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Stars begin to arrive on 2024 Oscars red carpetGet our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeThe 2024 Oscars are taking place tonight, with fierce competition from blockbusters including Oppenheimer, Poor Things, Killers of the Flower Moon and Barbie.For all the latest Oscars 2024 odds click here.As ever, there were the usual snubs in the nominations announcement that led to outrage among film fans, but the ceremony will unite an…

The most anticipated night in Hollywood is finally here! On Sunday, the biggest names in film gathered for the 96th Academy Awards, marking the official end to awards season. Jimmy Kimmel returns to host the ceremony for the third time, which is airing live from Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre on ABC. Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer is the most nominated film at the 2024 Academy Awards with 13 nods, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor for Cillian Murphy, Best Supporting Actor for Robert Downey Jr.,…

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureThe red carpet unravelsGwilym MumfordHello and welcome to The Guardian’s liveblog for the 96th Academy Awards, AKA the 2024 Oscars, AKA the first annual “how many little gold men can we load into Christopher Nolan’s arms before he topples over” awards.Yes, if you are to believe the bookmakers, industry insiders and, erm, us, tonight will be a complete stroll for Oppenheimer, the nominal best picture frontrunner since it was released way back in…

There are many lessons to be gleaned from Season Two of The Traitors, Peacock’s smash hit reality TV competition based on the parlor game Mafia: 1) that you should never drink from an ominous-looking rusty chalice, particularly if it has been offered to you by a notoriously cutthroat former Survivor contestant; 2) that virtually everyone looks cool in emerald-green velvet cloaks; and 3) that Peacock has an insanely high budget for both breakfast pastries and Alan Cumming’s headgear. Perhaps the first and foremost…

All About Oscars 2024 ( Photo Credit – IMDb ) All eyes are on the Oscars 2024, which is just a few days away. This year’s awards season has been quite exciting, considering the nominations were phenomenal. But the Academy Awards are what most people are always looking forward to. From Christopher Nolan to Robert Downey Jr to Emma Stone, movie lovers can’t wait to see if these great Hollywood talents will take the awards home this year. In this article, we have mentioned the date and time of Oscars 2024, where…

Illustration: Panayiota, Age 14 / Republic of CyprusWorld Wildlife Day was March 3, and the International Fund for Animal Welfare celebrated the event with its annual International Youth Art Contest. Now, the winning artworks have been selected from a group of 15 semi-finalists. These selections were made from over 3,000 entries submitted from 141 countries and sovereign areas. The theme of this year’s competition was “Connecting People and Planet: Exploring Digital Innovation in Wildlife Conservation,” and subjects of…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeTo win a Best Picture Oscar, a film has to have something about it.Only 94 films in history have been given this award. They’re not voted on by the eccentric members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, who pick the Golden Globes, or by specialist groups of critics, but by the roughly 10,000 members of the Academy. That is to say, the choice is made by distinguished figures from…

Get ready for a joy ride through the coolest Photoshop Battles of 2023! Imagine a place where creative people join forces to turn regular photos into mind-blowing, funny, and super-creative masterpieces. Out of all the cool stuff people made, the r/photoshopbattles subreddit picked the top 15 images. It's like the Oscars of funny photo editing!As a big community boasting 19 million members, this subreddit warmly invites people to engage in entertaining battles. Here, you can unleash your creativity, playing with images…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeIt is a well-worn cliché for an Oscar winner to keep their gong in the bathroom. “The whole point is for everybody to pick it up and go, ‘I’d like to thank my son and my dad’,” Kate Winslet said in 2015, after admitting she keeps her 2009 Best Actress award in the downstairs loo.Winslet’s remarks spoke to a universal truth: everyone wants to get their hands on an Academy Award. Not…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeLook over the list of Best Picture winners over the years and you realise that almost every film selected is still in circulation.William Wellman’s Wings, the very first winner in 1927, is readily available on DVD and Blu-Ray, as are such other early winners as Cimarron and Broadway Melody.Most of the other Best Picture winners are titles that any film lover will recognise instantly.…