Oscars 2024 live: Winners and highlights as Oppenheimer and Emma Stone scoop big awards

During her Best Lead Actress acceptance speech, an emotional Emma Stone took a moment to acknowledge her family for their support and love – and even squeezed in a Taylor Swift reference.

“I really just want to thank my family, my mom, my brother, Spencer, my dad, my husband, Dave. I love you so much,” she said. “And most importantly, my daughter, who’s gonna be three in three days and has turned our lives technicolour.

“I love you bigger than the whole sky, my girl. So thank you so much.”

The last line is a reference to a lyric from Swift’s song “Bigger Than the Whole Sky”, which features on her 10th studio album Midnights (3am Edition).

Stone and Swift are known to be close friends in real life, having met when they were both teenagers; Swift’s song “When Emma Falls in Love” is widely believed to have been written about Stone.

Roisin O’Connor reports:

John Cena forgot his black tie while presenting the award for Best Costume Design, in a shoutout to one of the Oscars’ wildest moments of years gone by: when a streaker invaded the stage in 1974.

After sweeping up at the Oscars, if you’re yet to watch either Oppenheimer or Poor Things, they’re both available to stream from the comfort of your home.

What better way to celebrate winning the highest honours in film than letting your hair down with hundreds of your peers?

Winners Billie Eilish, Christopher Nolan and Robert Downey Jr were among the many who turned up to the Vanity Fair afterparty following Sunday’s ceremony.

Here’s a snapshot of how the party unfolded:

Spurring the age-old argument about whether the book really is better, half of the best picture nominations at this year’s Oscars were based on literature.

The roster included Poor Things, Oppenheimer, Killers of the Flower Moon and the Zone of Interest – with American Fiction securing the win for best screenplay, adapted from Erasure by Percival Everett (£8.99, Amazon.co.uk).

So whether you’re grabbing your popcorn or your reading glasses, these stories are not to be missed. You can find the 2024 best picture nominated books below:

Sunday’s Academy Awards kicked off with the reveal of Best Supporting Actress, won by Da’Vine Joy Randolph for her performance in The Holdovers.

Her emotional acceptance speech moved several members of the audience, including her co-star (and Best Actor nominee) Paul Giamatti.

“For so long I have always wanted to be different. And I now I realise I just needed to be myself, and I thank you for seeing me,” Randolph said through tears.

“I didn’t think I was supposed to be doing this as a career, I started off as a singer, and my mother said to me, go across that street to that theatre department, there’s something for you there. And I thank my mother for doing that, I thank all those people who have been there for me, ushered and guided me, I am so grateful to you beautiful people out there.”

After stunning viewers at home and in the Dolby Theater audience with her performance of the Barbie hit “What Was I Made For?”, Billie Eilish continued Sunday’s ceremony on a high by winning her second Best Song Oscar.

She won for the first time in 2022 with her Bond theme, “No Time To Die”.

Sharing the award with her brother and frequent collaborator Finneas O’Connell, Eilish is now the first artist since Celine Dion to win both Song of the Year at the Grammys and the Oscar for Best Original Song in the same year.

Roisin O’Connor reports:

Not every Oscars ceremony results in a happy audience consensus over the winners; sometimes, some ceremonies have caused major upsets around who and what emerged victorious.

Here’s The Independent culture desk’s pick of our favourite unpopular Oscars wins of all time:

It wasn’t a fumble on the level of the infamous La La Land / Moonlight debacle of 2017, but Al Pacino’s unusual form of announcing the Best Picture winner at Sunday’s Oscars still sowed confusion among viewers.

Look back at the moment here:

As had been predicted by most, Christopher Nolan’s atomic bomb epic Oppenheimer scooped the night’s highest honour, Best Picture.

Although there was significant competition from the likes of Poor Things, the Cillian Murphy-led drama was the favourite to win – and according to columnist Louis Chilton, for good reason.

He wrote of Oppenheimer’s win: “It speaks to a renewed appetite for serious, grown-up films, about real-world issues. To say it has ‘saved cinema’ is reductive – but if any film can make that claim, it’s this one.”

