Pokemon GO Safari Zone 2022

Safari Zones are region-exclusive timed events within Pokemon Go , allowing trainers in various parts of the world to purchase a ticket and gain the chance to obtain some region-exclusive Pokemon.

This page breaks down exactly what Safari Zones entail, as well as what the most recent Safari Zone events are.

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What Are Safari Zones?

A Safari Zone event is a recurring real-world event that is locked to a specific region. These occur all over the world and allow players within the relevant region to encounter and capture region-specific Pokemon that are outside of their own, often with a couple of brand new Pokemon debuts for each Safari Zone.

To gain access, you will need to:

  • Be in the correct region, where the current Safari Zone is taking place
  • Purchase a ticket via the Pokemon Go website .

Pokemon Go 2022 Safari Zones

There have been 2 Safari Zones so far in 2022, with another 2 scheduled for later in the year:

  • Safari Zone Seville - May 13th to May 15th, 2022
  • Safari Zone Goyang - September 23rd to September 25th, 2022
  • Safari Zone New Taipei City - October 21st to October 23rd, 2022

Those still to come are:

  • Safari Zone Singapore - November 18th to November 20th, 2022

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On March 9, 2020, Niantic alerted Pokémon Go players that the St. Louis Safari Zone would be canceled. The Covid-19 pandemic was starting to look a lot more serious than many had first thought and in-person gatherings were becoming a huge safety risk. As the situation worsened over the following weeks, Pokémon Go’s Liverpool (UK) and Philadelphia (US) live events were canceled too.

I was one of the many trainers looking forward to those events, having picked up a ticket to attend the Liverpool Safari Zone in April 2020 as a birthday treat for myself. I held onto that ticket in the hope I would eventually get to my first Pokémon Go live event, and in October 2021 I finally got the chance.

The rescheduled Liverpool Safari Zone is the first major live event Pokémon Go has had since November 2019 – and the first of the three Safari Zones to take place this year. But after a nearly two-year break, how well did Niantic return to the live event game, and should you try heading to one of these Safari Zones for yourself?

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What is a Pokémon Go Safari Zone?

For the uninitiated, a Safari Zone is a special Pokémon Go event set in a specific real-world location. The city plays host to Pokémon that normally wouldn’t spawn there, giving players a chance to catch exclusive ‘mons and complete special in-game quests for rewards.

The Liverpool Safari Zone saw an abundance of water-type Pokémon flood Sefton Park including the New Zealand-exclusive critter Relicantch washing up in the city for the first time ever. Lucky players also had a chance to catch Unknown that spell out Liverpool, or Pikachu wearing a cattleman hat.

This year Niantic has turned its Safari Zone events into hybrid experiences allowing players with event tickets to catch the specially selected Pokémon either in the cities themselves or from the comfort of their own home.

I had the chance to try both the at-home and in-person experience across Friday and Saturday; while playing locally is no doubt much more convenient, there’s a secret sauce with live events that you just can’t replace.

Adventuring together

What made the Safari Zone more than just playing Pokémon Go in any other park was the sense of community. Thousands of people hadn’t just gathered to play Pokémon Go but to play Pokémon Go together. 

People had come from all over the world to meet up with friends, compete against others in tense Pokémon battles, and help strangers complete their Pokédex. Some even got in on the spirit of things by coming in cosplay (shout out the Glaceon and PokéStop pair – you guys looked great).

The event staff were just as kind; they were always on hand to help point you in the right direction whenever you needed and to hand out a treasure trove of goodies from exclusive Pokémon cards to badges, hats, and posters.

Even my partner, who was only level nine when we showed up at 11am, found herself enamored by the community feel and was sucked back into Pokémon Go. She managed to reach level 20 by the time we left at 6pm and hasn’t put her phone down since – the Safari Zone has firmly reignited her passion to become the best there ever was.

Going in-person also gave me the chance to pick up the exclusive 2021 Safari Zone T-shirt from the merch store and (more importantly) the opportunity to have my picture taken with Pikachu and Eevee.

As you’d expect there are queues for these activities, but I was at the front before I realized. This wasn’t just because lines moved quickly but because these areas also had a huge congregation of PokéStops and Gyms – in-game markers where Pokémon and items can be collected.

This meant that even if I was waiting around physically – my virtual world fun never had to stop. This attitude of ensuring trainers could play for as long as possible was felt throughout everything else at the event too. 

Free event WiFi worked incredibly well even with 1000s of people in attendance, and ensured that I didn’t have to worry about my data allowance; meanwhile, easy to spot public charging stations fashioned as PokéStops gave me the chance to recharge long before my battery died.

Oh no! It broke free!

Everything was running so smoothly that I kept worrying it would eventually all go wrong. I was convinced that my phone signal would vanish or that the event would get canceled for some reason but none of that happened; Niantic’s preparation held strong.

Over the seven hours I spent wandering Sefton Park, my only major gripe was that Special Trades were still limited to just one per day. Usually, these kinds of in-person get-togethers take away (or at least lessen) trading restrictions to encourage trainers to interact more and to swap region-locked Pokémon and other rare critters.

To help you find other trainers you’re even given a little sign to say what ‘mons you’re looking for and willing to trade. Thanks to the Pokémon Go community, I only had to stand around for a minute or so before some kind player came up and offered to trade me the Carnivine I was so desperate for.

However later in the day when I paused to seek out another trade – this time after a Tropius – I was disappointed to find out my Special Trade allowance had been spent.

Overall though this was hardly a catastrophic disaster, I still came away with a slightly more filled-up Pokédex, a bag full of trinkets and plenty of great memories. If you have your Safari zone ticket, and feel comfortable attending in-person events again I’d strongly recommend you go along.

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Pokemon GO All Rescheduled Safari Zone Dates, Locations, and Details

Pokemon GO's on-hold Safari Zone events from 2020 finally get new dates and are going to be taking place throughout the end of the 2021 calendar year.

Any gamers who have been following Pokemon GO are well aware that the game made some major shifts in its event strategy over the last 18 months or so. In addition to making the everyday PoGO experience more remote friendly for safety reasons , Niantic also had to cancel many previously scheduled in-person events or shift them to become remote, global experiences.

Three of those events were the 2020 Safari Zones , which have become an exciting tradition in Pokemon GO over the recent years. These events take place in a specific city and offer players who manage to purchase a ticket and travel there an exciting gameplay experience. The events never ended up happening in 2020, but Pokemon GO is finally ready to give these three cities another try between October and November of this year.

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The three rescheduled Safari Zone events will be offered in Liverpool, Philadelphia, and St. Louis. Each event has its own date and there are ways for players around the world to participate and get involved. As always with events like this, ticket holders will gain access to some special features and bonuses that make the events event more exciting and engaging.\

Safari Zone: Liverpool

Now scheduled for Friday, October 15, 2021, to Sunday, October 17, 2021, in Sefton Park

For Liverpool, it was previously announced that the featured Pokémon include Krabby, Dratini, Chinchou, Unown V, Oshawott, and Relicanth. Relicanth — typically available only in New Zealand, Samoa, and some other islands in the southwest Pacific — will also be appearing in the Sefton Park.

Safari Zone: Philadelphia

Friday, October 29, 2021, to Sunday, October 31, 2021, in Fairmount Park

For Philadelphia, it was previously announced the that featured Pokémon would have a red, white, and blue theme, and would feature Unown P, Rufflet, Bronzong, Voltorb, Alolan Sandshrew, and European regional Pokémon Mr. Mime.

Safari Zone: St. Louis

Now scheduled for Friday, November 12, 2021, to Sunday, November 14, 2021, in Tower Grove Park

Previously it was announced for St. Louis that the featured Pokémon include Mankey, Unown S, Teddiursa, Snivy, Ferroseed, and Chatot. Chatot is otherwise only found in the southern hemisphere.

Ticket Holder Bonuses (In-Person or Global Participation)

  • Featured Pokémon will be appearing in the wild and attracted to Incense.
  • You’ll be able to complete event-exclusive Special Research and Field Research tasks.
  • Incense activated during event hours will last for eight hours.
  • Lure Modules activated during event hours will last for four hours.
  • Special 2 km Eggs will be available.
  • For Safari Zone Philadelphia ticket holders, take a snapshot for a surprise!

More details about each event’s unique bonuses and research will arrive shortly before each Safari Zone fires off. Check back in late September or early October for more details about how the Liverpool event will kick off the Safari Zone season.

In the coming weeks, we should learn more about what other events will be arriving during the early days of the Season of Mischief. Be sure to check back in the near future for more Pokemon GO strategy guides, news, and updates. Until then, good luck out there, trainers!

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Pokémon GO Safari Zone Taipei – Dates, Featured Pokémon, More

Pokémon GO Safari Zone Taipei – Dates, Featured Pokémon, More

Original article was written by Tarun Sayal.

Niantic and The Pokémon Company will gear up for the next Pokémon GO Safari Zone live event, set to take place in Taipei in conjunction with Pokémon Air Adventures. If you weren't aware, previous live events took place in Sevilla, Spain , and more recently in Goyang, South Korea , where Trainers from around the world gather to participate in exclusive activities.

The upcoming Safari Zone live event will take place soon as the developer has released the official event details. We've detailed what they need to know about Safari Zone: Taipei, including event dates and times, featured Pokémon, and exclusive bonuses.

Pokémon GO Safari Zone Taipei – Event Dates And Times

The next Pokémon Go Safari Zone live event will commence at the Da'an Forest Park, Taipei City, starting on 21st October 2022 , before the event ends on 23rd October 2022 . The event will run between 10 am and 6 pm local time for those wishing to attend.

We’re excited to announce that the next #PokemonGOSafariZone event will be held in Taipei—and tickets are available now! 🎟️ Explore Da’an Forest Park with your fellow Trainers! https://t.co/eEpGdHyN5v pic.twitter.com/4sI2Heuaxe — Pokémon GO (@PokemonGoApp) September 23, 2022

Tickets are available for this Safari Zone event and can be purchased through the Pokémon GO Event Ticketing web page . Like with previous live events, one-day tickets are obtainable from the web page, and if they wish to attend all three days, they'll need to buy three one-day tickets if they aren't sold out.

  • General Admission Ticket: NTD$520 (access to the location between 12 pm and 6 pm local time)
  • Early Access Ticket: NTD$380 (access to the location from 10 am local time)

Details regarding their COVID-19 health protocols have yet to be released, as we'll update this article once more information has been provided. Similarly, any technical difficulties experienced during the live event can be found on the official Niantic Support Twitter account and the dedicated Safari Zone FAQ page.

Pokémon GO Safari Zone Taipei – Featured Pokémon

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The Pokémon GO Safari Zone: Taipei live event is set to feature several Pokémon appearing in the wild within the radius of the event space on the allocated day and time printed on their ticket. This includes three variations of the Electric-type Pokémon, Pikachu, and if they should be fortunate, Shiny forms(*) for various Pokémon may appear, including a Shiny Finneon .

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The following Pokemon will appear more frequently during the Safari Zone: Taipei live event:

  • Pikachu wearing a green Berry T-Shirt*
  • Flying Pikachu with multicolor balloons*
  • Flying Pikachu with green balloons*
  • Unown E, P, and T*

Pokémon GO Safari Zone Taipei – Event Bonuses

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Trainers can take advantage of various exclusive bonuses available for the duration of the Safari Zone event. They will be active for the allocated date and time printed on their ticket, which could include the following:

  • Four extra Special Trades can be achieved during the event with the max cap of Special Trades at five a day
  • Trades made throughout the event will utilize 50% less Stardust
  • Exclusive Special Research and Field Research tasks are available for the live event
  • Activate Incense during the event will now last eight hours; however, it does not apply to Daily Adventure Incense
  • Trigger Lure Modules during the event will now last eight hours
  • Buddy Pokémon will increase chances of locating Souvenirs, which includes the event-exclusive paper plane Souvenir

Lastly, ticket holders can receive an exclusive event medal for attending the Safari Zone: Taipei live event. In addition, plenty of photographic opportunities are available to earn bonus rewards and rare surprises.

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Pokémon GO Safari Zone: St. Louis is now scheduled for Friday, November 12, 2021, to Sunday, November 14, 2021, in Tower Grove Park. Additionally, the start and end times for Safari Zone St. Louis have shifted one hour earlier to provide the best possible on-site experience. Updated event hours are reflected on your ticket. Check the event’s website in the coming weeks for more details..

Check the times on your ticket for the most up to date times. They are different for Early Access tickets and General Access tickets.

All ticket holders who would like to join an in-person event must RSVP . This is so that we have an accurate count of those who plan to attend an in-person event and to make sure we keep the event space safe for distanced gathering. Ticket holders will receive an email with more information on how to RSVP soon.

Safari Zone ticket holders will now see an updated date and time for their event in the Events tab. Ticket selections have not been modified; for example, if you purchased a Friday Early Access ticket, you’ll have a Friday Early Access ticket for the updated event. No additional tickets will be sold for these events.

The City Explorer Pass experience has been removed from these events, and those who purchased this add-on will have it refunded. Niantic will initiate all refunds by October 2, 2021.

Not only will these Safari Zone celebrations take place in their original park locations, but also ticket holders will be able to participate in the event they have a ticket for, no matter where they are in the world. Global event hours will be based on each participant’s local time; for example, a Friday Early Access ticket for Safari Zone Philadelphia will grant event access on Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. local time.

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  • Featured Pokémon will be appearing in the wild and attracted to Incense.
  • You’ll be able to complete event-exclusive Special Research and Field Research tasks.

Special 2 km Eggs will be available.

Wherever you play, Trainers can encounter the regional Pokémon Chatot, normally only appears in the southern hemisphere.

These were the Pokémon available during the bonus At Home event that took place for this Safari Zone. The actual availability of these Pokémon has not been confirmed.

Appearing in the Wild

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Once again, these were the Unown available during the bonus At Home event that took place for this Safari Zone. The actual availability of these Pokémon has not been confirmed.

Unown Appearing

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These are the event-exclusive Field Research available for ticket holders.

Spin 10 PokéStops or Gyms - 1 Silver Pinap Spin 15 PokéStops or Gyms - Safari Pikachu Catch 10 Pokémon - 500 Stardust Catch 20 Pokémon - 1 Rare Candy Evolve a Pokémon - Chatot Use 5 Pinap Berries to help catch Pokémon - Ferroseed Catch 5 different species of Pokémon - 1 Golden Razz Berry Send 5 Gifts to Friends - Teddiursa Take a snapshot of your Buddy - 500 Stardust Defeat 3 Team GO Rocket Grunts - 1000 Stardust Hatch 3 Eggs - 1000 Stardust

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R/B/Y Safari Zone Mechanics

A staple of the Pokémon series since the originals is the Safari Zone: a special place with Pokémon that aren't found anywhere else (and some that are) where instead of getting to use your own Pokémon to weaken and capture them, you must employ more old-fashioned methods while the Pokémon may run at any moment. While they haven't been in every game, they shake up the usual routine of catching Pokémon and have had various interesting mechanics through the generations - however, the very most interesting has to be the original.

How It Works

In every Safari Zone, the player is unable to use their own Pokémon at all. Instead, when you encounter a Pokémon you have four options: throwing one of the limited number of Safari Balls you have; an aggressive action used to make the Pokémon easier to catch; an enticing action used to make it less likely to run away; or running away from the battle yourself.

In Red, Blue and Yellow, the aggressive action is called Rock , and the enticing action is called Bait . The basic idea is this: throwing a rock will double your chances of catching the Pokémon, but it will also make the Pokémon angry for 1-5 turns. Conversely, throwing bait will halve your chances of catching the Pokémon, but cause the Pokémon to be eating for 1-5 turns. While angry, a Pokémon is twice as likely to run on any given turn as if it were in its neutral state, while it is four times less likely to run while it is eating than in a neutral state.

However, there are several more interesting details and subtleties to how Safari Zone battles happen.

Throwing a Ball

Capturing in the Safari Zone follows the regular R/B/Y capture algorithm , though since neither the Pokémon's HP nor its status can be affected and the only balls available are Safari Balls (identical to Ultra Balls), a lot of things are abstracted out in the Safari Zone. Unfortunately, thanks to the game's flawed RNG , Safari Balls underperform against full-health Pokémon, making all capture chances in the Safari Zone lower than intended. The capture chance maxes out when the Pokémon has a catch rate of 150 or more, for which the chance will be about 27-30% depending on rounding errors; all other Pokémon are harder than that.

The catch rate C starts out being, as in regular captures, the intrinsic catch rate of the Pokémon species. However, unlike regular captures, your actions in the Safari Zone can directly modify C, as hinted above.

Throwing Rocks/Bait

Rocks and bait have two distinct effects. First, every time a rock is thrown, the catch rate C is doubled (though it is capped at 255, so if doubling would make the catch rate more than that, it is made 255 instead), and every time bait is thrown, C is halved and rounded down. This happens even if the Pokémon is already angry or eating, and it happens completely blindly - if the Pokémon has a catch rate of 235, and you throw a rock to give it a catch rate of 255, then throwing bait will take that catch rate down to 127, rather than "canceling out" to give it the same catch rate as before.

Since the capture chance maxes out when the catch rate is 150 as explained above, there is no point throwing rocks at any Pokémon with an intrinsic catch rate of 150 or more, or more than one rock at a Pokémon with a catch rate of 75 or more, or more than two rocks at one with a catch rate of 38 or more. As it happens that covers all Pokémon that can be found in the Safari Zone except for Chansey (catch rate 30) and Dragonair (catch rate 27 in Yellow), who would need three rocks to go over 150.

Secondly, while a battle in the Safari Zone is going on, the game also keeps track of two counters, the "angry counter" and the "eating counter", which stand for the number of angry or eating turns the Pokémon has left. They both start out at zero; however, when a rock or bait is thrown, a random number between 1 and 5 inclusive will be generated and added to the appropriate counter (i.e. the angry counter if it's a rock, or the eating counter if it's bait), while the other counter will be reset to zero regardless of its previous value. This means only one of the counters can be nonzero at any given time. Since the random number is added to whatever value the counter already has, throwing further rocks at a Pokémon that is already angry will prolong its angry state, and likewise with throwing bait at an eating Pokémon. The eating and angry counters are both capped at 255.

The Pokémon's Turn

You always get the first turn in the Safari Zone, but on the Pokémon's turn, two things happen.

First, the game will check if either of the angry and eating counters is nonzero. If so, then a message saying "Wild [Pokémon] is angry!" or "Wild [Pokémon] is eating!" as appropriate is shown and the counter is decreased by one. If the angry counter is decreased to zero this way, the Pokémon's catch rate will also be reset to its initial catch rate , regardless of how it has been modified in the battle before this point; note that this last bit does not happen when a Pokémon stops eating, nor when the angry counter is reset to zero because you threw a bait.

After this, the game will perform a calculation to determine whether the Pokémon will run away on this turn. The run chance depends only on which state the Pokémon is in - angry, eating or neutral - but not on how many times you've thrown rocks/bait in any way: a Pokémon that you've thrown five rocks at followed by one bait will be exactly as happy to stick around as one that you threw a bait at on the first turn. Note that the Pokémon's actual current state does not necessarily correspond to the state indicated by the message that was just shown, since the message indicates only that the counter in question was nonzero before it was subtracted from. This also means that if you throw a rock or bait and the random number generated is 1, you will see an angry/eating message, but the Pokémon will in fact be back in its neutral state before even the run check is performed.

The run calculation itself goes as follows:

  • Make a variable X equal to the low byte (i.e. the remainder if you divide by 256) of the Pokémon's Speed ( not the base Speed of the species, but the individual's actual Speed).
  • If the outcome is greater than 255 (i.e. if the Pokémon's Speed was 128 or more), the Pokémon automatically runs. Skip the rest of the procedure.
  • If the Pokémon is angry, double X again (if it becomes greater than 255, make it 255 instead).
  • If the Pokémon is eating, divide X by four.
  • Generate a random number R between 0 and 255 inclusive.
  • If R is less than X, the Pokémon runs away.

All in all, this means that so long as (the low byte of) the Pokémon's Speed is less than 128 (which it always will be in the actual game - the highest Speed any Pokémon actually found in the Safari Zone can have is 75), the chance that it will run is 2*Speed/256 if it's in a neutral state, min(255, 4*Speed)/256 if it's angry, or int(Speed/2)/256 if it's eating.

Crucially, since this is the actual individual Speed and not the base Speed of the species, lower-leveled individuals are less likely to run . While Scyther at level 25 or 28 have around or above a 50% chance of running every turn in a neutral state, for instance, Yellow's level 15 Scyther are considerably easier to catch, with only a 32% chance of running in a neutral state at the most. Thus, perhaps the best piece of strategic advice for the Safari Zone is to go for the lowest-leveled possible version of your desired Pokémon, given the lower-leveled version isn't unacceptably rare.

So, well, how should one go about trying to achieve success in the Safari Zone, other than trying to catch lower-leveled Pokémon? Four basic kinds of strategies come to mind:

  • Balls only. This is the simplest way to go about the Safari Zone - just madly lob balls at everything you want to catch and pray that they don't run before you catch them.
  • Rocks, then balls. Throw some sensible number of rocks, then lob balls and hope you catch it before it either runs or calms down and resets the catch rate. If you see it's not angry anymore, start again from scratch with the rocks.
  • Bait, then balls. Throw some bait to put the Pokémon in the eating state and make it stick around, then throw balls and hope the reduced catch rate doesn't come back to bite you. Unlike with rocks, where once the Pokémon stops being angry you're back at square one, it's not quite as obvious here that you should throw more bait once the Pokémon stops eating - each bait you throw lowers the catch rate more, after all.
  • Rocks to increase catch rate, then bait to get it to stay, then balls. Throw a rock or two (or three) and then immediately throw bait. Provided your first rock doesn't generate one as the number of angry turns (in which case the Pokémon will calm down immediately and reset the catch rate), you'll manage to increase the Pokémon's catch rate before the bait gets thrown, meaning you end up with a catch rate of the same, double or quadruple the original (depending on the number of rocks), but a 4x reduced chance of running and assurance that the catch rate won't reset when it returns to the neutral state.

There are other possible strategies, but they appear obviously flawed - if you were to throw bait and then a rock, for instance, you'd end up with a normal catch rate but a higher running chance after wasting two turns, which can't possibly be helpful. These are the main ones that at a glance appear to hold some kind of promise.

You may think, as I did when I was initially working this out, that the fourth strategy has the most potential. However, as it turns out, the R/B/Y Safari Zone is broken: the balls-only strategy nearly always wins by a considerable margin, at least in terms of your overall chance of catching the Pokémon per encounter. Wasting your time on bait and rocks is only worth it in a couple of very exceptional cases.

Wait, What?

Good question. If you don't care about getting an intuitive grasp on why this is true, feel free to skip to the Safari Zone calculator.

Here's the thing. The entire Safari Zone experience basically simplifies to a game where you and the Pokémon alternate turns, with each of you having a given chance of "winning" on each of your turns (you win if you catch the Pokémon, while the Pokémon wins if it runs). When you throw bait or a rock, however, you do that instead of throwing a ball on that turn, while the Pokémon will continue to have a chance of running on every single one of its turns; essentially, you are forgoing one of your turns (attempts to "win") in exchange for a later advantage.

What is that later advantage, then, and is it worth losing that turn? Well, in the case of a rock, you double your chances of winning (catching the Pokémon) for up to four subsequent turns - but you also double the Pokémon's chances of winning (running away), and because you used up your turn throwing the rock, it's the Pokémon that has the next move.

You can hopefully see how that's not really a recipe for success. However, it's not quite as bleak as it appears, thanks to the one place where the simplification breaks down: you have a limited number of Safari Balls. A rock, by doubling both yours and the Pokémon's chances of winning each turn, will shorten the average duration of the battle. Thus, if you have sufficiently few balls and the Pokémon has a sufficiently low catch rate and Speed, to the point that in an average battle against it you'd run out of balls before either catching it or it running, throwing a rock and shortening the battle so your balls will last can actually be worth it, even at the aforementioned cost. For instance, if you only have one Safari Ball left, then you can either throw that one ball with a regular catch rate or throw some rocks first, which will make your single ball much more likely to be effective once you do throw it; you'll only get one attempt to catch it either way. The risks will still outweigh the benefits if the Pokémon is pretty speedy, since then it will be likely to run before you can actually throw the ball at all, but for a sufficiently slow target (for a single Safari Ball, the highest Speed where a rock will be worth it is 25 or so), rocks can be a good idea when you don't have a lot of Safari Balls left.

Throwing multiple rocks can also help, at least in theory, since more rocks will continue to double your chances of catching the Pokémon without raising the running chance further. Primarily, in many of those situations where a lack of Safari Balls means one rock is a good idea, two (or possibly three) rocks improve your chances even further, though the range of situations where this works is even narrower than for one rock. Technically multiple rocks can also help in general for Pokémon with very low Speeds and low catch rates - however, that's low Speeds as in single digits, and no Pokémon that fit the bill are actually found in the Safari Zone, making that point kind of moot. Otherwise, if you have plenty of balls to spare, the free angry turns they usually get to run away before you even start trying to catch them just result in a disadvantage you can't make up for.

What about bait? Bait is immediately somewhat more promising than rocks, since it halves your chance of "winning" but quarters the Pokémon's. However, bait also differs from rocks in that the catch rate doesn't go back to normal after the Pokémon stops eating, and just like rocks shorten the duration of the battle, bait prolongs the battle - it makes both parties less likely to win on subsequent turns. And the longer the battle goes on, the more the up-to-four turns (remember, the counter is decreased before the run check) that the Pokémon is actually less likely to run diminish in significance compared to all the turns after the Pokémon stops eating, when it will still have a lowered catch rate but a regular chance of running. That's besides the fact that again you must forgo a turn to throw the bait in the first place. In fact, as it turns out this makes bait wholly useless: there is not even in theory a Speed/catch rate combination for which bait will do you any good.

Where does this leave that especially promising-looking "rocks, then bait" strategy? Ultimately, it's stuck in the same rut rocks are: it's normally only useful for Pokémon with such ludicrously low Speed that they don't actually exist in the Safari Zone, and unfortunately, while rocks at least have a niche when you're running low on balls, you're always going to be better off just throwing however many rocks you're going to throw and then throwing your ball than throwing the rocks and then wasting your time on bait if you only have a couple of balls left. This strategy requires wasting several turns without throwing any balls, during some of which the Pokémon will have an increased chance of running, and to make matters worse, if the number of angry turns generated is one, you're going to lose even the rock's advantage and end up with the bait's lowered catch rate after all that preparation. It just kills it.

So, again, in nearly every case the best strategy is to just throw balls and hope you get lucky. That is, however, assuming that what you want to maximize is your chance of success per encounter: since rocks shorten the battle and make for fewer Safari Balls required, rocks may actually save you time and money.

The Safari Zone calculator below includes a variety of strategies, despite their mostly limited usefulness; play around with it if you think you might go with a different one.

Safari Zone Calculator

Use this tool to calculate your chances of capturing a given Pokémon.

As it is, it only includes Pokémon that are actually found in the Safari Zone in either Red, Blue, Yellow, or the Japanese-exclusive Blue version. If there is demand for adding other Pokémon just for the hell of it, I can do that too, but in the meantime, I feel this makes more sense.

In addition to your chances of capturing the Pokémon with any or all of the provided strategies, the calculator will also provide you with the basic capture rate and run chance per turn. When you select a Pokémon and game, additionally, it will give you the locations, levels and rarities at which the Pokémon is found in the Safari Zone in that game, so that you can perhaps attempt to find your Pokémon at a lower level or in an area where it's more common.

The base percentages the calculator gives may not match exactly up with those given by my R/B/Y catch rate calculator , since this calculator makes the simplifying assumption that the Pokémon's HP and Speed are equal to the average HP/Speed a wild Pokémon of the given species/level would have, while the catch rate calculator does the entire calculation for each possible HP IV and takes the average of the actual outcomes. I chose not to do the more accurate calculation here because this calculation is both already relatively slow and involves two different stats - trying every possibility would mean doing that whole relatively slow calculation up to 256 times, which just seems like way more trouble than it's worth.

Pokémon: Chansey Cubone Doduo Dragonair Dratini Exeggcute Goldeen Kangaskhan Krabby Lickitung Magikarp Marowak Nidoran (f) Nidoran (m) Nidorina Nidorino Paras Parasect Pinsir Poliwag Psyduck Rhyhorn Scyther Slowpoke Tangela Tauros Venomoth Venonat

Game: Red Blue/JP Green JP Blue Yellow

Safari Balls remaining:

Strategy: Show all Balls only One rock Two rocks Three rocks Bait repeatedly One bait Two bait Three bait Rock, then bait Two rocks, then bait Three rocks, then bait

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Pokémon GO

September 5, 2017

Pokémon go safari zone event updates, new dates and more.

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The first series of Pokémon GO Safari Zone events in Europe are just around the corner! On September 16, official Pokémon GO Safari Zone activities will be taking place at Unibail-Rodamco Shopping Centres located at CentrO in Oberhausen (Germany), Les Quatre Temps in Paris (France) and La Maquinista in Barcelona (Spain).

At each Pokémon GO Safari Zone event, Trainers will receive an in-game medal and special 2 km Eggs from the various PokéStops found at each of these shopping centers. Lures will be activated all day at each PokéStop at the event so Trainers can catch Pokémon together, including Kangaskhan, Chansey, Larvitar, and others. Trainers in the area may even spot Shiny Pikachu, Shiny Magikarp, and various forms of Unown! In order to optimize the experience for all Trainers attending, Gym and Raid Battles will not be available at these shopping centers during the events.

The Pokémon GO Safari Zone events will give Trainers the chance to meet one another and catch up in the team lounges. Attendees will also receive Trainer kits for joining the day’s Pokémon-catching activities. Throughout each of the participating shopping centers, special offers for Pokémon GO Trainers will be available in select stores.

Trainers will soon be able to reserve free, nontransferable tickets to each of the Pokémon GO Safari Zone events taking place on September 16. To receive a QR Code, which is required to participate in the event, the person who claims the ticket must be over the age of 13 and be present with a valid photo ID.

In addition, Trainers who were unable to get tickets will be able to discover and catch some of the Pokémon found at the Pokémon GO Safari Zones events throughout the city where the shopping center is located. We hope everyone will get a chance to explore these amazing cities while looking for Pokémon!

Visit your local shopping center’s Facebook page for information on reserving a ticket to the Pokémon GO Safari Zone events in Oberhausen, Germany; Paris, France; and Barcelona, Spain on September 16.

We’re also happy to announce the new dates for the Pokémon GO Safari Zone events in Denmark, Czech Republic, Sweden and The Netherlands. These dates now include:

  • Fisketorvet—Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Centrum Černý Most—Prague, The Czech Republic
  • Mall of Scandinavia—Stockholm, Sweden
  • Stadshart Amstelveen—Amstelveen, The Netherlands

We’ll be revealing more information on tickets for these events soon. Please visit the local shopping center’s Facebook pages for updates.

We’re looking forward to meeting and catching Pokémon with all of the Trainers able to join us!

—The Pokémon GO team

Ramadan 2024: Fasting hours and iftar times around the world

The dawn-to-dusk fast lasts anywhere from 12 to 17 hours, depending on where in the world you are.

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Following the  sighting  of the crescent by the moon-sighting committee, Saudi Arabia has announced that the first day of fasting will be Monday, March 11.

The dawn-to-dusk fast lasts anywhere from 12 to 17 hours, depending on which part of the world you are in.

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Muslims believe that Ramadan is the month when the first verses of the holy book Quran were revealed to the Prophet Muhammad more than 1,400 years ago.

The fast entails abstinence from eating, drinking, smoking and sexual relations during daylight hours to achieve greater “taqwa”, or consciousness of God.

Why does Ramadan start on different dates every year?

Ramadan begins 10 to 12 days earlier each year. This is because the Islamic calendar is based on the lunar Hijri calendar with months that are 29 or 30 days long.

Because the lunar year is shorter than the solar year by 11 days, Ramadan will be observed twice in the year 2030 – first beginning on January 5 and then starting on December 26.

The next time Ramadan will start after March 12 will be 33 years from now – in the year 2057.

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Fasting hours around the world

The number of daylight hours varies across the world.

Muslims living in the world’s southernmost countries, such as Chile or New Zealand, will fast for about 12 hours, while those living in northernmost countries, such as Iceland or Greenland, will have 17-plus hours fasts.

For Muslims living in the Northern Hemisphere, the number of fasting hours will be a bit shorter this year and will continue to decrease until 2031, which is the year Ramadan will encompass the winter solstice – the shortest day of the year. After that, fasting hours will increase until the summer solstice – the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere.

For fasting Muslims living south of the equator, the opposite will happen.

In extreme northernmost cities, such as Longyearbyen in Norway, where the sun does not set from April 20 to August 22, religious rulings have been issued to follow timings in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, or the nearest Muslim country.

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Cities that share the same iftar times

The predawn meal to start the daily fast is called suhoor, while the breaking of one’s fast after sunset is called iftar.

Cities situated roughly along the same longitude will have similar iftar times, while those on the opposite side of the globe will be preparing to start their fast with suhoor.

The infographic below shows which cities are having suhoor while others are having their iftar.

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Fasting times around the world

The table below shows the suhoor and iftar times on the first and last days of Ramadan 2024. Use the arrows or search box to find your city.

Which cities have the longest and shortest fasting hours?

Below are the average number of fasting hours in cities around the world. Actual fasting hours and times will vary by day, as well as calculation methods:

– Nuuk, Greenland: 16 hours – Reykjavik, Iceland: 16 hours – Helsinki, Finland: 15 hours – Oslo, Norway: 15 hours – Glasgow, Scotland: 15 hours – Berlin, Germany: 15 hours – Dublin, Ireland: 15 hours – Moscow, Russia: 15 hours – Amsterdam, the Netherlands: 15 hours – Warsaw, Poland: 15 hours – Astana, Kazakhstan: 15 hours

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– Brussels, Belgium: 14 hours – London, UK: 14 hours – Zurich, Switzerland: 14 hours – Stockholm, Sweden: 14 hours – Bucharest, Romania: 14 hours – Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina: 14 hours – Sofia, Bulgaria: 14 hours – Rome, Italy: 14 hours – Madrid, Spain: 14 hours – Paris, France: 14 hours – Lisbon, Portugal: 14 hours – Ankara, Turkey: 14 hours – Ottawa, Canada: 14 hours – Tokyo, Japan: 14 hours – Beijing, China: 14 hours – Athens, Greece: 14 hours – New York City, US: 14 hours – Washington, DC, US: 14 hours – Los Angeles, US: 14 hours – Tunis, Tunisia: 14 hours – Algiers, Algeria: 14 hours – Tehran, Iran: 14 hours – Kabul, Afghanistan: 14 hours – New Delhi, India: 14 hours – Dhaka, Bangladesh: 14 hours – Rabat, Morocco: 14 hours – Damascus, Syria: 14 hours – Islamabad, Pakistan: 14 hours – Baghdad, Iraq: 14 hours – Beirut, Lebanon: 14 hours – Amman, Jordan: 14 hours – Gaza City, Palestine: 14 hours – Cairo, Egypt: 14 hours – Doha, Qatar: 13 hours – Dubai, UAE: 13 hours – Khartoum, Sudan: 13 hours – Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: 13 hours – Abuja, Nigeria: 13 hours – Aden, Yemen: 13 hours – Dakar, Senegal: 13 hours – Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: 13 hours – Buenos Aires, Argentina: 13 hours – Colombo, Sri Lanka: 13 hours – Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: 13 hours – Mogadishu, Somalia: 13 hours – Ciudad del Este, Paraguay: 13 hours – Nairobi, Kenya: 13 hours

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– Harare, Zimbabwe: 13 hours – Jakarta, Indonesia: 13 hours – Luanda, Angola: 13 hours – Bangkok, Thailand: 13 hours – Brasilia, Brazil: 13 hours – Johannesburg, South Africa: 13 hours – Montevideo, Uruguay: 13 hours – Canberra, Australia: 13 hours – Puerto Montt, Chile: 13 hours – Christchurch, New Zealand: 13 hours

Ramadan greetings in different languages

Various Muslim-majority nations have a personalised greeting in their native languages.

“Ramadan Mubarak” and “Ramadan Kareem” are the most common greetings exchanged in this period, wishing the recipient a blessed and generous month, respectively.

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Latitude varies from −90° to 90°. The latitude of the Equator is 0°; the latitude of the South Pole is −90°; the latitude of the North Pole is 90°. Positive latitude values correspond to the geographic locations north of the Equator (abbrev. N). Negative latitude values correspond to the geographic locations south of the Equator (abbrev. S).

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“Oppenheimer,” the biopic that became an unlikely box-office sensation, was crowned best picture at the 2024 Oscars — and took home six other awards, including best actor for Cillian Murphy , best supporting actor for Robert Downey Jr. and best director for Christopher Nolan .

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  • Winners: “Poor Things” was next behind “Oppenheimer” with four wins, including a best actress title for Emma Stone . See the AP’s full list of winners.
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Emma Stone accepts the award for best performance by an actress in a leading role for "Poor Things" during the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

The Academy Awards were full of sure-things, long-awaited anointments and easy predictions. The “Oppenheimer” romp . Ryan Gosling’s Ken stealing the show. That put even more focus on the category that was hardest to call: best actress.

When Emma Stone was announced as the winner , a ceremony light on surprise got a genuine shock, perfectly illustrated by Stone’s stunned expression. Stone’s win, for her sensational performance in “Poor Things,” was hard not to cast as a defeat for Lily Gladstone. The “Killers of the Flower Moon” actress had been picked by most prognosticators and — as everyone knew — history hung in the balance. Her win would have been the first for a Native American in the nearly century-long history of the Oscars.

It was a difficult to define result. It wasn’t quite an upset — Stone’s performance, equally favored, was too good to call it that. But it still stung, particularly for Native Americans watching across the country – a community that has watched Hollywood for most of its existence overlook its stories and performers.

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Ayo Edebiri accepts the award for best actress in a comedy series for “The Bear” during the 29th Critics Choice Awards on Sunday, Jan. 14, 2024, at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, Calif. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

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Ryan Gosling performs the song "I'm Just Ken" from the movie "Barbie" during the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Ryan Gosling performs the song “I’m Just Ken” from the movie “Barbie” during the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

The same woman was behind two of the most iconic concerts of our recent times: Ryan Gosling and many Kens’ performance of “I’m Just Ken” at the Oscars — and Taylor Swift’s ongoing Eras tour.

The choreographer for both is Mandy Moore , not to be confused with the “This Is Us” actor of the same name.

Moore has three Emmys and, according to her bio, became the first to choreograph the Golden Globes, Oscars, Emmys and Grammys all in the same year (2017). She’s also worked with Gosling before, having choreographed him and Emma Stone in “La La Land.”

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Yvonne McGuinness, left, and Cillian Murphy arrive at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Cillian Murphy poses for a portrait during the 96th Academy Awards Oscar nominees luncheon on Monday, Feb. 12, 2024, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Cillian Murphy, winner of the leading actor award for ‘Oppenheimer’, poses for photographers at the 77th British Academy Film Awards, BAFTA’s, in London, Sunday, Feb. 18, 2024. (Photo by Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP)

Cillian Murphy, winner of the awards for outstanding performance by a male actor in a leading role and outstanding performance by a cast in a motion picture for “Oppenheimer,” poses in the press room during the 30th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards on Saturday, Feb. 24, 2024, at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Cillian Murphy, from left, Emily Blunt, and Robert Downey Jr. arrive at the 35th Annual Producers Guild Awards on Sunday, Feb. 25, 2024, at The Ray Dolby Ballroom in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

Is the “Oppenheimer” star the anti-Ken? Look no further than Cillian Murphy’s sheer shirt and black pinstripe Saint Laurent suit at the film’s London premiere. More dark pinstripes from the same design house followed at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, this time with a loose bow at the neck. The man loves a pinstripe. In lots of neutrals, he’s been the perfect counter to all that sugary pink over at “Barbie.” Swipe for his best looks from this awards season.

▶ Read more about Murphy’s style and see our other MVPs.

Volodymyr Nikulin, Mariupol police officer who helped AP journalists during the siege of the city said “I am very happy for my friends, for the team that received an Oscar, for our country.” (AP video shot by Anton Shtuka)

Da'Vine Joy Randolph poses in the press room with the award for best performance by an actress in a supporting role for "The Holdovers" at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Da’Vine Joy Randolph poses in the press room with the award for best performance by an actress in a supporting role for “The Holdovers” at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Da’Vine Joy Randolph arrives at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Da’Vine Joy Randolph poses with the award for the breakthrough performance for “The Holdovers” in the press room at the 35th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards Gala on Thursday, Jan. 4, 2024, in Palm Springs, Calif. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Da’Vine Joy Randolph arrives at the Film Independent Spirit Awards on Sunday, Feb. 25, 2024, in Santa Monica, Calif. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Da’Vine Joy Randolph arrives at the Governors Awards on Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2024, at the Dolby Ballroom in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Da’Vine Joy Randolph poses in the press room with the award for best performance by an actress in a supporting role in any motion picture for “The Holdovers” at the 81st Golden Globe Awards on Sunday, Jan. 7, 2024, at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, Calif. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Da’Vine Joy Randolph, recipient of the Supporting Actress Award - Film for her performance in “The Holdovers,” poses at the Critics Choice Association’s Celebration of Cinema and Television: Honoring Black, Latino and AAPI Achievements, Monday, Dec. 4, 2023, at Fairmont Century Plaza in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Da’Vine Joy Randolph poses for photographers upon arrival at the 77th British Academy Film Awards, BAFTA’s, in London, Sunday, Feb. 18, 2024. (Photo by Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP)

Da’Vine Joy Randolph accepts the award for best supporting actress for “The Holdovers” during the 29th Critics Choice Awards on Sunday, Jan. 14, 2024, at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, Calif. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Da’Vine Joy Randolph arrives at the 96th Academy Awards Oscar nominees luncheon on Monday, Feb. 12, 2024, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Da’vine Joy Randolph poses in the press room with the award for outstanding performance by a female actor in a supporting role for “The Holdovers” during the 30th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards on Saturday, Feb. 24, 2024, at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Da’vine Joy Randolph attends the Gotham Independent Film Awards at Cipriani Wall Street on Monday, Nov. 27, 2023, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

It was a draped ivory mermaid gown with 3D roses at the neck at the Screen Actors Guild Awards for this longtime lover of fashion and co-star of “The Holdovers.” It was by Valdrin Sahiti. At the British Film Academy Awards, Da’Vine Joy Randolph wowed in a colorblock peach-and-black body-hugger by Robert Wun. The fashion spotlight has been soaking up Randolph and the drama she has provided. She picked up a supporting actress Oscar in a custom Louis Vuitton gown in pale blue with oversize, fringed sleeves. Swipe to see some of her best looks.

▶ Read more about Randolph’s style and see our other MVPs.

The humble In-N-Out burger.

Just won an Oscar? Want to let loose in an almost ... animal style? The Vanity Fair afterparty might be the perfect stop for you, with its overflowing trays of Southern California’s beloved In-N-Out burgers.

AP’s Andrew Dalton is a regular attendee of the fetes through the years, and makes sure to note the easily scarfable staple’s presence in his dispatches.

Stars including Christopher Nolan, Florence Pugh, Margot Robbie, Michelle Yeoh, Cardi B, Charlize Theron, Chris Evans, Camila Cabello hit up the Vanity Fair party after the Oscars. (March 11)

This year, Christopher Nolan and Emma Thomas found a couch near the dance floor with their two children and their statuettes in tow. They were immediately met by a woman bearing a tray of burgers, Dalton reported.

Last year, he saw Daniel Scheinert , with none of the three Oscars he won nor his partner Daniel Kwan in sight, standing outside and eating a burger as he bopped up and down to House of Pain’s “Jump Around.”

Back in 2018, Dalton bore witness to best actress winner Frances McDormand struggling to get through her burger because of well-wishers that included a fawning Jon Hamm. Her husband, Joel Coen, had an easier time chowing down nearby.

Lily Gladstone arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Lily Gladstone arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Lily Gladstone, left, and Leonardo DiCaprio arrive at the 81st Golden Globe Awards on Sunday, Jan. 7, 2024, at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Lily Gladstone arrives at the 29th Critics Choice Awards on Sunday, Jan. 14, 2024, at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, Calif. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Actor Lily Gladstone poses at the 26th Costume Designers Guild Awards at NeueHouse Hollywood, Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Lily Gladstone presents the Robert Altman award during the Film Independent Spirit Awards on Sunday, Feb. 25, 2024, in Santa Monica, Calif. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Best actress honoree for “Killers of the Flower Moon” Lily Gladstone attends the New York Film Critics Circle Awards at Tao Downtown on Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2024, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Lily Gladstone accepts the award for outstanding performance by a female actor in a leading role for “Killers of the Flower Moon” during the 30th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards on Saturday, Feb. 24, 2024, at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Best Actress nominee Lily Gladstone is photographed during a celebration of the 10-time Academy Award-nominated film “Killers of the Flower Moon” at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, Friday, Jan. 26, 2024 in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)

Lily Gladstone arrives at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Robert De Niro, from left, Martin Scorsese, Lily Gladstone, and Leonardo DiCaprio, winners of the vanguard award for “Killers of the Flower Moon”, pose in the press room at the 35th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards Gala on Thursday, Jan. 4, 2024, in Palm Springs, Calif. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Lily Gladstone arrives at the 96th Academy Awards Oscar nominees luncheon on Monday, Feb. 12, 2024, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

The Indigenous actor and recent British Vogue cover star has approached her red carpet coming-out with intention, supporting Indigenous jewelry designers while promoting “Killers of the Flower Moon.” At the Golden Globes , Lily Gladstone paired her Valentino gown and cape with beaded earrings by Lenise Omeasoo, who is Blackfeet and Cree. Swipe to see her best looks from this awards season.

▶ Read more about Gladstone’s style and see our other MVPs.

Al Pacino presents the award for best picture during the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Al Pacino presents the award for best picture during the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

His Oscars presentation may have seemed to some a little off this year, but Al Pacino has had plenty of time to polish up a long-awaited project.

The celebrated actor has a memoir coming out Oct. 8, Penguin Press announced Monday.

The publisher is called the book “an astonishingly revelatory account of a creative life in full,” including his account of such classics as “The Godfather,” “Serpico” and “Dog Day Afternoon.”

Pacino, 83, said in a statement, that he wanted “to express what I’ve seen and been through in my life.”

Colman Domingo arrives at the 29th Critics Choice Awards on Sunday, Jan. 14, 2024, at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, Calif. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Colman Domingo arrives at the 29th Critics Choice Awards on Sunday, Jan. 14, 2024, at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, Calif. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Colman Domingo arrives at the 30th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards on Saturday, Feb. 24, 2024, at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Colman Domingo arrives at the 81st Golden Globe Awards on Sunday, Jan. 7, 2024, at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Colman Domingo arrives at the Film Independent Spirit Awards on Sunday, Feb. 25, 2024, in Santa Monica, Calif. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Colman Domingo, winner of the spotlight actor award for “Rustin”, left, and Lenny Kravitz pose in the press room at the 35th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards Gala on Thursday, Jan. 4, 2024, in Palm Springs, Calif. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Colman Domingo, left, and Fantasia Barrino pose for photographers upon arrival at the 77th British Academy Film Awards, BAFTA’s, in London, Sunday, Feb. 18, 2024. (Photo by Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP)

Colman Domingo arrives at the 96th Academy Awards Oscar nominees luncheon on Monday, Feb. 12, 2024, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Hannah Waddingham, left, and Colman Domingo present the Governors Award during the 75th Primetime Emmy Awards on Monday, Jan. 15, 2024, at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Colman Domingo arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

Whether it’s a textured gold coat and mustard yellow suit by Valentino Haute Couture at the Critics Choice Awards or a custom black Louis Vuitton tuxedo and brooches at the Emmys, the star of “Rustin” has left no fashion crumbs. Colman Domingo has offered a new vision of how a leading man can dress. Swipe to see his best looks from this awards season.

▶ Read more about Domingo’s style and see our other MVPs.

Florence Pugh arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)

Emma Stone was out in the lobby bar with a glass of champagne in hand when her film “Poor Things” won best production design. She yelped out and jumped up and down and attentively watched the speech.

She then turned to Florence Pugh, standing nearby and the two talked animatedly about Pugh’s “sprinkled dress.”

John Cena presents the award for best costume design during the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

John Cena presents the award for best costume design during the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

All of a sudden, Pugh laughed and looked up at the monitor to see an almost naked John Cena. “Oooh it’s because he looks like the Oscar!”

A few seconds later “Poor Things” also won for costume design and Stone jumped and screamed again.

“I’m missing all of them,” she cried. “It’s not OK, it’s bad, I’m going home.”

▶ Read more about what you couldn’t see on the telecast, as well as the craft that went into “Poor Things.”

So you took a spin through our film writers’ Oscars prediction interactive before the big show. Maybe you used it to fill out your own ballot. Let’s see how our predictions stacked up with the results.

Of the 23 categories, Lindsey Bahr correctly predicted 16 and Jake Coyle correctly predicted 18. While their picks mostly aligned with each other, Lindsey alone correctly called best actress, animated film and sound. Jake got the edge on the screenplay categories, production design, visual effects and documentary short. The only misses for both were in makeup and hairstyling and animated short.

