Michael Cieply: Oscar Sunday Is Okay, But Monday Is Much Better

The film Academy’s annual membership survey hit email in-boxes on Monday.

EXCLUSIVE: Justin Calen-Chenn, a staff writer on Netflix’s recent crime action series The Brothers Sun from creators Brad Falchuk and Byron Wu, has signed with M88 for management.

We’ve raised a cheer for the March 10 Oscar broadcast’s audience bump, up 4 percent, to 19.5 million viewers from 18.8 million a year ago. The total should stretch toward 21 million when digital viewers over seven days are finally added in. (Social media presence will also have grown.)

Eddington. The film has been described as a “contemporary western”, with little else know about its premise.

Ozempic and Wegovy are Hollywood’s drugs of choice — so did anyone use them in preparations for the 2024 Oscars? The Daily Mail spoke with Dr. Gary Motykie, a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon, about A-listers looking “slimmed down” at Sunday’s awards show more than in previous years. The speculation comes after Oprah Winfrey, 70, trimmed herself off WeightWatchers’ board of directors after admitting to using a prescription weight loss medication.

It’s not the near sweep that Oppenheimer had, but ABC certainly has something to celebrate out of last night’s Academy Awards.

The 2024 Oscars In Memoriam segment paid tribute to so many stars who have passed away in the last year, however, several noteworthy names wore omitted.

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce might’ve skipped the Oscars, but they still had fun behind the scenes of the iconic night!

“The Whale”Though critics were divided on Darren Aronofsky’s “The Whale,” Oscar voters agreed that Brendan Fraser’s performance as a 600 lb. English teacher was a standout. “King Richard”Few best actor winners had an evening as memorable as Will Smith’s.

Wes Anderson was awarded an Oscar yesterday for his short film, The Wonderful Story Of Henry Sugar, but was not present to accept the award.The 96th Academy Awards took place last night at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles. The ceremony was hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, and saw Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer triumph, taking home seven of the prestigious awards.Also securing an award was eight-time nominee Anderson, who won in the category of Best Live Action Short Film for his picture The Wonderful Story Of Henry Sugar.The film, which starred Benedict Cumberbatch, Dev Patel and Ben Kingsley among others, is about a man who possesses the intriguing ability to see through objects, helping him to predict the future and build his fortune through gambling.However, the Fantastic Mr. Fox and Isle Of Dogs creator was not at the ceremony to accept his award or make a speech.

Whether you opted for Oppenheimer or went bats for Barbie, chances are you've seen a movie you loved in the last year. Now they all go head-to-head in the 96th Academy Award - with titles such as Best Picture, Best Director and Best Song up for grabs.

As the 96th Academy Awards takes place tonight, there are several controversial moments that have made headlines over the years. Who could forget Will Smith slapping host Chris Rock or La La Land being mistakenly announced as the winner for Best Picture? As Bradley Cooper, Cillian Murphy, Emma Stone, Carey Mulligan and America Ferrera all hope to pick up a gong for their work in cinema over the past year, OK! takes a look back at the most shocking moments from the Oscars. Will Smith slaps Chris Rock In 2022, viewers were shocked when Will Smith went on stage and slapped Chris Rock.

at the 2024 Oscars, which took place at the Dolby Theatre in LA on Sunday.The “High School Musical” star strutted the red carpet before she took over hosting duties on ABC’s “Countdown to the Oscars: On the Red Carpet Live!” Hudgens, 35, donned a gorgeous black gown showing off her stomach while keeping her hair simple in a high ponytail that cascaded down her back. She and her baseball pro beau tied the knot during an ultra-private ceremony in Tulum, Mexico, in December.Several social media viewers were quick to express their shock. “Vanessa Hudgens is mother,” joked one account on X( formerly Twitter).

UPDATED with news that Ranjit will attend the Oscars as director Nisha Pahuja‘s guest. It’s a momentous weekend for To Kill a Tiger, the award-winning documentary directed by Nisha Pahuja.

Marc Malkin Senior Editor, Culture and Events Martin Scorsese can do a lot of things — just don’t ask him to dance. The 81-year-old filmmaker’s daughter Francesca says her dad has been open to do most anything in their wildly popular TikToks, but he’s not so keen on busting a move. “He refuses to do dances,” Francesca told me Wednesday at Vanity Fair and Instagram’s Young Hollywood pre-Oscars party at Bar Marmont.

You can tell it’s spring.

The Oscars are arguably the most prestigious awards show that an actor can be recognized at.

Things must be going well for Bradley Cooper and Gigi Hadid, because we might be seeing them together at Oscars events!

Jimmy Kimmel is hosting the Oscars this year for the fourth time. Other than Bob Hope (19 times), Billy Crystal (nine) and Johnny Carson (five), no solo host has done it more. (Whoopi did it 4 times as well.) But it is a good bet that among those hosts, no one has seen as many of the nominated films. Kimmel is a self-described movie fan, and as I learned from our conversation he not only spends weeks, months even, prepping his monologue, but he also might be one of the few in the room at the Dolby Theater who actually has seen everything. And I mean everything.

Clayton Davis Senior Awards Editor In a stunning cinematic universe where sand dunes rise like mountains and the fate of galaxies hangs in the balance, Denis Villeneuve‘s first voyage into the Frank Herbert’s “Dune” saga clinched six of its 10 Oscar nominations. Yet, in a twist as dramatic as Dr.