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Emma Stone has won the Oscar for best actress for Poor Things at the 96th Academy Awards in Los Angeles.Stone won for her role as Bella Baxter in the period fantasy comedy adapted from the novel by Alasdair Gray; it is directed by Yorgos Lanthimos and co-stars Mark Ruffalo, Willem Dafoe and Ramy Youssef. The character, the result of a child’s brain implanted into an adult’s body, has proved controversial due to the film’s copious sex and nudity.Stone had to see off a field including the hotly-tipped Lily Gladstone for…

Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster biopic Oppenheimer has triumphed at this year’s Oscars taking home seven awards including best picture, best actor and best director.The drama, telling the story of the “father of the atomic bomb”, lost the box office battle to Barbie during last summer’s Barbenheimer showdown but has now won the awards war with Greta Gerwig’s Mattel comedy winning just one Oscar for best original song.Cillian Murphy was named best actor for his performance, beating out Paul Giamatti and Jeffrey Wright, and…

Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito certainly did not disappoint when they reunited on stage at the 96th Academy Awards.Almost four decades after they first shared screen space as the unlikely yet iconic brothers in the film ‘Twins,’ the duo came back together onstage at the 2024 Oscars to present the awards for Visual Effects and Film Editing. Arnold and Danny also used the opportunity to reminisce about their villainous roles in Batman.“Well, Arnold and I are presenting tonight together for a very obvious reason,”…

The 96th Academy Awards held in Los Angeles was the much awaited Award night. Many took away the Oscar Trophy with them at home. The year 2023 was a treat of many blockbuster and noticeable movies, like Oppenheimer, Barbie etc. Christopher’s Oppenheimer proved its worth once again at the Academy Awards, whereas Barbie failed to garner a single Academy Award. Here is the entire list of 96th Academy Award winners. Best Picture: Oppenheimer Best Actor: Cillian Murphy (Oppenheimer) Best Actress: Emma Stone…

Ace filmmaker Christopher Nolan won his first-ever Oscar for the biopic `Oppenheimer`. Nolan bagged the coveted statuette for `Best Director` as well as for `Best Picture` at the 96th Academy Awards. Nolan beat off competition from Jonathan Glazer of "The Zone of Interest," Yorgos Lanthimos of "Poor Things," Martin Scorsese of "Killers of the Flower Moon," and Justine Triet of "Anatomy of a Fall." Before Oscars 2024, Nolan received five nominations for three different films but never won an Academy Award. He was…

Poor ThingsImage: SearchlightAfter enduring the pandemic and a pair of industry-stopping strikes, Hollywood seemed extra jazzed about celebrating itself at this year’s Oscars. While there weren’t a ton of genre movies on the ballot—truly, last year’s Everything Everywhere All at Once sweep still feels rather validating—a few did find their way to the podium.What Should Fans Take Away from Imaginary?Most notably it was Poor Things leading the charge for genre, including a Best Lead Actress win for Emma Stone for her…

The Los Angeles Times has covered the Oscars for 95 years — and now it has won one.The heartwarming “The Last Repair Shop,” directed by Ben Proudfoot and Kris Bowers and co-distributed by L.A. Times Studios and Searchlight, took home the prize in the documentary short category at the Oscars on Sunday.A moving love letter to Los Angeles itself, “The Last Repair Shop” centers on four unsung master craftspeople who service musical instruments for Los Angeles Unified School District students. Working in the largest remaining…

The Ukrainian film 20 Days in Mariupol, which was shot inside the besieged port city during the assault by Russian forces, has won the best documentary Oscar at the Academy Awards in Los Angeles.Directed by Mstyslav Chernov, a Ukrainian journalist who documented the invasion in early 2022, 20 Days in Mariupol drew wide acclaim after its premiere at the Sundance film festival in 2023, with the Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw calling it “a searing film bears a terrible witness to this great crime” in a five-star review. In an…

Robert Downey Jr has won the Oscar for best supporting actor for his role in Oppenheimer, at the 96th Academy Awards in Los Angeles.Downey Jr plays Lewis Strauss, J Robert Oppenheimer’s nemesis in the Christopher Nolan-directed biopic of the pioneering atomic-weapons scientist, played by Cillian Murphy. It is Downey’s first Oscar win, having previously been nominated for best actor in 1993 for Chaplin, and for best supporting actor in 2009 for Tropic Thunder.The actor was the favourite for the award, having already won a…

Image: TohoGodzilla is a titan of moviemaking, but now he’s toppled his loftiest goal yet: award season. Just announced at the 2024 Academy Awards, Godzilla Minus One—io9's favorite movie of 2023—has won the Oscar for best VFX.Reservation Dogs | First FandomsThe movie overcame strong competition from the likes of Disney—with Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 and 20th Century Studios’ The Creator up for nods—and other Western studios to take the prize, one which makes history in a number of ways. It’s the Godzilla…