Arthur Harari, left, and Justine Triet accept the award for best original screenplay for "Anatomy of a Fall" during the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Arthur Harari, left, and Justine Triet accept the award for best original screenplay for “Anatomy of a Fall” during the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Of the six couples up for Oscars together, two pairs came away with statuettes. Here’s how these marriage (or, in one case, partnership) stories played out:

  • Original screenplay: Justine Triet and Arthur Harari, the longtime partners and co-parents behind “Anatomy of a Fall”
  • Best picture: Emma Thomas and Christopher Nolan, the married producing partners of “Oppenheimer.” Nolan also won best director, making it a couple of trophies for the couple

OTHER NOMINEES

  • Adapted screenplay: Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach for “Barbie”
  • Best picture: Margot Robbie and Tom Ackerley for “Barbie”
  • Original screenplay: Samy Burch and Alex Mechanik for “May December”
  • Animated short: Jerusha Hess and Jared Hess for “Ninety-Five Senses”

America Ferrera, left, and Da'Vine Joy Randolph take a selfie during the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

America Ferrera, left, and Da’Vine Joy Randolph take a selfie during the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

There is a whole other show that happens offscreen at the Oscars that the home audience doesn’t see on television. Here’s a selection of what The Associated Press saw :

  • Martin Scorsese, Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling were among the last to take their seats, while Carey Mulligan missed the cutoff and spent the beginning of the show standing off to the side.
  • At the first commercial break, longtime friends Emma Stone and Jennifer Lawrence found each other, while Greta Gerwig beelined to her stars Robbie and America Ferrera .
  • About a half hour before Gosling turned the Oscars into a wildly fun concert, the Kens were out in the lobby warming up. Clad in cowboy hats, some were stretching, some running in place, and all were finding their Kenergy.
  • On the way to the Governors Ball, Cord Jefferson was beaming as he walked through the lobby, jumping and clutching his Oscar. Kate McKinnon had a moment with Marlee Matlin and Steven Spielberg made his way out in a mask.

▶ Read more about what you missed inside the Oscars.

Mstyslav Chernov accepts the award for best documentary feature film for "20 Days in Mariupol" during the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Ukraine awoke Monday to another day of war — Russian drones blasted buildings in the Kharkiv and Odesa regions — but also the news it had won its first Oscar.

The best documentary victory for Mstyslav Chernov’s “20 Days in Mariupol,” a harrowing first-person account by The Associated Press journalist of the early days of Russia’s invasion in 2022, was bittersweet.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy: “The horrors of Mariupol must never be forgotten. The entire world must see and remember what the inhumane Russian invasion brought to our people.”

Volodymyr Nikulin, a police officer featured prominently in the film: “Right now, we may be facing a similarly challenging moment. But this film has shown that we can defend our country, that we are united.”

Dmytro Lubinets, Ukraine’s human rights chief: “This awards ceremony is an opportunity to address millions of people. This is what the film director did by mentioning the occupation, prisoners of war, killing of Ukrainians by Russia, and illegal abduction of civilians.”

▶ Read more on the reaction inside Ukraine to the Oscar win.

Lily Gladstone arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Lily Gladstone arrives at the Oscars. (AP Photo/John Locher)

This year’s red carpet season failed to disappoint, fashion-wise. There was plenty of drama, personal style and new takes on Old Hollywood.

Among the standouts were Colman Domingo, Lily Gladstone, Ayo Edebiri and Greta Lee. Each made their fashion moments their own, with many collecting trophies along the way.

▶ See who else stood out on the red carpet

Mark Ruffalo arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

Mark Ruffalo arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

On the red carpet, Mark Ruffalo, Billie Eilish, Ramy Youssef, Ava DuVernay and others donned red pins in support for a cease-fire in Gaza.

The bold design features a single hand holding a heart and was organized by the group Artists4Ceasefire.

▶ Read more about the moments that made this year’s Oscars.

The “Oppenheimer” crowd were hardly the hardest partiers at the Vanity Fair post- Oscars party on Sunday night, but they hardly needed to be, their hardware did all the preening for them.

Christopher Nolan, fresh off his best director win for “Oppenheimer” and his wife, producer Emma Thomas, holding her own statuette for best picture , found a couch near the dance floor with their two children. They were immediately met by a woman bearing a tray of In-N-Out burgers, the signature food at the signature Oscars after-party where end-of-award-season decadence is the norm.

Matthew McConaughey, from left, Jennifer Lawrence, and Camila Alves arrive at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Lawrence, and Camila Alves arrive at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

The party’s guest list always extends well beyond Hollywood into music, fashion, literature and sports.

Serena Williams and LeBron James , who both have had a hand in producing in recent years, each hung out on the party’s patio.

▶ Read more about the Vanity Fair Oscars after-party.

Messi the dog from the film "Anatomy of a Fall" appears in the audience during the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Messi the dog from the film “Anatomy of a Fall” appears in the audience during the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Was Messi there? Was Snoop?

The Oscars on Sunday were probably the only place in the world where one would have been disappointed to see arguably the world’s most famous footballer or a beloved rapper as an answer to those questions.

In the leadup to the awards, the question was whether awards season darling Messi, who played Snoop in “Anatomy of a Fall,” would grace the Dolby Theatre with his presence. There were rumors he was unwelcome after stealing the show at the Oscars luncheon.

Messi the dog from the film "Anatomy of a Fall" appears in the audience during the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

But there were gasps of delight, at least in this newsroom, when the cameras cut to the border collie in the audience during host Jimmy Kimmel’s monologue. And it wasn’t a trick of CGI. The canine star himself was there.

(We spent a considerable amount of time trying to divine what exactly was happening in the second photo, only to realize we were seeing the movie magic behind the paw clap. We were going to ask for your theories, but now we will welcome your amusing captions at [email protected] . They may be included later today in this very blog.)

Emma Thomas, from left, Christopher Nolan, and Charles Roven pose in the press room with the award for best picture for "Oppenheimer" at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Scroll through this live feed — or read our story wrapping up the night: ‘Oppenheimer’ crowned best picture at an Academy Awards shadowed by war

FILE - In this May 11, 2003, file photo, protesters lie on the pavement opposed to the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear storage facility and weapons testing after crossing the line into the Nevada Test Site at Mercury, Nev., and were arrested for trespassing about 70 miles north of Las Vegas. A bipartisan group of lawmakers is renewing the push to expand a federal compensation program for radiation exposure following uranium mining and nuclear testing carried out during the Cold War. Advocates have been trying for years to bring awareness to the lingering effects of nuclear fallout surrounding the Trinity Site in southern New Mexico and on the Navajo Nation, where more than 30 million tons of ore were extracted over decades to support U.S. nuclear activities. (AP Photo/Joe Cavaretta,File)

FILE - In this May 11, 2003, file photo, protesters lie on the pavement opposed to the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear storage facility and weapons testing after crossing the line into the Nevada Test Site at Mercury, Nev., and were arrested for trespassing about 70 miles north of Las Vegas. A bipartisan group of lawmakers is renewing the push to expand a federal compensation program for radiation exposure following uranium mining and nuclear testing carried out during the Cold War. Advocates have been trying for years to bring awareness to the lingering effects of nuclear fallout surrounding the Trinity Site in southern New Mexico and on the Navajo Nation, where more than 30 million tons of ore were extracted over decades to support U.S. nuclear activities. (AP Photo/Joe Cavaretta,File)

With the victories notched by “Oppenheimer” on Oscar night, expect a renewed interest in the real-life fallout of the Manhattan Project.

In July, ahead of the movie’s release, New Mexico correspondent Susan Montoya Bryan wrote a story about the impact on the community downwind from the testing site.

“They’ll never reflect on the fact that New Mexicans gave their lives. They did the dirtiest of jobs. They invaded our lives and our lands and then they left,” Tina Cordova, a cancer survivor and founder of a group of New Mexico downwinders, said of the scientists and military officials who established a secret city in Los Alamos during the 1940s and tested their work at the Trinity Site some 200 miles (322 kilometers) away.

FILE - This photo shows an aerial view after the first atomic explosion at the Trinity Test Site near Alamogordo, N.M., on July 16, 1945. The New Mexico site where the world’s first atomic bomb was detonated is expecting thousands of visitors Saturday due to the popularity of the movie, "Oppenheimer." Trinity Site, a designated National Historic Landmark, only opens to the public twice a year. (AP Photo, File)

FILE - This photo shows an aerial view after the first atomic explosion at the Trinity Test Site near Alamogordo, N.M., on July 16, 1945. The New Mexico site where the world’s first atomic bomb was detonated is expecting thousands of visitors Saturday due to the popularity of the movie, “Oppenheimer.” Trinity Site, a designated National Historic Landmark, only opens to the public twice a year. (AP Photo, File)

While film critics celebrated “Oppenheimer” and officials in Los Alamos prepared for the spotlight to be on their town, downwinders remained frustrated with the U.S. government — and the movie’s producers — for not recognizing their plight.

The Tularosa Basin Downwinders planned to protest outside the gates of the Trinity Site in October, when a record turnout was expected amid the success of “Oppenheimer.”

Just last week, though, the U.S. Senate passed legislation that would compensate Americans exposed to radiation by the government by renewing a law initially passed more than three decades ago, AP’s Mary Clare Jalonick and Jim Salter wrote.

“You know, we are ground zero,” Cordova said then. “We’re where it all started. The origins of the whole nuclear program are in New Mexico, and we were the first people exposed to radiation as a result of an atomic bomb and to be left out for 79 years is just truly unacceptable.”

“People have been waiting for justice for far too long, and it’s just simply time to do the right thing,” she added.

Will Smith, right, hits presenter Chris Rock on stage while presenting the award for best documentary feature at the Oscars on Sunday, March 27, 2022, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Emma Stone had a dress mishap (it was repaired), Al Pacino might have forgotten to list a few best picture nominees (we all knew who the winner was anyway), and John Cena took the stage wearing sandals and evidently nothing else (it was planned).

These Oscars had moments.

But no slaps — and not even a reference to The Slap, either.

Will Smith’s strike of Chris Rock toward the end of the Oscars two years ago wasn’t even mentioned Sunday night, despite being invoked five times during last year’s telecast. There was perhaps one cryptic reference — host Jimmy Kimmel referred to how a streaker at the Oscars 50 years ago “used to be the craziest moment in Oscar history.” He didn’t say what replaced the streaker as the craziest moment; everyone knew what he meant.

But he never said slap. And nobody else on stage did, either. Maybe everyone has moved on.

Michelle Yeoh describes the scene outside the Oscars, where protesters took to the streets calling for a Gaza cease-fire.

This image released by A24 shows Greta Lee in a scene from "Past Lives." (Jon Pack/A24 via AP)

Forty acting performances were recognized at this year’s Oscars, but there were a host of other standouts you may have missed last year, thanks to a combination of the dual strikes and a plethora of great movies.

Here are some non-nominated performances worth revisiting from last summer and last fall :

  • Greta Lee in “Past Lives”
  • Xolo Maridueña in “Blue Beetle”
  • Pom Klementieff in “Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part I”
  • X Mayo in “The Blackening”
  • Jake Ryan in “Asteroid City”
  • Molly Gordon in “Theater Camp”
  • Dominic Sessa in “The Holdovers”
  • Jamie Foxx in “The Burial”
  • Gael García Bernal in “Cassandro”
  • Eve Hewso n in “Flora and Son”
  • Aaron Pierre in “Foe”
  • Phoebe Dynevor and Alden Ehrenreich in “Fair Play”
  • Marshawn Lynch in “Bottoms”

Finneas, left, and Billie Eilish perform "What Was I Made For?" from "Barbie" during the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Finneas, left, and Billie Eilish perform “What Was I Made For?” from “Barbie” during the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

There was talk of war — past conflicts, and current ones — and pleas for peace. There was a painful reminder of the recent death of Alexei Navalny. There were protests outside the Dolby Theatre, calling for a cease-fire in Gaza. And there was a bit of election-year politics, too, from host Jimmy Kimmel.

But the Oscars telecast is always a chaotic mix of moods and tones, and so even on a night ruled by somber themes, where the academy crowned a film about the the atomic bomb, there was also a jolt of joyful silliness when Ryan Gosling took the stage (with a slew of fellow Kens) to sing “I’m Just Ken” from “Barbie.”

▶ Read more about the highlights from the 2024 Oscars

Stars and creators - incuding Cilian Murphy and Zendaya - gathered on the red carpet Sunday for Hollywood’s biggest night, the Academy Awards (March 11)

Hollywood’s big night in Los Angeles included few fashion risks, with many sticking to classic silhouettes, black and other standard colors. Others offered an under-the-sea-vibe in soft seafoam colors with mermaid crystals and shell-like designs.

▶ Read our fashion roundup here.

Raney Aronson-Rath, from left, Vasilisa Stepanenko, Mstyslav Chernov, Evgeniy Maloletka, Michelle Mizner, and Derl McCrudden accept the award for best documentary feature film for "20 Days in Mariupol" during the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Raney Aronson-Rath, from left, Vasilisa Stepanenko, Mstyslav Chernov, Evgeniy Maloletka, Michelle Mizner, and Derl McCrudden accept the award for best documentary feature film for “20 Days in Mariupol” during the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

The Associated Press and PBS’ “Frontline” each won their first Oscar with the victory of “20 Days in Mariupol” in the best documentary category.

Here, read some of the coverage from the besieged Ukrainian port city that won the Pulitzer Prize and formed the basis for the now Oscar-winning documentary.

20 days in Mariupol: The team that documented city’s agony

‘why why why’ ukraine’s mariupol descends into despair, ap evidence points to 600 dead in mariupol theater airstrike, captive medic’s bodycam shows firsthand horror of mariupol.

Cillian Murphy, winner of the award for best performance by an actor in a leading role for "Oppenheimer," from left, Robert Downey Jr., winner of the award for best performance by an actor in a supporting role for "Oppenheimer," Da'Vine Joy Randolph, winner of the award for best performance by an actress in a supporting role for "The Holdovers," and Emma Stone, winner of the award for best performance by an actress in a leading role for "Poor Things," pose in the press room at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Cillian Murphy, winner of the award for best performance by an actor in a leading role for “Oppenheimer,” from left, Robert Downey Jr., winner of the award for best performance by an actor in a supporting role for “Oppenheimer,” Da’Vine Joy Randolph, winner of the award for best performance by an actress in a supporting role for “The Holdovers,” and Emma Stone, winner of the award for best performance by an actress in a leading role for “Poor Things,” pose in the press room at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Robert Downey Jr., winner of the award for best performance by an actor in a supporting role for "Oppenheimer," from left, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, winner of the award for best performance by an actress in a supporting role for "The Holdovers," Emma Stone, winner of the award for best performance by an actress in a leading role for "Poor Things," and Cillian Murphy, winner of the award for best performance by an actor in a leading role for "Oppenheimer," pose in the press room at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Robert Downey Jr., winner of the award for best performance by an actor in a supporting role for “Oppenheimer,” from left, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, winner of the award for best performance by an actress in a supporting role for “The Holdovers,” Emma Stone, winner of the award for best performance by an actress in a leading role for “Poor Things,” and Cillian Murphy, winner of the award for best performance by an actor in a leading role for “Oppenheimer,” pose in the press room at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

This image released by Universal Pictures shows director Christopher Nolan, center, and Cillian Murphy, right, on the set of "Oppenheimer." (Melinda Sue Gordon/Universal Pictures via AP)

This image released by Universal Pictures shows director Christopher Nolan, center, and Cillian Murphy, right, on the set of “Oppenheimer.” (Melinda Sue Gordon/Universal Pictures via AP)

It’s no secret that Christopher Nolan made “Oppenheimer” to be seen on the big screen . But not all big screens are created equal.

That’s part of the reason why Universal Pictures has made “Oppenheimer” tickets available early for over a thousand “premium large format” (or PLF) screens, with options including IMAX 70mm, 70mm, IMAX digital, 35mm, Dolby Cinema and more.

Knowing that even those words can get overwhelming and technical, Nolan went a step further: In an exclusive interview with The Associated Press, he offered a guide to his favorite formats, explaining why it matters and even where he likes to sit so that audiences don’t feel like they need a film school degree (or one in theoretical physics) before settling on a theater.

▶ Read Nolan’s tips for movie-watching.

Martin Scorsese, left, and Francesca Scorsese arrive at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Martin Scorsese, left, and Francesca Scorsese arrive at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon” was shut out at the Oscars after receiving 10 nominations. It’s not an unfamiliar feeling for the legendary director: His 2019 Netflix film “The Irishman” and his 2002 “Gangs of New York” similarly went 0-for-10 at the Academy Awards.

Celine Song’s “Past Lives” and Bradley Cooper’s “Maestro” were similarly shut out, despite earning best picture nods.

Kylie Jenner arrives at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Kylie Jenner arrives at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Jeff Goldblum, left, and Emilie Livingston arrive at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Lauren Sanchez, left, and Jeff Bezos arrive at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Riko Shibata, left, and Nicolas Cage arrive at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Kylie Minogue arrives at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Jessica Lange arrives at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Chloe Sevigny arrives at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Cameron Douglas, left, and Michael Douglas arrive at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Joan Collins arrives at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Emily Ratajkowski arrives at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Jessica Biel, left, and Justin Timberlake arrive at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

John Waters arrives at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Kerry Washington arrives at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Sabrina Carpenter arrives at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Monica Lewinsky arrives at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Usher arrives at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Jennifer Coolidge arrives at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Emily Blunt, left, and John Krasinski arrive at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Salma Hayek, left, and François-Henri Pinault arrive at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Swipe to see arrivals from the likes of Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez to an amorous Jeff Goldblum to a nonchalant John Waters to Chloë Sevigny to Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel to Joan Collins — and more.

Mstyslav Chernov’s “20 Days in Mariupol,” a harrowing first-person account of the early days of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, won the best documentary Oscar on Sunday. A joint production of The Associated Press and PBS’ “Frontline,” statuettes were awarded to Chernov, producer and editor Michelle Mizner and producer Raney Aronson-Rath. The Oscar — and nomination — was a first for both Chernov, an AP video journalist, and the 178-year-old news organization.

President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Janet Yang, left, and CEO of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Bill Kramer poses for a portrait during the 96th Academy Awards Oscar nominees luncheon on Monday, Feb. 12, 2024, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Janet Yang, left, and CEO of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Bill Kramer poses for a portrait during the 96th Academy Awards Oscar nominees luncheon on Monday, Feb. 12, 2024, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

For a few years, the Oscars looked to be hanging on by a thread. Viewership was plummeting . The pandemic didn’t help. And the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the organization behind Hollywood’s biggest night, kept finding itself on the wrong side of the conversation, whether it be #OscarsSoWhite , envelope-gate , the blip that was the popular Oscar , the untelevised awards or the slap .

Then a funny thing happened: Interest started increasing both in and outside the academy. It seemed people were excited about the movies and, they hope, the Oscars again.

“It’s been an amazing year for film in general,” film academy CEO Bill Kramer said in a recent interview with The Associated Press. “Our art form has never been more relevant.”

▶ Read more about the film academy’s renaissance.

Emma Stone said she “blacked out” after winning best actress for her role in “Poor Things.” It was her second career victory in the category.

Watch as Taiwanese American filmmaker Sean Wang celebrates with his team and grandmothers as his “Nǎi Nai and Wài Pó" is nominated for an Academy Award in the documentary short category. (Jan. 23)

That would be 96-year-old Yi Yan Fuei and 86-year-old Chang Li Hua, the stars of the Oscar-nominated documentary short “Nǎi Nai and Wài Pó.”

The film, made by up-and-coming filmmaker Sean Wang, documents his maternal and paternal grandmothers living together. They’re in-laws but act more like sisters — singing songs, arm wrestling, watching “Superbad.” In an earlier interview, they said they thought their grandson was just joking around.

Sean Wang, from left, Chang Li Hua, Sam A. Davis, and Yi Yan Fuei arrive at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Sean Wang, from left, Chang Li Hua, Sam A. Davis, and Yi Yan Fuei arrive at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

“But now that we made this movie and it’s going to the Oscars,” said Chang, “we do kind of feel like movie stars.”

▶ Read more about the documentary short.

There is a whole other show that happens offscreen at the Oscars that the home audience doesn’t see on television.

Among the moments The Associated Press saw that the cameras did not capture: the prep for the epic “I’m Just Ken” performance and how late arrivers like Carey Mulligan were left waiting in the wings to take their seats.

Although “Barbie” didn’t take home many awards (just original song), the film and its stars were a force at the Oscars. Director Greta Gerwig, Margot Robbie and America Ferrera were frequently seen chatting with other guests during breaks in the show.

On her way out of the show, Gerwig offered her review of the “I’m Just Ken” performance, calling it “legendary.”

Lindsay Lohan arrives at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Lindsay Lohan arrives at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

At the Vanity Fair post-Oscars party, Christopher Nola n stood casually holding his best director Oscar and accepting waves of congratulations. His wife, “Oppenheimer” producer Emma Thomas, held her best picture statue and did most of the talking for the pair.

They found a couch near the dance floor with their two children and were immediately met by a woman bearing a tray of In-N-Out burgers, the signature food at the party where end-of-award-season decadence is the norm.

Sydney Sweeney arrives at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

The party in Beverly Hills was in full swing earlier than usual after the ceremony started an hour early and ran on time.

At the entrance, Anya Taylor-Joy greeted Matteo Bocelli, who sang during the ‘In Memoriam’ segment with his father Andrea.

“Were you nervous to sing you did such a beautiful job,” she said.

“Grazie,” he answered.

Others at the party included Usher , Jason Bateman , and John Mulaney and partner Olivia Munn , who held hands as they walked the carpet.

Billie Eilish, Ramy Youssef, Ava DuVernay and other celebrities wore red pins at the Oscars in support for a cease-fire in Gaza. The design featured a single hand holding a heart and was organized by the group Artists4Ceasefire.

Robert Downey Jr., winner of the award for best performance by an actor in a supporting role for "Oppenheimer," attends the Governors Ball after the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Robert Downey Jr., winner of the award for best performance by an actor in a supporting role for “Oppenheimer,” attends the Governors Ball after the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Cillian Murphy, winner of the award for best performance by an actor in a leading role for “Oppenheimer,” left, poses with Mstyslav Chernov, winner of the award for best documentary feature film for “20 Days in Mariupol” at the Governors Ball after the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Greta Gerwig, center, attends the Governors Ball after the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Mark Ruffalo, center, and Sunrise Coigney attend the Governors Ball after the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Holly Waddington, left, winner of the award for best costume design for “Poor Things,” and Shona Heath, winner of the award for best production design for “Poor Things,” attend the Governors Ball after the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Steven Spielberg attends the Governors Ball after the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/John Locher)

James Price, winner of the award for best production design for “Poor Things,” attends the Governors Ball after the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Emma Stone, left, winner of the award for best performance by an actress in a leading role for “Poor Things,” and Dave McCary attend the Governors Ball after the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Ben Proudfoot, left, and Kris Bowers, winners of the award for best documentary short film for “The Last Repair Shop,” attend the Governors Ball after the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Colman Domingo attends the Governors Ball after the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Tatsuji Nojima, from left, Takashi Yamazaki, Kiyoko Shibuya, and Masaki Takahashi, winners of the award for best visual effects for “Godzilla Minus One,” attend the Governors Ball after the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Mstyslav Chernov, winner of the award for best documentary feature film for “20 Days in Mariupol,” left, and Christopher Nolan, winner of the awards for best director and best picture for “Oppenheimer” pose at the Governors Ball after the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Scroll through for photos of Greta Gerwig taking a selfie, Mstyslav Chernov with Cillian Murphy , Emma Stone getting a kiss from husband Dave McCary , and more.

Michelle Yeoh, left, and Ke Huy Quan take a selfie during the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Michelle Yeoh, left, and Ke Huy Quan take a selfie during the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Jennifer Lawrence, left, and Emma Stone speak during the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Colman Domingo, from left, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, and Danielle Brooks speak during the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Lily Gladstone, left, and America Ferrera take a selfie during the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Charlize Theron, center, and Issa Rae speak during the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Robert Downey Jr. reacts as the cast and crew of “Oppenheimer” accept the award for best picture during the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

▶ Read more about how AP Photographer Chris Pizzello gets the perfect shot , every Oscars.

Cillian Murphy took home his first-ever Oscar on Sunday after winning best actor for his role in “Oppenheimer.”

Emma Stone cheers for the Phoenix Suns. Turns out, the Phoenix Suns cheer for Emma Stone as well.

The NBA team sent the now two-time best actress winner a congratulatory post on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, on Sunday night after she won her Oscar. It was a video clip of Stone, wearing a Suns hat, sitting courtside at a game between Phoenix and the Los Angeles Lakers.

Congrats, Emma Stone, on winning Best Actress at the #Oscars ! pic.twitter.com/52LAmhaG99 — Phoenix Suns (@Suns) March 11, 2024

The fandom makes sense. Stone is from Scottsdale, Arizona — and hasn’t been shy about cheering for the Suns and making it known which team she backs. She has personalized jerseys, has grabbed photos with Suns stars and even got some on the team bench to giggle when she waved goodbye to Phoenix guard Grayson Allen when she left a game earlier this season.

