Oscars 2024: Where to watch all the Best Picture nominations ahead of the big night

The annual Best Original Song cateogry is one of the most coveted trophies in music, and this year the competition is fierce.

Roisin O’Connor looks at the merits of each contender, from Ryan Gosling and Billie Eilish on the Barbie soundtrack, to Jon Batiste’s emotional ballad.

Findinf the right person to host the Oscars is a tricky thing – success as a comedian, as a TV presenter or as an actor in no way guarantees a successful turn at the ceremonies, and a bad host can tarnish the night, for viewers and for the Academy.

This year, late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel, who has presented twice before, will be hoping to nail the job.

Here, we run through the five best and five worst Academy Award hosts ever.

With the 2024 Oscars just a few days away, the Academy has teased major elements of the ceremony, including who will be presenting trophies.

As has been a tradition at the Oscars, the previous year’s winners of the major acting categories present the new victors with the trophy.

Find out which stars will be handing out awards this weekend:

In a missive sent around to Oscar nominees a few years ago, stars were instructed to “read the room” when delivering speeches at the Academy Awards. Translation: Get off the stage before the orchestra is forced to awkwardly play you out.

In 1943, Greer Garson set a Guinness World Record for Longest Oscars Acceptance Speech, with her address upon accepting her Best Actress award forMrs Miniver clocking in at five and a half minutes.

But who has delivered the shortest speeches in Oscars history? Find out here:

The Best Actor and Actress categories are always some of the most highly contentious at the Oscars, and this year is no different.

Will Cillian Murphy continue ride the wave of acclaim from his wins at SAG and BAFTA? Could Lily Gladstone be the first ever Native American recipient of the Best Actress gong?

Join Jacob Stolworthy, Annabel Nugent and Adam White as they make their predictions for who should – and who will – take home the gold at this year’s Oscars.

With the Golden Globes and Baftas behind us, we’ve turned our attention to who will take home the top prizes at this year’s Oscars.

Jonathan Glazer’s disturbing holocaust drama The Zone of Interest is dominating the foreign-language categories, but will it take home the Best Picture gong? Does Yorgos Lanthimos’s macabre comedy-horror Poor Things have enough steam to surpass the Oppenheimer behemoth?

Jacob Stolworthy, Annabel Nugent and Adam White predict which films will walk away winners at the 2024 Oscars.

For every serial winner like Daniel Day-Lewis or Frances McDormand, there’s a Willem Dafoe or Glenn Close: great actors who haven’t yet been given their due by the Academy.

Here’s a breakdown of all the living actors who have been nominated multiple times – but have never taken home an award.

Any belief that the Oscars award the right films, directors and performances has faded over the years.

While every ceremony has a smattering of correct decisions – trophies handed to the right people for the right films – more often than not, the pervading feeling is one of pessimism caused by a deluge of undeserving recipients.

The Oscars are a far cry from what they claim to be – a celebration of the previous year’s cinematic offerings. But his does not stop people from trawling the internet the following morning in the hope that maybe, just maybe, the winners list impresses rather than disappoints.

Here, we highlight 17 films that really should not have been awarded Oscars.

This year’s nominees were announced by Atlanta and Joker actor Zazie Beetz alongside Jack Quaid, who appeared in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer.

Leasing the pack are Oppenheimer, Poor Things, Killers of the Flower Moon and Barbie.

Hello, and welcome to The Independent’s coverage of this year’s Oscars!

Over the next few days, in the run-up to the event, we will be sharing all the details you need to know, as well as our commentary, features and musings on Oscar ceremonies, old and new.