Everything you need to know about this year's Oscars
Feb 16, 2024
After a winter barrage of award shows — the Emmys, the Golden Globes, the Grammys — the grandaddy of them all, the Academy Awards, are around the corner
NEW YORK (AP) — After a winter barrage of award shows — the Emmys, the Golden Globes, the Grammys — the grandaddy of them all, the
Academy Awards
, are around the corner. The 96th Oscars may be a coronation for “Oppenheimer,”which comes in with a leading 13 nominations
, though other films, including “Barbie,” “Killers of the Flower Moon” and “Poor Things” are in the mix.Here’s everything you need to know about this year's show:
When are the Oscars?
The Oscars will be held Sunday, March 10, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. The ceremony is set to begin at 7 p.m. EDT — one hour earlier than usual — and be broadcast live on ABC. A preshow will begin at 6:30 p.m. EDT. This is your early reminder to
set your clocks accordingly
— it's the first day of daylight saving time in the U.S.Are the Oscars streaming?
The show will be available to stream via ABC.com and the ABC app with a cable subscription. You can also watch through services including Hulu Live TV, YouTubeTV, AT&T TV and FuboTV.
Who's hosting the Oscars?
Jimmy Kimmel, who hosted last year's ceremony,
will emcee for the fourth time.
That ties him with fellow four-timers Whoopi Goldberg and Jack Lemmon, and leaves Kimmel trailing only Johnny Carson (five), Billy Crystal (nine) and Bob Hope (11) among repeat Oscar hosts. “I always dreamed of hosting the Oscars exactly four times," said Kimmel.What's nominated for Best Picture at the 2024 Oscars?
The ten nominees for best picture are: “American Fiction”; “Anatomy of a Fall”; “Barbie”; “The Holdovers”; “Killers of the Flower Moon”; “Maestro”; “Oppenheimer”; “Past Lives”; “Poor Things”; and “The Zone of Interest."
Who are the favorites?
Christopher Nolan's “Oppenheimer”
is the frontrunner. Nolan, the best director favorite, is alsopoised to win his first Oscar
. The best actress category could be a nail-biter between Lily Gladstone ("Killers of the Flower Moon") and Emma Stone ("Poor Things"). If Gladstone were to win,she would be the first Native American to win an Oscar.
Best actor, too, could be a close contest betweenCillian Murphy
("Oppenheimer") andPaul Giamatti
("The Holdovers"). Both would be first-time winners. Giamatti's co-star Da’Vine Joy Randolph is favored to win best-supporting actress, while Robert Downey Jr. ("Oppenheimer") is expected to win best-supporting actor. His closest competition is considered Ryan Gosling for “Barbie.”What's up with the ‘Barbie’ snubs?
While “Barbie," 2023's biggest box-office hit, comes in with eight nominations, much discussion has revolved around the nominations the film didn't receive. Greta Gerwig was
left out of the directing category
and Margot Robbie missed on best actress. In those omissions,some have seen reflections of the misogyny parodied in “Barbie,"
while others have noted the tough reception comedies have historically had at the Oscars. The nominations for “Barbie” include best-adapted screenplay (by Gerwig and Noah Baumbach), best supporting actress for America Ferrera and twobest song nominees
in Billie Eilish's “What Was I Made For” and the Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt composition “I'm Just Ken.”Are there any changes to the Oscars this year?
Though recent Oscars have been marked by everything from
slaps,
envelope snafus
andcontroversies over
which awards are presented live
during the telecast, this year's show comes in with no big changes. All of the awards are to be broadcast live (though honorary prizes remain separated in theearlier, untelevised Governors Awards
). The academy is addinga new award for best casting,
but that trophy won't be presented until the 2026 Oscars.What else is there to look for?
Composer John Williams is nominated for his record 49th best-score Oscar, for
“Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,"
and 54th overall. Godzilla is going to the Oscars for the first time, with “Godzilla Minus One” notching a nomination for best visual effects. And for the first time, two non-English language films are up for best picture: the German language Auschwitz drama“The Zone of Interest”
and the French courtroom drama“Anatomy of a Fall.”
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