FILE - Elton John performs on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington on Sept. 23, 2022. John has achieved EGOT status. The famed British singer-pianist secured an Emmy Award on Monday night, Jan. 15, 2024, for best variety special (live) for “Elton John Live: Farewell from Dodger Stadium,” a three-hour concert documentary that streamed on Disney +. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

FILE - Elton John performs on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington on Sept. 23, 2022. John has achieved EGOT status. The famed British singer-pianist secured an Emmy Award on Monday night, Jan. 15, 2024, for best variety special (live) for “Elton John Live: Farewell from Dodger Stadium,” a three-hour concert documentary that streamed on Disney +. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

There are no newly minted EGOT winners tonight, but there couldn’t have been any, anyway.

The feat that summarizes winning an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony is rarely achieved and a prized club. No one nominated tonight would have closed the gap on the grand slam.

There was an EGOT forged this year — that would be for Elton John, who won an Emmy to claim his title back in January.

FILE - In this July 12, 2021 file photo Bill Murray, from left, Owen Wilson, director Wes Anderson, Tilda Swinton, and Adrien Brody pose for photographers upon arrival at the premiere of the film 'The French Dispatch' at the 74th international film festival, Cannes, southern France. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson, File)

FILE - In this July 12, 2021 file photo Bill Murray, from left, Owen Wilson, director Wes Anderson, Tilda Swinton, and Adrien Brody pose for photographers upon arrival at the premiere of the film ‘The French Dispatch’ at the 74th international film festival, Cannes, southern France. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson, File)

Wes Anderson thanked the family of Roald Dahl, the team at Netflix and the cast and crew in a statement on behalf of himself and Steven Rales.

“And also I would have said: If I had not met Owen Wilson in a corridor at the University of Texas between classes when I was 18 years old, I would certainly not be receiving this award tonight — but unfortunately Steven and I are in Germany and we start shooting our new movie early tomorrow morning, so I did not actually receive the award or get a chance to say any of that.

“20 Days in Mariupol” director Mstyslav Chernov says the film shows the “reality” and “urgency” of the war in Ukraine.

Jada Pinkett Smith, from left, Willow Smith, Will Smith, Jaden Smith and Trey Smith arrive at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party on Sunday, March 27, 2022, at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Jada Pinkett Smith, from left, Willow Smith, Will Smith, Jaden Smith and Trey Smith arrive at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party on Sunday, March 27, 2022, at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

AP entertainment writer Andrew Dalton is a regular attendee of the Vanity Fair party after the Oscars. Here are some of his highlights from years past:

Often, the biggest news from the Vanity Fair party is which Oscar losers are hugging which winners. But some bring notable moments.

Partygoers in 2017 got to sympathize with best-picture presenter Faye Dunaway after the “La La Land”-“Moonlight” fiasco .

In 2018, well-wishers mobbed Frances McDormand , partly because she’d won best actress and partly because the Oscar she’d had stolen earlier that evening was back in her hands.

And in 2022, the slap was in the air, as it was everywhere. Will Smith grooved to his own songs on the dance floor, along with his family and best actor Oscar.

The scene after the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Julie Pace)

The scene after the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Julie Pace)

Julie Pace, AP’s executive editor and senior vice president, is attending the Oscars for the first time in support of “20 Days in Mariupol.” She has been providing occasional updates from a guest’s perspective:

Following the show, nominees like Lily Gladstone and previous winners including Nicolas Cage joined the rest of the crowd to wait for their cars. Some huddled by heaters that dotted the red carpet and recapped the night.

“Ticket 1221! You win a ride to wherever you’re going. Have a blast,” an announcer called out as a lucky group headed to their waiting car.

Christopher Nolan won his first Oscar on Sunday night for directing “Oppenheimer” and then another for best picture. The 53-year-old British filmmaker has garnered critical acclaim throughout his career, but had never won at the Oscars until now.

Emma Thomas, left, and Christopher Nolan accept the award for best picture for "Oppenheimer" during the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Emma Thomas, left, and Christopher Nolan accept the award for best picture for “Oppenheimer” during the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

“I think any of us who make movies know you kind of dream of this moment … but it seemed so unlikely that it would ever happen,” “Oppenheimer” producer Emma Thomas said.

Thomas is Christopher Nolan’s producing partner — and also his wife.

When nominations were announced back in January, she was asked whether “Oppenheimer” felt like the culmination of the couple’s collaboration.

“It definitely feels like a film that was made with all the things we’ve learned together over the years. It all came together on this film,” she told the AP. “But I’m hoping it’s not the culmination. I’m hoping that we’ll get to make another one. (Laughs) We’re at the midway point!”

Emma Stone accepts the award for best performance by an actress in a leading role for "Poor Things" during the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Emma Stone accepts the award for best performance by an actress in a leading role for “Poor Things” during the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Backstage, best actress winner Emma Stone says she was sewn back into her dress after it broke.

She explained her dress had come apart in the opening to her acceptance speech.

“I think I blacked out,” Stone said of her win. “I’m very surprised.”

▶ Read more about Stone’s best actress win.

Of the four acting winners, three were newly minted Oscar honorees.

Da’Vine Joy Randolph , Robert Downey Jr. and Cillian Murphy each claimed their first statuettes. Downey, though, had been nominated twice before.

Da'Vine Joy Randolph accepts the award for best performance by an actress in a supporting role for "The Holdovers" during the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Emma Stone was the only repeat winner, picking up her second career Oscar and second best actress trophy. Stone joins Frances McDormand and Hilary Swank as the only two-time best actress winners this century.

This image released by Universal Pictures shows Cillian Murphy in a scene from "Oppenheimer." (Universal Pictures via AP)

“American Fiction” ★★★ “Anatomy of a Fall” ★★★★ “Barbie” ★★★ “The Holdovers” ★★★.5 “Killers of the Flower Moon” ★★★★ “Maestro” ★★.5 “Oppenheimer” ★★★★ “Past Lives” ★★★.5 “Poor Things” ★★★.5 “The Zone of Interest” ★★★★

Michelle Yeoh, left, winner of the Oscar for lead actress, and Florence Pugh arrive at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party on Sunday, March 12, 2023, at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Michelle Yeoh, left, winner of the Oscar for lead actress, and Florence Pugh arrive at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party on Sunday, March 12, 2023, at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Oscar winners, and even stars who aren’t at the ceremony, flock to the Vanity Fair party after the show is over.

The AP will livestream stars arriving beginning at 8 p.m. Eastern on YouTube.

Vanity Fair throws the afterparty of afterparties after the Oscars.

The guest list at the magazine’s Beverly Hills bash is AAA-list, with athletes, authors and rock stars joining movie stars and newly minted Oscar winners, who earn an instant invite.

The dress code could be called “loosened black tie.” Many remain in ceremony finery, but you might see Jason Momoa in a tuxedo jacket over a bare chest , or Greta Gerwig kicking off high heels and pulling on checkered Vans.

The food is high-end lowbrow, or low-end highbrow. In-N-Out Burger abounds, often chased with Dom Perignon.

With the best picture win for “Oppenheimer,” it’s the highest-grossing best picture winner since “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King” in 2003.

According to distributor Universal, it’s also the first best picture winner released theatrically in July since 1994’s “Forrest Gump” and the first film to win Oscars for best picture, actor and supporting actor in more than 60 years. The last film to do that was “Ben-Hur” in 1960.

The reviews are in ... and Al Pacino got some attention for how best picture was unveiled at the end of the Oscars.

“I have to go to the envelope for that. And I will. Here it comes. And my eyes see ‘Oppenheimer,’” Pacino said.

It seemed to catch the Dolby Theatre off-guard, as if the other nine nominees were to be announced as well.

One social media post that quickly went viral simply said: “Al Pacino should have given out every award tonight.”

This image released by ABC shows Quinta Brunson in a scene from "Abbott Elementary." (Ser Baffo/ABC via AP)

This image released by ABC shows Quinta Brunson in a scene from “Abbott Elementary.” (Ser Baffo/ABC via AP)

It wasn’t nominated for the Oscars only by virtue of being a television show. But awards darling “Abbott Elementary” is still making its presence felt on Oscar night, with a brand-new episode following the telecast on ABC.

There was no new episode this past Wednesday, it’s usual airdate.

And the episode opened with an Oscars — and Philadelphia — tie-in: a guest spot from multiple nominee Bradley Cooper .

AP photographer Chris Pizzello has been shooting the Oscars for more than a decade. Here, he describes the background work that goes into getting the historic shots:

It’s very helpful to follow the entirety of awards season and have a feel for the likely winners at the Oscars.

Mark Ruffalo reacts in the audience after "Spotlight" won the award for best picture at the Oscars on Sunday, Feb. 28, 2016, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)

Mark Ruffalo reacts in the audience after “Spotlight” won the award for best picture at the Oscars on Sunday, Feb. 28, 2016, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)

You should take note of where the big nominees are sitting in the audience. When they are about to announce the winner of a category, you should have your lens trained on the nominee you think is going to win. If you guess right, that person’s instant reaction upon realizing they just won an Oscar usually makes for a great photo.

Several acceptance speeches — from animated short to best picture — referenced the fact that it’s Mother’s Day in the United Kingdom.

If any Americans are panicking, Mother’s Day in the U.S. isn’t until May 12.

It was slated to start an hour earlier, and despite a late start, it did have a slightly shorter runtime than last year’s telecast.

The credits rolled by 7:25 p.m. PDT. Last year’s telecast hovered around 3.5 hours.

It was the year of” Oppenheimer” at the Oscars, and the final prize was no surprise.

“Oppenheimer” won best picture, the last statuette awarded during the show and capping a seven-Oscar haul for the story of a theoretical physicist who oversaw the Manhattan Project and the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.

“I think any of us who make movies know you kind of dream of this moment … but it seemed so unlikely that it would ever happen,” producer Emma Thomas said.

Oppenheimer also won for best director (Thomas’ husband Christopher Nolan), best actor (Cillian Murphy), best supporting actor (Robert Downey Jr.), best cinematography (Hoyte van Hoytema), best film editing (Jennifer Lame) and best original score (Ludwig Göransson).

Emma Stone acknowledged each of her fellow nominees for best actress, through tears.

“The other night I was panicking as you can kind of see happens a lot, that maybe something like this could happen. And (‘Poor Things’ director) Yorgos (Lanthimos) said to me, ‘Please take yourself out of it and he was right, because it’s not about me. It’s about a team that came together to make something greater than the sum of its parts and that is the best part about making movies.”

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Guys, make sure we tear up that envelope so there’s no confusion with best picture.

Infamously, an extra envelope with Stone’s best actress win was responsible for the confusion over the best picture win in 2017. That trophy belonged to “Moonlight” but “La La Land” was initially called.

FILE - This image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows Ryan Gosling, left, and Margot Robbie in a scene from "Barbie." The United Arab Emirates announced Thursday, Aug. 4, 2023, that it has approved the release of the “Barbie” movie after a delay of over a month over possible content issues. (Warner Bros. Pictures via AP, File)

Ryan Gosling and Margot Robbie in “Barbie.” (Warner Bros. Pictures via AP, File)

Biggest box office: “Barbie” by far. Its $1.4 billion global total was more than the other nine combined, even counting co-blockbuster “Oppenheimer,” which itself made more than the bottom eight combined.

Lowest box office earner: “Maestro,” probably. The low-end figures are murky, but it got only a tiny theatrical release before dropping on Netflix

Longest: “Killers of the Flower Moon,” 3 hours, 26 minutes

Shortest: “Past Lives” and “The Zone of Interest,” 1 hour, 46 minutes apiece

This image released by A24 shows Greta Lee in a scene from "Past Lives." (Jon Pack/A24 via AP)

Greta Lee in “Past Lives.” (Jon Pack/A24 via AP)

Earliest U.S. release: “Past Lives,” June 2

Latest U.S. release: “American Fiction” and “The Zone of Interest,” Dec. 15

Only Christmas movie: “The Holdovers,” arguably the first in the category since “It’s a Wonderful Life” in 1947

Only film with a dog in a major role: “Anatomy of a Fall”

Only film with dog-goose hybrids: “Poor Things”

Ranked choice voting, also known as preferential voting, is only employed at the Oscars to select the best picture winner.

Voters order the 10 nominees by preference: Their favorite is ranked first, their runner-up second and so on, with their least favorite at 10.

If one movie manages to capture more than 50% of the first-place votes in the first round, the contest is over. That’s the winner.

But if no movie crosses that threshold, the one with the fewest first-place votes is eliminated and the votes for that movie are reallocated to those voters’ second choices. On it goes until one movie wins a majority.

Proponents of the voting system, which is used in some other elections, argue it’s more representative.

Oscars statue cutouts rest on a table along the red carpet ahead of the 96th Academy Awards Friday, March 8, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Oscars statue cutouts rest on a table along the red carpet ahead of the 96th Academy Awards Friday, March 8, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/John Locher)

AP entertainment writer Andrew Dalton has reported from many an Oscars ceremony. He even used to occupy a perch above the fray.

The first thing you’ll notice is how many people you don’t recognize.

The 3,000-or-so people at the Dolby Theatre are mostly industry insiders and others who are plenty prominent, but not famous.

The closer you get to the stage, the higher the percentage of household names. You often end up in a restroom stall next to a Denzel , a Meryl , a Tom or a Tom .

You’ll be part of a Hollywood crowd that is outstanding at playing the role of “audience,” not needing applause signs to know when to start and stop clapping, or when an ovation is merited.

My dress is broken. I think it happened during ‘I’m Just Ken.’

Ascending the stage to claim her second best actress trophy, Stone turned around, pointing to her back as she motioned to the presenters, who looked to see if they could help.

She then opened her speech by explaining what happened.

“Don’t look at the back of my dress!” she said, closing the speech.

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Christopher Nolan has won his first Oscar, and it’s the sixth of the night for “Oppenheimer.”

Nolan was his usual staid-and-subdued self when he accepted, thanking the cast and crew.

He showed a bit of emotion when he thanked his wife and producing partner “Emma Thomas,” laughing after calling her “producer of all our films and all our children.”

Lily Gladstone is named after her great-grandmother.

The elder Lily bore many similarities to Gladstone’s character in Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon,” Mollie Burkhart. Both women, born 10 years apart in the late 19th century, were traditional in nature, well-loved by their Native communities and devout Catholics.

Growing up between Seattle and the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana, Gladstone was familiar with the stories of older generations of Native women — of their encounters with a fast-modernizing America and the brutal attempts to extract resources from tribal lands.

Lily Gladstone poses for a portrait on Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2023, in New York. Gladstone has been named one of The Associated Press' Breakthrough Entertainers of 2023. (Photo by Victoria Will/Invision/AP)

(Photo by Victoria Will/Invision/AP)

The Osage murders of the early 20th century , a reign of terror in which the Osage were targeted for the headrights to their oil-rich land, took place many miles away, in Oklahoma. But as a tragedy about the sinister exploitation of Native people, “Killers of the Flower Moon” told a tale Gladstone knew intimately.

“I carry my family’s legacy. And I’m expected to carry my family legacy, in a way,” Gladstone said in a recent interview. She added: “Even though I’m not Osage, it did very much feel like it was in my blood.”

▶ Read more from our profile of Lily Gladstone, one of AP’s 2023 Breakthrough Entertainers.

Actor Cillian Murphy said he was a “little overwhelmed” when he took the stage after winning an Oscar for his portrayal of the title character in the movie “Oppenheimer.”

The movie is about the man who drove the creation of nuclear weapons.

“For better or for worse we’re all living in Oppenheimer’s world so I would really like to dedicate this to the peacemakers everywhere,” said Murphy.

The five past winners presenting the category:

  • Sally Field
  • Jennifer Lawrence
  • Michelle Yeoh
  • Charlize Theron

Christopher Nolan accepts the award for best director for "Oppenheimer" during the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Christopher Nolan accepts the award for best director for “Oppenheimer” during the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

▶ Read more about Nolan’s win.

Lily Gladstone reflected on the chaotic awards circuit and the ways she’s been able to find friendships throughout it, including with “Poor Things” star Emma Stone, a competitor in the Oscars best actress category.

The best actress Oscar to be awarded shortly is seen as a tight race betwee n Lily Gladstone for “Killers of the Flower Moon” and Emma Stone for “Poor Things.”

Most experts have given the slight edge to Gladstone , who won the SAG Award, but say it could easily go to Stone, who won the BAFTA.

The two have become friends during award season. Gladstone says they call themselves “The Infinity Stones.”

It would be the first Oscar for Gladstone and the second for Stone, who won best actress for “La La Land.”

The other nominees are Annette Bening for “Nyad,” Sandra Hüller for “Anatomy of a Fall” and Carey Mulligan for “Maestro.”

Cillian Murphy accepts the award for best performance by an actor in a leading role for "Oppenheimer" during the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Cillian Murphy accepts the award for best performance by an actor in a leading role for “Oppenheimer” during the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

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It’s 7:01 p.m. PDT, which is just over three hours after the Oscars were slated to began (they did get off to a late start).

There are still three categories to go.

Andrea Bocelli, left, and Matteo Bocelli arrive at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)

Andrea Bocelli, left, and Matteo Bocelli arrive at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)

On a stage bathed in blue Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli sang his signature song “Time to Say Goodbye” along with his son Matteo during the Oscars’ memorial segment.

The Bocellis and a string quartet paid tribute to movie luminaries who died since the last Oscars, including Harry Belafonte, Paul Reubens, Tina Turner, Ryan O’Neal, Carl Weathers and Robbie Robertson, a nominee this year for best score for “Killers of the Flower Moon.”

The montage also included several people best known for TV, including Matthew Perry and Richard Lewis.

The telecast included a QR code for a longer list of the dead.

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The five past winners presenting best actor:

  • Nicolas Cage
  • Matthew McConaughey
  • Ben Kingsley
  • Forrest Whitaker
  • Brendan Fraser

This grab taken from video shows flowers and a portrait of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny that Lyudmila Navalnaya, mother of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, put to pay tribute to her son at the at the memorial to victims of political repression, in Salekhard, 1937 km (1211 miles) northeast of Moscow, Russia, on Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024. Russians across the vast country streamed to ad-hoc memorials with flowers and candles to pay tribute to Alexei Navalny, the most famous Russian opposition leader and the Kremlin's fiercest critic. Russian officials reported that Navalny, 47, died in prison on Friday. (AP Photo)

This grab taken from video shows flowers and a portrait of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny that Lyudmila Navalnaya, mother of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, put to pay tribute to her son at the at the memorial to victims of political repression, in Salekhard, 1937 km (1211 miles) northeast of Moscow, Russia, on Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024. Russians across the vast country streamed to ad-hoc memorials with flowers and candles to pay tribute to Alexei Navalny, the most famous Russian opposition leader and the Kremlin’s fiercest critic. Russian officials reported that Navalny, 47, died in prison on Friday. (AP Photo)

A clip of the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny opened the in memoriam segment.

Navalny, who died last month while imprisoned, was the subject of the eponymous documentary directed by Daniel Roher that won the Oscar for documentary feature last year.

“Alexei, I am dreaming of the day you will be free and our country will be free. Stay strong, my love,” his wife, Yulia Navalnaya, said at the 2023 ceremony.

Navalny had learned of the Oscar win during a court hearing, something his spokesperson at the time called “the most remarkable announcement of an (Oscar) win in history.”

▶ Read more about Navalny’s life and death.

Cillian Murphy arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

The best actor Oscar will be handed out soon, and most prognosticators will be very surprised if it’s not handed to Cillian Murphy for “Oppenheimer.”

The 47-year-old Irish actor got his first nomination for playing the title role in Christopher Nolan’s film, and won most of the major precursor awards.

If anyone is expected to challenge him, it’s Paul Giamatti for “The Holdovers.” It would also be his first Oscar.

The other nominees are Bradley Cooper for “Maestro,” Colman Domingo for “Rustin” and Jeffrey Wright , “American Fiction.”

It was Barbie vs. Barbie. And, well, Barbie won.

Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell won the best song Oscar for “What Was I Made For?” which was widely expected to grab the statuette.

“I had a nightmare about this last night,” Eilish said. She added, “I just didn’t think this would happen.”

The only song most thought could beat it also was from “Barbie,” that being Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt’s “I’m Just Ken.”

Ryan Gosling, reprising his role as Ken, got into his pink suit and performed Ronson and Wyatt’s song just before the winner was introduced — getting a standing ovation, just as Eilish did when she performed her song about an hour earlier.

Billie Eilish is the youngest person by far to have won two career Oscars. She took her trophy for best original song for “What Was I Made For” from “Barbie” at age 22.

That beats a very old record set by Luise Rainer, who won her second best actress Oscar at 28 in 1938.

The second youngest is now Eilish’s 26-year-old brother and co-writer Finneas. The pair won their first Oscar for “No Time to Die” in 2021.

Hilary Swank and Jodie Foster — a best supporting actor nominee this year — are the only others to win two before 30.

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In this Nov. 15, 2018 photo, Swedish composer Ludwig Goransson poses for a portrait in New York (Photo by Christopher Smith/Invision/AP)

Ludwig Göransson won the Academy Award for original score for his work on “Oppenheimer.” It is his second Oscar and third nomination, having previously won in the category in 2019 for “Black Panther.”

“Oppenheimer” is director Christopher Nolan ’s own adaptation of Martin J. Sherwin and Kai Bird’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 2005 book “American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer,” chronicling the Manhattan Project and its fallout. The film starring Cillian Murphy “is poised between the shock and aftershock of the terrible revelation, as one character calls it, of a divine power,” AP film writer Jake Coyle assessed in his review .

Naturally, the score accomplishes something similar: Göransson composing from a first-person perspective for the first time, using his characteristic plays with rhythm and tempo to make one man’s history-altering endeavors feel larger than life.

Andrew Wyatt, left, and Mark Ronson, accept the award for best song for "I'm Just Ken" from "Barbie" during the 29th Critics Choice Awards on Sunday, Jan. 14, 2024, at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, Calif. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Andrew Wyatt, left, and Mark Ronson, accept the award for best song for “I’m Just Ken” from “Barbie” during the 29th Critics Choice Awards on Sunday, Jan. 14, 2024, at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, Calif. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Up for best original song:

  • Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt for “I’m Just Ken” from “Barbie”
  • Jon Batiste and Dan Wilson for “It Never Went Away’’ from “American Symphony”
  • Scott George for “Wahzhazhe (A Song For My People)” from “Killers of the Flower Moon″
  • Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell for “What Was I Made For?” from “Barbie”
  • Diane Warren for “The Fire Inside” from “Flamin’ Hot”

That’s what we call white-hot competition. A few of the nominees in this category called The Associated Press the day they found out they were nominated. Here’s what they said :

Warren: “I’m thrilled. Beyond. And now the number of Oscars I’ve been nominated for has caught up to my emotional age, which is (15). I’m just kidding. Kind of.”

Ronson: “It’s a huge honor... in the film, it is this 11-minute prog rock dream ballet, shred fest that (director) Greta (Gerwig) and Ryan (Gosling) made people fall in love with all these beautiful touches.”

Composer Ludwig Goransson poses for a portrait at his music studio, Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2022, in Glendale, Calif. Goransson, along with Rihanna, is nominated for an Oscar for best original song for "Lift Me Up" from the film "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever." (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Composer Ludwig Goransson poses for a portrait at his music studio in 2022 (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

The best original score category is a competitive one this year: vying for the trophy are 54-time Oscar nominee and now five-time winner John Williams (“Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny”), Ludwig Göransson (“Oppenheimer”), and three first-time nominees, Jerskin Fendrix (“Poor Things”), Laura Karpman (“American Fiction”) and the late Robbie Robertson (“Killers of the Flower Moon”).

A few of the nominees called The Associated Press the day they found out they were nominated. Here’s what they said :

Göransson: “To be recognized on this score especially, it was a very personal score. It was also obviously extremely challenging to achieve these emotions and to tell the story of this complicated man’s feelings, his ambition and what he’s going through in his journey and from his perspective because the only way to do that is, I’ve had to go to some to some uncomfortable places.”

Karpman: “What can I tell you? I’m 64 years old, and I’ve spent my life doing this, and I have never, ever, ever thought that this — first of all, I didn’t think it would ever be available to me, much less accessible. But, you know, this is a very, very special project. The movie is a gem. I knew it the moment I saw it.”

Fendrix: “It feels so surreal. I don’t think it’s entirely settled yet.”

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Ryan Gosling reacts as the true winner of best picture is announced at the Oscars on Sunday, Feb. 26, 2017, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. It was originally announced that “La La Land” won, but the winner was actually, “Moonlight.” (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)

But it is the first time he performed at the Oscars.

Neither he nor Emma Stone performed when “La La Land” was nominated for its music at the 2017 Oscars.

AP photographer Chris Pizzello is shooting the Oscars again tonight. Here’s what he looks for in between awards:

Another cool aspect of the Oscars is the mingling between celebrities both before the show and during commercial breaks. It is the world’s greatest cocktail party and you can capture some priceless combos.

Pharrell Williams, left, greets civil rights activist John Lewis in the audience at the Oscars on Sunday, Feb. 24, 2019, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)

But it’s very, very dark in the seats so it’s a real test of the low-light performance of your cameras. Sometimes the shots are just too dark and blurry to run but it’s important to try because you may never see those particular combos ever again.

