Why are stars wearing a red button at the Oscars?

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Several of the stars in attendance at the 2024 Oscars ceremony had been seen wearing pins in help of a ceasefire in Gaza.

Outside the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, the place annual awards ceremony is being staged, tons of of protesters gathered to protest the ongoing violence in Palestine.

Inside the ceremony, a number of of the evening’s nominees, together with Selma director Ava DuVernay and Avengers actor Mark Ruffalo, in addition to Best Original Song nominees Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell, had been seen sporting pins in help of Artists4Ceasefire, an organisation calling for an finish to preventing and for humanitarian help to Palestinian civilians.

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The red pins characteristic a picture of an outstretched hand.

Speaking to Variety on the red carpet, Poor Things star Ramy Youssef stated: “We’re calling for an immediate, permanent ceasefire in Gaza. We’re calling for peace and lasting justice for the people of Palestine.”

Anatomy of a Fall actors Milo Machado Grenier and Swann Arlaud had been additionally seen wearing pins bearing the Palestine flag.

On Sunset Boulevard, riot police had been current as demonstrators gathered to protest, reportedly yelling “Free Palestine” and “Let’s shut it down” on the outskirts of the venue. The starting of the ceremony was delayed by round 5 minutes as a results of the protest.

An open letter signed by greater than 400 artists via the Artists4Ceacefire organisation was despatched to US president Joe Biden final 12 months. Among these lending their title to the letter had been Jessica Chastain, Quinta Brunson, Richard Gere, Cate Blanchett, Lupita Nyong’o, Mahershala Ali and Barbie nominee America Ferrera.

The letter, which is obtainable to learn on the organisation’s web site, reads: “We come together as artists and advocates, but most importantly as human beings witnessing the devastating loss of lives and unfolding horrors in Israel and Palestine.

“We ask that, as President of the United States, you and the US Congress call for an immediate de-escalation and ceasefire in Gaza and Israel before another life is lost. More than 30,000 people have been killed over the last 5 months, and over 69,000 injured – numbers that any person of conscience knows are catastrophic.”

This 12 months’s Oscars ceremony noticed the nuclear physicist biopic Oppenheimer go up towards movies together with Barbie, Killers of the Flower Moon, Anatomy of a Fall and Maestro for the movie trade’s most prestigious honours.