Oscars 2024 winners: Oppenheimer and Christopher Nolan cleared the path

Like lots of the motion pictures up for Oscars, this 12 months’s Academy Awards ran longer than most viewers in all probability thought of affordable. However prolonged because the ceremony was, it was marked by sufficient surprises to make it one one hell of a watch.

Although host Jimmy Kimmel made positive to get just a few good jabs in at many of the filmmakers up for Oscars, few of the celebs appeared all that phased as they took to the stage to ship acceptance speeches that spoke to how stiff this 12 months’s competitors was. Da’Vine Pleasure Randolph kicked off the evening profitable Finest Actress in a Supporting Position for her efficiency in The Holdovers — which was up for 5 awards whole. And whereas Hayao Miyazaki wasn’t there to simply accept his award, The Boy and the Heron took house an Oscar for Finest Animated Function. Out of the 5 awards director Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall was up for, it wound up taking house Finest Unique Screenplay, whereas author / director Wire Jefferson’s American Fiction snagged Finest Tailored Screenplay.

Following a shocking little bit of nudity from John Cena as he introduced Poor Issues’ win for Finest Costume Design, The Zone of Curiosity author / director Jonathan Glazer — who gained Finest Worldwide Function —  gave a pointed and highly effective speech concerning the throughline between his movie and the continued battle in Gaza. And whereas Robert Downey Jr.’s Finest Supporting Actor win for his Oppenheimer efficiency was a bit sudden, it got here as no shock because the Godzilla Minus One artistic staff carried their Godzilla motion figures up on stage to obtain awards for Finest Visible Results.

Because the evening went on, it turned clearer and clearer that the Academy actually fell in love with Poor Issues, which gained for Make-up and Hairstyling, Manufacturing Design, and Finest Actress — the second Oscar for Emma Stone, who was up towards Killers of the Flower Moon’s Lily Gladstone. And in a profoundly unsurprising flip of occasions, Oppenheimer got here out on high ultimately because it additionally snagged Oscars within the Cinematography, Unique Rating, Finest Actor, and Finest Director classes.

The total checklist of Oscar winners could be learn beneath: