Oscars 2024: Red carpet, winners and highlights – follow live

Hello all and welcome to The Independent’s Oscars live weblog! My title is Tom Murray, I’m the US Culture News Editor and I’m right here reporting live from the winners’ room on the Dolby Theater the place all of the victors will come and communicate to the media after their large second. We’ll be bringing you all of the updates from the purple carpet and the ceremony so keep tuned as issues get underway!

Ahead of the present’s correct debut, Ross launched ITV’s protection of the evening alongside numerous in-studio company together with actors Richard Armitage and Fay Ripley. But his jokes went down like a lead balloon amongst viewers, with many taking to Twitter to complain about his materials.

Ross started the present by joking that the Oscars will this yr embody a “Best Hat” award, and that the award is believed to be “hotly contested between Oppenheimer and Napoleon”.

Later, he praised Cillian Murphy’s efficiency in Oppenheimer, including: “Or as I like to call the film, Nukey Blinders”.

On Twitter, viewers have been fast to specific their dismay at Ross’s comedy.

Christopher Nolan’s atomic bomb epic appears to be like more likely to clear up this night, with the British-American director, 53, doubtlessly incomes his first-ever Academy Award.

The Independent will probably be updating this rolling winners listing as and when the information is introduced live.

The British-American actor introduced her dad as her date to the Oscars. Speaking to E! on the purple carpet, Taylor-Joy’s father revealed she didn’t have any say on the matter.

“She promised it a long time ago,” he stated. “Finally, it’s happened. Here I am.”

Our Lifestyle group has been busy scouring the Oscars purple carpet for all one of the best appears to be like.

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Our author Louis Chilton makes his case for why Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer ought to win the most important prize of the evening.

As hundreds of pro-Palestine demonstrators swarm the streets outside the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles, Poor Things star Ramy Youssef tells Variety’s Marc Malkin: “We’re calling for an immediate, permanent ceasefire in Gaza. We’re calling for peace and lasting justice for the people of Palestine.”

“I think it’s a good story about empathy and being open to whoever, you never know who is going to change your life a little bit,” Giamatti advised E! on the purple carpet.

“And so I think that’s an important thing, being empathetic and being willing to give of yourself to other people is a good thing. Being selfless as much as you can.”

He additionally spoke about working with The Holdovers’ director Alexander Payne.

“The great thing about him is he doesn’t say very much, he says things like ‘faster, slower, louder, funnier’ – that’s what he does and that’s what is great about him, super simple.”

Sometimes (however undoubtedly not all the time) the Academy will get it very, very proper. Below, our tradition writers choose their private favourites…

As we made our method in direction of the Dolby Theater, the press shuttle drove previous a whole lot of protestors calling for a stop-fireplace in Gaza.

Demonstrators shouting “Free Palestine” spilled out onto Sunset Boulevard waving Palestinian flags as riot police patrolled the realm.

According to the Los Angeles Times, protestors shouted, “Let’s shut it down!” as they swarmed across the venue.

We needed to cross via three checkpoints to get in – safety is unquestionably tight tonight.