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THE 96TH ACADEMY Awards have ended in success for Cillian Murphy, who brings home the Best Actor award at the first time of asking.
Oppenheimer made good on many of its nominations, with further wins for Christopher Nolan as Best Director, Robert Downey Jnr as Best Supporting Actor, Ludwig Goransson for Best Original Score, as well best cinematography and best film editing.
Perhaps the most surprising outcome of the evening was Emma Stone beating out Lily Gladstone to claim her second Best Actress award, this time for Poor Things, which scooped four accolades. Da’Vine Joy Randolph took home the award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in The Holdovers. Like Murphy, Randolph had already taken the same award at the Baftas and the Golden Globes.
Despite the summer’s Barbenheimer rivalry Barbie claimed just one award, winning best song for Billie Eilish’s What Was I Made For?
Billie Eilish and Finneas performing “What Was I Made For?” at the #Oscars
— Film Updates (@FilmUpdates) March 10, 2024
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Other films to pick up awards across the various categories included Zone of Interest, American Fiction, Anatomy of a Fall, and The Boy and the Heron.
In his opening monologue host Jimmy Kimmel, who last year joked that five Irish nominees increased the chances of violence breaking out onstage, this year returned to the theme by joking about the pronunciation of Cillian Murphy’s name.
Kimmel also used his opening monologue to make a reference to Robert Downey Jnr’s past drug addictions, with Downey’s reaction making it no clearer whether or not he was in on the joke.
Other notable moments across the evening included a speech by Zone of Interest director Jonathan Glazer. Reading from a prepared statement, Glazer told the Dolby Theatre: “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 the 7th in Israel or the ongoing attack on Gaza — all the victims of this dehumaniSation, how do we resist?”
Jonathan Glazer’s acceptance speech for Best International Film for ‘THE ZONE OF INTEREST’ at the #Oscars pic.twitter.com/XNsMv0HDib
— Film Updates (@FilmUpdates) March 11, 2024
Director of 20 Days in Mariupol Mstyslav Chernov, the winner of the Best Documentary Feature Award, similarly reflected on the state of war in his own country. In his acceptance speech, Chernov said: ”I wish to be able to exchange this for Russia never attacking Ukraine, never occupying our cities.
“I wish to give all the recognition to Russia not killing tens of thousands of my fellow Ukrainians. I wish for them to release all the hostages, all the soldiers who are protecting the land, all the civilians who are now in their jails.”
Here is the list of this year’s Academy Award winners in full.
Best Picture
Oppenheimer
Best Director
Christopher Nolan (Oppenheimer)
Best Actor
Cillian Murphy (Oppenheimer)
Best Actress
Emma Stone (Poor Things)
Best Supporting Actor
Robert Downey Jnr (Oppenheimer)
Best Supporting Actress
Da’Vine Joy Randolph (The Holdovers)
Best Original Screenplay
Anatomy of a Fall
Best Adapted Screenplay
American Fiction
Best Animated Feature
The Boy and the Heron
Best International Feature
Zone of Interest
Best Documentary Feature
20 Days in Mariupol
Best Documentary Short
The Last Repair Shop
Best Animated Short Film
War Is Over!
Best Original Score
Ludwig Goransson (Oppenheimer)
Best Original Song
What Was I Made For – Billie Eilish & Finneas O’Connell (Barbie)
Achievement in Sound
Zone of Interest
Best Production Design
Poor Things
Best Cinematography
Hoyte van Hoytema (Oppenheimer)
Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Poor Things
Best Costume Design
Poor Things
Best Film Editing
Jennifer Lame (Oppenheimer)
Best Visual Effects
Godzilla Minus One
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Good to see a reporter standing up to Obama et all – and his wish to curtail free journalism .
He should be supported .
Obama waging war on Journalists – the last thing US govt .wants is freedom of Press .
Aristotle tells us that tyrants hunt down those who oppose their power- and Obama is such a tyrant – as have most of US Presidents – and getting worse .
Who downvotes this…….it’s spot on.
If there’s no freedom of press, there’s no alternative opinion.
Without debate, without criticism, no Administration and no country can succeed — and no republic can survive. [...] And that is why our press was protected by the First Amendment — the only business in America specifically protected by the Constitution — not primarily to amuse and entertain, not to emphasize the trivial and the sentimental, not to simply “give the public what it wants” — but to inform, to arouse, to reflect, to state our dangers and our opportunities, to indicate our crises and our choices, to lead, mold, educate and sometimes even anger public opinion.
John F Kennedy
Passing flawed plans to Iran is the least bad thing they have been accused of
Great courage shown, fair play.
The New York Times is a paper which has colluded with the US Government numerous times in oder to appease it. They have previously withheld knowledge from the public on drone strikes at the request of the US Government. While objectivity can never be truly attained in newspapers it should be strived for.
A surprise heart attack our car crash on the way for this man !!
Writing long articles criticising the whistleblowers and then defending his right to keep his sources secret. His sources are no different to the whistleblowers. The standards and hypocrisy of some journalists is nauseating.
And the hypocrisy of the CIA?
While I don’t trust NYT generally, I’d certainly defend their right to resist a request (/threat) from the shameful, clandestine and murdurous CIA, which goes against their constitutionally enshrined journalistic privilege.
Could u give links to support your accusations ??
Was that question for me or Ryleigh, Jim? I’m presuming the latter.
Obviously, there are plenty of links to support my accusations! There are also admissions.
Yeah it’s been more or less proved they are Criminals
In
Action
for Rryleigh – actually your comment was not visible when I wrote
One ‘r’ only.
Naomi Wolff wrote and spoke about all of this a few years back.
I think she said that the final straw for her would be when the government started locking up journalists.
Obama is the toothy, smiling, affable version of his dipshit Cheney-front predecessor.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H20CoqyoqtI
The NY Times is an anti-Irish news paper
It is a well known organisation,with very very dodgy people working for it.The point I am making is that regardless of their activities exposing them via a secret source that could be an agent of a foreign agency engaged in a counter espionage mission. The journalist has neither the training or the expertise to handle the information via a public forum…the media. Obscure ,obfuscate and distort information in a logical and rational way is what counter intelligence does to obtain it’s goals.
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