Oscars 2024: 10 important moments of the premiere

1. Kimmel’s monologue

Kimmel began by saying, “Thank you for the massive partial applause,” to the audience who couldn’t decide whether to greet him standing or sitting. Good first note. Then he jumped into his fourth job as a host (after 2017, 2018 and 2023) by dropping some pretty dirty jokes: Ryan Gosling (“Let’s go camping together and not tell our spouses”), he explained why Christopher Nolan he writes his scripts on a computer without an internet connection (“this is a powerful way of saying, ‘I don’t let my porn addiction stop me from writing'”) or is asked to Robert Downey Jr. If it’s a thank you speech he’s making there or if he has a rectangular penis. On the other hand, he did not forget to salute the actors and screenwriters who fought for historic agreements: “The actors may now be worried that they will be replaced by younger and more attractive people.”

2. First emotional speech

Da’Vine Joy Randolph She’s long been a well-respected middle schooler, but last year she gained new resonance thanks to her time on ‘The Idol’ (she had little hiding inside) and her role as, above all else, a lovable cook. In Alexander Payne’s ‘The Remains’. He had a very good chance of winning the Oscar, and he did. In his speech, he recalled that his mother encouraged him to cross the street and enter the theater because there was something there for him. “For a long time, I always wanted to be different, and now I realized that I just had to be me.”he said in his first emotional speech of the night. He also wanted to remember all the women who accompanied him and, why not, his publicist, “because you don’t have a publicist like I have.” This all happened with tears in our eyes before we even started.

3. Different emphasis on key category

It was refreshing to see Justine Triet And Arthur Harari (“Anatomy of a Fall”) Thank you for the Oscar for best original screenplay in English with your charming French accent. At the same time, Triet, the director of the film, said that it would help him overcome his midlife crisis. He and his partner, Harari, later recalled that they wrote the film in the middle of the pandemic: This is called exploiting the forced bracket.

4. Mid-budget movies are important

In a passionate, inspiring and fast-paced talk, Cord Jefferson He took advantage of the fact that he was going to win an Oscar (for the screenplay adapted from ‘American Fiction’, which he directed) to do justice to mid-budget films that were almost in danger of extinction: “200 million dollar movie, try to make ten movies for twenty million…” he suggested to the industry. found. “The next Scorsese, the next Greta, the next Christopher Nolan are out there. You should give them a chance.”

5. John Cena is almost naked

“Clothes are important; maybe the most important thing there is,” John Cena said while introducing the best costume nominees. It may seem like an unoriginal way to go at first, but the former WWE wrestler was speaking naked, her privates inside a large envelope bearing the winner’s name (Holly Waddington from ‘Poor Creatures’). It’s all part of a wonderfully comical moment inspired by the ‘cartoon actor’ who surprised (but not quite surprised) David Niven as he introduced him to Elizabeth Taylor at the ceremony in 1974.

5. Finally political speech

I had to come Jonathan GlazerAlmost an hour and a half after the premiere began, to remember the horrors of war as he received the Oscar for best international film for ‘The Zone of Interest’. The Jewish filmmaker wanted to use his platform to lament “this dehumanization, this dehumanization, of the occupation, of the occupation that has brought so many innocent people into conflict, whether they are the victims of October 7 in Israel or the victims of the current attack on Gaza.” Are we resisting?

6. Deserving of debut

If there was an Oscar being talked about, it was the best supporting actor award. Robert Downey Jr. For his comment on Oppenheimer’s bane, Lewis Strauss. This is his first statuette after two nominations; previous, fifteen years ago, ‘Tropical thunder: Such a bitchy war!’ He was in the same category for his role in the movie. Downey Jr. wanted to thank his “horrible childhood and the Academy in turn,” before crediting his “wife, the vet,” who “lovingly” brought him back to life. Didn’t forget to quote Nolan: “I needed this job more than the job needed me. Chris knew that.”

7. “This is the first Oscar in the history of Ukraine”

These were some of the director’s first words Mstislav ChernovAssociated Press journalist accepts the Oscar for best documentary ’20 days in Mariupol’. But he continued with less vivid ones: “I wish I had never made this movie. I would like to change that so that Russia would never attack Ukraine, never invade our cities… never kill tens of thousands of people.” “My Ukrainian citizens… But I can’t change history.” He urged attendees to fight against the war, at least for now, and received a standing ovation.

8. Just being Ken is already too much

It was nice to hear you whisper Billie Eilish ‘What was I created for?’ (It eventually won the Oscar and received two statuettes, making its singer the youngest person in history), but what many were expecting tonight was the other nominated song from ‘Barbie’: ‘I’m Just Ken’, which packed every bit of showboating possible. cause. Ryan Gosling He didn’t disappoint: he started by taking to the stage and singing directly to Margot Robbie, before taking to the stage alongside a dance troupe consisting of Kens (including Simu Liu, Kingsley Ben-Adir and Ncuti Gatwa), Mark Ronson to end the song with a beautiful voice. on guitar and Slash from Guns N’ Roses makes a great cameo.

9. Another controversial ‘commemoration’

This episode is primarily supposed to unite us all in mourning and silence, but year after year it manages to unite viewers in some kind of confusion. This year, a brief review of the networks indicated surprise at the strange camera angles used for this episode; This might have served to keep a famous man like Norman Jewison, for example, who was nominated for an Oscar for best director for ‘In’, at bay. heat of the night’, ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ and ‘Moon magic’. He also didn’t like it when Lance Reddick, Ray Stevenson, Treat Williams and many other notable names sneaked into the half-way wall of names and were only seen for ten seconds. Yes, we should celebrate our beginning with the memory of Navalny.

10. Stone’s emotional speech

Either she’s the best actress in the world, which she is, or Emma Stone is genuinely surprised to be named best actress over Lily Gladstone in ‘Killers on the Moon,’ who still has plenty of time to exist and make history. The first Native American actress to win an Oscar. Through convincing tears, ‘Poor Creatures’ great Bella Baxter began her speech by extolling the virtues of her senior colleagues and, above all, the aforementioned Gladstone: “You impressed me.” He later went on to take some of the credit: “It’s not about me, it’s about a team coming together… that’s the best part of making a movie,” he said. She also thanked her parents, brother, husband and daughter, to whom Taylor Swift sent her love with the quote, “I love you more than the whole sky.”