Do you want to see what the world is really like? Yes.
I'd find the world a complicated place. Three. We imagine a future. Two. And our
imagining is horrifying us. One. Stop. There's gonna be some changes made.
I love people so much. It's hard for me to be a lover. I need you here.
People want to love you. You should let them love all of you. Humans only have one
ending. Ideas for forever. Imagine knowing that you could do something that
only you could do. The world. But remember this day.
What was your eyes? Now feel. You're so beautiful. I know. I was just thinking that I have
the world.
Well, it's very kind. Thank you. Thank you for that partial standing ovation.
And welcome to the 96th Oscars, everybody. Look at these beautiful human actors.
What an honor it is to be here. Thank you for having me back and congratulations to each and every one of you for making it
to the Academy Awards and for making it on time. The show, as you know, is starting an hour early this year. But don't worry, it will still end very, very late.
In fact, we're already five minutes over and I am not joking. I'm not gonna lie. It's gonna be a long night after what was a long year.
It was a hard year, but it was also a great year for movies. Despite the fact that everything stopped.
The people in this room somehow managed to come up with so many excellent films and so many memorable performances.
This night is full of enormous talent and untold potential. But so was Madam Webb, so who knows?
Are we off to a bumpy start? Okay. This is a meaningful occasion for most of you. I know that.
And I know that when you ask her something you dreamed about since you were a kid and now here we are, all dressed up, celebrating the best of the best beginning with the biggest movie of the year, Barbie.
Barbie was a monster hit. What an achievement to take a plastic doll. Nobody even liked anymore.
I mean, my wife, before this movie, you'd have had a better chance of getting my wife to buy our daughter a pack of marble reds than a Barbie doll.
Now Barbie is a feminist icon thanks to Greta Gerwig, who many believe deserve to be nominated for Best Director.
Hello there. I know you're clapping, but you're the ones who didn't vote for her, by the way. Don't act like you had nothing to do with this.
And I don't want to leave out Margot Robbie. Margot put this giant hit together.
She did. Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling are here tonight.
Look kids, it's Barbie and Ken sitting just near each other. Ryan, Margot, I want you to know that even if neither one of you wins the Oscar tonight, you both already won something much more important, the genetic lottery.
Ryan, you are so hot.
Let's go camping together and not tell our wives.
And then we have the other major box office winner this year.
Oppenheimer, directed by the great Christopher Nolan.
Also a very attractive man.
And this is a very... this is a fascinating person. Christopher Nolan doesn't have a smartphone, he doesn't use the email.
And he writes his scripts on a computer with no internet connection, which is a powerful way of saying, I will not allow my porn addiction to get in the way of my work.
Christopher is joined by his longtime collaborator, Killian Murphy, who is just wonderful.
Killian is... interesting fact about his name, it's pronounced Killian when he does drama, when he does comedy, it's Sillian.
And congratulations to Sillian's co-star Robert Downey Jr, who is...
This night is...
This is the highest point of Robert Downey Jr's long and illustrious career.
Well, one of the highest points.
But...
Robert has been a...
Was that two on the nose or is that a drug motion you made?
But look at him. I mean, look at this guy.
He's so handsome, so talented. He's won every award there is to win.
Is that an acceptance speech in your pocket or do you just have a very rectangular penis?
What a story. Not even 20 years ago. Things weren't going that great for Robert.
He played the villain, and correct me if I have this wrong, in a movie where Tim Allen turns into a dog, right?
And if you ever decide to remake that film, I have just the guy to play Tim Allen.
That is...
Where is he? Messi, who...
Even though he's a dog, may have given the performance of the year in anatomy of a fall.
Messi has an overdose scene. If you've seen it, you know, it is incredible.
Honestly, I haven't seen a French actor eat vomit like that since Gerard Despartout.
The second most nominated movie of the year is Poor Things, directed by Yorgos Lathamov.
There he is. Not only is Yorgos nominated for Best Director, his editor, his name is also Yorgos.
Yorgos Mavropseridas is nominated too. We have two Yorgos in the house tonight.
Will they both win? Yorgos is as good as mine.
Alright, let's get 20 seconds for room tone.
Emma Stone is an Austrian nominee for fifth time, right? For fifth time.
And she is Emma, you are...
You're so unbelievably great in poor things. Emma played an adult woman with the brain of a child.
Like the lady who gave the rebuttal to the State of the Union on Thursday night.
And you're just amazing. There are so many great movies that held audiences captive this year.
And I mean that literally, your movies were too long this year.
The average length of the top ten movies was two hours and 23 minutes. That's up 30 minutes from three years ago.
When I went to see Killers of the Flower Moon, I had my mail forwarded to the theater.
Killers of the Flower Moon is so long and the time it takes you to watch it,
you could drive to Oklahoma and solve the murders yourself.
The multi-tellative Bradley Cooper is here with us tonight.
He's got another best picture nominee with my show.
Bradley brought your mom to the show tonight. Hi, Mrs. Cooper. How are you?
You're doing good? Great. Bradley brings his mother to every award show, right?
He was dated last year at the Oscars. Not okay.
But the Tony's and the Soul Train Awards, etc., it's very sweet.
But I guess the question is, how many times can one bring his mom as his date before he is actually dating his mom?
Are you working on a movie about Freud right now and not telling us?
Here's some fun Oscar trivia.
The 48 years ago, Robert De Niro and Jody Foster were nominated for Taxi Driver,
and they are both nominated again tonight in 1976 with the year.
And that's pretty crazy.
In 1976, Jody Foster is young enough to be Robert De Niro's daughter.
Now she's 20 years too old to be his girlfriend.
I also want to congratulate Robert's close star, Lily Gladstone,
who is the first Native American ever to be nominated for Best Actress
and for killers in the Flower Moon.
And if you saw, you know, it was riveting.
And did you know that before she got this movie, Lily was ready to quit acting
and take a job at the Department of Agriculture Tracking Murder Horrits, right?
Yeah. And now she's nominated for an Oscar, which is so great for her,
but also makes me worried that no one's tracking these murder hornets.
Lily is an excellent company.
We have many first-time acting nominees tonight, including Emily Blunt, Jeffrey Wright,
Sterling K. Brown, America Ferreira, America Daniel Brooks,
Coleman Domingo, David Jordan Randolph, and Sandra Hooler.
For the first time ever, three foreign language films are up for Best Picture
and two of them star Sandra Hooler, which is...
Sandra, two movies. Sandra plays a woman on trial for murdering her husband
in an enemy of a fall and a Nazi housewife living next to Auschwitz
in the zone of interest. And while these are very heavy subjects
for American moviegoaters in Sandra's Native Germany, they're called rom-coms.
For the first time in more than two decades, we're adding a new category to the Oscars.
Not tonight, don't worry. In the future, they'll be adding an Oscar for achievement
and casting, which, yeah, you better applaud for that.
And that is great news for actors, because now not only will be able
to watch someone else win an Oscar for a part you didn't get,
you'll also be able to watch the person who didn't think you were right for it
when one, too. What a year we've had. It was a tough year.
Remember that kid from the Fable Mints? This is what he looks like now.
Very good to have you here, Stephen.
Stephen, are you nominated? Tonight we're here because you have season tickets.
Stephen and his wife Kate Kapsho donated a lot of money to help actors and writers
who were out of work over the summer. We were on strike for a long time, for 148 days.
For five months, this group of writers, actors, directors, the people
actually make the film said, we will not accept a deal, well, not the directors.
You guys folded immediately. But the rest of us said, we will not accept the deal
without protections against artificial intelligence. And as a result, actors
no longer have to worry about getting replaced by AI.
Thanks to this historic agreement, actors are now able to go back
to worrying about being replaced by younger, more attractive people.
And I think that's great. And writers, could AI have written
Transformers Rise of the Beast? Yes, the answer is yes.
We learned a lot while we're out on those picket lines.
The strike raised existential questions about our industry, like,
if a movie premieres at the Grove and there are no actors there to promote it,
does Mario Lopez make a sound?
And now that the strike is over, now that Fran Drescher has returned
to her volunteer work, reading loudly to the hearing impaired,
we can be proud of the fact that this long and difficult work stoppage
taught us that this very strange town of ours as pretentious
and superficial as it could be, at its heart is a union town.
It's not just a bunch of heavily botoxed, paley beamer smoothie drinking,
diabetes prescription abusing, gluten sensitive nipple babies with
perpetually shivering chihuahua. This is a coalition of strong,
hardworking, mentally tough American laborers, women and men who
would 100% for short die if we even had to touch the handle of a shovel.
But the reason we were able to make a deal is because of the people
who rallied beside us. So before we celebrate ourselves,
let's have a very well-deserved round of applause for the people who work
behind the scenes, the teamsters, the truck drivers, the lighting crews,
sound cameras, gaffers, grips. That's right.
All the people who refused to cross the picket lines, there they are.
If you're aware of sketches for the Oscars, take a bow.
Come on guys, take a bow. Take a bow. You deserve it.
Thank you for standing with us. And also, we want you to know that
in your upcoming Association, we will stand with you too.
And also, I'm going to make sure this show goes really long tonight,
so you get a ton of overtime. It's golden time, everybody.
Should we give out some Oscars? All right, we have surprises planned
for each of the acting categories tonight. Five surprises, in fact.
And we're going to kick it off with the Oscar for actress in a supporting role.
The Oscar goes to you.
Maristine Virgin.
Lupita Nyanga.
Jamie Lee.
Rita Marino.
Regina Kim.
So I am thrilled to be back on this stage to present this year's
Best Sporting Actress Oscar, and I am beyond proud to be able to talk
about one of my besties.
So in Niyad, Jody Foster brings a physical intensity,
coupled with deep concern and care as Bonnie Stoll,
to Diana Niyad's fierce best friend, motivator, and serious-ass kicker,
and speaking from personal experience, all of those qualities are very real about Jody as well.
There is no one you would rather have your back than the multi-talented
Jody Foster.
In the last moments of Oppenheimer, Emily Blunt's character,
Kitty Visering Oppenheimer, refuses to shake the offered hand of the man who betrayed her husband,
though it was years later her eyes had lost none of their fury.
If you saw only that extraordinary moment, you would know why Emily Blunt is nominated tonight.
Emily, I am so proud to be your friend,
and I am shaking my head in wonder at the beautiful heart-breaking and hell-bent depths
that you brave to play Kitty Oppenheimer.
When we meet Mary in the cafeteria in the holdovers,
we can feel the unspoken grief simmering under her surface.
Davey, my friend, your performance is tribute to those who have helped others heal
in spite of their own pain.
It's also tribute to your grandmother whose glasses you wore in the film,
what an honor to see the world through her eyes and yours.
America.
Your powerful Barbie monologue is perhaps the most talked about,
moment in the most talked about movie of the past year.
Your words and the passion with which you deliver them
about the most impossible standards.
Females must try to live up to, galvanized not only women,
but everyone with a pulse.
America, from one woman to another,
congratulations on your tour de force.
Danielle Brooks.
When you were 15 and saw the color purple on Broadway with your father,
a spark ignited in you.
And that spark brought you here today.
From making your Broadway debut ten years later as Sophia
to almost ten years after that,
giving this transcendent performance on the big screen.
We don't just see Sophia's strength,
but we see her vulnerability as well.
You, you have earned this full circle moment, my friend.
And the Oscar goes to,
Dave Vine.
This is the first Oscar win and nomination for Dave Vine, Georgia.
God is so good.
God is so good, you know.
I, um...
I didn't think I was supposed to be doing this as a career.
I started off as a singer.
And my mother said to me,
go across that street to that theater department,
there's something for you there.
And I thank my mother for doing that.
I thank you to all the people who have stepped in my path
and has been there for me, who has ushered me and guided me.
I am so grateful to all you beautiful people out here.
For for so long, I've always wanted to be different.
And now I realize I just need to be myself.
And I thank you.
I thank you for seeing me.
Ron Van Lou, I thank you when I was the only black girl in that class.
When you saw me and you told me I was enough and when I told you,
I don't see myself, you said that's fine.
We're going to forge our own path.
You're going to lay a trail for yourself.
I am so grateful to all the women who have been by my side,
Colin Camp, Barbara Broccoli, Tracy Brennan, Sarah Fargo.
I have to give a special shout out to my publicists.
And I know y'all said, don't say no but no publicists.
But you don't have a publicist.
Like I have a publicist.
You have been by my side to the entire thing.
And I am forever grateful.
I pray to God that I get to do this more than once.
I thank you for seeing me.
Have a blessed night.
Thank you so much.
Coming up next, Chris Hemsworth and Ania Taylor-Jorne.
It's the Oscar, live from the Dolby Theater at Ovation Hollywood.
Please, it's Christmas.
At least pretend to be a human being.
Do you think I want to be babysitting you?
I could have been spending the rest of my vacation reading mystery novels.
You don't tell a boy that's been left behind at Christmas
that you're aching to cut him loose.
I find the world a better and complicated place.
I think you and I have this in common.
You can do this.
You know, it's going to tell you the same thing.
And Bob Abley to you, good sir.
And by the way, congratulations to David and Joy Randolph.
That was about your Oscar.
Very sweet.
Beautiful speech.
You forgot to mention your publicist's name.
I think your publicist needs a publicist is what it is.
Yeah.
Okay.
You shouldn't have to pay for the rest of the year, at least.
Great story about Daveine.
Daveine had to learn how to smoke for her role in the holdovers.
Her director Alexander Payne mailed her boxes of fake cigarettes so she could practice.
But she didn't think the fake ones looked right, right?
So she started smoking real cigarettes.
And now she has an Oscar.
You see, kids, sometimes smoking is fine.
And by the way, I do want to say, for those of you who do not win an Oscar,
I need you to stick around after the show will be giving out the silver Oscars for second place.
After an all-new Abbott Elementary.
So please stay.
Our next awards are for animated feature and animated short.
Raise your hand if you let your kid fill out this part of the ballot.
Okay, good. It's not allowed.
Please welcome the God of Thunder and Princess Peach, Chris Hemsworth, and Anya Taylor Joy.
Thank you.
The very tall taste can be gone from pay me back.
That's all it is. A leap of faith.
Animated films, sometimes they pull on your heartstrings,
and other times they make you laugh and bring you joy.
This year's nominees for Best Animated Short come from countries across the globe,
creating films that make us think and feel deeply.
Here are the nominees.
Let her to a peg, Tal Cantor and Amit Ar-Jasalta.
95 cents is Jorisha Hass and Jared Hass.
Our uniform, your go name mocha dam.
Pasadone, Stephanie Clemer, and Mike Pierce.
War is over, inspired by the music of John and Yoke,
Dave Mullins and Barbara Bucker.
And the Oscar goes to War is over, inspired by the music of John.
This is the first Oscar win for first-time nominee Brad Wilker and two-time nominee Dave Mullins.
Okay, intimidating.
We want to thank the Academy for this incredible award.
John Lennon and Yoke Ono wrote a song that inspired us.
There's an anti-war message that we tried to honor with this film.
We want to thank our executive producer and creative partner, Sean Ono Limon,
who was amazing to work with.
Our team and electric league, we love you.
Thank you so much for your hard work and dedication.
I want to thank Thomas Newman for his incredible score.
And I want to thank my family who I love so much.
My kids Finola, my wife Lisa.
I love you, sweetie.
And mom, dad, we did it.
I want to really quickly, I want this guy to talk really quickly, Peter Jackson.
Thank you so much.
This film would not have happened without you.
What amazingly talented team at what affects the amazingly talented team at lights for entertainment.
Epic Games, Lisa's Ambrie, Roman Hudson watching at home.
I love you very much.
And mom and dad, I love you.
Thank you.
I just want to quickly say my mother turned 91 this February.
And today is Mother's Day in the UK.
So could everyone please say Happy Mother's Day, Yoke O.
Happy Mother's Day, Yoke O.
Here are the nominees for Best Animated Feature.
The boy in the heron.
Hi, I'm Miyazaki.
And Toshio Suzuki.
Elemental.
Peter Sone.
And Denise Ring.
Nomona.
Nick Bruno.
Troy Coyne.
Karen Ryan.
And Julie Zachary.
Robot Dreams.
Pablo Bearhead.
Ebong Pongi Sana.
Ignacio Starpe.
And Sandra Tapia Diaz.
Spider-Man across the spot of us.
Ken Farris.
Justin Kate Thompson.
Phil Ward.
Christopher Miller.
And Amy Pascal.
All right.
And the Oscar goes to the boy in the heron.
The boy in the heron's hair.
Miyazaki and Toshio Suzuki cannot be here with us tonight.
So we accept this Oscar on their behalf.
Congratulations.
Just ahead, Melissa McCarthy and Octavia Spencer.
Then later, Billie Eilish performs a nominated song,
Strong from Barbie.
It's the Oscars here on ABC.
We must experience everything, not just the good.
But degradation, horror, sadness.
This makes us whole better than we can know the world.
I only know the world.
The world is ours.
I am finding being alive, fascinating.
Those were all the parts of poor things were allowed to show on TV.
I mean, really the boy and the heron people couldn't make it.
I mean, I could see maybe the boy not showing up,
but the heron should be here.
All right.
Next Oscars are for Best Original and Adapted Screenplay,
which is actually a controversial category this year.
There's a lot of people want to know.
At what age do you tell a screenplay it was adapted?
Our next presenters have been best friends
for almost 30 years, and that all ends tonight.
Please welcome two-time Oscar nominee Melissa McCarthy
and Oscar winner Octavia Spencer.
Original screenplays and adapted screenplays are cut from the same cloth.
They're similar, yet they remain unique.
Yet each art form maintains its individual characteristics.
It's kind of like us, right?
I mean, we do our own things.
We also do our things together.
We're like the Chippendale of Chibbiz.
Chippendale.
Yeah, I don't see us as the like-repent pelvic thrust tights.
Well, speak for yourself, but...
What do you tell you? I said Chippendale.
You said Chippendale.
No, I'm saying Chippendale.
Chippendale, Chippendale, Chippendale.
Oh, because I thought you were saying Chippendale.
Chippendale, Chippendale.
Well, usually I am saying Chippendale, but not now,
because that would be weird.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Why don't we just read what the brilliant writers wrote for us?
Oh, oh, look.
There's a script on the thing.
And it has my name up there, look at it.
It's a yellow.
Yes.
To make a script really come to life,
the writer must not only capture the audience's hearts,
but simultaneously entertain and surprise.
Wow, but it's better when it's much better.
It's much better.
It's much better written.
It's much better written, guys.
Much better written.
Here are the nominees for Best Original Screenplay.
Anatomy of a Fall.
Screenplay by Justine Trae and Arthur O'Reilly.
You are not a victim.
Not at all.
Your generosity can see it's something,
and jeatya and demeanor.
The Holdovers, written by David Himsay.
I can't feel this class.
Oh, God, tell yourself short ones to coach.
I truly believe that you can.
My strobe, written by Brad Special Cooper and Josh Sieglin.
Glad to be in your parents.
Too much.
I love too much.
What can I say?
But I'm reading it in.
I'm reading it in.
May December, Screenplay by Sammie Birch.
Story by Sammie Birch, and Alex McKinnon.
Intacure people are very dangerous aren't they? I'm secure. Past lives, written by Selina Saute.
And the Oscar goes to Anatomy of a Fall.
Thank you so much. It will help me through my midlife crisis. I think this is a crazy year.
Anyway, this is Glamour tonight. Contrast slightly with what it started before.
We were stuck in a house with two kids. It was a lockdown and we hooked them up to cartoons to have peace.
And yeah, there is no line between work and diapers.
And then one came two other people, a woman and a man, the producers, Marien-Jloucini and David Tion.
And actually, that's when things got a little crazy. It was like mixed up ping-pong play by Nurek, French nerds, something.
And there was nothing between us or above us, only total independence and freedom.
And that's the only way we could make that film. So that's for that.
I want to thank all the cast of course Sandra, Suen Milo Antoine, all the cast for what you did on set.
You killed the script on set and that's what we did the best for directors, for directors.
Thank you so much. Thank you. It's such a no-no. Thank you.
Oh, it's me. It's you. Here are the nominees for Adapted Screenplay.
American fiction written for the screen by Corey Jefferson, based on the novel erasure by Percival Everett.
You're seeing a dead body ever become normal.
I don't know, I haven't seen it. Really?
I'm a plastic surgeon if I'm looking at a corpse and something went very awry.
The Zone of Interest, written by Jonathan Glazer, based on the novel by Martin Ames.
I can't believe it.
Thank you so much.
Thank you.
Oppenheimer, written for the screen by Christopher Norman, based on the book American Permitius,
the triumph and tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin.
Algebra is like sheet music. The important thing isn't can you read music?
It's can you hear it? Can you hear the music, Robert?
Yes, I can.
Barbie, written by Greta Gerwig and Normanda, based on Barbie by the town.
I'm just so tired of watching myself and every single other woman tie herself into knots
so that people will like us.
Four things screenplayed by Tony Mechner, based upon the novel by Alistair Gray.
It is your body better backster. You all still give free.
I generally charge 30 francs.
Well, that seems low.
And the Oscar goes to American Fiction.
This is the first Oscar win and second nomination this year for Ford Jefferson,
who is also nominated as part of the producing team of American Fiction.
My God, look at this. Thank you so much. Thank you so much.
It's really this means the world to me. Thank you so much to the Academy.
Thank you so much to everybody who worked on the film.
I've been talking a lot about how many people passed on this movie and discussing it.
And I worry that that sometimes sounds addictive.
And I don't want to be vindictive. I'm not a vindictive person anymore.
I've worked very hard to not be vindictive anymore.
And it's more a plea. It's a plea to acknowledge and recognize that there are so many people out there
who want the opportunity that I was given.
And this is a... I understand that this... I only have six seconds, please.
I understand that this is a risk of our industry.
I get it. But 200 million dollar movies are also a risk, you know.
And it doesn't always work out, but you take the risk anyway.
And instead of making one 200 million dollar movie, try making $20, $10 million movies.
Or $50, right? $54 million dollar movies.
Like, you can... there are so many people.
I just feel so much joy being here. I felt so much joy making this movie.
And I want other people to experience that joy.
And they are out there. I promise you.
The next Martin Scorsese is out there. The next Greta's out there.
Both Greta's... the next Christopher Nolan's out there. I promise you.
They just want a shot. And we can give them one.
And this has changed my life.
Thank you all who worked on this movie.
For trusting a 40-year-old black guy who's never directed anything before.
It has changed my life. Thank you so much.
I love you all. Thank you so much.
Performing the Oscar-nominated song, What Was I Made For From Barbie?
Here are Billy Eilish and Phineas O'Connor.
I love you all.
And it's not what he's made for.
What was I made for?
Because I...
I don't know how I feel.
But I want to try.
I don't know how to feel.
But someday I want it.
And someday I want it.
How to be happy.
Something I'm not.
But something I can't be.
Something I wait for.
Something I'm made for.
I'm David Allen Greer and I'm the announcer tonight.
Here's who's coming up next, Katherine O'Hara and Michael Keaton.
Then later, we find out who wins for best supporting actor.
Yes.
What a good story this is.
Childhood, sweet heart to reconnect 20 years later only to realize they were meant for each other.
If two strangers walk by each other in the street and the clothes accidentally brush,
it's because there have been 8,000 layers of union between them.
Here are Katherine O'Hara and Oscar nominee Michael Keaton.
We actors can't imagine a world without makeup and hair styling and production design.
No, no, no. The last thing we want is anyone knowing what we really look like or the squalor in which we actually live.
You know, almost every new job and immediate intimacy with the good people and they make up and hair trailer.
You need them and just discuss the characters looking before you know it.
They're plucking your nose hairs.
Or rubbing foundation into your cleavage.
Or spackling those 11 holes in your skull from a result of that teenage mishap of the nail gun.
Oh god, I could go on.
Here are the nominees for makeup and hair styling.
Golda, Karen Hartley-Thomas, Susie Battersby, and Ashra Kelly-Blood.
Maestro, Kazuhiro, K. Georgeau, and Laurie McCoy-Bell.
Oppenheimer, Luisa Abel.
Four things, Nadia Stacey, Mark Lugio, and Josh Weston.
Society of the snow, Anna Lopez-Pucina, David Marti, and Monse Rebe.
Okay, and the Oscar goes to...
Four things.
Nadia Stacey, Mark Lugio, and Josh Weston.
This is the first Oscar and nomination for Josh Weston.
The first win and second nomination for Nadia Stacey.
The third Oscar win and fifth nomination for Mark Lugio.
Oh my gosh.
Thank you to the Academy.
I can't believe I just said those words.
Thank you to your guests for making films like nobody else.
Thank you to Searchlight.
Thank you to my crew.
Ellen, Claire, and Grace are up there somewhere.
So Carolyn at home.
Thank you to Helenka for everything.
Thank you to...
I know you're not meant to say my agent, but she's amazing.
Sylvia, so thank you.
And Mum.
Oh, big thank you to Willem Duffo.
He made the working environment such a pleasure for myself and Bobbin Pritchard to work in.
So a big thanks.
A big thanks to my wife, Sophia and my children.
Isabella and Adelisa.
I don't have a publicist, but I'd love to thank all my crew in the UK.
Isabelle, where are you?
Yay!
My daughter, Isabelle.
My son Ethan.
Yes, she's still here.
It's like we've got a call back.
Here are the nominees for production design.
Farby, production design by Sarah Greenwood, set decoration by Katie Spencer.
Killers of the Flower Moon, production design by Jack Fist, set decoration by Adam Willis.
Napoleon, production design by Arthur Max, set decoration by Ellie Griff.
Up in Heimer, production design by Ruth DeYoung, set decoration by Claire Kaufman.
Poor things, production design by James Price and Shona Heath, set decoration by Azusa Mihalik.
And the winner is...
Poor thing.
This is the first Oscar win and nomination for James Price, Shona Heath and Siza Mihalik.
Wow, this is crazy.
I feel in the mood for love and custard tarts weirdly.
Anyway, we've got to thank Sir Cheyenne Eleman, who are just incredible to work with and along and support us and let us do mad crazy things.
And thanks to Cassie and Maddie Pahani, who thought this was a good idea that we collaborated.
Mum, happy Mother's Day. Dad, sis, nice one. Liz, Beth and Ava.
Zuzi, we miss you, sorry you can't be here, but we'll bring this home to you.
Adam and Lizzie, our backbone, our amazing crew and my partner in crime, Shona Heath, who is art department beller.
And thanks to our brilliant concepting team, plum, sour, Jonas, Antonio and Perry.
And thanks to my family, dog, mum, dad, Tim and everyone at Finna Street.
Please wrap it up, but we haven't talked.
Thank you all, Gus, all Emily and we're off now.
Thanks you all, Gus.
Tonight is the 50th anniversary of what used to be the craziest moment in Oscar history.
At the 46th Academy Awards in 1974, David Niven was in the middle of introducing Elizabeth Taylor,
when a nude man, a shrieker ran across the stage.
Can you imagine if a nude man ran across the stage today?
I said, can you imagine if a nude man ran across the stage today?
Wouldn't that be crazy?
It's Jimmy!
What? I can't come there. I do the thing.
Excuse me for a second.
What's going on? You're supposed to run across the stage.
I, uh, changed my mind. I don't want to do a shrieker bit.
You don't want to do the shrieker bit anymore. We're doing it.
Just don't feel right about it, man. It's an elegant event.
Honestly, you should feel ashamed right now for suggesting such a tasteless idea.
Uh, she's supposed to be funny.
The male body is not a joke.
Mine is?
No, it's not.
You wrestle naked. Why not?
Dude, I don't wrestle naked. I wrestle with George.
George, are worse than naked.
Are you really not going to do this?
Fine. Just give out the award, then. God.
Or worst.
Costumes.
They are so important.
Maybe the most important thing there is.
I can't open the envelope without the...
Oh, my God.
The nominees for Best Costume Design are...
Barbie. Costume Design by Jacqueline Durr.
Killers of the Flower Mew. Costume Design by Jacqueline West.
Napoleon. Costume Design by Janty Yates and Dave Crossman.
Oppenheimer. Costume Design by Ellen Maraschner.
Four things. Costume Design by Holly White.
There. You look beautiful.
And the Oscar goes to?
Four things. Holly White.
This is a first Oscar win and nomination for Holly White.
Hi, everyone. Thank you for this.
Thank you to the Academy.
Completely forgotten what to say.
Thank you to the Academy. Thank you to...
Sorry, this again. My fellow nominees.
It's an amazing privilege to be in the same room as you all.
You're the people who inspired me to be Costume Design in the first place.
I want...
Poor things was a very rare opportunity to be really free
and artistic and a creative process as a Costume designer.
Thank you, Yorgos, for that opportunity.
And for making such bold and brave and idiosyncratic work there you are.
Thank you to the cast. You were such a joy to work with.
You all took every idea I threw at you and just ran with it
and embraced it with such humour.
Thank you to Emma Stone for giving us Bella Baxter and bringing her into the world.
Thank you to my amazing Costume team.
We all met in Budapest. We'd never worked together before.
We were many Hungarians, a few Brit.
It was mid-pandemic. We had masks. We had translators.
It's very hard to describe the brief to everybody.
And somehow we all managed to make it work somehow.
Thank you to Tony McNamara for always supporting my work.
I really appreciate it. Thank you to such like pictures, element pictures
for making this all happen.
Thank you to my lovely family who have always supported me.
I've got to go. And Andrew who's over there who looks after the children
so that I can work. Thank you so much.
Coming up next, Bad Bunny and Wayne Johnson.
Then later, Emily Blunt and Ryan Gosling take this.
It's the Oscars, live from the Dolby Theater at Ovation Hollywood.
Oh, Sage.
The land had oil on it.
When this money started coming, we should have known it came with something else.
The most feels out here crooked.
Some do things right, most do bad.
I'm done nothing wrong in this world.
Have you told all the truth?
Please welcome to Wayne Johnson and Bad Bunny.
Quedarte del cine es un lenguaje universal que habla a los hilos que nos unen juntos.
Beautifully said. You see, he's not such a bad bunny. Happy Birthday, brother.
Thank you.
In a national film's enrich our cultural understanding by broadening our
perspectives of the world and each other.
Here are the nominees for International Feature Film.
From Italy, Il Capitano.
Directed by Matteo Garone.
From Japan, Perfect Days.
Directed by Vim Vendors.
From Spain, Society of the Snow.
Directed by J.A. Bayona.
From Germany, The Teacher's Lounge.
Directed by Ilcare Chattac.
From the United Kingdom, The Zone of Interest.
Directed by Jonathan Blaser.
And the Oskar goes to...
The Zone of Interest.
This is the third nomination for the United Kingdom.
The Zone of Interest is the ninth non-English language film to be nominated.
For both International Feature Film and Best Picture in the same world.
Thank you so much. I'm going to read. I'm afraid.
Thank you to Academy for this honor.
And to our partners, A24 Film for Access and the Polish Film Institute
to the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum for their trust and guidance
to my producers, actors, collaborators.
All our choices were made to reflect and confront us in the present.
Not to say, look what they did then, rather look what we do now.
Our film shows where dehumanization leads at its worst.
It shaped all of our past and present.
Right now, we stand here as men who refute their Jewishness
and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation which has led to conflict
for so many innocent people.
Whether the victims of October...
Whether the victims of October the 7th in Israel
or the ongoing attack on Gaza, all the victims of this two humanization.
How do we resist?
Alexandra Bistron-Kalazi-H-Check, the girl who glows in the film
as she did in life chose to.
I dedicate this to her memory and her resistance.
Thank you.
Please welcome two of tonight's Oscar nominees, Emily Blunt and Ryan Gaslam.
Oh, hello, Emily.
Wow. It's a frosty hello, didn't it?
Not at all.
I'm just happy that we can finally put this barbenheimer rivalry behind us.
That's right. That's right.
Here's Ken and Kitty, just leaving all that fodder in the dust.
Guys, right?
And the way this award season's turned out wasn't that much of a rivalry,
so just let it go!
So...
It's true.
You guys are doing very well.
You know, congratulations.
Thanks.
But you know, I think I kind of figured out why they call it barbenheimer
and they didn't call it Oppen Barbie.
Why?
Well, I think you guys are at the tail end of that,
because you were Rod and Barbie's co-tails all summer.
Thanks for Ken's explaining that to me.
All right, Mr. I need to paint my abs on to get nominated.
You don't see Robert Downey doing that!
You're kidding!
Robert Downey did not paint his abs on to me.
This is insane, Emily. This has got to stop.
We have to squash this.
We're here to celebrate the stunt community.
Massively, yes.
They've been such a crucial part of our industry since the beginning of cinema.
It's true.
It is true.
But they are truly the unsung heroes who risk life and limb for cinema.
Playback.
Three, two...
Chaplin, Lloyd, Keaton.
Cinema's first directors were all stunt men in their own right
and action was the lifeblood of their story.
The Academy's history runs deep with the incredible work
of the fearless artisans at the stunt community.
And every award season features their work in every genre.
From butch and Sundance to Black Panther from the depths of space
to the battlefields of Earth and beyond.
Stunt performers and the action they design continue to create
some of the most memorable moments in the history of cinema.
And they've been doing it from the start.
To the stunt performers and the stunt coordinators who help make movies magic,
we salute you.
Coming up, the award for supporting act.
Then, later, a reunion you won't want to miss.
I thought I might stay over tonight.
Did you what?
I'm actually not sure.
Oh, but it's Girl's Night.
Hi, Barbie!
Hi, Ken!
Watch me!
Barbie!
Hi!
I'm Weird Barbie.
I'm in the splits.
I have a funky haircut and I smell like basement.
I want to be part of the people that make meaning not the thing that's made.
Hi, everybody.
You guys all right?
You're hanging in?
Everybody okay?
Apparently, a lot of people watching at home are just...
just turning it on and they're upset because they thought the show started at five o'clock.
They usually does.
So, anyway, the producers and I just talked and we think the best thing to do is to start the show over again.
So, let's take it from the top, everybody.
Take it a one.
No, we're like an hour and a half into the show.
If this was an AMC theater, the movie would just be starting right now.
Our next category is for actor in a supporting role and we have a whole bunch of Oscar winners to support it.
Please welcome your best supporting actors.
And the Oscar goes to...
Sam Rockwell, Tim Robbins.
Three, four, one.
First off, folks, Maharshala Ali.
It is an honor for us to be here to pay tribute to the nominees for actor in a supporting role.
Sterling, I know yours has been a long journey to get to this night.
I can relate.
And I'm so so happy that you're finally being recognized by your peers.
Your performance and American fiction is extraordinary and transformative.
And I am in awe.
The magic you bring on screen, it's outmatched only by the metric of who you are as a person.
There are actors.
And then there are actors who don't drop character until the DVD commentary.
Talking about Robert Downey Jr.
That dude.
Susan's husband.
He could be Iron Man, he could be every man.
He always goes above and beyond 30 years ago.
And as Chaplin, he learned how to play the violin left-handed.
Who does that?
Seriously.
It's obnoxious.
And now an Oppenheimer, he steals scenes from Albert Einstein and the Atomic Bomb.
I love him.
You love him.
We couldn't be happier for his third Oscar nom for his amazing portrayal as Louis Strauss.
And the course of his brilliant career, Robert De Niro, has teamed with Martin Scorsese to bring us a wide range of uniquely co-op.
His latest performance in Killers of the Flower Moon delivers a different type of evil, not of a mobster or a psychotic loner, but of a businessman consumed by greed and his lust for power.
Mr. De Niro, in an Oscar-worthy performance, gives us...
should be winning.
Give us a reminder of the heart of darkness within our ancestral blood.
Congratulations to an acting legend.
It's not really new that certain male behavior looks like the inferiority complex of a plastic doll in a cardboard box.
But it's something easy to ridicule.