You can read the comment piece in full, below:

During her Best Lead Actress acceptance speech, an emotional Emma Stone took a moment to acknowledge her family for their support and love – and even squeezed in a Taylor Swift reference.

“I really just want to thank my family, my mom, my brother, Spencer, my dad, my husband, Dave. I love you so much,” she said. “And most importantly, my daughter, who’s gonna be three in three days and has turned our lives technicolour.

“I love you bigger than the whole sky, my girl. So thank you so much.”

The last line is a reference to a lyric from Swift’s song “Bigger Than the Whole Sky”, which features on her 10th studio album Midnights (3am Edition).

Stone and Swift are known to be close friends in real life, having met when they were both teenagers; Swift’s song “When Emma Falls in Love” is widely believed to have been written about Stone.

Roisin O’Connor reports:

John Cena forgot his black tie while presenting the award for Best Costume Design, in a shoutout to one of the Oscars’ wildest moments of years gone by: when a streaker invaded the stage in 1974.

After sweeping up at the Oscars, if you’re yet to watch either Oppenheimer or Poor Things, they’re both available to stream from the comfort of your home.

What better way to celebrate winning the highest honours in film than letting your hair down with hundreds of your peers?

Winners Billie Eilish, Christopher Nolan and Robert Downey Jr were among the many who turned up to the Vanity Fair afterparty following Sunday’s ceremony.

Here’s a snapshot of how the party unfolded:

Spurring the age-old argument about whether the book really is better, half of the best picture nominations at this year’s Oscars were based on literature.

The roster included Poor Things, Oppenheimer, Killers of the Flower Moon and the Zone of Interest – with American Fiction securing the win for best screenplay, adapted from Erasure by Percival Everett (£8.99, Amazon.co.uk).

So whether you’re grabbing your popcorn or your reading glasses, these stories are not to be missed. You can find the 2024 best picture nominated books below:

Sunday’s Academy Awards kicked off with the reveal of Best Supporting Actress, won by Da’Vine Joy Randolph for her performance in The Holdovers.

Her emotional acceptance speech moved several members of the audience, including her co-star (and Best Actor nominee) Paul Giamatti.

“For so long I have always wanted to be different. And I now I realise I just needed to be myself, and I thank you for seeing me,” Randolph said through tears.

“I didn’t think I was supposed to be doing this as a career, I started off as a singer, and my mother said to me, go across that street to that theatre department, there’s something for you there. And I thank my mother for doing that, I thank all those people who have been there for me, ushered and guided me, I am so grateful to you beautiful people out there.”

After stunning viewers at home and in the Dolby Theater audience with her performance of the Barbie hit “What Was I Made For?”, Billie Eilish continued Sunday’s ceremony on a high by winning her second Best Song Oscar.

She won for the first time in 2022 with her Bond theme, “No Time To Die”.

Sharing the award with her brother and frequent collaborator Finneas O’Connell, Eilish is now the first artist since Celine Dion to win both Song of the Year at the Grammys and the Oscar for Best Original Song in the same year.

Roisin O’Connor reports:

Not every Oscars ceremony results in a happy audience consensus over the winners; sometimes, some ceremonies have caused major upsets around who and what emerged victorious.

Here’s The Independent culture desk’s pick of our favourite unpopular Oscars wins of all time:

It wasn’t a fumble on the level of the infamous La La Land / Moonlight debacle of 2017, but Al Pacino’s unusual form of announcing the Best Picture winner at Sunday’s Oscars still sowed confusion among viewers.

Look back at the moment here:

As had been predicted by most, Christopher Nolan’s atomic bomb epic Oppenheimer scooped the night’s highest honour, Best Picture.

Although there was significant competition from the likes of Poor Things, the Cillian Murphy-led drama was the favourite to win – and according to columnist Louis Chilton, for good reason.

He wrote of Oppenheimer’s win: “It speaks to a renewed appetite for serious, grown-up films, about real-world issues. To say it has ‘saved cinema’ is reductive – but if any film can make that claim, it’s this one.”

You can read the comment piece in full, below: