The Oscars marked 2024 in the best way as the awards made history this year.
But aside from taking home some spectacular awards, there were multiple moments that viewers couldn’t possibly forget anytime soon. From subtle digs to applauding dogs, they really pulled the boat out this year.
Celebrities lined up on the red carpet to show off their dazzling outfits and celebrate some of the biggest successes in Hollywood. While they all would’ve headed off to their respective parties afterwards, they had quite a memorable night beforehand.
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The Academy Awards ceremony was broadcast on ITV on Sunday night (March 10) and fans tuned in to watch the biggest awards show of the season. However, if you wanted to watch, you’d have needed to be awake way into the early hours of the morning.
So if you didn’t feel like you had the time – or energy – to spare, then we’ve pulled together some of the most unmissable bits from last night’s ceremony…
John Cena streaking
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John Cena strutting across The Oscars stage totally starkers wasn’t on anyone’s 2024 bingo cards.
The wrestler paraded his muscles across the stage during a skit with host Jimmy Kimmel. He covered his manhood with a card and walked across the stage with absolutely no shame.
His fellow A-listers were floored with Barbie co-star Margot Robbie gasping and throwing her hands to her mouth. He presented Best Costume Design in the process – while wearing absolutely none of his own.
Fans quickly rushed online with one user writing: “John Cena naked at the Oscars is not something I was expecting.” Another wrote: “Naked John Cena bit might be the greatest Oscar bit of all time.”
NSFW dig
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Emma Stone looked fuming after Jimmy Kimmel made a joke about her film Poor Things.
The host made a cheeky comment about the award-winning movie saying they couldn’t share the clips because they were “not safe for work”. The camera then panned to Emma – and fans thought she had a lot to say.
Viewers rushed to X to claim she thought they had called him a “p***k” for suggesting it was only about X-rated things. Another fan thought she had said “barely”, suggesting that it could have been shown on-screen.
Whatever Emma did say, she didn’t look thrilled with Kimmel.
Applauding pooch
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Anatomy of a Fall dog Messi left viewers at home absolutely bewildered after he appeared on screen.
While most TV fans love to see a rogue dog surprising them, Messi had viewers utterly bewildered as he started clapping on camera. The pooch was applauding Robert Downey Jr after his acceptance speech, and one A-lister was thrilled about it.
Ryan Gosling was thrilled and shouting: “A dog!” when they showed him clapping, with one viewer writing on X that it was the “most relatable a celebrity has been in years”.
Incest joke
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Jimmy Kimmel couldn’t help but troll members of the audience – and Bradley Cooper had a big’un.
The actor often brings his mum to awards shows with him to celebrate his success, and the host was quick to call him out on it. He said: “Bradley brings his mother to every award show, right?
“It’s very sweet, but I guess the question is – how many times can one bring his mum as his date before he is actually dating his mum?”
Luckily the dig didn’t seem to offend Cooper who, alongside his mum, slung his head back with laughter. It’s better to laugh than to walk on stage and whack someone when you’re not a fan of the joke…
‘Chaotic’ award
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Christopher Nolan’s flick Oppenheimer took the gong for the Best Picture at the 96th Oscars, but it was Al Pacino’s odd way of announcing the winner had everyone talking.
Al Pacino skipped mentioning the other movies in the running and went straight for the envelope, saying: “Best Picture…uh, I have to go to the envelope for that. And I will. Here it comes. And my eyes see Oppenheimer?” Emma Thomas and Nolan hopped on stage to grab the award and shared a touching thank you talk.
Wardrobe malfunction
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Emma took to the stage to accept her award for Best Actress following her performance in Poor Things.
However, things soon took an awkward turn after she was left desperately trying to fix her dress. She stated: “My dress is broken!” before adding: “I think it happened during [Ryan Gosling’s performance of] ‘I’m Just Ken.'”
She then showed off the back of her dress but it seemed she had things back in working order and was happy to continue on before giving her speech.
22-year wait and huge achievements
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When it comes to the actual awards, there were a few big wins last night. British filmmaker Christopher Nolan was the star of the show, finally winning an Academy Award after a 22-year wait. Nolan had been nominated twice before for best original screenplay – for Memento in 2002 and Inception in 2011 – but didn’t win either time.
Oppenheimer also led to two more Oscar firsts. Cillian Murphy, who played the lead role of J Robert Oppenheimer the American physicist who helped create the atomic bomb won best actor, becoming the first Irish person to do so.
The Winners
Best picture – Oppenheimer’s Christopher Nolan, Charles Roven and Emma Thomas. Best directing – Oppenheimer’s Christopher Nolan. Best supporting actor – Oppenheimer’s Robert Downey Jr. Music (original score) – Oppenheimer’s Ludwig Goransson. Film editing – Oppenheimer’s Jennifer Lame. Cinematography – Oppenheimer’s Hoyte van Hoytema
Best actress – Poor Things’ Emma Stone. Production design – Poor Things’ Shona Heath, James Price and Zsuzsa Mihalek. Costume design – Poor Things’ Holly Waddington. Makeup and hairstyling – Poor Things’ Nadia Stacey, Mark Coulier and Josh Weston
Best supporting actress – The Holdovers’ Da’Vine Joy Randolph.
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Documentary feature film – 20 Days In Mariupol’s Mstyslav Chernov, Raney Aronson Rath, Michelle Mizner. Documentary short film – The Last Repair Shop. Animated feature film – The Boy And The Heron’s Hayao Miyazaki and Toshio Suzuki. Animated short – War Is Over! Inspired By The Music Of John & Yoko’s Dave Mullins, Brad Booker and Sean Ono Lennon
Live action short film – The Wonderful Story Of Henry Sugar’s Wes Anderson and Steven Rales. Original screenplay – Anatomy Of A Fall’s Justine Triet and Arthur Harari. Adapted screenplay – American Fiction’s Cord Jefferson. Music (original song) – Barbie’s Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell for What Was I Made For?
Sound – The Zone Of Interest’s Johnnie Burn and Tarn Willers. International Feature Film – The Zone Of Interest’s Jonathan Glazer for the UK. Visual effects – Godzilla Minus One’s Takashi Yamazaki, Kiyoko Shibuya, Masaki Takahashi and Tatsuji Nojima
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