So why then do we admire Ryan Gosling's Ken so much?
Because Ryan's portrayal of Ken allows us to...
Yeah, I admit it, to connect.
Not because it's ridiculous, but because it is funny, intelligent, hugely entertaining, and ultimately poignant and deserving of empathy.
To experience all that is exactly what we go to the movies for.
Mark Ruffalo.
Over three decades you've captivated us with your versatility from drama, to comedy, to action.
You've defied categorization, and we wouldn't have it any other way.
Your appetite for challenges is unmatched, exemplified by your portrayal of Duncan Wetterbird in poor things,
which has rightfully earned you this nomination.
And beyond your talent, Mark, you're simply a wonderful human being.
Thank you.
And the Oscar goes to...
Robert Downing Jr!
This is the first Oscar win for Robert Downing Jr. into third nominees.
Thank you.
Thanks, Sam. Thanks, fellas. That's amazing. You only flubbed one line.
I'd like to thank my terrible childhood and the Academy in that order.
I'd like to thank my... I'm a veterinarian. I met wife Susan Downey over there.
She found me a snarling rescue pet, and you love me back to life.
That's why I'm here. Thank you.
Here's my little secret. I needed this job more than it needed me.
Chris knew it. Emma made sure that she surrounded me with one of the great cast and crews of all time, Emily,
Killian, Matt Damon, Blunt. It was fantastic.
And I stand here before you a better man because of it.
You know what we do is meaningful, and the stuff that we decide to make is important.
So back to my publicist. My agent, Philip Raskin, is here in Andrew Dunlap.
My done mother, Joy Feely. Thank you very much.
I'm going to thank my stylist, in case no one else does.
Thanks, Erica. Thank you very much.
And I'm just going to say this.
My entertainment lawyer, Tom Hansen, of 40 years, the half of which he spent trying to get me ensured
and bailing me out of the Huskow. Thanks, bro.
Avery Exit, India, this one's for you.
I was telling you, you just had a moment of a lifetime, and you came too with the Academy Museum in Los Angeles,
where you can give your own acceptance speech.
Immerse yourself in Oscar's history, and buy one of the kind Oscar artists, both in person or online.
I need you to be precise. Tell me everything.
The autopsy report is inconclusive.
No, no!
That's why there's an investigation for most suspicious deaths, because you were the only person there.
And of course, you're his wife.
Stop, stop. I did not kill him.
Please welcome, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Oscar nominee, Danny Gavito.
Nice, huh? Yeah, look at that. It's so beautiful.
Everybody. Yeah, yeah, very nice.
Well, Arnold and I are presenting tonight together for a very obvious reason.
We both tried to kill Batman.
Yeah, yeah. Well, we're going to try it.
I died as the penguin in Batman Returns.
That was Mr. Freeze in Batman and Robin.
How did Batman beat you?
Oh, he used my one weakness against me.
Heat?
Love.
He threw me on a window.
Yeah, really? Yeah, he's really Batman.
That's what Batman did.
Where is he?
He's here.
I hate him.
There he is. He's right here.
He's right here. Look.
You have a lot of nerve to show your face around here.
It's time to build a real beak breaker.
I'm going to see you after the governor's ball.
You better believe me.
How?
All right. And here are the nominees for achieving individual effects,
the artists who take us beyond the real world,
beyond the limitations of a movie set.
The creator, J. Cooper, Ian Cumbly, Andrew Roberts,
Emil Corgo.
Godzilla minus one, Takashi Namazaki,
Teoglo Shibuya, Masaki Takahashi,
and Tatsugi Nojima.
Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3,
Step on Serity, Alexi Vaiswa,
Guy Williams, and Theo Bayali.
Mission Impossible, dead reckoning part one.
Alex Wutta, Simone Coco,
Jeff Sutherland, and Neil Corbal.
Napoleon Charlie Henley,
Luke Ewan Martin Fenuet, Simone Coco,
and Neil Corbal.
That's it.
Hey, you're up.
And the Oscar goes to...
There we go. This is it.
Godzilla.
Yeah!
Takashi Nojima.
Yeah!
Shibuya.
This is the first Oscar win and nomination for the visual effects team
from Godzilla minus one.
My career begins 40 years ago
after the shock of seeing stars
and cross-encounters of mankind.
To someone, so far from Harute,
even the possibility of standing on this stage
seemed out of reach.
The moment we are nominated
we've heard like Rocky Barbour.
Welcome to the...
being as accursed by...
as...
because by our biggest rivals,
which was already Miyako.
But, shall we stand?
To...
To all the black artists outside...
outside Harute,
how you do this thing
and our proof that everyone has a chance.
Finally,
on the help of the cast and crew of Godzilla minus one,
I want to tell our producer Shujie Abe
who we both do soon.
We did it!
Thank you!
Thank you so much!
Yeah!
There you go!
Well, the next category are some very important people.
Yeah, very.
The film editors,
the architects of stories,
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Where was it directed?
It fixed all the screw-ups, right?
That's right.
So I did.
Here are the nominees for Achievement in Film Editing.
Anatomy of a Fall.
Coran Sonashell.
The Horde was Kevin Tent.
Killers of the Flower Moon.
Tell my spoon maker.
Oppenheimer, Jennifer Lane.
Four things.
Gorgos, Bubbles of Dickens.
Okay.
And the Oscar.
Hopefully you've announced it.
Go!
And she.
Oppenheimer.
Jennifer Lane.
Okay.
This is the first Oscar win and nomination for Jennifer Lane.
I love the movie Twins.
It's amazing.
So this has been an...
Sorry, I just have to take a deep breath.
Woo!
Okay.
Emma Thomas.
You amaze me.
You are a badass producer.
And you make these complicated, beautiful films.
And you're unflappable.
And I'm in all of you.
Chris Nolan.
You're okay, too.
I was terrified like I am right now.
When I first got hired to work with you, and you hired me,
and it felt like you took a huge risk on me,
but you never made me feel that way.
And you instilled so much confidence in me,
and I looked forward to going to work with you every day.
And it's so exciting to collaborate with you,
and I can't thank you enough.
My husband, Craig, I love you.
My two children, Tony, and Nick,
I love you so much.
God for God for which means good night.
I don't know.
Thank you.
Performing the Oscar-nominated song,
it never went away from American Symphony.
Please welcome John Batista.
Never went away.
Oh, the feeling's just the same.
Whoa.
I thought I was a wise lad,
but when you planned God less,
I thought I was hard-gotterty
to along the way.
Some a time adventure.
That's what we were meant for.
I need you and Bat's never going to change.
It never went away.
Every time I see your face,
it's never going away.
Barbies, America, Ferrera, and Kate McKinnon.
Here on The Oscars,
from the Dolby Theater at Ovation Hollywood.
Hello, I'm Lenny.
Leonardo Bernstein.
You think exactly the first great American conductor.
Is that what you have?
Oh, I have a lot of things.
I know exactly who you are.
It's... give it a go.
Oh, hey, let's have a round of applause for our Maestro tonight.
Ricky Minor and his Oscar.
Hello, everybody.
Well, everybody.
How are you?
Coleman, by the way, Coleman Domingo is the best actor nominee
for his work in the movie, Rustin,
and his next role,
I can't wait to see this,
playing Michael Jackson's father in the upcoming Viopic Michael,
which, and let me tell you something,
if you think Maestro has some good fake noses,
hang on to your Jerry Curls,
because you ain't seen nothing yet.
What do you got, Grandma? What are you doing there?
Mr. Coleman needed a drink.
Oh, he did? Oh, he needed a drink.
What are you drinking there?
Don Julio, and also, I got Tequila for everyone in the audience.
You brought... that's very considerate.
You brought Tequila for everyone in the audience?
Yeah, I think we should do a toast.
No, we don't have time for a toast, but that's very...
Yes, we do.
Everyone raised your glass to Mr. Coleman Flamingo.
Emily Blonde, John Kanchiski.
It's, yeah, it's Krasinski.
Krasinski.
Are you gonna be toasting everyone individually?
Yeah, I'm gonna do a toast with everybody.
Okay.
I love everyone here.
And I love you, Jimmy.
I love you too, Guillermo.
And I love Tequila.
Uh-huh, yeah.
And I love my beautiful wife, Mr. Charlie's Turn.
I love you.
You're my angel.
Salute everybody.
And another toast for America Forever and Kate McKinnon.
We are here to present the awards for Best Documentary Short
and Best Documentary Feature.
These awards honor the best in documentary filmmaking.
Films that give us real stories about real life,
with past winners like Woodstock, Free Solo,
and inconvenient truth.
Jurassic Park.
Jurassic World.
Jurassic World Dominion.
Kate, no.
No, those aren't documentaries.
What do you mean?
Kate, the dinosaurs weren't real.
Oh, America, not you too.
No.
No, I know the dinosaurs were real.
But in the movies, they were CGI.
There was a documentary about it.
My God, Dr. Spielberg, sir.
Is this true?
Wow.
But, um, Jeff Goldblum is real, right?
No.
And to whom have I been sending my tasteful nudes?
No.
You're welcome.
The nominees for Best Documentary Short are...