Ryan Gosling performs "I'm Just Ken" from the movie "Barbie" during the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Ryan Gosling performs “I’m Just Ken” from the movie “Barbie” during the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

It is the moment “Barbie” fans have been waiting for: Ryan Gosling performed “I’m Just Ken,” the huge ‘80s power ballad from the film.

Gosling began in the audience, his face obscured by a cowboy hat before heading to the stage to meet Mark Ronson, the executive producer of the “Barbie” soundtrack, and a group of dramatic dancing Kens — including fellow Kens Simu Liu and Kingsley Ben-Adir.

Later, Slash appeared, taking over lead guitar — a hilarious surprise. Then Gosling jumped into the crowd and had Greta Gerwig, Margot Robbie, and America Ferrera sing along.

“I’m Just Ken” turned Gosling into a Billboard Hot 100 artist. It also won the 2024 Critics’ Choice Award for best song.

Hoyte van Hoytema accepts the award for best cinematography for "Oppenheimer" during the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Hoyte van Hoytema accepts the award for best cinematography for “Oppenheimer” during the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Hoyte van Hoytema thanked director Christopher Nolan and producer Emma Thomas while accepting his Oscar for cinematography for the film “Oppenheimer.”

Van Hoytema was also nominated for his work on the Nolan-directed film “Dunkirk” but didn’t win that time.

“You’re by far the best thing that could have happened to my career, obviously,” said van Hoytema glancing down at the Oscar in his hand.

Robert Downey Jr. accepts the award for best performance by an actor in a supporting role for "Oppenheimer" during the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Robert Downey Jr. accepts the award for best performance by an actor in a supporting role for “Oppenheimer” during the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Robert Downey Jr. is the first “Saturday Night Live” alum to win an Oscar with his best supporting actor victory for “Oppenheimer.”

Downey was a cast member for one season in 1985-86, regarded by many as the show’s worst year.

Other alums to have been nominated include Bill Murray, Eddie Murphy, Dan Aykroyd, and Joan Cusack, who was in the same cast as Downey.

This image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows Kingsley Ben-Adir, from left, Ryan Gosling and Ncuti Gatwa in a scene from "Barbie." (Warner Bros. Pictures via AP).

This image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows Kingsley Ben-Adir, from left, Ryan Gosling and Ncuti Gatwa in a scene from “Barbie.” (Warner Bros. Pictures via AP).

With two of the five best original song nominations (Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt for “I’m Just Ken” as performed by Ryan Gosling and “What Was I Made For?” by sibling duo Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell), the music of “Barbie” is everywhere at the 2024 Oscars.

Last summer, Ronson told The Associated Press all about how the music of the movie came together . The soundtrack assignment began with two tracks: a pop song for a big dance number (what would become Dua Lipa’s “Dance the Night”) and an ’80s power ballad for Ken. Name a genre with more “self-aware, bombastic silliness,” as Ronson says.

For the most part, Ronson works on instrumentals: When he wrote the Oscar-winning “Shallow” with Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper for “A Star Is Born,” for example, he only contributed lyrics to fill in gaps — the “surface, don’t hurt us,” line, as he recalls. But for the song that would become Ryan Gosling’s “I’m Just Ken,” Ronson couldn’t shake the lyric: “I’m just Ken, anywhere else I’d be a 10.”

So he sent director Greta Gerwig a demo with a few lines — including a deliciously mouthy lyric about “blonde fragility.” She sent it to Gosling, who plays Ken in the film, and knew immediately he needed to sing it. What could have soundtracked any scene in the film became its own musical moment.

FILE - Robbie Robertson speaks during a press conference for "Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band" on day one of the Toronto International Film Festival on Thursday, Sept. 5, 2019, in Toronto. Robertson, the lead guitarist and songwriter for The Band, whose classics include “The Weight,” “Up on Cripple Creek” and “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down,” has died at 80, according to a statement from his manager. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)

Robbie Robertson speaks during a press conference for “Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band” in 2019 (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)

Robbie Roberston, known of his work in The Band and with Bob Dylan, received a posthumous original score nomination for “Killers of the Flower Moon.”

Robertson died last summer at 80. Director Martin Scorsese released a statement about his collaborator the day nominations came down.

“I only wish that Robbie Robertson had lived to see his work recognized,” the famed director wrote. “Our many years of friendship and Robbie’s growing consciousness of his own Native heritage played a crucial role in my desire to get this film onscreen.”

▶ Read more from the AP’s obituary of Robbie Robertson.

AP photographer Chris Pizzello has been shooting the Oscars, from inside the room, since 2013. Here are three memorable moments from over the years:

2013: Jennifer Lawrence slipping on the steps on her way to the stage.

Jennifer Lawrence stumbles as she walks on stage to accept the award for best actress in a leading role for "Silver Linings Playbook" during the Oscars at the Dolby Theatre on Sunday Feb. 24, 2013, in Los Angeles.  (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)

Jennifer Lawrence stumbles as she walks on stage to accept the award for best actress in a leading role for “Silver Linings Playbook” during the Oscars at the Dolby Theatre on Sunday Feb. 24, 2013, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)

2017: Warren Beatty announcing the wrong best picture winner.

Jordan Horowitz, producer of "La La Land," shows the envelope revealing "Moonlight" as the true winner of best picture at the Oscars on Sunday, Feb. 26, 2017, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Presenter Warren Beatty and host Jimmy Kimmel look on from right. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)

Jordan Horowitz, producer of “La La Land,” shows the envelope revealing “Moonlight” as the true winner of best picture at the Oscars on Sunday, Feb. 26, 2017, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Presenter Warren Beatty and host Jimmy Kimmel look on from right. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)

2022: The Slap.

Will Smith, right, hits presenter Chris Rock on stage while presenting the award for best documentary feature at the Oscars on Sunday, March 27, 2022, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Will Smith, right, hits presenter Chris Rock on stage while presenting the award for best documentary feature at the Oscars on Sunday, March 27, 2022, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Basically you have to be on high alert for all 3 ½ hours of the show. The Slap happened during one of the slower sections of the show, when Chris Rock was introducing the best documentary award. He made a couple of jokes, and suddenly I saw a fuzzy head approaching him onstage in my viewfinder. Before you knew what was happening, WHAP! Every single photographer in the projection booth initially feared they missed it because it happened incredibly fast.

So the lesson is that during the Oscars telecast you cannot ever lose focus, no pun intended.

Martin Scorsese reveals what helped him find the flow during the making of his latest movie “Killers Of The Flower Moon” and jokes about his dislike of emails. (Oct.17)

“I don’t use a computer because I tried a couple times and I got very distracted. I get distracted as it is,” Scorsese told the AP last year. “I’ve got films, I’ve got books, I’ve got people. I’ve only begun this year to read emails. Emails, they scare me. It says ‘CC’ and there are a thousand names. Who are these people?”

▶ Read more from AP’s feature on the Oscar nominee for “Killers of the Flower Moon.”

Becky G, center, performs the song "The Fire Inside" from the movie "Flaming Hot" during the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Becky G, center, performs the song “The Fire Inside” from the movie “Flaming Hot” during the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Becky G performed the fiery reggaeton track “The Fire Inside” from “Flamin’ Hot,” written by Diane Warren. She was joined by a chorus of young girls.

“Flamin’ Hot” follows the story of Richard Montañez, who went from being a janitor at a Frito-Lay plant in California to a top executive when he invented Flamin’ Hot Cheetos, assisting in introducing a Latin market to the snack food giant. “The Fire Inside” is up for best original song and is Warren’s 15th Oscar nomination.

This is Becky G’s second time performing at the Oscars — the first time was two years ago, when she joined Megan Thee Stallion and others for “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” from “Encanto.”

Director Wes Anderson poses for photographers at the photo call for the film 'The French Dispatch' at the 74th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Tuesday, July 13, 2021. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Director Wes Anderson poses for photographers at the photo call for the film ‘The French Dispatch’ at the 74th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Tuesday, July 13, 2021. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Wes Anderson finally has an Oscar. Not surprisingly, it’s a quirky one.

The first Academy Award for the 54-year-old Texan with the unmistakable film style came for best live-action short for his Roald Dahl adaptation for Netflix, “The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar.” He shared the award with Steven Rales.

It comes after Anderson directed 11 full-length features and got seven previous Oscar nominations without a win, starting with a screenplay nod for “The Royal Tenenbaums” in 2002.

Anderson wasn’t there to accept his Oscar. Presenters Issa Rae and Ramy Youssef accepted on his behalf.

“Congratulations, Wes. We knew you could make them long, but wow,” Youssef said.

Masaki Takahashi, from left, Takashi Yamazaki, Kiyoko Shibuya, and Tatsuji Nojima accept the award for best visual effects for "Godzilla Minus One" during the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Masaki Takahashi, from left, Takashi Yamazaki, Kiyoko Shibuya, and Tatsuji Nojima accept the award for best visual effects for “Godzilla Minus One” during the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Kris Bowers stood up for teachers, when accepting the Oscar for best documentary short for “The Last Repair Shop.”

“‘The Last Repair Shop’ is about the heroes in our schools who often go unsung, unthanked and unseen,” Bowers said. “Tonight, you are sung, you are thanked and you are seen.”

Evgeniy Maloletka, from left, Vasilisa Stepanenko, Michelle Mizner, Mstyslav Chernov, Raney Aronson-Rath and Derl McCrudden arrive at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Evgeniy Maloletka, from left, Vasilisa Stepanenko, Michelle Mizner, Mstyslav Chernov, Raney Aronson-Rath and Derl McCrudden arrive at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/John Locher)

“Cinema forms memories, and memories form history.”

“This is the first Oscar in Ukrainian history, and I’m honored,” an emotional Mstyslav Chernov said. “But probably I will be the first director on this stage to say I wish I’d never made this film. I wish to be able to exchange this to Russia never attacking Ukraine.”

Speaking on the red carpet of the Academy Awards, Mstyslav Chernov - director of documentary “20 Days in Mariupol” - says its important the “world understands the seriousness of what’s going on and the urgency of what’s going on” in Ukraine. (March 10)

“20 Days in Mariupol,” Mstyslav Chernov’s harrowing chronicle of the besieged Ukrainian city and the international journalists who remained there after Russia’s invasion, won The Associated Press its first Oscar in the 178-year-old news organization’s history.

The AP and PBS’ “Frontline” team behind the documentary feature received a standing ovation from the audience.

This aerial view shows Crypto.com Arena in downtown Los Angeles, Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2023. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

This aerial view shows Crypto.com Arena in downtown Los Angeles, Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2023. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

It’s a busy day in L.A.: the Clippers and the Lakers vs. the Oscars.

Los Angeles’ two NBA teams are both home on Sunday, with the Clippers playing a noon Pacific game against the Milwaukee Bucks, and the Lakers playing at 6:30 p.m. against the Minnesota Timberwolves.

The Lakers played on Oscar Sunday last year, too — against the Knicks, which led to Denzel Washington and Spike Lee going to that arena instead of the Dolby Theatre for the Oscars.

The Lakers and Clippers don’t go head-to-head with the Grammys. That show takes over the arena where those teams play; the Dolby Theatre is about 9 miles (14.5 kilometers) away from Crypto.com Arena.

Spanish actor Javier Bardem accepts the Oscar for best supporting actor for his work in "No Country for Old Men" at the 80th Academy Awards Sunday, Feb. 24, 2008, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

Spanish actor Javier Bardem accepts the Oscar for best supporting actor for his work in “No Country for Old Men” at the 80th Academy Awards Sunday, Feb. 24, 2008, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

One person speaks for a group. Include a little heart, and a little humor. Relish the moment. And keep it under 45 seconds. That’s the often-disregarded annual acceptance-speech guidance Academy President Janet Yang gave Oscar nominees at their luncheon .

Not everyone ignores the advice. Yang showed a video of the platonic ideal of a speech — Javier Bardem’s 2008 acceptance of best supporting actor for “No Country for Old Men.”

Bardem thanked the writer-director Coen brothers, mocked his absurd haircut in the movie, gave his mother a heartfelt tribute in Spanish — and did it all in 37 seconds.

Awards show mainstay Jon Batiste performed “It Never Went Way” from “American Symphony,” a documentary that follows Batiste as he attempts to write a symphony while his wife battles leukemia.

Batiste has said that “It Never Went Away’’ ”began as a lullaby” for his wife “so she could have a restful aura in the hospital room.”

On the Oscar stage, he performed at a grand piano in front of a large screen depicting images of Batiste with his wife, the author Suleika Jaouad.

“Godzilla Minus One’s” victory for best visual effects is the first time in the creature’s long history he has won an Oscar. The Japanese film also pulled off the rare feat of having its director win a visual effects Oscar. It was last done by Stanley Kubrick for 1968’s “2001: A Space Odyssey.”

“The moment we were nominated we felt like Rocky Balboa,” the director and visual effects supervisor Takashi Yamazaki said from the stage.

“Oppenheimer” has won for best film editing. It marks the first nomination and win for Jennifer Lame, who thanked her collaborators, including director Christopher Nolan, for the award.

Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito gave the award out, joking about how they both tried to kill Batman — portrayed by Michael Keaton — and lost, as Mr. Freeze and the Penguin, respectively.

▶ Read more about the craft behind “Oppenheimer.”

This image provided by Kino Lorber shows Ichraq Matar, Eya Chikhaoui, Hend Sabri, Nour Karoui, Tayssir Chikhaoui in the movie Four Daughters, filmed in Tunis, Tunisia. The film about a Tunisian family and the radicalization of two teenage daughters who joined the Islamic State is up for one of the most prestigious film awards in the world. (Kino Lorber via AP)

This image provided by Kino Lorber shows Ichraq Matar, Eya Chikhaoui, Hend Sabri, Nour Karoui, Tayssir Chikhaoui in the movie Four Daughters, filmed in Tunis, Tunisia. The film about a Tunisian family and the radicalization of two teenage daughters who joined the Islamic State is up for one of the most prestigious film awards in the world. (Kino Lorber via AP)

Olfa Hamrouni doesn’t know much about her granddaughter; not her favorite toy nor food — is it the pasta the child’s mother loves, or something else?

The Tunisian grandmother doesn’t even let her mind go there. “I don’t want to know. What for but more heartache?” she said.

For now, she just fights for 8-year-old Fatma. The child has spent virtually all her life with her mother and aunt — Hamrouni’s eldest daughters — raised in detention in Libya, where the women wound up after leaving home as teenagers and joining Islamic State group extremists.

The real-life story of Hamrouni and her children is the focus of “Four Daughters,” an Academy Award nominee for best documentary feature film. On camera, there are many layers to Kaouther Ben Hania’s film: It’s about the radicalization of two teenage girls; an intimate portrait of a chaotic, and often dysfunctional, family life; and reflections on generational trauma, patriarchy, motherhood and adolescence.

▶ Read more about the documentary feature.

Director Martin Scorsese acknowledges the proper grammar of Robert De Niro's famous line in the movie "Taxi Driver", which he directed, during a skit as he is honored by the Hasty Pudding Theatricals as their Man of the Year at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., Thursday, Feb. 13, 2003. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Director Martin Scorsese acknowledges the proper grammar of Robert De Niro’s famous line in the movie “Taxi Driver”, which he directed, during a skit as he is honored by the Hasty Pudding Theatricals as their Man of the Year at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., Thursday, Feb. 13, 2003. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Martin Scorsese, Jodie Foster and Robert De Niro were all nominees, 47 years after “Taxi Driver” was nominated for best picture, best actor (De Niro), best supporting actress (Foster) and best score.

Scorsese, 81, is nominated for directing “Killers of the Flower Moon.” De Niro, 80, was up for best supporting actor in the same film. And Foster, now 61, was nominated for her performance in “Nyad.” She was just 14 when “Taxi Driver” was nominated.

Takashi Yamazaki poses for a portrait during the 96th Academy Awards Oscar nominees luncheon on Monday, Feb. 12, 2024, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Takashi Yamazaki poses for a portrait during the 96th Academy Awards Oscar nominees luncheon on Monday, Feb. 12, 2024, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Godzilla has been to Tokyo, Hong Kong, Paris, San Francisco, Boston, Moscow, London and Hawaii. But before now, he’d never been to the Oscars.

And now he has one.

▶ Read more about Godzilla’s newest frontier.

FILE - Composer John Williams poses on the red carpet at the 2016 AFI Life Achievement Award Gala Tribute to John Williams in Los Angeles on June 9, 2016. Williams is nominated for an Oscar for original score for "The Fabelmans." (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)

Composer John Williams poses on the red carpet at the 2016 AFI Life Achievement Award Gala Tribute to John Williams in Los Angeles (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)

At age 92, composer John Williams may very well make Academy Award history by becoming the oldest Oscar winner of all time . The 54-time Oscar nominee and five-time winner could break a record held by James Ivory, who, in 2018, took home the Academy Award for best adapted screenplay for “Call Me by Your Name” at age 89. That is, if he wins for his “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” score.

In 2022, Williams told AP film writer Jake Coyle that he believed “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” may be his final score .

“At the moment I’m working on ‘Indiana Jones 5,’ which Harrison Ford — who’s quite a bit younger than I am — I think has announced will be his last film,” he said at the time. “So, I thought: If Harrison can do it, then perhaps I can, also.”

AP photographer Chris Pizzello has made photos at many an Oscars. Here’s how he captures the moments sure to go down in the annals of cinema:

In one sense, the Oscars is one of the easier shows to shoot because the lighting is generally classic and consistent, not constantly shifting like, say, the MTV Awards. But the fact that the Oscars is the biggest of them all plays on your mind a bit, because it’s really important that you not miss anything. You’re shooting entertainment history after all.

Harrison Ford, left, and Ke Huy Quan react onstage when "Everything Everywhere All at Once" wins the award for best picture at the Oscars on Sunday, March 12, 2023, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Harrison Ford, left, and Ke Huy Quan react onstage when “Everything Everywhere All at Once” wins the award for best picture at the Oscars on Sunday, March 12, 2023, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

The Oscar show photographers are up in a projection booth at the very top of the Dolby Theatre. Not only are we far away from the stage, but it is also surprisingly quiet up there. We are behind glass so the sound of the show is muted, which makes it difficult to follow the usual speaking cues of those onstage.

Elizabeth Banks, left, and an actor dressed in a costume from her movie "Cocaine Bear" present the award for best visual effects at the Oscars on Sunday, March 12, 2023, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Elizabeth Banks, left, and an actor dressed in a costume from her movie “Cocaine Bear” present the award for best visual effects at the Oscars on Sunday, March 12, 2023, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

For gear, I have two cameras set up on the same tripod, one with a 600mm lens for tight shots of the winners and another with a 100-400mm zoom for slightly wider shots and musical performances, where it’s important to show the scale of the production. A third camera around my neck is fitted with a 24-105mm lens for ultra-wide shots of the stage, which comes in handy for overall scene setters and the In Memoriam section.

“I’d like to thank my terrible childhood and the academy in that order,” he started his speech. “I needed this job more than it needed me.”

“I’m gonna thank my stylist in case no one else does,” he added.

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Robert Downey Jr. says he came away from Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” thinking about how “context is so critical” to understand significant moments in history. The film tells the story of the theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, who oversaw the development of the first atomic bomb during World War II. Downey plays former chairman of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission Lewis Strauss, a key figure in revoking Oppenheimer’s security clearance.

John Cena pointed out the importance of costumes — by not wearing one.

The wrestler-turned-actor was brought onstage by host Jimmy Kimmel for a bit where Cena was supposed to be nude, a nod to how the Oscars in 1974 was interrupted by a male streaker. Cena told Kimmel he decided at the last minute to not go ahead with the bit, as the audience kept laughing.

“The male body is not a joke,” Cena told Kimmel.

Responded the host: “Mine is.”

Cena — with an oversized envelope strategically placed over his midsection — eventually moved onto center stage, then realized he, uh, couldn’t open the envelope.

“Costumes, they are so important,” Cena said. “Maybe the most important thing there is.”

It’s Iron Man vs. the Hulk as Robert Downey Jr. and Mark Ruffalo are up for best supporting actor.

Sterling K. Brown also played a small but important part in Marvel’s “Black Panther” as N’Jobu, Killmonger’s father.

Five past winners are presenting this category:

  • Sam Rockwell
  • Tim Robbins
  • Ke Huy Quan
  • Christoph Waltz
  • Mahershala Ali

This image released by Searchlight Pictures shows on the set of "Poor Things." (Atsushi Nishijima/Searchlight Pictures via AP)

This image released by Searchlight Pictures shows on the set of “Poor Things.” (Atsushi Nishijima/Searchlight Pictures via AP)

Of the 23 categories awarded tonight, several are “below-the-line” or technical awards. Here’s what voters are looking for:

Production design: Awards the creator of the overall look of a film, from the sets to the locations to the props.

Sound: Awards the work of the range of people who design, record, mix and edit the sound for a film.

This image released by Apple TV+ shows a scene from "Killers of the Flower Moon." (Apple TV+ via AP)

This image released by Apple TV+ shows a scene from “Killers of the Flower Moon.” (Apple TV+ via AP)

Cinematography: Awards the film’s photographer for its lighting and camera work.

Best original score: Awards the writer of a movie’s background music.

Hair and makeup: Awards makeup artists and hairstylists, naturally, but with an emphasis on prosthetics and character transformations.

Robert Downey Jr. could soon win his first Oscar, coming more than 30 years after his first nomination, for “Chaplin.”

Downey has had a triumphant awards season for playing Lewis Strauss in “Oppenheimer,” and he’s expected to top it off with an Oscar.

Also nominated is Ryan Gosling in his epic turn as Ken in “Barbie.”

The others in the category are Robert De Niro, “Killers of the Flower Moon,” who has won two acting Oscars and been nominated eight times, along with Sterling K. Brown for “American Fiction” Mark Ruffalo for “Poor Things.”

Jonathan Glazer accepts the award for "The Zone of Interest" from the United Kingdom, for best international feature film during the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Jonathan Glazer accepts the award for “The Zone of Interest” from the United Kingdom, for best international feature film during the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Jonathan Glazer’s hands shook as he accepted the Oscar for best international feature for “The Zone of Interest.”

“Our film shows where dehumanization leads, at its worst,” Glazer said.

“Right now we stand here as men who refute their Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation which has led to conflict for so many innocent people, whether the victims of October the 7th in Israel, or the the ongoing attack on Gaza, all the victims, this humanization, how do we resist?”

Glazer said he hopes the film will draw attention to current conflicts in the world.

“All our choices are made to reflect and confront us in the present. Not to say, Look what they did then, rather look what we do now, Glazer said. “Our film shows where dehumanization leads at its worst. It shaped all of our past and present.”

The woman behind the fabulous, fantastic costumes in “Poor Things” says the staff of Hungarians and Brits hadn’t even met each other when they teamed up in Budapest for the movie.

They were wearing masks and communicating through translators but that didn’t seem to slow down the amazing look of the film.

“Somehow we all managed to make it work,” said Holly Waddington during her acceptance speech as she won the Oscar for costume design.

Emily Blunt, left, and Ryan Gosling speak during the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Emily Blunt, left, and Ryan Gosling speak during the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

“Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” have been blanked at the Oscars so far.

Five of the 13 categories “Oppenheimer” is up for have come up and so have four of the eight for “Barbie.”

Both have taken a back seat to “Poor Things,” which has already taken three awards.

Scott George, who wrote “Wahzhazhe (A Song for My People)” from “Killers of the Flower Moon,” performed the song alongside Osage performers. A camera panned above them, showing a group of musicians hitting the same drum, and dancers circling them in front of red and yellow lights.

George is the first Osage writer to be nominated for an Oscar — he is up for best original song.

Osage singers and dancers perform during the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Osage singers and dancers perform during the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

J.A. Bayona’s “Society of the Snow” provides a fresh look at the 1972 Andes plane crash, a tragic tale that’s been told many times. Survivor Gustavo Zerbino praised the Netflix film.

When Gustavo Zerbino watched “La Sociedad de la Nieve,” the 1972 plane crash survivor felt as if he was being submerged “into boiling water,” reliving the roughly 70 days he and his teammates were stranded in the snow-covered Andes mountains.

Zerbino praised J.A. Bayona’s raw and unfiltered film, which was released as “Society of the Snow” on Netflix in the U.S. Bayona’s movie is based on Pablo Vierci’s book of the same title, and follows the story of the Uruguayan Air Force plane disaster.

▶ Read more from AP’s feature on “Society of the Snow,” nominated for best international feature.

J.A. Bayona’s “Society of the Snow” provides a fresh look at the 1972 Andes plane crash. Uruguayan actor Enzo Vogrinic says the desire to tell the tragic story he grew up hearing about made him ready to “endure everything” during the film’s production.

Vanessa Hudgens opened the Oscars red carpet pre-show with news of her own: She’s expecting.

The 35-year-old actor-singer turned to the side, revealing a baby bump.

