Oscars 2024 live: Ryan Gosling earns standing ovation with ‘I’m Just Ken’ performance

The Blockers actor and former wrestler was introduced by ceremony host Jimmy Kimmel in a skit that preceded the award presentation. Kimmel began by mentioning the fact that it had been 50 years since a streaker invaded the stage at the 46th Academy Awards ceremony in 1974.

“Can you imagine if a nude man ran across the stage today? Wouldn’t that be crazy?” Kimmel asked, while behind him, Cena peeked out from behind the set dressing.

The pair then bickered over whether or not they were going to go through with “the streaker bit”, as Cena feigned reluctance.

Eventually, however, he emerged from the wings of the stage, with only the winner’s envelope covering his privates from view. “Costumes are…so important,” he said.

Downey Jr has now won the Oscar, Golden Globe, Critics Choice, SAG and BAFTA for his performance as Lewis Strauss in Oppenheimer.

“My big secret is: I needed this job more than it needed me,” he told the Dolby Theater audience.

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For The Independent, author Thomas Harding met Höss’s daughter and discovered the terrifying truth about what really happened in that family home.

Randolph won the award for her role in the film as a grieving mother, while Giamatti was nominated for Best Actor for playing a curmudgeonly professor.

Backstage at the Oscars, a representative from Studio Ghibli shared a statement after Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron won Best Animated Feature.

“We would like to apologise that the director and the producer could not be here today. Please forgive them, they’re kind of up in the age bracket,” the representative said.

He went on to read a statement out from producer Toshio Suzuki: “We’re very honoured to receive the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. I would also like to give my thanks to those who were involved in the production of the film and those who worked to distribute the film worldwide.

“This film began with the retracting of the retirement statement that Miyazaki made. Following that, we spent 7 years making this film. It has been 10 years since Miyazaki’s previous film, The Wind Rises, during which time there has been dramatic changes in the filmmaking environment. This was a truly dramatic project to bring to fruition. I am very appreciative that the work that was created after overcoming these difficulties has been seen by so many people around the world.

“I am grateful to receive such an honour at my age.”

The notoriously private Barbie actor took his family to the awards ceremony on 10 March 2024. The actor walked down the red carpet alongside his mother, Donna Gosling, and sister, Mandi Gosling, and stepdad Valerio Attanasio.

Fans have criticised Jimmy Kimmel after the comedian cracked a joke about Robert Downey Jr’s past drug addiction in his opening monologue.

“This is the highest point of Robert Downey Jr’s career… well, one of the highest points,” the host joked.

When the Oscar nominee tapped his nose in recognition, Kimmel asked: “Was that too on the nose or a drug motion you made?” after which the actor, who some viewers say looked “annoyed” by the joke, gestured for Kimmel to move on from the gag.

However, it was Cord Jefferson, not Christopher Nolan, who took the award on the night for his sharp satire on Black stereotypes, American Fiction.

In her four-star review for The Independent, Clarisse Loughrey writes: “Jeffrey Wright earns his Oscar nomination within a minute of American Fiction. His wearied author and lecturer, Thelonious ‘Monk’ Ellison, has written out the N-word in reference to a famous Flannery O’Connor short story, and a white student voices her objection to it.

“Monk’s shoulders slump, his features crumble. You catch the millisecond he has to readjust himself, swallow down the truth, and offer his most courteous reply. ‘I got over it,’ Monk says. ‘I’m pretty sure you can, too.’”

Read the review in full here:

Justine Triet has accepted her first Oscar of the night for Best Original Screenplay. This means The Independent’s film editor Adam White is two-for-two on predictions.

“I sense this will be a face-off between Anatomy of a Fall and The Holdovers, two films that proved the industry is still interested in sharp, engrossing character studies. As for a winner? I feel like Anatomy of a Fall may have the edge.” Right you were, Adam!