The ABCs of Book Banny, Sheila Nevins, and Trish Adlesick.
The Barber of Little Rock, John Hoffman, and Christine Turner.
Island in Between, S. Leo Chiang, and Jean Chen.
The Last Repair Shop, Ben Proudfoot, and Chris Bowles.
Nine-night and wide quote, Sean Wong, and Sam Davis.
And the Oscar goes to...
The Last Repair Shop, Ben Proudfoot, and Chris Bowles.
This is the second Oscar win and third nomination for Ben Proudfoot,
and the first win and second nomination for Chris Bowles.
Wow. Wow. Thank you so much to the Academy.
This is incredible. Thank you.
Thank you so much.
The Last Repair Shop is about the heroes in our schools,
who often go unsung, un thanked, and unseen.
Tonight you are sung, you are thanked, and you are seen.
Thank you all so much for what you do.
John Williams inspired me to become a composer.
He went to LA Public Schools.
I went to LA Public Schools.
This is Portia Brinker. She's 12 years old.
She's learned to play violin in LA Public Schools.
She looks amazing tonight.
LA is one of the last cities in America
to give public school students free and freely with paired instruments.
We need to fix that because music education isn't just about creating incredible musicians,
it's about creating incredible humans.
We want to thank...
Thank you.
We want to thank Searchlight, LA Times, Breakwater Studios,
et al studios, every human who poured their heart into this film.
I want to thank my mom and dad, and also to my wife, Brianna and our daughter Coda.
I love you. I love you. I love you.
Thank you.
And now here are the nominees for Best Documentary Feature.
Bobby Wine, the people's president, Moses Guayo, Christopher Sharp, and John Baxek.
The eternal memory, Maita Alberti.
Four daughters, counter-Venhania and Nandim Shekrua.
To kill a tiger, Nisha Kahooja, Cornelia Princhipay, and David Oppenheim.
Twenty days in Mario Polk.
Mr. Slough Churnoff, Michelle Meisner, and Rainier and Sidhram.
And the Oscar goes to...
Twenty days in Marifold.
This is the first Oscar win and combination for Ms. Slough Churnoff, Michelle Meisner, and Rainier and Sidhram.
Thank you, AP, Frontline and GBH.
Hip-Gainey, Vasilisa, Michelle Rainier, Daro.
Thank you for making this film with me. Thank you for helping me in this journey.
This is the first Oscar in the Ukrainian history.
And I'm honored. I'm honored.
But probably I will be the first director on this stage who will say,
I wish I had never made this film.
I wish to be able to exchange this to Russia, never attacking Ukraine, never occupying our cities.
I wish to give all the recognition to Russia and not killing tens of thousands of my fellow Ukrainians.
I wish for them to release all the hostages, all the soldiers who are protecting their lands, all the civilians who are now in their jails.
But I cannot change the history. I cannot change the past.
But we all together, you, I'm on you, some of the most talented people in the world.
We can make sure that the history record is set straight.
And that the truth will prevail.
And that the people of Mariupol and those who give in their lives will never be forgotten.
Because cinema forms memories and memories form history.
So thank you all. And thank you all. Thanks to Ukraine.
Slovo, Ukraine.
Just ahead, Zendaya.
Then later, Brian Gosling, with the I'm just 10 performers.
Juvenly.
Please welcome Zendaya.
A cinematographer is an interpreter. They take a vision and translate it into the language of film.
The language they speak is aesthetic, but the stories they tell are visceral.
Cinematographers direct our gaze where the story demands, and our imaginations pursue where their visual road map leads us.
Here are the nominees for achievement in cinematography.
Elkonday, Edward Lockman.
Killers of the flower moon, Rodrigo Prieta.
Maestro Matthew Libertic.
Oppenheimer.
Hoytav and Hoytama.
Four things, Robbie Ryan.
And the Oscar goes to...
Oppenheimer. Hoytav and Hoytama.
This is the first Oscar win and second nomination for Hoytav and Hoytama.
Who is previously nominated for Duncan.
Oh, silly.
To all aspiring filmmakers out there, I would like to say, please try shooting that incredible new hip thing called Selenoid.
It's much easier than you think, and it makes things look so much better.
Thank you to the Academy.
A big thank you to my whole crew led by Keith Davis, Adam Chambers, and Carl Carden.
Thank you, Chris Nolan.
Thank you, Emma Thomas.
You're by far the best thing that could have happened to my career, obviously.
This wouldn't have existed without you.
Thank you, Universal.
Thank you to my wife and daughter, Mia and Bonnie, for keeping me sane and anchored through this wacky circus called Filmmaking.
Thank you, Alndgale, for the candy apples.
Thank you.
Please welcome from the New South and the East Array.
Thank you.
There's genius in the way short films strip down stories to their most fundamental elements.
Which is exactly what we're going to do with this presenter copy.
Keep it short.
Here are the nominees for Best Live Action Short.
The After, Meeson Harryman and Nikki Benton.
Invincible, Vincent Renee Lordy and Samuel Karen.
Knight of Fortune, Lesa, Lusca, North, and Christian, Northland.
Red, White, and Blue, Nazarine, Chowgry, and Sarah McFarley.
The wonderful story of Henry Sugar, Wes Anderson, and Stephen Rales.
And the Oscar goes to the wonderful story of Henry Sugar, Wes Anderson, and Stephen Rales.
Wes could not be here tonight.
We accept the award on his bet.
Oh well.
Hey, congratulations, Wes. We knew you could make them long.
We're never getting this.
Thank you so much.
Beautiful.
Performing the Oscar-nominated song, The Fire Inside by Diane Warren.
From the movie Flaming Hot.
Here is Becky G.
The Fire Inside by Diane Warren.
John Mulaney is next.
And then later, Barbie's Ryan Gosling performs.
And keep watching to find out who wins the Oscar for Best Actor.
Mark, your books are good.
But they're not popular.
They want a black book.
Yosherande, girl, you be pregnant again.
I just want to rub their noses in there.
I actually read one of your books.
So you are the one.
We believe Mr. Lee has written a bus seller.
It's a joke.
The most lucrative joke you've ever told.
It is very...
Black?
Yes.
I'm happy you said it and not me.
I strategically switched jackets to make it impossible for them to edit me out of the show.
Congratulations to Wes Anderson on his first Oscar.
I feel like I should mention Wes couldn't be here tonight.
He's at home building a diorama made of quarter Royce.
But we wish him the best.
Our next presenter is not a legendary movie star.
But he does talk like he should be scolding Rita Hayworth for her insolence.
You'll see what I mean.
Here to present the Oscar for Best Sound.
What are the funniest and loudest people I know?
Please welcome John Mulaney!
Now the Oscar for Achievement in Sound.
You know for years movies didn't have sound and then they figured it out.
Some people say that the silent era was the golden era of film.
These people are difficult and insane.
With that sound we wouldn't have been able to hear such classic lines as you're gonna need a bigger boat.
I'll have what she's having.
And he was in the Amazon with my mother when she was researching spiders just before she died.
Or what about that moment in field of dreams when we hear if you build it he will come.
And then Costner does it.
He builds a baseball field.
I guess he doesn't build it.
He mose down corn and then there is a field.
And then he's like, I'm gonna watch Ghost Play Baseball.
And the bank is like, you wanna pay your mortgage?
And he's like, nah, I'm gonna watch Ghost Play Baseball.
And then he finds James Earl Jones who wrote the boat rocker,
which I thought was a real book deep into my twenties.
And he's like, people will come, right?
He's the only one with a financial plan.
But what's weird is Timothy Busfield pushes little Gabby Hoffman off the bleachers
and she falls down and she's unconscious.
Then Bert Lancaster is Moonlight Graham.
And he comes up and he pats around the back a couple times.
And he's like, hot dogs stuck in a throat.
And then he can't go back in the game.
Because I guess there's a rule in Ghost Baseball that if you leave the field at any point
to become an elderly ghost and do the Heimlich maneuver,
you can't return to the field.
I love field of dreams.
That should win best picture.
Though they'll probably go with one of this years.
Here are the nominees for achievement and sound.
And the Oscar goes to the zone of interest.
Taren Willers, Johnny Burns.
This is the first Oscar win in nomination for Taren Willers and Johnny Burns.
Wow, so amazing to be standing here.
And such an extraordinary, thank you to the Academy for recognizing the art of sound and film.
Such an extraordinary year for sound and film.
Or you guys over there in sound.
And my mother wouldn't have understood this.
She always said, what do you mean you do the sound and film?
They sound right to me.
Who do we need to thank, Taren?
We need to thank everybody.
We need to thank the Academy for listening to our film.
Thank you Academy.
We need to thank A24.
And we need to thank Jonathan.
You taught me everything.
Thank you so much Jonathan.
And to Oscar Sophie and Kathy over there.
And to everyone at Wave Studios and everyone at A24.
Jimmy Ogden, Mateusz Stashek, Philippe Salima.
And Greta and Anya.
Thank you.
And Happy Mother's Day!
Happy Mother's Day!
It doesn't seem to matter what I do.
Always number two.
No one knows how hard I try.
Oh, I have feelings.
