Katie Razzall
Culture editor

Barbie only scooped one Oscar - for best original song. But it was front and centre tonight.

Ryan Gosling’s performance of I’m Just Ken, all cheek slapping and sequins, actually stole the show.

The biggest film of last year, a film that was loved by audiences. Why wouldn’t the Academy want a piece of that, in its own efforts to lure in viewers?

You can watch some of his performance, with guest star Slash, below:

The 2024 Oscar awards ceremony has come to an end, but we're not going anywhere yet.

Our team is still chatting to the winners backstage, and we'll be catching up with all the celebrities who are now heading to the Vanity Fair after-party in Los Angeles

Stick with us as we bring you interviews from the stars and key moments from the night.

Emma Saunders
Reporting from the winners' room

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Da'Vine Joy Randolph, the winner of best supporting actress, says of her success: “You just keep yourself grounded... stay close to what’s real, it would not be in your heart if you weren’t meant to do it. It’s a full circle moment!

“I knew I was always different, I thought maybe I had to conform... When I looked at this show, I didn’t necessarily see myself there yet that was seen as the model of success, so I was on this journey of trying to figure out how to mould myself. And what I began to find in my journey was being myself and doing the work... I could do exactly the same thing."

She adds: “I strive for authenticity... so we can tell universal stories in black and brown bodies, that can be enjoyed by the masses."

Asked how she would encourage creatives from underserved people to stay the course, she says: “The beautiful thing that erupts is your imagination and creativity because you don’t have much... Something I think black people are very good at is making a lot out of very little. It’s our superpower."

Emma Saunders
Reporting from the winners' room

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Billie Eilish has now won two Oscars – and she’s only 22! She's giving some advice backstage to young people dreaming of a music career.

“Don’t do it for other people… or fame. Believe it or not, I remember being 12 and watching Matilda and sobbing my eyes out because I’m like 'damn, I’m a failure' – and I’m never gonna have a career! So just give yourself time and do what you love!” she says.

She also talks about the Barbie film and how it’s connected so well with audiences.

“It’s great storytelling. I think people went in expecting to see the spectacle and… to laugh… but it’s a lot more than that. It’s just an honour to be part of it. I think it made a lot of people feel seen."

Helen Bushby
Culture reporter

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With its seven wins, Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer rounds off awards season by taking home more than half of its 13 nominations.

The film has won for best film, director, actor, supporting actor, original score, film editing and cinematography.

Producer Emma Thomas said: "I have been dreaming about this moment for so long but now I'm standing here everything's gone out of my head."

She called Nolan, her husband, "singular and brilliant", but said their whole team was "just incredible" and also thanked their three children.

Fellow producer Charles Roven said, "I've had this amazing 20-plus years experience with Chris and Emma", saying it was "thrilling" working with them.

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Yasmin Rufo
Culture reporter

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In an emotional speech for her leading actress win, Emma Stone opened with: "My dress is broken, I think it happened during I'm Just Ken."

Getting more serious she said the award was "really overwhelming" and added that she shares this award with all the other nominees.

The award has come as a bit of a shock as it was expected that Lily Gladstone, the first Native American woman nominated for best actress at the Oscars, would have won the award and made Oscars history.

"We made something greater than the sum of its parts, all of us together and I am so deeply honoured to share this with every single person who poured their love, care and brilliance into this film," Stone said.

The Poor Things star has become the eighth actress to win two Oscars by the age of 35, having previously won for La La Land in 2017.

She follows in the footsteps of Meryl Streep, Jodie Foster, Elizabeth Taylor, Bette Davis, Luise Rainer, Olivia de Havilland and Hilary Swank. No male actor has ever achieved the same feat.

Helen Bushby
Culture reporter

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Oppenheimer had 13 nominations and won seven tonight, including best film, best director for Christopher Nolan, best actor for Cillian Murphy and best supporting actor for Robert Downey Jr.

You can see how it compares with other big Oscars winners, external in Variety: Titanic, Ben Hur and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King each won 11, while the 1961 version of West Side Story won 10 and The English Patient, The Last Emperor and Gigi won nine each.

Helen Bushby
Culture reporter

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Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, about the man who had a leading role in creating the atomic bomb, has won the biggest prize of the night.

It has dominated this year’s awards season, with audiences flocking to see Cillian Murphy star as the enigmatic scientist, who famously said in 1945: “Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”

It's time for the big finale:

The nominees for the Oscar for best picture are:

• American Fiction
• Anatomy of a Fall
• Barbie
• The Holdovers
• Killers of the Flower Moon
• Maestro
• Oppenheimer
• Past Lives
• Poor Things
• The Zone of Interest

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Helen Bushby
Culture reporter

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Poor Things star Emma Stone has won for her role as Bella Baxter in the quirky, feminist film about a woman whose brain is replaced with that of her unborn child, and her subsequent sexual and personal awakening.

