out Barbie, and there would possibly well be no longer this type of thing as a Barbie movie with out Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie”.

Who’s presenting the awards?

Dune star Zendaya shall be a part of Academy Award-winner Al Pacino and three-time nominee Michelle Pfeiffer as presenters on the night (no longer together).

And as tradition dictates, final year’s four acting winners will moreover attain back to fresh on the show camouflage: Brendan Fraser from The Whale, and Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan, and Jamie Lee Curtis from All the pieces In every single build All At As soon as.

Other celebrities build of residing to grace the Dolby stage embody Outrageous Bunny, Rita Moreno, Matthew McConaughey, Chris Hemsworth, Dwayne Johnson, Michael Keaton, Regina King, Jennifer Lawrence, Kate McKinnon, John Mulaney, Catherine O’Hara, Octavia Spencer, Jessica Lange, Nicolas Cage, Mahershala Ali, Sam Rockwell, Lupita Nyong’o and Ramy Youssef.

Will there be live performances?

There most absolutely will. All 5 fashioned song nominees shall be performed on the show camouflage, which manner we are in a position to sit up for Ryan Gosling singing power ballad I’m Merely Ken and Billie Eilish singing What Changed into when I Made For, which she co-wrote alongside with her brother Finneas.

The assorted nominated songs embody Diane Warren’s The Fire Internal, from Flamin’ Hot, that can presumably well presumably moreover be performed by Becky G, Jon Batiste and Dan Wilson’s It Never Went Some distance off from American Symphony, and Scott George’s Wahzhazhe (A Tune for My Folks) from Killers Of The Flower Moon.

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