I can't explain.
Driving me insane.
Oh, my life has been so polite.
I'll sleep alone tonight.
I'm just kidding.
Anywhere else I'd be able to tell.
He's in my destiny to live and die.
A life of opportunity.
I'm just kidding.
Where I see the love she sees afraid.
What will it take for her to see the man behind the town.
And fight for me.
I want to know it's not too long to be the real thing.
I see a cry if I'm not happy.
When I'm in my dream, yeah.
It's my moment, finally here.
If I dream, yeah.
I have no dreamer.
Be a soul, be a modernity.
I'm just kidding.
Anywhere else I'd be able to tell.
He's in my destiny to live and die.
A life of opportunity.
I'm just kidding.
Where I see the love she sees afraid.
What will it take for her to see the man behind the town.
And fight for me.
I'm just kidding.
Anywhere else I'd be able to tell.
So hey, check me out.
Yeah, I'm just kidding.
I'm just kidding.
And fight for me.
I'm just kidding.
Where I see the love she sees afraid.
I'm just kidding.
Just ahead, Cynthia Arrival, and Ariana Grande.
And later, Steven Spielberg presents the Oscar for directing.
Followed by the Awards for Best Actor, Actress, and Best Picture.
Are we saying there's a chance that when we push that button, we destroy the world?
I think the rules don't apply to the Golden Boy.
Brilliant makes up for a lot.
The president needs to know what's next.
So next?
Maybe he thought fame could actually protect him.
I want you to fight.
Well, remember this day.
Look what I got off Ryan Gosling's body.
We'll start the bidding at $10,000.
Oh, Bradley Cooper's mother. Yes, you say...
No, this is going home with me. Sorry, ladies.
Here to present the Oscars for outstanding original score.
And song, please welcome Ariana Grande and two-time Oscar nominees.
Cynthia Arrival.
We're here to present the Oscar for original song and original score.
A great movie song can set the mood, reveal something about a character,
and help us tell a story.
And a great film score can even leave a handprint on our hearts forever.
It can ignite wonder and astonishment, make us feel sadness and longing,
and can even transport us to new worlds.
For somewhere over the rainbow where the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true.
Oh, how wickedly subtle of you.
I do try.
And now, here are the nominees for original score.
American Fiction by Laura Cartman.
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny by John Williams.
Pillars of the Flower Moon by Robbie Robertson.
Oppenheimer by Ludwig Gornson.
Poor things by just inventors.
And the Oscar goes to...
Oppenheimer.
This is the second Oscar win and third nomination for Ludwig Gornson.
It took home his first Oscar in this category for Black Panther.
Thank you, Christopher Nolan and Matt Thomas for inviting me on this incredible world.
Christopher Nolan is your idea to use the violin in the score.
And it allowed me to work and collaborate with my wonderful wife and acclaimed violinist, Suena Gornson.
We had... we were recording a night and we were rushing to go home and put our kids Apollo and Romeo down to bed.
But the result of that was amazing and it really set a really nice tone for the film of that performance.
Teresa Stanislaw, Jake Brown, Chris Vogel, Anthony Parker, Lisa Park.
Thank you for making the music sound great.
And to my parents up there, thank you for giving me guitars and drum machines instead of video games.
Thank you.
All night, you've seen performances of this year's nominated songs.
And now it's time for the award.
And the Oscar goes to...
Billy Eilish and Sidney Eilish.
This is the second Oscar win and second nomination for Billy Eilish and Phineas O'Connor.
The siblings took home their first Oscar for the song No Time To Die.
I had a nightmare about this last night.
Thank you so much to the Academy.
I feel like I don't... I just didn't think this would happen.
I was not expecting this.
I feel so incredibly lucky and honored.
Thank you to Greta.
Where did you go?
I love you.
Thank you for this.
I'm grateful for this song and for this movie and the way that it made me feel.
And this goes out to everyone who was affected by the movie and how incredible it is.
And I want to thank my team and my parents.
I love you guys so much.
Thank you, Paul Walker.
Thank you, Ian on Crates.
Thank you, Mark and Andrew for making the song with us.
Thank you to everybody.
Yes, Margot of course, Lucky Chap, Tom.
Thank you to our parents forever and ever and ever.
Thank you to my best friends, David and Ratt for listening on my music.
Thank you to Claudia for listening on my music.
I think my best friends, Zoe, for playing Barbies with me, growing up and being by my side forever.
I want to thank my dance teachers growing up.
I want to thank my choir teachers, Miss Brigham.
Thanks for believing in me, Miss T.
You didn't like me but you were good at your job.
And thank you to the Academy.
Thank you Joe Mary.
I love you.
This past January, Mel Brooks, Carol Littleton and Angela Bassett.
Each received an honorary Oscar.
And Michelle Sacher received the Dean Herschult Humanitarian Awards at our annual Governors Awards.
To watch their inspiring speeches from the ceremony, scan the QR code on your screen.
Oh, Billy! Oh my god, congratulations!
Congratulations!
Coming up next on the Oscars, the biggest awards of the night, actor, actress and best picture.
I have something obvious here.
Don't you worry.
You don't have to worry.
If this happened, it means that we are not necessarily strong in this moment,
because they decided to kill me.
Everything that is needed for the duty of evil is without good people.
Do not pity the dead, pity the living, and above all, all those who live without love.
A real loser is somebody that so afraid of not winning, they don't even try.
There's only one perfect you, and that's the view of the sky over our heads.
All we ask for was a chance to prove ourselves a fair and impartial opportunity.
It's what you do to the people you say you love, that's what matters.
I don't have to see a daddy, I lived it.
Love means never having to say your song.
You are saying that I have never seen you with you,
but now I will live with you everywhere.
I will say that I have never seen you with you,
but now I will live with you everywhere.
I will say that I have never seen you with you,
but now I will live with you everywhere.
I will say that I have never seen you with you,
but now I will live with you everywhere.
But how the world turns, there's nobody at a chance to be somebody.
We're back at the Oscars, but some of us are back,
some of the others are getting up and hammered at the bar in the lobby,
but we've only got four awards left which shouldn't take long,
and yet it will.
But first, it's time to find out who will be named Best Actor
and what a lineup we've assembled to present.
Here with the Oscar for Best Actor, please welcome all five original members of NSYNC.
We're here to speak about the great town of this year's
When you see Jeffrey Wright in a film, you instantly know it's going to be good, because he's so good.
Jeffrey, in American fiction, you are funny, and furious, and flawed, and empathetic, and for the way that you elevate the craft, we're indebted to you.
The greats go above and beyond in their commitment to a role, just as Daniel DeLewis stating character is Lincoln.
This past year Paul Gianmatti was so committed that for the character to have a lazy eye, he wore a soft contact lens during the entire shoot, which made him blind in that eye while filming.
Would I have done that? Hell yes, but the point is you did do it Paul, and you were brilliant again.
A modern day Renaissance man. Nothing better describes you sir, Mr. Bradley Cooper.
Who wrote, directed, produced, and acted in his latest film, Maestro?
From the script, to the screen, Bradley takes a transformative journey into becoming Leonard Bernstein, bringing to life all the character, charisma, and complex brilliance of an American icon.
Killian Murphy. He accepted the leading role of Oppenheimer before even reading the script, which must have taken much courage, untrust, or simple hotspot, either way, the performance is masterful, indying his portrayal with layers of humanity,
whilst his character created something inhuman. It's riveting to watch.
My congratulations.
Common. When I first worked with you, I saw that you were a bold, brilliant, bound for greatness.
It's been exciting to watch you light up the screen over the years. Most recently, with your truly inspired portrayal of civil rights leader, Bired Rustin.
Common. Your genius is an actor, illuminates the genius of Angelic Trouble-Micker, who is very buried in the history books.
Thankfully, Justin is getting his due. As are you. Common Domingo.
And the Oscar goes, too. Killian Murphy.
This is the first Oscar win and nomination for Killian Murphy.
I'm a little overwhelmed. Thank you to the Academy.
Chris Nolan and Emma Thomas. It's been the wildest, most exhilarating, most creatively satisfying journey you've taken me on over the last 20 years.
I owe you more than I can say. Thank you so much. Every single crew member, every single cast member on Oppenheimer, you guys carried me through.
All my fellow nominees, I remain in awe of you guys truly. I want to thank my incredible team. Big shout out to Craig Banky, Brendan Murphy.
Brendan Murphy. Mary Murphy. Yvonne McGinnis, my partner in life and art. My two boys, Maliki and Aaron, who are sitting up there. I love you so much.
I'm a very proud Irishman standing here tonight, so...
You know, we made a film about the man who created the atomic bomb and, for better or for worse, we're all living in Oppenheimer's world.
So I would really like to dedicate this to the peacemakers everywhere.
There'll be no more.
Anniversary for its win for Best Picture. Please welcome the Academy Award Winning Director of Shiblu's List, Steven Steelberg.
At the very best, films can do more than entertain us. They can open our hearts to each other. They can show us ourselves and they can shine a light on where we've been and make us think about where we are going.
We are so fortunate that this has been a great and eclectic year for movies and a tribute to all the places. These five nominated directors have taken the entire world.