Stone, who won a best actress Oscar in 2017 for La La Land, wasn’t a dead cert to win this category, but she won the Bafta recently and also the Golden Globe for best actress in a musical or comedy.

Emma Saunders
Reporting from the winners' room

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Hoyte van Hoytema picked up best cinematography for Oppenheimer.

“I’m most proud that through the years we pretty much not changed anything in our mentality… it’s very nice it paid off and turned into an Oscar," he says.

He says the biggest challenge was to “make sure a film that is very much made out of people talking in a room… to make it a very cinematic experience. That’s what we had been working hard on from the beginning.”

He adds that it helped he and director Christopher Nolan had collaborated several times previously.

“We always want to build on and invent new things, to get shots we’ve never seen before, we’re always trying to challenge each other and push the boundaries."

Helen Bushby
Culture reporter

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Oppenheimer's Christopher Nolan is handed his best director Oscar by Steven Spielberg.

This win was predictable - Oppenheimer has steamrollered its way through 2024's awards season, being a favourite with both critics and audiences.

He praises the cast and crew, saying they were led by the "incredible Cillian Murphy".

In a touching moment, he also thanks his wife and colleague Emma Thomas, "producer of all our films and all our children".

They have worked together on their films since 1997 - they first met as students in London.

We're continuing the run of major awards of the night with the actress in a leading role category.

The nominees are:

• Annette Bening for Nyad
• Lily Gladstone for Killers of the Flower Moon
• Sandra Hüller for Anatomy of a Fall
• Carey Mulligan for Maestro
• Emma Stone for Poor Things

Yasmin Rufo
Culture reporter

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Cillian Murphy has received a standing ovation as he collects his award for best actor.

In his acceptance speech he says he's "overwhelmed" and thanks Oppenheimer's cast for taking him on the "most creatively satisfying journey in the past twenty years".

"I am a very proud Irish man standing here tonight," he tells the audience.

He dedicates the award to "all the peacemakers everywhere", adding: "We made a film about the man who created the atomic bomb and for better or worse we are living in Oppenheimer's world".

Helen Bushby
Culture reporter

Oppenheimer’s Christopher Nolan has won his first Oscar for best director, having previously been nominated in this category for 2018’s Dunkirk.

He’s had eight Oscar nominations in total, for films including Oppenheimer, Dunkirk, Inception and Memento.

The full list of nominees in this category were:

• Justine Triet — Anatomy of a Fall
• Martin Scorsese — Killers of the Flower Moon
• Christopher Nolan — Oppenheimer
• Yorgos Lanthimos — Poor Things
• Jonathan Glazer — The Zone of Interest

Helen Bushby
Culture reporter

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Cillian Murphy has won his first Oscar, after his first nomination, for the lead role in Oppenheimer.

He’s dominated this year’s awards season, winning prizes including best actor at the Baftas and Golden Globes.

He recently told the BBC’s Desert Island Discs he’d be "an eejit not to enjoy it“ at the Oscars, despite being out of his comfort zone.

It looks like he’s enjoying this particular moment.

It's time for one of the big awards of the night, actor in a leading role.

The nominees are:

• Bradley Cooper for Maestro
• Colman Domingo for Rustin
• Paul Giamatti forThe Holdovers
• Cillian Murphy for Oppenheimer
• Jeffrey Wright for American Fiction

Emma Saunders
Reporting from the winners' room

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Godzilla Minus One was the small budget underdog that won best visual effects and the team are still carrying their Godzilla models backstage!

They spoke to journalists about influences on their version of Godzilla.

“We looked at a lot of Godzillas… we wanted to get the essence of what Godzilla is about. If you trace back to its origins, Godzilla is a symbol of war… I wanted to make sure when audiences saw, fear would be instilled on them.”

Shudder!

Helen Bushby
Culture reporter

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Barbie's Billie Eilish and her brother Finneas O'Connell collected their Oscars together, for best original song, for What Was I Made For?

This plaintive song has been hugely popular and it's not a surprise it's won the big prize.

Eilish looks overwhelmed, as she admits she "didn't think this would happen".

"I had a nightmare about this last night," she says.

She thanks the film's co-creator and director Greta Gerwig, adding: "I'm so grateful for this song and movie and the way it made me feel."

She also pays tribute to her childhood friend Zoe for "playing Barbie with me".

Little did they both know where it would end up all these years later.

Emma Saunders
Reporting from the winners' room

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The documentary short winner, The Last Repair Shop (not be confused with the BBC show) is about Los Angeles being one of the last cities to provide free and repaired instruments to schools. It follows the people in the warehouse who repair the instruments and the students who benefit.

Ben Proudfoot says backstage: “This goes to show the power of the short documentary… we made this on our own dime… we hope this film has a lasting impact on LA and beyond.”

Kris Bowers adds: “You never know what those instruments can do for children… The music rooms in my school meant so much to me.”

Ben continues: “It’s about much more than mending the instrument, it’s about their (the students’) lives, their lives were repaired by music – music can change lives.”