FILE - In this Nov. 8, 2014, file photo, Hayao Miyazaki arrives at the 6th annual Governors Awards in Los Angeles. Miyazaki’s “The Boy and Heron,” is nominated for best animated feature. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)

FILE - In this Nov. 8, 2014, file photo, Hayao Miyazaki arrives at the 6th annual Governors Awards in Los Angeles. Miyazaki’s “The Boy and Heron,” is nominated for best animated feature. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)

Toshiko Suzuki, co-founder of Studio Ghibli and close collaborator of Hayao Miyazaki, told reporters at the small animation studio in Tokyo that they both watched the award ceremony on TV.

Miyazaki, who did not attend the Los Angeles ceremony, had vowed earlier he wasn’t going to show joy too much “as a Japanese man,” but he was moved to tears, Suzuki said.

“These things are just luck. I am happy from the bottom of my heart. That’s the only way to put it,” Suzuki said.

Movies always reflect the times, Suzuki said.

“Miyazaki has not forgotten a film’s relations with the times,” he said.

When asked for plans on another film, Suzuki said they want to complete the global screenings and other work for the current film before tackling the next project.

This image released by Searchlight Pictures shows Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone on the set of "Poor Things." (Atsushi Nishijima/Searchlight Pictures via AP)

This image released by Searchlight Pictures shows Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone on the set of “Poor Things.” (Atsushi Nishijima/Searchlight Pictures via AP)

“Poor Things” became the first multiple Oscar winner of the night with back-to-back-to-back wins for hair and makeup, production design and costumes.

The three victories have made it already a big night for Yorgos Lanthimos’ film with many big nominations to come, including best director for him and best actress for Emma Stone.

Not daylight savings time!

This is the second year in a row, for the record, in which the Oscars have fallen on the same day the clocks have sprung forward.

▶ Read more about daylight saving time.

John Cena, left, presents the award for best costume design to Holly Waddington for "Poor Things"during the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

John Cena, left, presents the award for best costume design to Holly Waddington for “Poor Things"during the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

What is a film without an all-star hair and beauty team? What would be “Poor Things” without Willem Dafoe’s prosthetics? Nadia Stacey, Mark Coulier and Josh Weston, the team behind “Poor Things,” won for makeup and hair.

Catherine O’Hara and Michael Keaton presented the award, joking that without those behind the scenes, the public would know what actors really look like. Shudder at the thought!

This image released by Searchlight Pictures shows Emma Stone and Yorgos Lanthimo on the set of "Poor Things." (Atsushi Nishijima/Searchlight Pictures via AP)

This image released by Searchlight Pictures shows Emma Stone and Yorgos Lanthimo on the set of “Poor Things.” (Atsushi Nishijima/Searchlight Pictures via AP)

“Poor Things” is a Frankenstein-esque fantasia about a young woman (Emma Stone) reanimated by a demented surgeon (Willem Dafoe), but the behind-the-scenes work that went into crafting the movie’s wildly warped world may be the film’s greatest act of mad science.

Though Yorgos Lanthimos’ earlier films — at least leading up to “The Favourite” — were more spare productions, “Poor Things” fuses all the tools of classic Hollywood filmmaking — grand sets, miniatures, sumptuous costumes — with subtler touches of modern technology. The movie is, itself, a Frankenstein.

Only the scars (not counting the ones on Dafoe’s elongated face) don’t show in the magpie design of “Poor Things.” The film’s style is rooted in an 1890s Victorian setting, but it expands surreally from there.

▶ Read more about the work that went into the film.

James Price, left, and Shona Heath pose in the press room with the award for best production design for "Poor Things"at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

James Price, left, and Shona Heath pose in the press room with the award for best production design for “Poor Things” at the Oscars. (Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Cord Jefferson accepts the award for best adapted screenplay for "American Fiction" during the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Cord Jefferson accepts the award for best adapted screenplay for “American Fiction” during the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Cord Jefferson implored the movie industry to take more risks during his acceptance speech for his Oscar for adapted screenplay for “American Fiction.”

“I understand that this is a risk adverse industry, I get it, but $200 million movies are also a risk,” he said.

Appearing to be doing some very quick math in his head, Jefferson called on the industry to try “making 20 $10 million dollar movies” or “50 $4 million dollar movies.”

He said the next Martin Scorsese or Greta Gerwig is out there and called on industry leaders to take a chance on them.

In this category, countries select their film of choice. France selected “The Taste of Things” as its Oscar submission over “Anatomy of a Fall,” provoking surprise.

“The Taste of Things” ended up falling short of a nomination.

In accepting the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, “Anatomy of a Fall” director Justine Triet spoke passionately about the protests that have roiled France this year over reforms to pension plans and the retirement age. Several protests were held during Cannes this year, but demonstrations were — as they have been in many high-profile locations throughout France — banned from the area around the Palais des Festivals. Protesters were largely relegated to the outskirts of Cannes.

“The protests were denied and repressed in a shocking way,” said Triet, who linked that governmental influence to that in cinema. “The merchandizing of culture, defended by a liberal government, is breaking the French cultural exception.”

Some speculated that was the reason for the country’s snub.

Director Celine Song’s acclaimed feature film debut “Past Lives” is a modern-day love story about two childhood friends who are reunited as adults years after one moves away from South Korea. In this extended interview, Song speaks with The Associated Press about her inspirations, building chemistry between her actors, and why it was essential to portray variations of Korean family dynamics.

Finneas, left, and Billie Eilish perform "What Was I Made For?" from "Barbie" during the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell performed their “Barbie” ballad “What Was I Made For?” on a rotating neon pink stage. They were the first of five scheduled performances — every song nominated in the best original song category will receive the same treatment, which will include another “Barbie” cut: the Ryan Gosling-performed ‘80s power balled “I’m Just Ken.”

If Eilish wins in the category, she will become the youngest person to ever win two career Oscars at age 22.

A few moments into the performance, the curtains behind the sibling duo lifted to reveal a string orchestra — taking the soft, saccharine song and blowing it up to enormous size. Break out the tissues.

Justine Triet and Arthur Harari became the first of a half-dozen nominated couples to win an Oscar with their original screenplay victory for “Anatomy of a Fall.”

The longtime partners with two kids together co-wrote the movie during the coronavirus pandemic.

Triet, who is also nominated for best director for the film, said from the stage that in order to write the movie, “we hooked them up to cartoons for peace. There was no line between work and diapers.”

This image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows Margot Robbie in a scene from "Barbie." (Warner Bros. Pictures via AP)

This image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows Margot Robbie in a scene from “Barbie.” (Warner Bros. Pictures via AP)

“Barbie” is the first film since “La La Land” in 2017 to have two nominees for best original song: “I’m Just Ken” and “What Was I Made For?” Dua Lipa’s “Dance the Night” was left out after the final cut.

Four films in the past have had three songs nominated: “Enchanted,” “Dreamgirls,” “Beauty and the Beast” and “The Lion King,” but a rule installed in 2008 now allows for only two per movie.

“American Fiction” is the fifth movie to earn Black writers an Oscar for adapted screenplay. The first Black winner in the category was Geoffrey S. Fletcher, in 2009. Fletcher adapted the novel “Push” by “Sapphire” into “Precious.”

Jefferson adapted Percival Everett’s “Erasure,” a satire of urban literature. In it, the lead character is inspired to adopt a pseudonym and alter ego to release a novel that has some parallels to “Push,” an acclaimed and controversial novel about a pregnant teen from Harlem that begins in broken English, but becomes more traditional as the girl learns to read and write.

At the time, Sapphire (a pen name for Ramona Lofton) was a little-known poet who received a large advance and attracted the interest of Hollywood.

▶ Read more about urban lit authors’ reaction to the movie.

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From a Pulitzer Prize-winning biography to the annals of Mattel, here are the sources of this year’s Oscar nominees for best adapted screenplay:

“American Fiction” Filmmaker Cord Jefferson worked from Percival Everett’s 2001 satire “Erasure,” about a Black literary author who unexpectedly gets rich writing a parody of “urban fiction,” a hot genre at the time Everett’s book came out. ▶ Read more about urban lit authors’ reaction to the movie.

“Barbie” The source for “Barbie,” co-written by director Greta Gerwig and husband Noah Baumbach was ... Barbie — the doll, the icon, the product and, in the eyes of the academy, a preexisting character that made the film ineligible for the original screenplay category.

“Oppenheimer” Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” distills the 700-page “American Prometheus,” a biography of atomic bomb “father” J. Robert Oppenheimer that was written by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin and won the Pulitzer in 2006.

“Poor Things” “Poor Things,” written by Tony McNamara, is based on a 1992 novel by the late Alasdair Gray that sets a “Frankenstein”-like story in the author’s native Glasgow.

“The Zone of Interest” Jonathan Glazer’s “The Zone of Interest” reworks Martin Amis’ Holocaust novel of the same name, which the late British author had structured around infidelity among Nazis stationed at Auschwitz.

The two Oscars given to writers for screenplays are coming up. Here’s a look at the nominees.

For best original screenplay: Justine Triet and Arthur Harari for “Anatomy of a Fall,” Samy Burch and Alex Mechanik for “May December,” David Hemingson for “The Holdovers,” Celine Song for “Past Lives” and Bradley Cooper and Josh Singer for “Maestro.”

For adapted screenplay: Cord Jefferson for “American Fiction,” Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach for “Barbie,” Christopher Nolan for “Oppenheimer,” Tony McNamara for “Poor Things” and Jonathan Glazer for “The Zone of Interest.”

This image released by GKIDS shows Mahito Maki, voiced by Luca Padovan in English and Soma Santoki in Japanese, left, and Grey Heron, voiced by Robert Pattinson in English and Masaki Suda in Japanese, in a scene from Hayao Miyazaki’s “The Boy And The Heron." (Studio Ghibli/GKIDS via AP)

This image released by GKIDS shows Mahito Maki, voiced by Luca Padovan in English and Soma Santoki in Japanese, left, and Grey Heron, voiced by Robert Pattinson in English and Masaki Suda in Japanese, in a scene from Hayao Miyazaki’s “The Boy And The Heron.” (Studio Ghibli/GKIDS via AP)

“The Boy and the Heron” is only the second hand-drawn animation winner in this category. The first was another Miyazaki film, “Spirited Away,” 21 years ago.

Miyazaki was not at the Oscars to receive his award. Presenters Chris Hemsworth and Anya Taylor-Joy accepted on his behalf.

“I could see maybe the boy not showing up, but the heron should be here,” Jimmy Kimmel said.

Miyazaki is also the oldest director to win in the category.

▶ Read more from our feature on the renaissance of older filmmakers.

The Oscar for best animated feature is coming up.The nominees include “The Boy and the Heron,” directed by legendary 83-year-old animator Hayao Miyazaki for his Studio Ghibli. He has said the World War II-era fantasy may be his last film.

Also up for the award is “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse,” the trippy, web-slinging sequel to the film that won this Oscar in 2018.

Other nominees include Pixar’s fire-and-water tale “Elemental,” Netflix’s medieval-style sci-fi fantasy “Nimona,” and “Robot Dreams,” a wordless Spanish-French tale of the friendship between a dog and a robot. It hasn’t been widely distributed in the U.S. yet.

Dave Mullins, from left, Brad Booker, and Sean Ono Lennon accept the award for best animated short for "War Is Over! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko" during the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Dave Mullins, from left, Brad Booker, and Sean Ono Lennon accept the award for best animated short for “War Is Over! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko” during the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

It’s Mother’s Day in the U.K., and Sean Ono Lennon asked the audience to shout: “Happy Mother’s Day!”

Lennon was brought up by the filmmakers behind the winning animated short, “WAR IS OVER! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko.”

Listeners of Howard Stern’s show on Sirius XM know that he and Oscars host Jimmy Kimmel have a long friendship.

And Stern had to enjoy Kimmel dropping a reference to his longtime producer Gary Dell’Abate.

“Baba Booey to you sir,” Kimmel said coming out a commercial break. Baba Booey, as Stern fans know, is Dell’Abate’s nickname.

A second is quickly on its way, though.

Spike Lee already had several big moments with the Oscars by the time he finally won a competitive statuette in 2019.

His first came almost 40 years earlier, in 1983, when he was a film student at New York University. Lee submitted his master’s thesis film “Joe’s Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads,” starring Monty Ross, to the Student Academy Awards. And it won.

The Student Academy Awards may not be as glitzy or high profile as the Oscars, but in its 50 years it has proven to be a vital launching ground for emerging filmmakers. Inclusion and access may sound like recent buzzwords, but the film academy has been striving to break down barriers to entry for decades.

▶ Read more about the Student Academy Awards from November.

A woman walks past advertisements for the films "Oppenheimer," from left, and "Barbie," on Thursday, July 20, 2023, at the Landmark Theater in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

A woman walks past advertisements for the films “Oppenheimer,” from left, and “Barbie,” on Thursday, July 20, 2023, at the Landmark Theater in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

After years of smaller movies like “Nomadland” and “Coda” winning best picture, a blockbuster movie looks likely to win the top award.

“Oppenheimer,” the Christopher Nolan movie about the man who guided the creation of the nuclear weapons dropped on Japan in World War II, took in close to $1 billion at the box office. The pink-themed, box-office powerhouse “Barbie” movie is also in the mix.

▶ Read more about how movies that are more popular with the general public often translate into more people watching the Oscars show.

Da'Vine Joy Randolph accepts the award for best performance by an actress in a supporting role for "The Holdovers" during the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Da’Vine Joy Randolph accepts the award for best performance by an actress in a supporting role for “The Holdovers” during the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Da’Vine Joy Randolph wept as she accepted the night’s first Oscar — and hers.

“God is so good,” she said through tears as she accepted best supporting actor for “The Holdovers” for her first Academy Award nomination.

“I’ve always wanted to be different,” she said, “now I realize I just have to be myself.”

In a format expected to be repeated all night in the acting categories, the Oscar was presented by five past winners: Mary Steenburgen, Regina King, Lupita Nyong’o, Jamie Lee Curtis and Rita Moreno. Each introduced one nominee they have a connection to with a long personal tribute.

The 148-day strike that shut down production in Hollywood last year was part of Jimmy Kimmel’s Oscars monologue.

“For five months, this group of writers, actors, directors, the people who actually make the films said ‘We will not accept a deal‘ ... well, not the directors, you guys folded immediately,” Kimmel said. “But the rest of us said we will not accept a deal without protections against artificial intelligence.”

He quickly pointed out that actors can now stop worrying about being replaced by AI, and instead go back to fearing being replaced by more attractive actors.

Kimmel also thanked the behind-the-scenes workers in Hollywood who now have a labor fight going on of their own, bringing dozens of truck drivers, lighting workers, gaffers, grips and more onto the stage as a thank-you.

“Thank you for standing with us,” Kimmel said. “And also, we want you to know that in your upcoming negotiations, we will stand with you too. And I’m going to make sure this show goes really long tonight so you get a ton of overtime.”

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First-time nominees could easily win three of the four acting categories, but the full field of actors is an even mix of Oscar vets and newbies.

Ten of the 20 nominated actors are first timers.

Four of this year’s first-time nominees are up for best supporting actress, alongside the very veteran Jodie Foster , who got the first of her five nominations at age 14 and has won twice.

The 10 men have a staggering 33 nominations collectively, but only one of them, Robert De Niro , has an Oscar (two, actually).

Last year, 16 out of the 20 acting nominees were first-timers.

Margot Robbie walks the Oscars red carpet

Mary Steenburgen, from left, Lupita Nyong'o, Jamie Lee Curtis, Rita Moreno, and Regina King present the award for best performance by an actress in a supporting role during the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Mary Steenburgen, from left, Lupita Nyong’o, Jamie Lee Curtis, Rita Moreno, and Regina King present the award for best performance by an actress in a supporting role during the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Five past winners in the category:

  • Mary Steenburgen
  • Jamie Lee Curtis
  • Lupita Nyong’o
  • Rita Moreno
  • Regina King
  • Kimmel pointed out that Robert DeNiro and Jodie Foster were both nominated 48 years ago for “Taxi Driver” and how they’re both nominated again this year. “In 1976 Jodie Foster was young enough to be Robert DeNiro’s daughter. Now she’s 20 years too old to be his girlfriend,” Kimmel said, as Foster nodded.
  • Of course, Messi made the show. The border collie has an enormous fan base for playing Snoop in the Oscar-nominated film “Anatomy of a Fall.” He had a seat in the audience for the monologue. “I haven’t seen a French actor eat vomit like that since Gerard Depardieu,” Kimmel said.
  • Bradley Cooper brought his mother Gloria Campano to the Oscars. She’s his regular date for such events, and co-star from T-Mobile commercials. Kimmel, however, couldn’t resist a jab about dating one’s mother. “Are you working on a movie about Freud right now and not telling us?” Kimmel asked.

That would be Emily Blunt and America Ferrera , of course.

Blunt played a beleaguered high-fashion magazine assistant in “The Devil Wears Prada,” while Ferrera played a ... beleaguered high-fashion magazine assistant in “Ugly Betty,” a TV show.

They’re nominated for “Oppenheimer” and “Barbie,” respectively. Both are first-time nominees.

Da’Vine Joy Randolph has swept through the supporting actress awards in recent months and she’s expected to do the same and become one of the first big winners at the Oscars for her role as a boys’ school cook who lost her son in Vietnam in “The Holdovers.”

The category is expected to be up first.

It would be her first Oscar, as it would be for three of her competitors, Emily Blunt for “Oppenheimer,” and Danielle Brooks for “The Color Purple.”

Rounding out the category is two-time Oscar winner Jodie Foster for “Nyad.”

Despite reports that Messi, the dog who plays Snoop in “Anatomy of a Fall,” was not invited to the Oscars after a scene-stealing performance at the Oscars luncheon, the star of awards season appeared to be in the Dolby Theatre.

Messi the dog from the film "Anatomy of a Fall" appears in the audience during the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

His owner did not respond to The Associated Press’ request for comment on his attendance.

Host Jimmy Kimmel speaks during the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Host Jimmy Kimmel speaks during the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Jimmy Kimmel’s monologue started late. Welcome to the Academy Awards.

“Thank you for that partial standing ovation,” Kimmel said to begin his monologue, and in a nod to how the show tends to run long, the veteran emcee pointed out two facts.

One, the show was starting an hour earlier than usual. And two, he took the stage several minutes behind schedule.

As usual, his jokes didn’t miss. He pointed to “Barbie” stars Ryan Gosling and Margot Robbie, complimented them on winning the genetic lottery and then asked Gosling to go camping with him.

“Look kids, it’s Barbie and Ken, sitting near each other,” Kimmel said.

Cillian Murphy arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

Cillian Murphy arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

Da’Vine Joy Randolph: The supporting actress favorite’s first name is pronounced DAY-vine.

Cillian Murphy: It’s KILL-ian, not Silly-ian.

Sandra Hüller: It’s HUEL-er, not HULL-er

Despite starting an hour earlier, the telecast didn’t kick off until about 4:07 p.m. PDT.

Julie Pace, AP’s executive editor and senior vice president, is attending the Oscars for the first time in support of the nominated “20 Days in Mariupol.” She will be providing occasional updates from a guest’s perspective:

The snack boxes under guests’ seat include pretzels and Sno-Caps.

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Michelle Yeoh had a simple answer when asked to describe what attending these Oscars was like compared what she felt last year.

“Relaxed,” last year’s best actress winner said. “Very relaxed.”

The Malaysia-born Yeoh made history last year as the first Asian woman to win best actress in the Academy Awards’ 95-year history for her role in “Everything Everywhere All at Once.”

No pressure this year. She’s going to enjoy this show.

“None of that craziness of being terrified and happy all at the same time,” she said.

Ariana Grande arrived at the 96th Academy Awards wearing a soft pink gown.

Sterling K. Brown said he wanted to walk to the Oscars ceremony but when he found out that wasn’t possible he and his wife, actress Ryan Michelle Bathe, spent 45 minutes in traffic getting to the Dolby Theatre.

He sounded pretty determined about walking home at the end of the night. So if anyone sees Brown on the streets of Los Angeles later, he’s just “saving time.”

Brown may or may not have a gold Oscar in his hands as he takes to the street. He’s up for best supporting actor for his role in “American Fiction.”

Cillian Murphy, nominated for his role in “Oppenheimer,” arrives at the 96th Academy Awards.

FILE - Host Jimmy Kimmel speaks at the Oscars on March 12, 2023, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Kimmel will host the 96th Oscars on Sunday. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)

FILE - Host Jimmy Kimmel speaks at the Oscars on March 12, 2023, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Kimmel will host the 96th Oscars on Sunday. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)

Late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel is back for his fourth time hosting the Oscars. In an interview with the AP he joked about he usually steals an Oscar statue from the animated short winners: “I tell them I need to take it and I’ll get it back to them, and I just never do.”

He also riffed on his faux feud with Matt Damon, who’s in “Oppenheimer.” And don’t expect much in the way of pre-taped comedy bits in the show. Kimmel says viewers often blame them for the show running long.

▶ Read more from our Q&A with Kimmel.

The red carpet is wrapping up as showtime is just around the corner.

Still looking for a way to watch? The show will be available to stream via ABC.com and the ABC app with a cable subscription. You can also watch through Hulu Live TV, YouTubeTV, AT&T TV and FuboTV.

People walk by an Oscars statue on the red carpet ahead of the 96th Academy Awards, Thursday, March 7, 2024, in Los Angeles, Calif. (AP Photo/John Locher)

People walk by an Oscars statue on the red carpet ahead of the 96th Academy Awards, Thursday, March 7, 2024, in Los Angeles, Calif. (AP Photo/John Locher)

The Oscars are starting an hour early this year, at 7 p.m. Eastern, 4 p.m. PDT. That D is important — it’s the first day of daylight saving time in the United States.

ABC is available with an antenna or through cable and satellite providers. For cord cutters, the show can be streamed with a subscription to Hulu Live TV, YouTubeTV, AT&T TV and Fubo TV.

The Oscars are widely broadcast beyond the U.S. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has a handy guide to the more than 200 international territories that have Oscar telecasts.

This image released by Neon shows, from left, Samuel Theis, Sandra Hüller and Milo Machado Graner in a scene from "Anatomy of a Fall." (Neon via AP)

“The Zone of Interest” and “Anatomy of a Fall,” each nominated for five Oscars, are the first two films primarily in non-English languages to be nominated for best picture in the same year. Both films also star Sandra Hüller.

Diane Warren poses for a portrait at the 92nd Academy Awards Nominees Luncheon at the Loews Hotel on Monday, Jan. 27, 2020, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Diane Warren poses for a portrait at the 92nd Academy Awards Nominees Luncheon at the Loews Hotel on Monday, Jan. 27, 2020, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

After receiving a nomination for best original song for “The Fire Inside” from “Flamin’ Hot” — a reggaeton number performed by Becky G — will Diane Warren finally win her first Academy Award, after 15 career nods?

And technically, she already has one? In 2022, Warren received an honorary Oscar at the annual Governors Awards, alongside fellow recipients Euzhan Palcy , Peter Weir and Michael J. Fox, who received the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. Warren was the first songwriter to ever get the award.

Becky G, nominated for her song “The Fire Inside,” talks about Latino representation at the Academy Awards.

Greta Gerwig, left, and Noah Baumbach arrive at the 81st Golden Globe Awards on Sunday, Jan. 7, 2024, at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, Calif. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Greta Gerwig, left, and Noah Baumbach arrive at the 81st Golden Globe Awards on Sunday, Jan. 7, 2024, at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, Calif. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

“Barbie” director Greta Gerwig and her husband, “Marriage Story” director Noah Baumbach , are nominated for best screenplay.

“Barbie” star Margot Robbie is nominated for best picture as producer with husband and co-producer Tom Ackerley. Naturally, they’re opposite “Oppenheimer” co-producers and spouses Christopher Nolan and Emma Thomas .

Samy Burch and husband Alex Mechanik are nominated for best original screenplay for “May December.” So are “Anatomy of a Fall” writers Justine Triet and Arthur Harari, who are longtime partners and co-parents.

“Napoleon Dynamite” director Jared Hess and wife Jerusha Hess are nominated for co-directing the animated short, “Ninety-Five Senses.”

Rita Moreno arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)

Rita Moreno arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)

In addition to starting an hour earlier than usual, here’s what else to expect from tonight’s telecast:

  • A focus on jokes over big, highly produced comedy bits
  • Live performances of all five Oscar-nominated songs, including Ryan Gosling singing “I’m Just Ken”
  • A redesigned stage to show off the live orchestra
  • An in memoriam sequence that promises to tug at heartstrings

▶ Read more about what producers have in store.

As a first-time Oscar attendee, one of the striking things is just how early everything starts. Our group, a nominee for best documentary, arrived around 1 p.m. local time — three hours before the show begins. We were funneled into a multi-floor reception, with drinks, passed canapés and snack bags to tuck into a pocket or purse for the main event.

With just under an hour to go until showtime, an announcement blared overhead encouraging guests to take their seats. Most appeared inclined to keep enjoying the reception, prompting increasingly urgent appeals from the announcer.

