Oscars 2024 live updates: Winners, red carpet looks and performance highlights

Hello all and welcome to The Independent’s Oscars live blog! My name is Tom Murray, I’m the US Culture News Editor and I’m here reporting live from the winners’ room at the Dolby Theater where all the victors will come and speak to the media after their big moment. We’ll be bringing you all the updates from the red carpet and the ceremony so stay tuned as things get underway!

The British-American actor brought her dad as her date to the Oscars. Speaking to E! on the red carpet, Taylor-Joy’s father revealed she didn’t have any say on the matter.

“She promised it a long time ago,” he said. “Finally, it’s happened. Here I am.”

Our Lifestyle team has been busy scouring the Oscars red carpet for all the best looks.

From a pregnancy debut to a lot of Barbie pink, check them all out below:

Our writer Louis Chilton makes his case for why Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer should win the biggest prize of the night.

As hundreds of pro-Palestine demonstrators swarm the streets outside the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles, Poor Things star Ramy Youssef tells Variety’s Marc Malkin: “We’re calling for an immediate, permanent ceasefire in Gaza. We’re calling for peace and lasting justice for the people of Palestine.”

“I think it’s a good story about empathy and being open to whoever, you never know who is going to change your life a little bit,” Giamatti told E! on the red carpet.

“And so I think that’s an important thing, being empathetic and being willing to give of yourself to other people is a good thing. Being selfless as much as you can.”

He also spoke about working with The Holdovers’ director Alexander Payne.

“The great thing about him is he doesn’t say very much, he says things like ‘faster, slower, louder, funnier’ – that’s what he does and that’s what is great about him, super simple.”

Sometimes (but definitely not always) the Academy gets it very, very right. Below, our culture writers select their personal favourites…

As we made our way towards the Dolby Theater, the press shuttle drove past hundreds of protestors calling for a cease-fire in Gaza.

Demonstrators shouting “Free Palestine” spilled out onto Sunset Boulevard waving Palestinian flags as riot police patrolled the area.

According to the Los Angeles Times, protestors shouted, “Let’s shut it down!” as they swarmed around the venue.

We had to pass through three checkpoints to get in – security is definitely tight tonight.

Will it be an ‘Oppenheimer’ sweep? Or could ‘Poor Things’ prove to be the one to beat? Adam White has looked over the major categories for tonight’s Academy Awards to try to figure them out.

Hello all and welcome to The Independent’s Oscars live blog! My name is Tom Murray, I’m the US Culture News Editor and I’m here reporting live from the winners’ room at the Dolby Theater where all the victors will come and speak to the media after their big moment. We’ll be bringing you all the updates from the red carpet and the ceremony so stay tuned as things get underway!

The British-American actor brought her dad as her date to the Oscars. Speaking to E! on the red carpet, Taylor-Joy’s father revealed she didn’t have any say on the matter.

“She promised it a long time ago,” he said. “Finally, it’s happened. Here I am.”

Our Lifestyle team has been busy scouring the Oscars red carpet for all the best looks.

From a pregnancy debut to a lot of Barbie pink, check them all out below:

Our writer Louis Chilton makes his case for why Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer should win the biggest prize of the night.

As hundreds of pro-Palestine demonstrators swarm the streets outside the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles, Poor Things star Ramy Youssef tells Variety’s Marc Malkin: “We’re calling for an immediate, permanent ceasefire in Gaza. We’re calling for peace and lasting justice for the people of Palestine.”

“I think it’s a good story about empathy and being open to whoever, you never know who is going to change your life a little bit,” Giamatti told E! on the red carpet.

“And so I think that’s an important thing, being empathetic and being willing to give of yourself to other people is a good thing. Being selfless as much as you can.”

He also spoke about working with The Holdovers’ director Alexander Payne.

“The great thing about him is he doesn’t say very much, he says things like ‘faster, slower, louder, funnier’ – that’s what he does and that’s what is great about him, super simple.”

Sometimes (but definitely not always) the Academy gets it very, very right. Below, our culture writers select their personal favourites…

As we made our way towards the Dolby Theater, the press shuttle drove past hundreds of protestors calling for a cease-fire in Gaza.

Demonstrators shouting “Free Palestine” spilled out onto Sunset Boulevard waving Palestinian flags as riot police patrolled the area.

According to the Los Angeles Times, protestors shouted, “Let’s shut it down!” as they swarmed around the venue.

We had to pass through three checkpoints to get in – security is definitely tight tonight.

Will it be an ‘Oppenheimer’ sweep? Or could ‘Poor Things’ prove to be the one to beat? Adam White has looked over the major categories for tonight’s Academy Awards to try to figure them out.