2024 Oscars’ Biggest Moments, Snubs And Surprises
11.03.2024 - 02:51
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From Billie Eilish’s heartrending performance to John Cena’s beefcake cameo, the 96th Academy Awards served up some pretty terrific moments and more than a few surprises (welcome to the party, Slash! Where you at, Wes Anderson?).
Here were the highlights — and lowlights — from Sunday’s telecast on ABC.
Great Moment when members of Osage Nation walked the red carpet. Like the costumes we saw in Killers of the Flower Moon, their Indigenous attire was both extravagant and gorgeous.
Surprise The show started five minutes late because some attendees still hadn’t made it into the theater. Arrivals has been complicated by the security measures meant to keep pro-Palestinian protesters at a distance, and that led to “hundreds of people” getting stuck outside the entrance.
Snub It took all of four minutes before host Jimmy Kimmel addressed the elephant in the room by calling out how Greta Gerwig wasn’t nominated for Best Director for Barbie. When the clapping began, Kimmel quipped, “I know you are clapping but you are the ones who didn’t vote for her, by the way. Don’t act like you had nothing to do with this.”
Great Moment when Kimmel called out all of Oscars below-the-line workers to take the stage — a not so gentle reminder that they are currently negotiating their contract that’s up in June.
Surprise for many, no doubt, to learn that Sean Ono Lennon made an Oscar-winning animated short film. He used his time on stage to lead everyone in a big happy birthday for his mom, Yoko, who just turned 91.
Snub to Greta Gerwig, who lost to Cord Jefferson for adapted screenplay for American Fiction — ONLY because this could have been the way Academy voters made up for the fact they snubbed Gerwig for Best Director.
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