Actors Emily Blunt and John Krasinski both dazzled in white as they arrived at the 96th Academy Awards together.

Lily Gladstone is the anguished heart and compassionate conscience of “Killers of the Flower Moon.” She embodies not just Mollie Burkhart but generations of Native joy, grace and pain. The Associated Press named the 37-year-old actor one of its five Breakthrough Entertainers of 2023 for an indelible performance that deftly digs into one of American history’s darkest chapters. She sat down with AP to talk about carrying her family’s legacy, her heroes and collaborating with Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese.

Oscar statuettes are displayed during the Governors Ball press preview for the 96th Academy Awards, Tuesday, March 5, 2024, in Los Angeles. The Academy Awards will be held on Sunday, March 10. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Oscar statuettes are displayed during the Governors Ball press preview for the 96th Academy Awards, Tuesday, March 5, 2024, in Los Angeles. The Academy Awards will be held on Sunday, March 10. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

There are more than 10,000 members of the Academy, who each have a role in picking the winners.

Generally, people who work in a particular category decided the nominees in that category. Directors nominate directors, for example — but all voting members can nominate movies for best picture.

This year, the nominations were announced Jan. 23. Once the nominees are decided, everyone can vote for all categories in the final round of voting. Final voting started Feb. 22 and ended Feb. 27. All the voting happens online.

For most categories, the nominee with the most votes simply wins. But best picture employs ranked choice voting.

Only two people — partners of the accounting firm, PricewaterhouseCoopers — know the winners before they’re announced Sunday.

Protesters line up holding letters and symbols reading "Eyes on Rafah," during a demonstration in support of Palestinians calling for a ceasefire in Gaza as the 96th Academy Awards Oscars ceremony is held nearby, Sunday, March 10, 2024, in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Etienne Laurent)

Protesters line up holding letters and symbols reading “Eyes on Rafah,” during a demonstration in support of Palestinians calling for a ceasefire in Gaza as the 96th Academy Awards Oscars ceremony is held nearby, Sunday, March 10, 2024, in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Etienne Laurent)

Protesters blocked Sunset Blvd. and then Highland Ave. as Oscars attendees sat in black SUVs at a standstill for more than an hour. The LAPD cleared Highland by around 3:30 p.m. Pacific.

Protesters shouted “Shame!” as some attendees walked up Highland and through nearby streets, with some pushing and shoving as protesters tried to block them.

Police in helmets and wielding batons declared an unlawful assembly and threatened arrest.

Ryan Gosling, nominated for his role of Ken in “Barbie,” arrived in all-black on the Oscars red carpet.

Dwayne Johnson arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Dwayne Johnson arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Forgive Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson for stumbling a little bit over the pronunciation of the designer of his Oscars attire.

He eventually got it right: He’s wearing Dolce and Gabbana. It took the wrestler-turned-actor a couple of tries to get the wording out, but he got there.

And he had a good reason: “I’ve had a lot of tequila,” he said.

BEST ACTUALLY SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE: Cory Michael Smith, ‘May December’

This image released by Netflix shows Natalie Portman as Elizabeth Berry, left, and Cory Michael Smith as Georgie Atherton, in a scene from "May December." (François Duhamel/Netflix via AP)

This image released by Netflix shows Natalie Portman as Elizabeth Berry, left, and Cory Michael Smith as Georgie Atherton, in a scene from “May December.” (François Duhamel/Netflix via AP)

BEST FACE: Willem Dafoe, ‘Poor Things’

This image released by Searchlight Pictures shows Willem Dafoe in a scene from "Poor Things." (Atsushi Nishijima/Searchlight Pictures via AP)

This image released by Searchlight Pictures shows Willem Dafoe in a scene from “Poor Things.” (Atsushi Nishijima/Searchlight Pictures via AP)

BEST USE OF EARTH WIND AND FIRE’S ‘SEPTEMBER’: ‘Robot Dreams’

This image released by Neon shows a scene from "Robot Dreams." (Neon via AP)

This image released by Neon shows a scene from “Robot Dreams.” (Neon via AP)

BEST FIGHT: Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Tobias Menzies, ‘You Hurt My Feelings’

This image released by A24 shows Tobias Menzies, left, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus in a scene from "You Hurt My Feelings." (Jeong Park/A24 via AP)

This image released by A24 shows Tobias Menzies, left, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus in a scene from “You Hurt My Feelings.” (Jeong Park/A24 via AP)

BEST HAT: Michael Fassbender’s bucket hat, ‘The Killer’

This image released by Netflix shows Michael Fassbender as an assassin in a scene from "The Killer." (Netflix via AP)

This image released by Netflix shows Michael Fassbender as an assassin in a scene from “The Killer.” (Netflix via AP)

BEST DOG NOT NAMED SNOOP: Chaplin, ‘Fallen Leaves’

This image released by MUBI shows Alma Pöysti in a scene from "Fallen Leaves." (MUBI via AP)

This image released by MUBI shows Alma Pöysti in a scene from “Fallen Leaves.” (MUBI via AP)

▶ See more of our awards and rationales.

Trying to submit your last-minute Oscars ballot?

▶ Read more about AP’s predictions for tonight’s winners.

AP photographer Chris Pizzello is usually on the other side of a red carpet step-and-repeat. But recently, he got to experience being in front of the camera. Here’s his take on the “surreal” experience of having the tables turned:

That was a first for me. My wife, Veronica, and I really got dressed to the nines for that event, which was the Hollywood Beauty Awards. What made it funny was that when we arrived for the red carpet, the photographers were the same people I work elbow-to-elbow with two or three nights a week. So I got razzed a bit, but it was all in good fun. I joked to my colleagues that I was going to require approvals on everyone’s pictures of us.

Actor Kurt Tocci leaps for photographers at the premiere of the AMC series "The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live," Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Actor Kurt Tocci leaps for photographers at the premiere of the AMC series “The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live,” Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

One thing I noticed was that it’s hard to see with the bright lights shining right in your face and you get a little confused by the simultaneous directives of all the photographers. Everyone is yelling at once, so you do naturally gravitate to the people with the loudest voices.

I also acquired a newfound respect for celebrities who can go onstage and deliver a great impromptu acceptance speech. The award I was up for, Photographer of the Year, was one of the final categories and I felt an increasing knot in my stomach as the night went on. When my category was finally announced by the presenters, my heart leapt into my throat. I had a speech ready in my tux pocket, but other winners were going up there sans notes and just killing it. But I didn’t ultimately win, and I have to admit I felt great relief that I didn’t have to speak in front of 300 people.

Filmmaker Ava DuVernay arrived at the Oscars wearing a blue gown and a pin advocating for a cease-fire in Gaza.

Billie Eilish, Ramy Youssef, Ava DuVernay and others donned red pins in support for a cease-fire in Gaza. The bold design features a single hand holding a heart and was organized by the group Artists for Ceasefire.

About a mile from the red carpet, protesters shut down a section of Hollywood’s Sunset Boulevard calling for an end to the violence in Rafah, a dense city on Gaza’s border with Egypt. The 2024 award season has so far been a relatively quiet one for political statements.

In past years, celebrities and other marquee figures have worn pins to speak out against the war in Ukraine — and decades prior, in Iraq, and still before that, Vietnam.

This image released by Netflix shows Carey Mulligan as Felicia Montealegre, right, and Bradley Cooper as Leonard Bernstein in a scene from "Maestro." (Jason McDonald/Netflix via AP)

This image released by Netflix shows Carey Mulligan as Felicia Montealegre, right, and Bradley Cooper as Leonard Bernstein in a scene from “Maestro.” (Jason McDonald/Netflix via AP)

One thing you might not hear much during the show: Netflix wins. Though the streamer has been a perennial awards force and comes in with 19 nominations, there’s a chance it will come up empty for the first time since 2016.

Its best shot might be in best makeup and hairstyling for Bradley Cooper’s “Maestro,” or best live-action short for Wes Anderson’s “The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar.”

After criticism of quantity over quality, Netflix is retooling its film operations. The streaming service is still seeking its first best picture win.

Emma Stone arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Best actress nominee Emma Stone went straight for the Dolby Theatre as a voice of god implored the red carpet stragglers to please take their seats. She paused to greet Netflix exec Scott Stuber who gave her a kiss on the cheek and his wife Molly Sims who made a bowing gesture to Stone.

Emily Blunt found her way over to give her “Oppenheimer” director Christopher Nolan and producer Emma Thomas a hug on the red carpet. Blunt’s husband John Krasinski chimed in that Nolan looked dapper. They posed for a photograph and laughed together for a long chat. “Oppenheimer” is widely expected to have a near sweep of the awards.

Danielle Brooks, nominated for her role in “The Color Purple,” shares the lessons she’s learned during this awards season.

For her first Oscars, Danielle Brooks went with a classic designer. She walked the red carpet in a custom Dolce and Gabbana.

“The story is this is my first Oscars dress,” Brooks said. “That’s the story. I hope to come back again and again and again. But this will forever be special to me.”

She’s a nominee for best supporting actress for her work in “The Color Purple.”

It’s not just the men playing it safe in black this year — the classic color choice is popular among the women, including a custom Schiaparelli for Sandra Hüller with extended shoulders and the perfect fit.

Among the risk-takers? Charlotte Kemp Muhl, who walked with Sean Ono Lennon in a backless and near sideless fit.

Sandra Huller arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

Sandra Huller arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

Sean Ono Lennon, left, and Kemp Muhl arrive at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Monet McMichael arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

Eva Longoria arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

Celine Song arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Ava DuVernay arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

Ted Danson, left, and Mary Steenburgen arrive at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Danielle Brooks arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Christina Steinberg arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)

Debra O’Connell arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

Jeffrey Wright arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

Jeffrey Wright arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

Sony Pictures Chair Tom Rothman and “American Fiction” star Jeffrey Wright had other things to chat about than awards on the Oscars red carpet: Their days playing college sports.

Rothman said he’d read an interview in which the best actor nominee talked about the importance of exercise to his acting.

“I’m trying to get back there,” Wright said and gestures to his kids nearby. “Now that these guys are a little older I can focus on myself a little more.”

Gabrielle Union, left, and Dwayne Wade arrive at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Gabrielle Union, left, and Dwayne Wade arrive at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Dwyane Wade has won gold trophies before. He’s now chasing a gold statuette.

Wade is a three-time NBA champion, a Basketball Hall of Famer and now could be part of an Oscar winner. He was executive producer of “The Barber of Little Rock,” an Oscar nominee in the best documentary short film category. It tells the story of local barber Arlo Washington, who set out to try to combat the racial wealth gap and how it still seems to be widening in America.

“We’ve been systematically, financially shut out of the system,” Wade said. “What Arlo is doing trying to create the opportunities for our community to succeed. Without financial freedom, you have nothing.” Wade walked the red carpet accompanied by his wife, Gabrielle Union-Wade.

Kris Bowers grew up in Los Angeles, just a few minutes away from The World Stage performance space, and immersed in jazz. Music, he knew, was always his path.

“I told them (my parents) when I was 12, I want to go to school for jazz and tour as a jazz artist and then transition into film scoring,” the pianist-turned-composer says. “I never had a moment where I thought, ‘Oh, maybe I’ll do something else.’ I was always like, ‘Oh, that’s the path. And like, yeah, I’ll try to figure out how to make it happen.’”

Scarcely two decades after that preteen declaration, the 34-year-old is an Emmy- and Grammy-nominated composer whose resume could fill pages. He’s created moving compositions for prominent filmmakers, including Ava DuVernay and Justin Simien, and Oscar-winning films like “King Richard” and “Green Book.”

▶ Read more from our profile of Kris Bowers, who co-directed the Oscar-nominated documentary short “ The Last Repair Shop.”

Colman Domingo arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

Colman Domingo matched his custom Louis Vuitton suit with cowboy boots.

Describing his fashion sense, Washington said he lives somewhere between “Cary Grant and Teddy Pendergrass.”

He says tonight, he feels like the “whole party.”

Domingo plays Bayard Rustin, a gay Black socialist and pacifist activist, who was the master strategist of the 1963 civil rights March on Washington.

He’s up for an acting Oscar. He called the role one of the “gifts” of his lifetime.

But he didn’t sound too tense about winning, saying he just feels like he’s here with colleagues and friends.

Stars weren’t the only ones shining bright on the Oscars red carpet. After many days of gray skies and unusual rain, the weather this Sunday in Hollywood is perfect: 69 degrees Fahrenheit (20 Celsius) with tons of sunshine.

Apologies to the Grammys , where the rain-soaked carpet inspired more than a few memes.

The Oscars red carpet is tented, though, giving photographs more of a “night” feel.

Dominic Sessa arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Dominic Sessa arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/John Locher)

AP photographer Chris Pizzello is a veteran of awards shows — and their red carpets. Here’s how he gets the shot amid fierce competition: I am a naturally quiet person, so I’ve never been a yeller. Even when I do yell, everyone complains that they can’t hear me! So I try to concentrate on capturing what red carpet photographers call “moments.” A wave. A wink. A spontaneous burst of laughter. Or maybe a look back over the shoulder as the celebrity is walking away. It’s just a matter of always being attentive. I also occasionally like to focus on interesting details, like shoes or necklaces.

Kristen Stewart, a cast member in "Love Me," is interviewed at the premiere of the film at Eccles Theatre during the Sundance Film Festival, Friday, Jan. 19, 2024, in Park City, Utah. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Kristen Stewart, a cast member in “Love Me,” is interviewed at the premiere of the film at Eccles Theatre during the Sundance Film Festival, Friday, Jan. 19, 2024, in Park City, Utah. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

At one of her Sundance premieres this year, Kristen Stewart was dressed down (for her) but still was the coolest-looking person in the room, the ultimate hipster. She was wearing these dice rings on one hand, one white and one black. I shot a tight detail shot of them and put it up on my Instagram — I couldn’t believe how many likes that shot got.

Emma Stone, nominated for her role in “Poor Things,” arrived at the Oscars in a light blue gown.

Emma Stone went for a soft pastel strapless look in mint with a wide peplum at the waist. It was Louis Vuitton.

Carol Littleton, from left, Mel Brooks, Angela Bassett, and Michelle Satter pose with their honorary awards during the Governors Awards on Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2024, at the Dolby Ballroom in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Carol Littleton, from left, Mel Brooks, Angela Bassett, and Michelle Satter pose with their honorary awards during the Governors Awards on Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2024, at the Dolby Ballroom in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Mel Brooks received his second Oscar back in January at a private dinner in the heart of Hollywood. The event, the 14th Governors Awards, was untelevised but the crowd was as starry as they come with the likes of Martin Scorsese, Christopher Nolan, Leonardo DiCaprio, Penélope Cruz, Natalie Portman, Bradley Cooper and Jon Batiste in the audience.

“I promise not to sell this one,” Brooks said.

Hollywood’s awards season can start to feel a little gratuitously self-congratulatory, but the Governors Awards is a bit of a respite from the horse race and a chance to celebrate some of the industry’s living legends, including Brooks, Angela Bassett and film editor Carol Littleton, who all collected honorary Oscars at the Ray Dolby Ballroom, just steps from where the Academy Awards will be broadcast today. Michelle Satter, a founding director of the Sundance Institute, also received the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award.

▶ Read more about the Governors Awards.

Many men stuck to black in tuxedos and other looks, including a fashion star of the awards season, Colman Domingo in a double-breasted tuxedo look, a custom Louis Vuitton, paired with western boots. “I wanted to shine like a diamond″ he told E! “I’m having a great time.”

Colman Domingo said he wore a custom Louis Vuitton suit to the Oscars.

Among the men who opted out of black was Taylor Zakhar Perez in powder blue.

Taylor Zakhar Perez, left, takes a selfie with fans at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Taylor Zakhar Perez, left, takes a selfie with fans at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Simu Liu of “Barbie” brought the Kenergy. He rocked a black Fendi look with a wrap-around jacket closed with a brooch.

“It’s a fun situation, and I like brooches,” he said.

Simu Liu, left, and Allison Hsu arrive at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Simu Liu, left, and Allison Hsu arrive at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Emma Stone’s third collaboration with director Yorgos Lanthimos is “Poor Things.” The 35-year-old star spoke about her trust in Lanthimos, his treatment of nudity in film, surrealism — and whether she’d ever become a director.

Kirsten Dunst, left, and Jesse Plemons arrive at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Kirsten Dunst, left, and Jesse Plemons arrive at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Kirsten Dunst and Jesse Plemons made a beeline to Cord Jefferson to say hello.

“Great to see you, man,” Plemons said giving a handshake and a hug. Soon others started swarming Dunst, asking for photos and all chatted about whether or not everyone was late.

The lack of the evening’s biggest stars on the carpet with only an hour until showtime has started to become the topic of the carpet.

Nearby, best actor nominee Paul Giamatti paused to pose next to an oversized Oscar statuette.

Protesters against the war in Gaza have shut down a major traffic artery in Hollywood about a mile from where the Oscars will be held.

Billie Eilish and America Ferrera hugged once they saw each other on the Oscars red carpet

America Ferrera stopped to post for a few selfies and even sign an autograph for a fan on the red carpet. She’s nominated for best supporting performance for “Barbie,” which none of the fans forgot shouting, “Hi Barbie! I love you!”

As she breezed by, the fans got even more excited as Nicolas Cage appeared.

Kingsley Ben-Adir shares his thoughts on ‘Bob Marley: One Love’ on the Oscars red carpet.

Issa Rae arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Issa Rae arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Issa Rae, a red carpet standout, stunned in plunging deep green. The top sparkled with sequins.

“I am wearing green for good luck,” she said. “I wanted to feel old Hollywood.”

From left, Da'Vine Joy Randolph and Lily-Rose Depp arrive at Chanel's 15th Annual Pre-Oscar Awards Dinner on Saturday, March 9, 2024, at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

From left, Da’Vine Joy Randolph and Lily-Rose Depp arrive at Chanel’s 15th Annual Pre-Oscar Awards Dinner on Saturday, March 9, 2024, at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Sandra Huller arrives at Chanel’s 15th Annual Pre-Oscar Awards Dinner on Saturday, March 9, 2024, at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Kristen Stewart arrives at Chanel’s 15th Annual Pre-Oscar Awards Dinner on Saturday, March 9, 2024, at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Olivia Munn arrives at Chanel’s 15th Annual Pre-Oscar Awards Dinner on Saturday, March 9, 2024, at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Ava DuVernay arrives at Chanel’s 15th Annual Pre-Oscar Awards Dinner on Saturday, March 9, 2024, at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Chloe Sevigny arrives at Chanel’s 15th Annual Pre-Oscar Awards Dinner on Saturday, March 9, 2024, at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Usher arrives at Chanel’s 15th Annual Pre-Oscar Awards Dinner on Saturday, March 9, 2024, at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Tessa Thompson arrives at Chanel’s 15th Annual Pre-Oscar Awards Dinner on Saturday, March 9, 2024, at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

James Marsden arrives at Chanel’s 15th Annual Pre-Oscar Awards Dinner on Saturday, March 9, 2024, at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Maya Rudolph arrives at Chanel’s 15th Annual Pre-Oscar Awards Dinner on Saturday, March 9, 2024, at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Alexandra Shipp arrives at Chanel’s 15th Annual Pre-Oscar Awards Dinner on Saturday, March 9, 2024, at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Havana Rose Liu arrives at Chanel’s 15th Annual Pre-Oscar Awards Dinner on Saturday, March 9, 2024, at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

The night before the Oscars isn’t a time to rest in Hollywood. For quite a few nominees, including “Barbie” star Margot Robbie, it meant a stop at the historic Beverly Hills Hotel for the 15th annual Chanel and Charles Finch pre-Oscar dinner.

Robbie was in very good company, with other Oscar nominees including best supporting actress frontrunner Da’Vine Joy Randolph, as well as America Ferrera, Sandra Hüller, Justine Triet, Cord Jefferson, Jonathan Glazer and Celine Song, who all are expected at the Dolby Theatre on Sunday evening.

They packed into the picturesque patio of the storied Polo Lounge for cocktails before the private dinner on a clear, chilly night in Beverly Hills. Robert De Niro was among the earliest arrivals, but within no time the space was full of stars.

▶ Read more from our recap of the pre-Oscar dinner.

Colman Domingo, nominated for his role in “Rustin,” arrives on the Oscars red carpet.

Porché Brinker of “The Last Repair Shop” was in ethereal soft blue. Juliet Donenfeld of “Red, White and Blue” looked all-the-way grown up in a blinged-out strapless dress.

Juliet Donenfeld arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Juliet Donenfeld arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Katie Lowes, left, and Adam Shapiro eat pretzels on the carpet at the Oscars on Sunday, March 12, 2023, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)

Katie Lowes, left, and Adam Shapiro eat pretzels on the carpet at the Oscars on Sunday, March 12, 2023, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)

Not just any pretzels — Philadelphia-style soft pretzels, provided by actors and married couple Adam Shapiro and Katie Lowes. Shapiro is a Philly-area native and told Philadelphia’s ABC affiliate that he made 5,000 pretzels for the show.

Host Jimmy Kimmel arranged for the pretzels to be under the seats of the Dolby Theatre last year, telling the audience midway through the show that they were there.

“In the acting world, it’s all about a callback. This is a good callback,” Shapiro said.

Cord Jefferson’s first feature is up for best picture at the Academy Awards. Even surrounded by stars at the recent Oscar nominees luncheon, he still couldn’t believe it. Jefferson — who wrote, directed and produced the satire starring Jeffrey Wright — spoke with AP entertainment journalist Leslie Ambriz about the Hollywood awards circuit, insecurity and the significance of a third grade writing project.

This image released by Universal Pictures shows Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer in a scene from "Oppenheimer." (Melinda Sue Gordon/Universal Pictures via AP)

This image released by Universal Pictures shows Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer in a scene from “Oppenheimer.” (Melinda Sue Gordon/Universal Pictures via AP)

FanDuel Sportsbook has odds posted on many categories, and all signs point to a big “Oppenheimer” night.

“Oppenheimer” is a massive favorite to win best picture and is the pick to win at least seven other statuettes — Cillian Murphy (best actor), Robert Downey Jr. (best supporting actor), Christopher Nolan (best director), Ludwig Göransson (best original score), best cinematography, best sound, and best film editing.

Lily Gladstone (“Killers of the Flower Moon”) is a slight favorite over Emma Stone (“Poor Things”) for best actress, Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell (“Barbie”) are favored for best original song and Da’Vine Joy Randolph (“The Holdovers”) is the pick for best supporting actress.

Here’s how big a favorite “Oppenheimer” is for best picture. If someone bet $100 on Sunday morning, the odds were so low at that point that they would win … $1.25.

Rita Moreno wore a huge smile and a statement black gown, and Brittany Snow popped in bright yellow on the Oscars red carpet .

Rita Moreno arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Rita Moreno arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Moreno, at 92, waved to photographers as she showed off her look.

Snow offered a refreshing show of color in a bright strapless custom Monot dress paired with a statement choker.

Brittany Snow arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Brittany Snow arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Martin Scorsese’s says his epic “Killers of the Flower Moon” is “an internal spectacle.” The movie about the systematic killing of Osage Nation members for their oil-rich land in the 1920s also demonstrates his continued dedication to ambitious filmmaking. The legendary 80-year-old director sat down with The Associated Press to talk about staying focused and curious, the future of cinema and pushing boundaries: “There is no limit. The limit is in yourself.”

Brendan Fraser arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Brendan Fraser arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Brendan Fraser made a triumphant return to the red carpet after his best actor win last year, bypassing reporters and pausing only to say hello to Marlee Matlin.

He also ran into “The Whale” cinematographer Matthew Libatique (nominated this year for “Maestro”).

“We both wore blue!” Fraser said. He’s presenting an award at the show later.

Christopher Nolan celebrated the home video release of “Oppenheimer” by looking back at the film’s surprisingly successful theatrical run — and what it may mean for Hollywood. No one in the industry expected that a long, talky, R-rated drama released at the height of the summer movie season would earn over $900 million at the box office. Nolan deflected Bond rumors, called the Hollywood strikes “a very necessary realignment” — and considered the future of artificial intelligence in filmmaking.

A protester holds a poster during a demonstration in support of Palestinians calling for a ceasefire in Gaza as the 96th Academy Awards Oscars ceremony is held nearby, Sunday, March 10, 2024, in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Etienne Laurent)

A protester holds a poster during a demonstration in support of Palestinians calling for a ceasefire in Gaza as the 96th Academy Awards Oscars ceremony is held nearby, Sunday, March 10, 2024, in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Etienne Laurent)

Protesters against the war in Gaza — wearing black-and-white keffiyehs, watermelon yarmulkes, suits and ties, some splattered with fake blood — have shut down a major traffic artery in Hollywood about a mile (1.6 km) from the Dolby Theatre.

Flanked by palm trees along Sunset Boulevard, demonstrators are holding signs reading “While you’re watching, bombs are dropping” and “Eyes on Rafah ,” a city on southern Gaza’s border with more than 1 million displaced residents.

The coalition of activist groups, including Jewish Voice for Peace and SAG-AFTRA Members for Ceasefire, drew attention to the ongoing violence at the start of Ramadan.

Many surprises await during the show including some special guests during the in memoriam.

Also lips are sealed on specifics around Ryan Gosling’s “I’m Just Ken” performance but a person close to production who requested anonymity said “it’s a lot of people to fit on that stage.” Elsewhere Simu Liu made way down the carpet as fans in the bleachers shouted “Hi, Ken!”

Simu Liu, left, and Allison Hsu arrive at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Director Wim Wenders of “Perfect Days” arrived with his wife, Donata Wenders, who is wearing a dress made of VHS videotape of some of his movies.

Donata Wenders arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Donata Wenders arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

The view from the secondary red carpet at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Julie Pace)

The view from the secondary red carpet at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Julie Pace)

Behind the red carpet you see celebrities and nominees walking on television is the secondary red carpet for, well, everyone else.

It’s a lower-stakes situation. No photographers, no reporters asking what you’re wearing — and no accessing the main carpet!

Associated Press journalist Mstyslav Chernov is in Los Angeles as the movie he risked his life to produce is up for an Academy Award — but he says his heart is in Ukraine with other cities being bombed.

“20 Days in Mariupol” is being honored in the documentary category. Chernov says it’s a movie about “tough things” but it’s also “important to show the real picture” of life in Ukraine. He says it’s been inspiring to meet the other nominees in the documentary category.

Laverne Cox arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Laverne Cox arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Laverne Cox, working the carpet for E!, is the epitome of Old Hollywood glam in an hourglass look of black and low-plunging gold, her hair piled high as she flutters a feather-light neck piece that trails behind. Her look is vintage Mugler.

Last year’s best picture and director winners Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan of “Everything Everywhere All at Once” are getting quite the different Oscar experience this year and finding it’s kind of nice.

“We’re back on the circuit,” Scheinert said. “It’s really chill to be here and not have anything at stake.”

Kwan meanwhile was taking in the spectacle and appreciating the “Godzilla Minus One” team’s mini monster toys.

The "Godzilla Minus One" team brough mini monsters to the Oscars red carpet Sunday, March 10, 2024, in Los Angeles (AP Photo/Brooke Lefferts)

The “Godzilla Minus One” team brough mini monsters to the Oscars red carpet Sunday, March 10, 2024, in Los Angeles (AP Photo/Brooke Lefferts)

Jack Quaid arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

Jack Quaid arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

“Oppenheimer” actor Jack Quaid (and proud member of the Oppenhomie group chat) decided to bypass interviews but still have a nice shoutout to some fawning fans in the bleachers.

“Jack, we love you!” one shouted.

“Thank you, you’re the best,” Quaid, who co-presented the nominees, responded.

Eugene Lee Yang arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

Eugene Lee Yang arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Janet Yang arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Liza Koshy arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)

D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, left, and Quannah Chasinghorse arrive at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

Diane Warren arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

Red, an “It” color of the awards season, has some early enthusiasts as arrivals are heating up.

Bobi Wine, left, and Barbie Kyagulanyi arrive at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)

Bobi Wine, left, and Barbie Kyagulanyi arrive at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)

The braintrust behind “Bobi Wine: The People’s President” took to the red carpet obviously unsure if they’d win the Oscar for best documentary feature film.

They were already happy, though. Simply telling the story of Wine — a popular Ugandan singer who ran unsuccessfully for president in 2021, losing to President Yoweri Museveni in an election Wine claimed was rigged against him — was reason enough to celebrate.

“Needless to say, being nominated for an Oscar is the highest accolade possible,” producer John Battsek said. “It brings this story to the world’s gaze, and that’s what we want.”

Erika Alexander arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Erika Alexander arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Erika Alexander of “American Fiction” is wearing a white strapless gown with a black skirt trimmed in pastel tulle. The designer, Christian Siriano, said it was made in a miraculous four days.

David Leitch, left, and Kelly McCormick arrive at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/John Locher)

David Leitch, left, and Kelly McCormick arrive at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Filmmaker David Leitch doesn’t have a movie at the Oscars this year, but he was invited to attend for a very special reason: During the show, there is going to be a special celebration of the art of stunts.

He and many others have been long lobbying for a stunt award to be added to the Oscars. Though this isn’t quite a golden statuette, it is a gesture to one of filmmaking’s most essential crafts.

In Leitch’s upcoming film “The Fall Guy,” Ryan Gosling plays a stuntman.

Vanessa Hudgens arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)

Vanessa Hudgens arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)

Jamie Lee Curtis arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

Jacqueline Stewart arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Sean Wang, left, and Chang Li Hua arrive at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Brittany Snow arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)

Julianne Hough arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)

Osage singers and dancers arrive at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)

The carpet has only been open for about an hour, but it’s already star-studded. Stay tuned for more photos of the night’s best looks.

More than 1,000 costumes went into the period drama “Oppenheimer,” which details the making of the first nuclear weapons.

The movie’s costume designer Ellen Mirojnick told the AP on the red carpet ahead of the awards ceremony that the costumes were sourced from across the U.S. and Europe. She’s nominated in the costume design category.

She made her own fashion statement with long black leather gloves that went over her elbows and had gold nails for fingers.

"Oppenheimer" costume designer Ellen Mirojnick's gloves on the Oscars red carpet on Sunday, March 10, 2024 in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Brooke Lefferts)

“Oppenheimer” costume designer Ellen Mirojnick’s gloves on the Oscars red carpet on Sunday, March 10, 2024 in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Brooke Lefferts)

The Associated Press journalists behind “20 Days in Mariupol” reacted after their chronicle about the besieged Ukrainian city received an Oscar nomination for best documentary. The film, a co-production between the AP and PBS’ “Frontline,” was shot during the first three weeks of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in early 2022.

The AP team has arrived at the Oscars.

Laura Karpman arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)

Laura Karpman arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)

American Fiction” composer Laura Karpman, head to toe in silver sequins, got the fan section especially excited, tossing Cadbury eggs to several lucky onlookers. Nominated this year for original score, Karpman last year wore a dress with Christine Blasey Ford’s congressional testimony.

Elsewhere, “Oppenheimer” cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema made a quiet entrance in some comfortable but festive silver sneakers. He’s expected to win in his category later.

Throughout the billion-dollar “Barbie,” an instrumental version of Billie Eilish’s hit “What Was I Made For?” weaves in and out, soundtracking the famous doll’s existential crisis. In the final scene — no spoilers! — Eilish’s falsetto is finally heard atop the familiar piano. Cue the waterworks. It is one of many standout musical moments in a movie stacked with them: The music of “Barbie” has become its own blockbuster, selling 126,000 copies in its first week and debuting at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 200 albums chart.

“Barbie” music has also earned three Grammy Awards, one Golden Globe and two Academy Award nominations in the original song category – more than any other film. So, is “Barbie” an exception? Or are soundtracks back? It’s ... debatable. Read what experts have to say here.

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Chef Wolfgang Puck goofs around with a crew from TV Azteca, who have a wig as a prop on the Oscars red carpet on Sunday, March 10, 2024 in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Brooke Lefferts)

Reece Feldman arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)

Reece Feldman arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)

TikTok star Reece Feldman is feeling good on the red carpet at his third Oscars Sunday, but things were a little dicier a few hours ago.

“They couldn’t find my suit,” he said. “I was just sitting there in a robe.”

The wardrobe disaster was soon resolved though and his black, sleeveless Saint Laurent materialized just in time.

Also known as “guywithamoviecamera,” Feldman has over 2.3 million followers on TikTok.

Mark Ruffalo’s fourth Oscar nomination in the supporting actor category comes for “Poor Things.” The 56-year-old star spoke with the AP about passion projects, breaking out of boxes as an actor, and why the Yiddish theatre informed his blending of art and political activism.

Margot Robbie, Emma Stone, Cillian Murphy and a host of fellow Hollywood A-listers pose for photos at the annual Oscar nominees luncheon. (Feb. 13)

The event at the Beverly Hilton is a warm, feel-good affair where nominees in categories like best animated short get to rub shoulders and share tables with acting nominees like Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone .

Casts gather alongside dozens of the famous and less so for handshakes, hugs, a huge group picture and instructions on nailing an acceptance speech. They also do interviews with attending press.

“Poor Things” star Emma Stone and screenwriter Tony McNamara are both Oscar-nominated for Yorgos Lanthimos’ “twisted fairy tale.” It’s the first best actress nod for Stone since her 2017 “La La Land” win. The two spoke with AP entertainment journalist Krysta Fauria about meeting fellow nominees, audience expectations — and staying humble during Hollywood’s awards season.

▶ Read more from last month’s luncheon.

Take a look at some of the most talked about omissions from this year’s Oscar nominations — and the surprises:

  • The bar for “Barbie": Greta Gerwig was shut out of best director, though she has a shot at the adapted screenplay Oscar. Margot Robbie was left out of best actress, though she’ll get an Oscar if her production wins best picture. Ryan Gosling, who did make the cut for supporting actor, criticized their snubs.
  • Academy still disappoints with Black women: Ava DuVernay’s “Origin” was completely overlooked. Halle Berry will continue to be the only Black woman to win best actress after “The Color Purple’s” Fantasia Barrino also missed out on a nomination.
  • The “May December” gap: The lone nomination for Todd Haynes’ critically lauded movie was for Samy Burch’s original screenplay. Charles Melton won many accolades for his heartbreaking performance as the victim of an older woman’s grooming, but missed out on an Oscar nod. ▶ Read more about Melton’s breakthrough year.
  • Farewell foreign features: The international feature category always has some heartbreakers: This year, Aki Kaurismäki’s acclaimed deadpan romantic comedy “Fallen Leaves” looked like it could have been a shoo-in for the Oscars, but it and France’s selection “The Taste of Things,” were shut out.

▶ See more snubs and surprises.

The Oscars are kicking off an hour earlier this year. The ceremony starts at 7 p.m. Eastern — but make sure those clocks are set right. Daylight saving time starts Sunday.

One of the show’s executive producers tells the AP that the earlier start time means people won’t be forced to stay up so late to find out the best picture winner, traditionally the last award given out.

"20 Days in Mariupol" director Mstyslav Chernov, an AP journalist, is photographed ahead of the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Julie Pace)

“20 Days in Mariupol” director Mstyslav Chernov, an AP journalist, is photographed ahead of the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Julie Pace)

Julie Pace , AP’s executive editor and senior vice president, is attending the Oscars for the first time in support of the nominated “20 Days in Mariupol.” She will be providing occasional updates from a guest’s perspective:

Two years ago, a team of AP journalists was in Mariupol documenting Russia’s siege of the Ukrainian port city. Today, they’re at the Oscars, where their film “20 Days in Mariupol” is nominated for best documentary. The film was a collaboration between AP and PBS’ “Frontline.”

This is our first Oscar nomination in the AP’s 178-year history, and the cap to an incredible run of awards for the film. It’s always a bit surreal for the team to be at these celebrations, given the serious nature of the film and the ongoing war in Ukraine, their home country. But they hope it’s an occasion to draw attention to the people of Ukraine and the war.

Crew members prepare the red carpet area on Wednesday, March 6, 2024, for Sunday's 96th Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Crew members prepare the red carpet area on Wednesday, March 6, 2024, for Sunday’s 96th Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

With an earlier start time for the telecast, the Oscars red carpet will begin at 3:30 p.m. Eastern/12:30 p.m. Pacific.

The Associated Press will have a livestream of stars’ arrivals and interviews in a pair of livestreams available on APNews.com and YouTube.

ABC will air its “Countdown to Oscars: On the Red Carpet Live!” beginning at 1 p.m. Eastern on ABC News Live .

A small demonstration near the site of the Oscars on the morning of Sunday, March 10, 2024 in Los Angeles (AP Photo/Jake Coyle)

A small demonstration near the site of the Oscars on the morning of Sunday, March 10, 2024 in Los Angeles (AP Photo/Jake Coyle)

Just before 10 a.m. PDT, a small group of demonstrators were chanting “Free Palestine” a block north of the Dolby Theatre, on Franklin Street.

While anti-war protests have been muted during this awards season, organizers have called a rally for 1 p.m. near the site of the Oscars, too.

Members of the Osage Nation arrive at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Members of the Osage Nation arrive at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/John Locher)

The Osage singers and dancers made a grand entrance down the steps of the Dolby Theatre red carpet, posing solemnly for a photos, bedecked in colorful, traditional garb.

Onlookers could be heard saying “Wow” in awe. Their departure back up the stairs was just as musical, with bells wrapped around their knees. They’re performing the nominated song from “Killers of the Flower Moon” live on the show.

Members of the Osage Nation arrive at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Crew members roll out the red carpet for Sunday’s 96th Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre, Wednesday, March 6, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

The long, textiled stretch upon which celebrities trod is colloquially known as a “red carpet,” but lately not all have actually been ... red.

Earlier this year, the Emmys opted for a gray — or silver, if you’d prefer — carpet. And last year, the Oscars bucked decades of tradition by unfurling a champagne carpet.

This year, though, it’s back to tradition. Red, it is.

Watch what it’s like to walk the red carpet at the 96th Academy Awards in Los Angeles.

This image released by Apple TV+ shows, from left, JaNae Collins, Lily Gladstone, Cara Jade Myers and Jillian Dion in a scene from "Killers of the Flower Moon." (Melinda Sue Gordon/Apple TV+ via AP)

This image released by Apple TV+ shows, from left, JaNae Collins, Lily Gladstone, Cara Jade Myers and Jillian Dion in a scene from “Killers of the Flower Moon.” (Melinda Sue Gordon/Apple TV+ via AP)

With four hours until the Oscars telecast kicks off, you have time to watch at least one Oscar nominee — yes, even “Killers of the Flower Moon.” (It’s only 3 hours and 26 minutes.) Here’s our guide on how and where to find the Oscar-nominated films.

Danielle Brooks wants to “change the game.” Her performance in Blitz Bazawule’s “The Color Purple” wowed critics and earned a best supporting actress nod from Academy Awards voters. Now the 34-year-old actor is basking in the glow of Hollywood’s awards season — and preparing for the Oscars ceremony on March 10. (Feb. 23)

Oscar statues stand outside Hollywood Boulevard in preparation for Sunday's 92nd Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2020, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Oscar statues stand outside Hollywood Boulevard in preparation for Sunday’s 92nd Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2020, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Trick question! While the Oscars announced they’d be adding an award for casting directors last month, the first statuette won’t be handed out until 2026.

▶ Read more about the casting Oscar.

Old age may be debated as a liability on the presidential campaign trail, but it’s not at this year’s Oscars. Nominees like Martin Scorsese, Hayao Miyazaki and Wim Wenders suggest we may be living in the golden age of the aged filmmaker.

Old age may be debated as a liability on the presidential campaign trail , but not at this year’s Oscars.

Hayao Miyazaki, 83, who fought through his concerns to make “The Boy and the Heron,” is the oldest director ever nominated for best animated film. If he wins, he’ll be the oldest winner by more than two decades. “Napoleon ,” nominated for visual effects and production design, is the latest from 86-year-old workaholic Ridley Scott. Wim Wenders, 78, put out one of his very best films in “Perfect Days” (nominated for best international film).

And, of course, Martin Scorsese, 81, had the Osage epic “Killers of the Flower Moon,” up for 10 Oscars. Scorsese is the oldest filmmaker ever nominated for best director. At the recent Producers Guild Awards , where he was given a lifetime achievement award, Scorsese recalled seeing Alfred Hitchcock accept the same honor in 1965.

Is “Killers of the Flower Moon” as good as “Taxi Driver” or “Goodfellas”? That’s a hard question to answer and maybe not the right one to ask. Is it essential? Unquestionably.

“Barbie” director Greta Gerwig spoke with The Associated Press about the unexpected emotional punch of the movie, her roots in theatre and her sets using using all of the pink paint. (July 10)

This image released by Disney shows, from left, Iman Vellani as Ms. Marvel, Brie Larson as Captain Marvel, and Teyonah Parris as Captain Monica Rambeau in a scene from "The Marvels." (Laura Radford/Disney-Marvel Studios via AP)

This image released by Disney shows, from left, Iman Vellani as Ms. Marvel, Brie Larson as Captain Marvel, and Teyonah Parris as Captain Monica Rambeau in a scene from “The Marvels.” (Laura Radford/Disney-Marvel Studios via AP)

As 2023 drew to a close, no one sounded the death knell of the superhero movie. The Walt Disney Co.'s “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3” made $845.6 million worldwide and Sony’s “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” ($691 million) was one of the most acclaimed films of the year. Marvel is still mightier than any other brand in the business.

But more than ever before, there are chinks in the armor of the superhero movie. Its dominance in popular culture is no longer quite so assured. A cycle may be turning, and a new one dawning.

For the first time in more than two decades, the top three movies at the box office didn’t include one sequel or remake: “Barbie,” “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” and “Oppenheimer.” The last time that happened was 2001, when “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone,” “Shrek” and “Monsters, Inc.” topped the box office.

No, it’s not exactly a lineup of originality like, say, 1973, when “The Exorcist, “The Sting” and “American Graffiti” led all movies in ticket sales. “Barbie” and “The Super Mario Bros.,” based on some of the most familiar brands in the world, will generate spinoffs and sequels of their own.

But it’s hard not to sense a shift in moviegoing, one that might have reverberations for years to come for Hollywood.

▶ Read more about what the success of “Barbie” and the struggles of Marvel say about the state of cinema and the box office.

The casts of many Oscar-nominated films, from “Barbie” to “Oppenheimer,” gathered Monday for the annual Academy Award nominees luncheon. Oscar hopefuls came together for hugs, congratulations and a class photo. (Feb. 13)

This image released by MUBI shows Alma Pöysti, left, and Jussi Vatanen in a scene from "Fallen Leaves." (MUBI via AP)

This image released by MUBI shows Alma Pöysti, left, and Jussi Vatanen in a scene from “Fallen Leaves.” (MUBI via AP)

The Associated Press’ Film Writers Lindsey Bahr and Jake Coyle’s picked the best movies of 2023. How did they stack up against the 10 nominees for the best picture Oscar?

Lindsey’s picks:

  • “Oppenheimer” ✅
  • “The Zone of Interest” ✅
  • “Priscilla”
  • “Asteroid City”
  • “May December”
  • “Fallen Leaves”
  • “The Holdovers” ✅
  • “Poor Things” ✅
  • “A Thousand and One”

Jake’s picks:

  • “The Eight Mountains”
  • “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse”
  • “Perfect Days”
  • “La Chimera”
  • “All of Us Strangers”

▶ Read more about Jake and Lindsey’s methods for picking AP’s top films of 2023.

Da’Vine Joy Randolph, SAG Award winner for Female Actor in a Supporting Film Role for “The Holdovers,” talks about her responsibility to tell authentic stories. (Feb. 25)

Da’Vine Joy Randolph, who won the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture, explains how she connected to her character Mary in “The Holdovers.”

Da’Vine Joy Randolph, nominated for “The Holdovers,” is widely considered the frontrunner in the supporting actress category.

This image provided by Polish Poster Gallery shows a poster for the Stanley Kubrick's film 'Eyes Wide Shut'. Whether trying to upgrade a loved one's movie poster collection from whatever was in their college dorm room, or just get something a little more off-beat, the delightful collection of Polish Film Posters is a great place to start. There is a long, rich history to the surrealist aesthetic of these artistic interpretations of familiar Hollywood movies. (Polish Poster Gallery via AP)

A poster for the Stanley Kubrick’s film “Eyes Wide Shut” (Polish Poster Gallery via AP)

The holiday season might be behind us, but it’s never too late to get the movie buffs in your life a present — or to treat yourself.

Among our recommendations:

  • A 479-page book by Sofia Coppola
  • Artistic interpretations of Hollywood marketing materials from Polish Film Posters
  • A Criterion Channel subscription
  • The Cinephile card game
  • “Oppenheimer” in 4K

▶ Find more recommendations and details in our gift guide.

Need help filling out your Oscars ballot? With the 96th Academy Awards fast approaching, check out The Associated Press’ predictions on who and which films will win at this year’s ceremony.

Need help filling out your Oscars ballot? With the 96th Academy Awards nigh, check out The Associated Press’ predictions on who and which films will win at this year’s ceremony.

FILE - Steven Spielberg appears at the 94th Academy Awards nominees luncheon in Los Angeles on March 7, 2022. The TCM Film Festival returns this week in Hollywood, kicking off Thursday with the help of Spielberg, who will be on hand to celebrate the 40th anniversary of “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial.” (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)

Steven Spielberg at the 94th Academy Awards nominees luncheon in Los Angeles on March 7, 2022 (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)

Steven Spielberg may be an Oscars veteran but that doesn’t mean he’s not superstitious about some things.

At rehearsals for presenters on Saturday, Spielberg went “off script” and announced a winner for a 1976 film. (While we can’t reveal what he said exactly, it was a real nominee at the 49th Academy Awards, but it did not win.)

When a stage manager told him that he needed to read the “for this rehearsal only” winners card, Spielberg shook his head: “No, because it’s bad luck.”

Oscars organizers have rolled out the red carpet in Hollywood ahead of Sunday’s ceremony. Jimmy Kimmel is hosting the 96th Academy Awards, which will air live on ABC in the U.S. (March 6)

“Barbie” stars Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling discuss going to the movies to watch a double bill of their movie and “Oppenheimer,” while “Oppenheimer” actor Cillian Murphy says he’ll be sure to catch a viewing of “Barbie” (July 13)

The very online showdown between Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” and Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” all started with a date: July 21.

It’s not uncommon for studios to counterprogram films in different genres on a big weekend, but the stark differences between an intense, serious-minded picture about the man who oversaw the development of the atomic bomb and a lighthearted, candy-colored anthropomorphizing of a childhood doll quickly became the stuff of viral fodder.

There’s even some disagreement over whether it’s “Barbieheimer” or “Barbenheimer” or “Boppenheimer” or yet another tortured portmanteau — a phenomenon on which the AP Stylebook has yet to offer guidance.

▶ Read more about the marketing behind the Barbenheimer phenomenon.

2023 was the year of “Barbenheimer,” the dual-Hollywood union strikes, and some unexpected hits at the box office. A look back at the year in movies with AP film writer Lindsey Bahr. (Dec. 6)

Tonight’s Oscars cap the story of 2023, at the movies. It was the year of “Barbenheimer,” the dual Hollywood strikes, and some unexpected hits at the box office.

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SpaceX is attempting its 3rd Starship launch today. Watch live to see if the rocket explodes again or finally reaches orbit.

  • SpaceX's Starship , the world's largest rocket, may launch toward orbit on Thursday.
  • Starship exploded mid-flight on its first two attempts. It hasn't reached space yet.
  • If Starship reaches orbit, it'll be a major spaceflight achievement. You can watch the attempt live.

Insider Today

Update: SpaceX's third Starship test mission has successfully launched .

Watching a rocket launch is a thrilling experience. Watching SpaceX's Starship, the world's largest rocket ever , is even more exciting.

Surely, watching it finally reach orbit for the first time would be a new type of thrill.

You may have the opportunity to see either an explosion or a successful spaceflight live on Thursday morning, when SpaceX is set to try shooting Starship into orbit .

SpaceX's livestream of the launch attempt has begun. Watch below.

Watch Starship’s third flight test → https://t.co/bJFjLCiTbK https://t.co/1u46r769Vp — SpaceX (@SpaceX) March 14, 2024

This would be Starship's third attempt at orbit, launching atop its Super Heavy booster .

The 400-foot-tall launch system exploded mid-flight on its two previous tries, in April and November of 2023, but maybe the third time's a charm.

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Don't worry — there are no people on board for these test flights.

If all goes according to plan, Starship will separate from its Super Heavy booster high above Earth and fire its own Raptor engines to enter orbit.

The giant spaceship should fly roughly halfway around the planet and then enter a freefall to splash down into the Indian Ocean near Australia.

If that works, it'll be a major event in spaceflight history. Starship's heft could revolutionize spaceflight . SpaceX says Starship will be able to carry up to 250 metric tons (275 tons) of stuff to space.

For comparison, the most powerful rocket in operation right now is SpaceX's Falcon Heavy , which carries up to 70 tons.

SpaceX aims to use Starship to fill Earth's orbit with Starlink internet satellites , carry cargo and people to Mars, and run point-to-point rapid travel on Earth.

SpaceX just wants you to remember one thing when you watch.

"Each of these flight tests continue to be just that: a test," the launch announcement on the company's website says. "They aren't occurring in a lab or on a test stand, but are putting flight hardware in a flight environment to maximize learning."

This is the company's "rapid iterative development" philosophy: launch it, see what happens, fix any issues that arise, and try again. If the rocket explodes, they still learn something from the flight.

It also makes for more suspenseful launch viewing compared with NASA and its more conservative, old-school contractors.

Watch: Watch Elon Musk unveil his latest plan for conquering Mars

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