Christine Trier, Anatomy of a Fall.
Martin Scorsese, Killers of a Flower Man.
Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer.
Your goes, lengthy most four things. Jonathan Glazer, the zone of interest.
And the Oscar goes to Christopher Nolan Oppenheimer.
This is the first Oscar win and eighth nomination for Christopher Nolan.
He received his first nomination for his momentum screenplay.
There are so many people who've dragged me up here. Universal Studios, Donna Langley.
Thank you for seeing the potential in this.
I have so many people to thank. The most incredible cast, Matt Damon, Robert, Emily, Florence.
So many others all at the top of the game led by the incredible Killian Murphy.
A crew, some of whom have been rewarded tonight, I can't say enough about the incredible crew that we got together on this film.
Thank you to Chuck Roven for putting the book in my hands.
And thank you for those who have been there for me and believed in me, my whole career, Dan Michael, my brother Jonah, my family.
And the incredible Emma Thomas producer of all our films and all our children.
I love you. And to the Academy, just to say movies are just a little bit over a hundred years old.
I mean, imagine being there a hundred years into painting or theatre.
We don't know where this incredible journey is going from here.
But to know that you think that I'm a meaningful part of it means the world to me.
Thank you very much.
Next, the Oscars for Best Actress and Best Picture. Here on ABC.
And the Oscar goes to...
Charlie Field, Jackie Felorans.
Michelle Yeo.
Charlie Star. Jessica Land.
It's an honor for us to present to the award for actress in leading role.
The amazing Sandra Hula is nominated for her role in an Academy of Hall.
As a woman accused of killing her husband,
at the heart of this powerful performance,
is how Sandra maintains the certain ambiguity throughout,
as if her character is capable of committing that crime.
And here we are, Oscar Knight.
And I still don't know if she did it.
Curious as a puppy and hungry as a bear,
Emma Stone's brilliant bella is unhinged, uninhibited, and completely original.
With the fearlessness of a toddler, she awkwardly steps into the world,
awakening into her body and the sensations of being alive without boundaries.
It is an unforgettable and endearing character, created by an actor who is always surprising,
who refuses to be categorized and, like bella, is completely original.
Bravo.
Lily, you are the soul of killers of the flower moon.
Every second of your performance, as Molly Burkart,
is imbued with the plight, resilience, and spirit of the Osage people.
Your advocacy offset is a powerful display of dedication and leadership,
illuminating and helping us reconcile one of the darkest parts of our country's history.
Congratulations.
Annette, I've never been stung by a jellyfish,
but seeing you endure it multiple times made me feel like I had.
Watching you portray Diane, Diane Niet, is an intense sensory experience.
You can taste the saltwater, feel the sun burn, and relate to the relentless determination.
Your work as a beautiful illustration of how to navigate the waves and the ocean and in life.
In my stroke, Carrie Mulligan radiates as Leonard Bernstein's wife Felicia.
Shining of piercing light on their complicated, yet enduring love.
But this level of excellence is the norm for Carrie.
For in every role she takes on, she infuses it with a unique humanity.
Without this spectacular performance, Maestro would not have been the movie.
Carrie, it became Carrie, you are so deserving of this honor.
And the Oscar goes to... and Maestro.
This is for her, her leading performance in La La.
She is a second woman to be nominated for acting and best picture for the second.
Oh boy, my dress has broken.
I think it happened during I'm just Ken.
I'm pretty sure.
Oh boy, this is really overwhelming. Sorry, my voice is also a little gone, whatever.
The women on the stage, you are all incredible in the women in this category.
Sandra, Annette, Carrie, Lily, I share this with you.
I'm in all of you.
And it has been such an honor to do all of this together.
I hope we get to keep doing more together.
I don't know what I'm saying.
Oh my god, I'm totally okay.
The other night I was panicking, as you can kind of see, happens a lot.
That maybe something like this could happen, and Yorgos said to me,
please take yourself out of it.
And he was right, because it's not about me.
It's about a team that came together to make something greater than the sum of its parts.
And that is the best part about making movies.
It's all of us together, and I am so deeply honored to share this with every cast member,
with every crew member, with every single person who poured their love and their care
and their brilliance into the making of this film.
And Yorgos, thank you for the gift of a lifetime in Bella Baxter.
I am forever thankful for you.
Thank you for inviting all of us to be members of this team.
Thank you.
I know I have to wrap up, but I really just want to thank my family, my mom, my brother,
Spencer, my dad, my husband, Dave.
I love you so much, and most importantly, my daughter, who's going to be three in three days
and has turned our life's technicaler.
I love you bigger than the whole sky, my girl.
So thank you so much.
Don't look at the back of my dress.
Thank you.
Guys, make sure we tear up that envelope so there's no confusion with the best picture.
Hi, everyone.
I was just, you know, doing this show is not about me, and I appreciate you having me
is really about you and Emma and all these great actors and actresses and filmmakers,
but I was totally have like an extra minute, and I'm really proud of something.
I was wondering if I could share it with you.
I just got a review and...
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 Sloppy Nopoulos.
He would make everybody on stage look bigger, stronger, and more glamorous.
Blah, blah, blah. Make America great again.
See if you can guess which former president just posted that on Truthson.
Anyone? No?
Well, thank you, President Trump.
Thank you for watching. I'm surprised you're still... isn't it past your jail time?
It's focused on the important stuff, for sure.
Before we give out the final award, did anyone not get a chance to give a speech?
We do have some time if you have anything you want to say.
Just line up right here and we'll make sure everybody gets a chance to talk.
To present our final award of the evening and to commemorate the 50th anniversary
of the Godfather Part II, a man who created some of the most iconic characters in movie history.
He's an Oscar winner and a nine-time nominee and we are so glad he was able to find a sitter
so he could be here tonight.
With the award for Best Picture, please welcome Al Pacino.
Well, could I do some Shakespeare now?
No, I think is in order, right?
To be... No, I'm not going to do it. Oh, no, no, sorry.
Well, this is the time for the last award of the evening and it's my honor to present it.
Ten wonderful films were nominated but only one will take the award.
The award for Best Picture.
And I have to go to the envelope for that and I will.
Here it comes.
And Maria is the Oppenheimer.
Yes, yes, have a Thomas Charles Rogen.
What happened?
Oppenheimer has 13 nominations and has won seven Oscars tonight, four actor in a supporting role, film editing,
cinematography, original score, actor in a leading role, directing, and Best Picture.
Wow.
I think any of us who make movies know that you kind of dream of this moment, you know you do, right?
I could deny it but I have been dreaming about this moment for so long but it seemed so unlikely that it would ever actually happen.
And now I'm standing here and everything's kind of gone out of my head.
The reason this movie was the movie that it was was Chris Nolan.
He is singular, he is brilliant, and I'm so grateful to you.
But as I must say, this is the thing that's fantastic about our jobs is that it's about collaboration, it's about teamwork, and our team was just incredible on this movie.
So thank you to all of them, both cast and crew, thank you to Universal for supporting us.
And I want to thank Rich Gelfond at IMAX and everybody else at IMAX for believing in this movie when it maybe didn't make that much sense to do so.
Thank you to all the theatres as a movie goer and as a filmmaker.
That's why we do what we do, so thank you so much.
And to my children, Flora, Worry, Oliver, and Magnus, who's not here tonight, thank you.
And it's UK Mother's Day, so I'm thinking of my mum, who's no longer with us today.
And my mother-in-law, Christina, who's here with my dad, so thank you.
Oh, and thank you to the Academy, I'm so honored to be here.
I certainly want to thank the Academy, I want to thank Universal Pictures, Donna Langley, and the whole team there.
I, of course, want to thank my family and my wife, who always has my back, and is, as all my friends know, the secret weapon of my life.
And I also want to thank James Woods and David Wargo for trusting me to move this project forward.
They gave me the book, which I was fortunate enough to give to Chris and Emma.
And finally, I just want to say that I've had this amazing 20 plus year experience with Chris and Emma.
Five movies over 20 years, and it's been one of the most exhilarating experiences I've ever had.
There are a fantastic team, and just to be part of making movies with them has been completely thrilling.
So thank you so much.
Congratulations to Oppenheimer.
If only there was some way for Christopher Nolan to text his family to tell him the good news.
Well, that's it for our show. I want to thank the Academy for having me.
I want to thank our very hardworking producers, Raj Kapoor, Kaden Malan, and Molly McNierney.
Thanks to our great announcer, David Allen.
Dear Greer, our band leader, Ricky Minor, our band, our director, Hamish Hamilton, and the whole Oscars crew.
Stay up for a new Abbott Elementary, and join me on my show tomorrow with Dwayne Johnson, Justin Timberlake, and Robert De Niro.
Thanks for watching the 96th Oscars. Good night!
All members of the Academy who are eligible are invited to vote their nominations for Best Picture.
In most other categories, the nominations are decided by a vote of the members working on that specific category.
Then the entire membership chooses from those nominations the recipients of the Oscars.
And finally, the results of all the secret voting are known only to the independent accounting firm
of Price Waterhouse Coopers until the sealed envelopes are opened on the air.