Oscars 2024 live: Hollywood stars head to red carpet – as actress reveals pregnancy

By admin On Mar 11, 2024

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21:12:01 How many awards could British actors bring home?

By Gemma Peplow, culture and entertainment reporter

Sadly, it’s not a great year for UK stars – with just two nominees, 2024 represents our joint lowest showing in the acting categories in more than a decade.

It’s down to British actresses to fly the flag this year: Carey Mulligan (tipped for best actress for Maestro) and Emily Blunt (best supporting actress – Oppenheimer). This is the same number as last year, when only Bill Nighy and Andrea Riseborough were in the running for the UK.

It’s all quite a sharp contrast from a few years ago – in 2021, the UK accounted for eight, so nearly half, of all the 20 acting nominations.

Before 2023 and 2024, the last time there were only two British acting nominees was in 2013.

The past few years have been better for Irish actors, with five receiving nominations in 2023 – and Oppenheimer star Cillian Murphy the favourite to take home the best actor gong this year.

There is some British recognition for those behind the camera – with Oppenheimer filmmaker Christopher Nolan the favourite to take the best director prize, and the movie tipped to win best film.

So we’ll take those as a win.

20:57:23 The best looks so far

Oscars nominees and guests are walking the red carpet in style ahead of this year’s star-studded ceremony.

It’s the biggest night in showbiz, with anyone who’s anyone making their way into the biggest awards ceremony of the year – the Academy Awards.

Here are all the best looks from the Oscars red carpet so far…

20:42:44 Golden Godzilla stomps onto the red carpet

Arriving in style is Takashi Yamazaki and Godzilla, complete with its own bow tie.

The director of Godzilla Minus One has made a habit of bringing a model of the monster to award ceremonies, having held one when the film won best picture at the Japan Academy Film Prize.

Tonight, the film is nominated for best visual effects.

Another movie you might not realise has made the nominations list is Flamin’ Hot, which tells the tale of the man who disrupted the food industry by making Flamin’ Hot Cheetos a household name.

Songwriter Diane Warren is up for best original song for her work in the film.

“I’m very on brand,” she said, pointing to her flaming lapels.

“I’ve never won yet, you never know what’s going to happen – I’m just happy to be here.”

20:18:05 American Fiction nominee dazzles in sequined jumpsuit

Nominee Laura Karpman has arrived in a dazzling silver jumpsuit and coat, hoping to pick up the Oscar for best original score for her work on American Fiction.

Cord Jefferson’s satire follows an author frustrated with the commercial success of books based on racial stereotypes who becomes wildly successful by writing something he hates.

Karpman’s futuristic look has been getting a lot of attention on the red carpet, with the composer head to toe in shining sequins and reflective necklaces.

In an almost as eye-catching jacket is Guillermo Rodriguez, who rose to fame as a security guard for Jimmy Kimmel Live – the host of tonight’s ceremony.

19:59:58 Vanessa Hudgens reveals pregnancy

Vanessa Hudgens has revealed her pregnancy on the red carpet.

Following speculation, the High School Musical star was seen cradling her baby bump at Los Angeles’ Dolby Theatre.

It comes three months after Hudgens and baseball player Cole Tucker tied the knot.

19:46:14 …And the stars start to arrive

People have started to arrive along the red carpet, among them members of the Osage Nation, the subject of Killers of the Flower Moon, which has received 10 nominations.

Martin Scorsese’s film chronicles the killing of Osage Nation members in the 1920s, starring Lily Gladstone, Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro.

Actors and correspondents have begun to make their way into the Dolby theatre.

19:16:10 Sky News hits the red carpet

Our team in Los Angeles are on the red carpet before the stars arrive in approximately 20 minutes – though we doubt they’ll make as athletic an entrance as reporter Jayson Mansaray.

The team have been watching as volunteers walk the carpet pretending to be celebrities so that staff can choreograph the event.

It also helps the camera operators practice tracking them or make sure their stationary position will produce a good shot.

Here’s Mansaray’s selfie with Lupita Nyong’o – or not.

18:45:01 Third trim lucky: It took three hat-makers to get Oppenheimer right

Oppenheimer is leading tonight with 13 nominations, but how many of them were down to Cillian Murphy’s hat?

You might think it an odd question, but it took three hat-makers to create one that director Christopher Nolan was happy with.

After two failed, Mark Mejia, owner of Baron Hats, tried his luck at the headwear that defined the silhouette of J. Robert Oppenheimer in the movie.

Nolan “just cranked the brim down a little bit and gave it a little bit of attitude”, Mejia said.

The Oppenheimer hat was an unusual shape. Costume designer Ellen Mirojnick describes it as a porkpie crown combined with something between a fedora and a cowboy brim.

Mejia has three decades of experience making hats by hand for A-list movie stars from Clint Eastwood to Leonardo DiCaprio and musicians from Bob Dylan to Beyonce.

To create a hat for a film, Mejia typically works from sketches supplied by costume designers and must figure out how to bring their ideas into three dimensions.

He often works with beaver or rabbit felt. Once a rough shape has been created, the felt is heated and steamed so that Mejia can stretch and shape it into the precise form.

“To really capture the silhouette of the costume, and the movie itself, it takes a lot of manipulating of the felt to really create the exact, iconic style that you want,” he said.

18:25:25 The Class of 2024 (or Where’s Wally? Oscars edition)

By Gemma Peplow, culture and entertainment reporter

Remember the days of lining up alongside your classmates for school photos, teachers smoothing your collar down as a frazzled photographer desperately tried to ensure dozens of little faces were all smiling for the camera at the same time?

Well, exactly the same thing happens ahead of the Oscars each year – just replace the teachers with stylists and the scruffy children with nominated A-listers with fancier wardrobes, and you have your Academy Awards class photo.

It’s the one chance to capture all the stars, including some of the most famous people in the world, in one place – no pressure, photographer Richard Harbaugh.

Sadly, we don’t have confirmation on whether mums and dads of nominees get to buy the photo to display proudly on their mantelpieces afterwards.

Meet the Class of 2024.

This year’s photograph includes the likes of Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese and loads more – see if you can find ’em.

18:10:45 Explained: How Oscars votes are counted – and why it’s more complex than you might think

Some 10,000 industry professionals around the world are able to vote on the nominations.

They are members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences involved in the production of theatrically released motion pictures.

Membership is divided into 17 branches, with categories such as cinematographers, directors and producers. Nominees are given automatic membership consideration, but others have to be sponsored.

Each member votes on their branch’s categories at the nomination stage, as well as for best picture.

They get one vote per category – apart from the biggest award of the night, best picture, which uses a preferential voting system.

Voters first rank the nominees from in order of preference.

If a film gets more than 50% of first preference votes, it automatically wins.

But if no one meets the threshold, the film with the fewest first preference votes is eliminated.

Then, the ballots which ranked that film as first choice will be redistributed, this time with their second preferences counted as first choice.

This process continues until one film is able to break the 50% mark.

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