The curtains have finally closed on the Oscars. That's a wrap on the 2024 awards season!
Oppenheimer was the big winner of the night, with seven awards including Best Picture and Best Director. The acting awards went to Cillian Murphy (Best Actor, Oppenheimer), Emma Stone (Best Actress, Poor Things), Robert Downey Jr. (Best Supporting Actor, Oppenheimer) and Da'Vine Joy Randolph (Best Supporting Actress, The Holdovers).
Ryan Gosling didn't have to win a trophy to be crowned the true king of the night, though. His performance of "I'm Just Ken," from Barbie, stole the show.
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Yahoo Entertainment has you covered with a full list of winners, dispatches from inside the Dolby Theatre and more memorable moments. Catch up on the highlights from Hollywood's biggest night below.
Taryn Ryder
As guests exit the theater, “ceasefire now” is being chanted behind a large hedge barrier as everyone waits for their car-service pick ups.
— Taryn Ryder reporting live from the Oscars
Taryn Ryder
We were all on our feet for Best Picture presenter Al Pacino, whose star power electrified the room. So much so that he maybe didn’t think he had to announce the winner of Best Picture in traditional fashion.
His casual mention of Oppenheimer as the winner had multiple people looking around to confirm Christopher Nolan’s film was indeed the name called for the top prize. Once we all realized it was, everyone stood up and celebrated accordingly.
John Krasinski pulled wife Emily Blunt, who was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for the film, in for a kiss and a sweet moment before everyone made their way to the stage.
— Taryn Ryder reporting live from inside the Dolby Theatre
Nicole Darrah
Before moving to the final award of the night, Jimmy Kimmel took a moment to read a review of his performance as host tonight — from former President Donald Trump.
Kimmel read Trump's Truth Social post aloud:
"Has there EVER been a WORSE HOST than Jimmy Kimmel at The Oscars. His opening was that of a less than average person trying too hard to be something which he is not, and never can be. Get rid of Kimmel and perhaps replace him with another washed up, but cheap, ABC "talent,” George Slopanopoulos. He would make everybody on stage look bigger, stronger, and more glamorous. Also a really bad politically correct show tonight, and for years - Disjointed, boring, and very unfair. Why don’t they just give the Oscars to those that deserve them. Maybe that way their audience and TV ratings will come back from the depths. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!"
"Isn't it past your jail time?" Kimmel shot back at Trump, who faces 91 criminal offenses in four criminal cases.
Kelsey Weekman
Emma Stone won her second Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of Bella Baxter in Poor Things.
In her speech, she thanked the other women nominated in her category, as well as the cast and crew of the film.
"The best part of making movies is all of us together," she said.
Stone also thanked her family, with a special mention of her daughter, "who is going to be 3 in three days, and has turned our lives technicolor," she said. "I love you bigger than the whole sky."
As she left the stage, Stone asked the audience not to look at the back of her dress, as it was broken. She joked that it must've happened during Ryan Gosling's performance of "I'm Just Ken."
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Poor Things
American Fiction
The Holdovers
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Anatomy of a Fall
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Lily Gladstone — Killers of the Flower Moon
Carey Mulligan — Maestro
Sandra Hüller — Anatomy of a Fall
Annette Bening — Nyad
Emma Stone — Poor Things
Kelsey Weekman
Cillian Murphy predictably won the Oscar for Best Actor for playing J. Robert Oppenheimer in the movie Oppenheimer. It's his first Academy Award.
"We made a film about the man who created the atomic bomb, and for better or worse, we're all living in Oppenheimer's world," Murphy said. "So I would like to dedicate this to the peacemakers everywhere."
He also said he was a "very proud Irishman standing here tonight."
Taryn Ryder
There’s a reason why this presenting format was a crowd pleaser in 2009.
Nicolas Cage had the theater laughing out loud as he toasted nominee Paul Giamatti and quipped that he, too, would give up his sight for a role as Giamatti did during The Holdovers. The actor wore a contact to give himself a lazy eye.
