Oscars 2024: Shock cameos, Zendaya and loads of Kenergy – all you want to find out about Hollywood’s greatest night time

It’s the most important night time within the movie calendar, filled with Hollywood glamour, countless celebrities, and naturally an entire haul of little gold males.

It’s been a 12 months of two halves – with months-long trade strikes adopted by the viral phenomenon that was Barbenheimer re-invigorating the film world.

Now, as we method the 96th Annual Academy Awards, all eyes are on the movies and stars who could possibly be taking house a prize. Here’s every thing you may anticipate from the night time.

When and the place?

The Oscars – showbiz’s greatest night time of the 12 months – takes place on the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles tonight.

The pink carpet kicks off at 7.30pm UK time adopted by the celebrity-packed ceremony from 11pm UK time.

The complete occasion shall be liveblogged right here at Sky News – so you may observe each second, from the run as much as the pink carpet, the celebrities arrival proper as much as the ceremony and into the Vanity Fair after get together.

The ceremony will air within the UK on ITV.

Is there a theme?

This 12 months, organisers say the present’s all about human connection, with a deal with emotion and creativity.

They have promised “something special and beautiful” in the course of the In Memoriam part, which is able to honour stars of the trade – each in entrance of and behind the digital camera – we’ve misplaced within the final 12 months.

They additionally hinted at some surprising friends on the night time, advising followers to look out for “reunions, acknowledgements of the past and surprise cameos”.

Who’s internet hosting?

The ceremony’s hosted for the fourth time by late-night, US discuss present host Jimmy Kimmel.

Academy Award bosses have described him as “relaxed and comfortable” within the function (as effectively he ought to be after three earlier outings). They additionally mentioned he will get concerned with the entire technique of the present, “working for months” and even serving to select presenters.

The 56-year-old beforehand hosted in 2017, 2018 and 2023 – so he ought to be prepped and prepared for any surprising occasions, having made it by 2017’s notorious La La Land and Moonlight greatest image announcement mix-up.

He wasn’t there to witness Will Smith’s equally notorious slapping of comic Chris Rock in 2022, with the present hosted by Amy Schumer, Regina Hall and Wanda Sykes that 12 months.

What movies are up for awards?

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

Of course, final summer season was actually a story of simply two movies – because of Oppenheimer and Barbie’s same-day launch the surprising portmanteau “Barbenheimer” grew to become a factor and offered a great addition to the summer season field workplace after months of trade strikes.

While Barbie received the field workplace battle with $1.4bn (£1.1bn) in international ticket gross sales, Oppenheimer is the clear chief for the very best image trophy.

The film in regards to the race to construct the atomic bomb has taken the highest prizes on the Golden Globes, Screen Actors Guild Awards and BAFTAs.

Could there be any upsets on the night time?

Could something really derail Oppenheimer from being the massive winner of the night time?

Christopher Nolan – who’s one in every of Britain’s most commercially profitable filmmakers – has by no means received an Oscar, regardless of being nominated for greatest image twice earlier than (for Inception and Dunkirk).

It’s positively unlikely, but when Martin Scorsese, who’s 81, pipped him to it for Killers Of A Flower Moon he’d make historical past because the oldest greatest director winner.

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In the very best actor race it is Oppenheimer star Cillian Murphy within the lead, with The Holdovers main actor Paul Giamatti additionally in with a (small) likelihood.

Neither have received this award earlier than, each give nice performances, and each are recognized for being all-round good guys. However, Murphy’s wins on the SAGS, Globes and BAFTAs imply he’ll in all probability get it.

Perhaps the one nail-biter of the night is in the very best actress class, the place it is Emma Stone versus Lily Gladstone.

Stone will in all probability take the prize on the night time, but when Gladstone pulls it out of the bag she’d grow to be the primary individual of Native American heritage to ever win an appearing Oscar.

Meanwhile, if Sandra Huller wins as a substitute, and he or she’s well-deserving after showing in two of the movies up for greatest image (Anatomy Of A Fall and Zone Of Interest), she can be the primary German-born actor to win the class in additional than 60 years.

In the very best supporting actress class, Da’Vine Joy Randolph is a shoo-in, whereas if the Oppenheimer attraction holds Robert Downey Jr will take greatest supporting actor (his closest competitors is Barbie’s Ryan Gosling).

Both Randolph and Downey Jr can be first-time Oscar winners.

And whereas Oppenheimer will virtually actually bag greatest image, ought to Anatomy Of A Fall, Zone Of Interest or Past Lives get the gong, it might mark solely the second time ever {that a} non-English language movie has received a feat first achieved by Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite in 2020.

Any snubs we should always find out about?

Barbie might have gotten eight nods, nevertheless it’s star – Margot Robbie – and director – Greta Gerwig – had been disregarded within the chilly when it got here to nominations in the very best actress and greatest director classes.

The omissions led some to assert it is a case of life imitating artwork, with the misogyny of the film mirrored within the trade snub.

Their Barbie co-star Gosling known as it “disappointing,” including that whereas he was “honoured” to be nominated for greatest supporting actor for “portraying a plastic doll named Ken, there is no Ken without Barbie, and there is no Barbie movie without Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie”.

Who’s presenting the awards?

Dune star Zendaya will be part of Academy Award-winner Al Pacino and three-time nominee Michelle Pfeiffer as presenters on the night time (not collectively).

And as custom dictates, final 12 months’s 4 appearing winners may also come again to current on the present: Brendan Fraser from The Whale, and Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan, and Jamie Lee Curtis from Everything Everywhere All At Once.

Other celebrities set to grace the Dolby stage embrace Bad 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 stay performances?

There most actually will. All 5 unique tune nominees shall be carried out on the present, which suggests we are able to stay up for Ryan Gosling singing energy ballad I’m Just Ken and Billie Eilish singing What Was I Made For, which she co-wrote along with her brother Finneas.

The different nominated songs embrace Diane Warren’s The Fire Inside, from Flamin’ Hot, which shall be carried out by Becky G, Jon Batiste and Dan Wilson’s It Never Went Away from American Symphony, and Scott George’s Wahzhazhe (A Song for My People) from Killers Of The Flower Moon.

Check again on the Sky News web site from round 4pm on Sunday night time to observe your complete occasion on the Oscars liveblog.