All the best and worst moments of the 2024 Oscars, as they happened
LA TimesThe 96th Academy Awards have come and gone, and “Oppenheimer” came out on top, winning best picture and earning Christopher Nolan his first-ever Oscar, for directing. There was much more to celebrate, including Da’Vine Joy Randolph’s win for supporting actress in “The Holdovers,” and Emma Stone’s win for lead actress in “Poor Things.” A rapturous performance of “I’m Just Ken” by Ryan Gosling, which featured an appearance from Slash from Guns N’ Roses, came just before Billie Eilish and her brother Finneas O’Connell won for their competing “Barbie” song “What Was I Made For?” The L.A. Times also won its first Oscar for the short documentary “The Last Repair Shop,” about four unsung master craftspeople who service musical instruments for Los Angeles Unified School District students. Winners list | Red carpet photos | Artists call for ceasefire with red buttons|Ceremony delayed by protests Ryan Gosling performs ‘I’m Just Ken’ | Da’Vine Joy Randolph’s acceptance speech | Jimmy Kimmel’s monologue | L.A. Times wins its first Oscar | Emma Stone wins best actress| Billie Eilish makes Oscars history | How Oscars addressed wars | John Cena’s big reveal 5 big takeaways — and what you didn’t see on TV | Review: An upbeat Oscars | The musical performances, ranked | ‘Barbie’s’ awards season hopes mostly fizzled Awards The 2024 Oscar winners list Oscar winners “Oppenheimer,” “Poor Things,” Emma Stone and more took home Academy Awards during Sunday’s ceremony. 6:48 p.m. Ludwig Göransson wins for “Oppenheimer’s” original score, and lands in the unfortunate slot between the “I’m Just Ken” performance and Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell’s best song win for “Barbie’s” “What Was I Made For.” Eilish thanks her friend Zoe “for playing Barbies with me” and her dance and choir teachers, even the one who “didn’t like me.” The famous siblings become the youngest two-time Oscar winners in history, and here is where I remind everyone that the pair’s breakout hit “Ocean Eyes” was written for a performance at Revolution Dance, my local dance studio. 5:43 p.m. As past winners honor supporting actor nominees, Tim Robbins slips and refers to Robert De Niro’s “Oscar-winning, er, Oscar-worthy” performance but the Oscar goes to Robert Downey Jr. for “Oppenheimer.” — M.M.