Oscars 2024 live updates: Oppenheimer dominates the 96th Academy Awards

Oppenheimer and Poor Things emerged as the evening's biggest winners, with seven and four awards respectively. Check out the complete list of winners here.

Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer wins best picture Oscar. 

Emma Stone won Best Actress for Poor Things. She plays Bella Baxter in Yorgos Lanthimos' movie. As she accepted her Oscar on stage, she broke her dress and showed it to the audience.

“I think it happened during I'm Just Ken,” she said. This is her second win after previously winning for the film La La Land.

Nitin Desai of India was remembered in the "In Memoriam" montage during the 96th Academy Awards ceremony. The famed art director was discovered dead in August of last year at his ND Studio in Khalapur Raigad, near Karjat. Desai allegedly committed suicide.

Christopher Nolan wins his first Oscar for his acclaimed film Oppenheimer. 

Cillian Murphy won the best actor Oscar for his role in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer.

“I’m a very proud Irish man standing here tonight,” he says, before noting that “for better or worse, we are living in Oppenheimer’s world.”

The In Memorium segment honoured Indian art director Nitin Chandrakant Desai, Michael Gambon, Matthew Perry and others. Singer Andrea Bochelli sang Time To Say Goodbye.

In an all-pink suit, Hollywood star Ryan Gosling took the stage to perform ‘I’m Just Ken’ from Barbie. Slash also joined the actor on stage for a guitar solo.

The actor recruited Slash, Simu Liu, and Ncuti Gatwa to join him on stage, too. He also got Emma Stone, Greta Gerwig, and Margot Robbie singing along in the most electric performance of the evening.

The Zone of Interest wins Best Sound. 

'The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar' by Wes Anderson wins Best Live Action Short. 

'20 Days in Mariupol' wins first Oscar ever for Ukraine. The film, which documents Russia's invasion of Ukraine, won Best Documentary feature. Mstyslav Chernov, a writer and director, steps up to the platform to accept the prize.
 

The Last Repair Short wins Best Documentary Short. 

Directors Ben Proudfoot and Kris Bowers took the stage to accept the Best Documentary Short Oscar for The Last Repair Shop, a documentary on music education in Los Angeles, California.
 

Dutch-Swedish cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema has bagged the Best Cinematography Oscar for Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer.

Jennifer Lame won the Best Film Editing award for Oppenheimer. 

While accepting the Academy Award, Jennifer Lame said, “I was terrified like I am right now when I first got hired to work with you (Christopher Nolan). It felt like you took a huge risk on me, but you never made me feel that way. You instilled so much confidence in me.”

Godzilla Minus One has won the Best Visual Effects award. Shirogumi's Chōfu studio, overseen by Yamazaki and directed by Kiyoko Shibuya, handled all 610 visual effects shots for the film.

While accepting the honour, director Takashi Yamazaki said the possibility of standing on the Oscars stage seemed “out of reach”.

Robert Downey Jr. won his first Oscar for Oppenheimer. "I'd like to thank my terrible childhood," he went on to say. This marks Robert's third nomination. He portrayed the envious Lewis Strauss in Christopher Nolan's film.
 

The Zone of Interest won Best International Feature. This was UK's third win in the category.

Poor Things wins its second Oscar in a row as designers James Price and Shona Heath took to the stage to accept the Best Production Design award.

 “The only brief really was that he didn’t want it to be overtly like a period drama and he didn’t want it to be overtly like a science fiction film,” designer Holly Waddington said about Lanthimos in an interview.

John Cena goes naked to present the best costume design award. Jimmy Kimmel encouraged him to do this.

After hiding behind the set design, Kimmel coaxed him out after a speech about a streaking bit he was originally supposed to do live on stage. "The male body is not a joke," Cena said. "Mine is," Kimmel replied. "Dude I don't wrestle naked, I wrestle in jorts," Cena said (that's jean shorts, for the uninitiated). "Jorts are worse than naked," Kimmel said. Cena then had the crowd in fits as he walked out, covered in nothing but the envelope.

'Poor Things' scores another victory. It received Best Production Design. Designers James Price and Shona Heath took the stage to accept the Best Production Design award.

Jimmy Kimmel's joke about Oppenheimer director Christopher Nolan went viral on social media. Throughout his monologue,  Kimmel said, “Christopher Nolan doesn’t have a smartphone, he doesn’t do emails, he writes his scripts on a computer with no internet connection. That’s a powerful way of saying‚ I don’t let my porn addiction interfere with my writing.” Kimmel’s joke has everyone shocked
 

Poor Things gets Best Makeup and Hairstyle. Nadia Stacey, Mark Coulier and Josh Weston win the first Oscar of the night.

In an interview, Nadia Stacey, the principal hair and makeup artist for Poor Things, stated, 'Bella's hair was purposefully left down as a symbol of her nonconformity to society, since we see all the ladies surrounding her with period hairstyles. The hair also grows faster as the film progresses. So I adjusted the length as she progressed, eventually ending up with 44-inch hair wefts.'

Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell, siblings, perform the sombre song "What Was I Made For?" from Greta Gerwig's Barbie at the Oscars.

'American Fiction' wins Best Adapted Screenplay. The film follows a dissatisfied author fed up with the establishment's profit from Black entertainment that employs stale and derogatory clichés.

To make his point, he creates a pen name to write his outrageous Black book, a book that takes him to the core of hypocrisy and the craziness he claims to despise.

 

'Anatomy of a Fall' wins Best Original Screenplay, marking a first for the French film this evening. "This has been a crazy year," said director and writer Justine Triet as she won the prize.
 

Simu Liu and Oscars Ambassador Amelia Dimoldenberg plan their perfect romantic comedy on the red carpet.

Messi the Dog, the powerful actor best known for his work in the Oscar-nominated 'Anatomy of a Fall', was spotted at the 2024 Academy Awards ceremony. 

War Is Over won Best Animated Short. John and Yoko's music inspires Sean Lennon and Dave Mullins' anti-war narrative and incorporates John and Yoko's renowned anti-war Christmas song 'Happy Xmas (War Is Over)'.

The video, directed by Dave Mullins, produced by Brad Booker, executive produced by Yoko Ono Lennon and Sean Ono Lennon, and featuring music by Thomas Newman, is a collaboration between Lenono Music, ElectroLeague, WetaFX, and Epic Games.

Da'Vine Joy Randolph wins Best Supporting Actress in The Holdovers. "God is so good," she stated through tears during her award speech. Lupita N'yongo, Jamie Lee Curtis, Regina King, and others delivered the announcements after presenting each contender.

Jimmy Kimmel kicked off the 2024 Oscars with a "uncomfortable" joke about Christopher Nolan's "porn addiction". Meanwhile, The Holdovers and Hayao Miyazaki have won the first Oscars of the night. With 13 nominations, Oppenheimer is the clear favourite going into the star-studded night. Nolan is aiming for his first Academy Award more than two decades after his maiden nomination for the Memento script.

Poor Things, starring Emma Stone, and Killers of the Flower Moon, directed by Martin Scorcese, are the second and third most nominated films, with 11 and ten, respectively. Barbie, another huge picture of 2023 that came out with Oppenheimer, has eight nominations for the evening. Zendaya, Mahershala Ali, Emily Blunt, Ryan Gosling, Dwayne Johnson, Jennifer Lawrence, Matthew McConaughey, and Al Pacino will appear as presenters.