— Taryn Ryder reporting live from inside the Dolby Theatre
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Dylan Stableford
Jonathan Glazer — The Zone of Interest
Yorgos Lanthimos — Poor Things
Christopher Nolan — Oppenheimer
Martin Scorsese — Killers of the Flower Moon
Justine Triet — Anatomy of a Fall
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Bradley Cooper — Maestro
Cillian Murphy — Oppenheimer
Colman Domingo — Rustin
Paul Giamatti — The Holdovers
Jeffrey Wright — American Fiction
Kelsey Weekman
Ryan Gosling might have lost the award for Best Supporting Actor, but he stole the show with his performance of "I'm Just Ken" from Barbie.
Accompanied to start on guitar by producer and writer Mark Ronson, Gosling belted out the iconic song. He wore a pink suit and gloves in what appeared to be an homage to the 1953 Marilyn Monroe classic Gentleman Prefer Blondes.
Actors who played other versions of Ken in Barbie, including Simu Liu and Kingsley Ben-Adir, joined Gosling on stage. An army of other Kens performed choreography alongside them. At one point, Slash appeared for a guitar moment.
Toward the end, he passed the mic to Barbie director Greta Gerwig as well as co-stars America Ferrera and Margot Robbie for a sing-along.
Dylan Stableford
“What Was I Made For?” — Barbie
“The Fire Inside” — Flamin’ Hot
“I’m Just Ken” — Barbie
“It Never Went Away” — American Symphony
“Wahzhazhe (A Song for My People)” — Killers of the Flower Moon
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Taryn Ryder
The fact practically everyone rushed to their seats from the lobby bar during the commercial break that teased Gosling’s “I’m Just Ken” performance says it all — and it was so worth it.
A standout moment of the show was when Gosling took the stage alongside his fellow Kens. The crowd was on its feet almost immediately, and then when Slash was a surprise performer, it elevated the Kenergy.
There wasn’t a person in the room without a smile and who wasn't singing along to the words at the end thanks to the lyrics flashing onscreen. The theater is buzzing.
— Taryn Ryder reporting live from inside the Dolby Theatre
Dylan Stableford
Ludwig Göransson — Oppenheimer
Jerskin Fendrix — Poor Things
Robbie Robertson — Killers of the Flower Moon
Mica Levi — The Zone of Interest
Daniel Pemberton — Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Joe Hisaishi — The Boy and the Heron
Dylan Stableford
Here's the up-to-the-minute tally:
Poor Things 3 (Makeup & Hairstyling, Production, Costume Design)
Oppenheimer 3 (Robert Downey Jr., Supporting Actor, Film Editing, Cinematography)
The Zone of Interest 2 (Sound, International Feature)
The Holdovers (Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Supporting Actress)
War Is Over (Animated Short)
The Boy and the Heron (Animated Feature)
Anatomy of a Fall (Original Screenplay)
American Fiction(Adapted Screenplay)
Godzilla Minus One (Visual Effects)
The Last Repair Shop (Documentary Short)
20 Days in Mariupol(Documentary Feature)
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (Live Action Short)
Kelsey Weekman
Mstyslav Chernov, a Pulitzer-winning journalist and director of Best Documentary Feature winner 20 Days in Mariupol, delivered a powerful acceptance speech. The film follows a team of Associated Press journalists who documented the horrors of war in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol as Russia invaded.
"I wish I would have never made this film," he said. "I wish to be able to exchange this [for] Russia never attacking Ukraine, never occupying our cities."
Chernov said he hoped the film would "set the record straight" so that "truth will prevail," and that the people of the city of Mariupol who gave their lives "will never be forgotten."
"Cinema forms memories, and memories form history," he added. “Thanks to Ukraine.”
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The Creator
Maestro
Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One
Oppenheimer
The Zone of Interest
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The Kenergy is building.
Barbie star Simu Liu told the audience to get out their phones and then turn the flashlight on for a sing-along moment during Ryan Gosling's first-ever live performance of "I’m Just Ken."
Liu also jokingly called out Cillian Murphy and told him to get into it.
— Taryn Ryder reporting live from inside the Dolby Theatre
WATCH: 'Barbie' stars contemplate the meaning of 'Kenergy.'
Dylan Stableford
The After
Invincible
Night of Fortune
Red, White and Blue
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
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El Conde
Killers of the Flower Moon
Maestro
Oppenheimer
Poor Things