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Oscars 2024 recap: Biggest moments from the 96th Academy Awards

PHOTO: Director Christopher Nolan and Producers Emma Thomas and Charles Roven win the Oscar for Best Picture for "Oppenheimer" during the 96th Academy Awards in Hollywood, Mar. 10, 2024.
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Oscars 2024: Showstopping looks from the Oscars red carpet
By Hayley FitzPatrick, Carson Blackwelder, Angeline Jane Bernabe, Shafiq Najib, Mason Leib
Last Updated: March 10, 2024, 10:27 PM

The 2024 Oscars have come and gone, and "Oppenheimer" was the big winner of the night.

Jimmy Kimmel hosted the 96th Academy Awards, a ceremony which honored excellence in cinematic achievements for some of the past year's biggest films.

MORE: Oscars 2024: Complete winners list for the 96th Academy Awards

"Oppenheimer" earned seven Oscars from its 13 total nominations, including the top prize of the night, best picture, as well as best director for Christopher Nolan.

In the lead acting categories, "Poor Things" star Emma Stone took home the award for best actress while "Oppenheimer" star Cillian Murphy took home best actor.

MORE: Oscars 2024: Must-see red carpet looks on Hollywood's biggest night

"The Holdovers" star Da'Vine Joy Randolph and "Oppenheimer" star Robert Downey Jr. snagged wins in the supporting acting categories.

For all the biggest moments from the 2024 Oscars, keep reading below.

Latest headlines:

  • Cillian Murphy dedicates best actor win to 'peacemakers everywhere'
  • Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell's 'What Was I Made For?' wins best original song
  • Robert Downey Jr. wins best supporting actor
  • Da'Vine Joy Randolph wins best supporting actress
Here's how the night unfolded.

Mar 10, 2024 10:27 PM

Marvel actress and 'DWTS' winner Xochitl Gomez stuns on red carpet

Xochitl Gomez stepped out on the Oscars 2024 red carpet to celebrate Hollywood's biggest night.

Gomez, who starred in 2022's "Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness" as America Chavez and won "Dancing with the Stars" season 32 with pro partner Val Chmerkovskiy in December, wore a flowy wine-colored dress for the occasion.

PHOTO: Xochitl Gomez attends the 96th Annual Academy Awards, Mar. 10, 2024, in Hollywood.
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Xochitl Gomez attends the 96th Annual Academy Awards, Mar. 10, 2024, in Hollywood.
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Mar 10, 2024 10:24 PM

Emma Stone, Colman Domingo, Danielle Brooks and more step out on red carpet

Emma Stone, Colman Domingo, Danielle Brooks and more have arrived at the Oscars.

PHOTO: Emma Stone attends the 96th Annual Academy Awards, March 10, 2024, in Hollywood.
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Emma Stone attends the 96th Annual Academy Awards, March 10, 2024, in Hollywood.
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"Poor Things" star Stone, who is nominated for best actress tonight, wore a strapless, structured peplum gown, while Domingo, who is nominated for best actor for his performance in "Rustin," stepped out in a black, double-breasted suit with flared pants.

PHOTO: Colman Domingo attends the 96th Annual Academy Awards in Hollywood, CA, Mar. 10, 2024.
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Colman Domingo attends the 96th Annual Academy Awards in Hollywood, CA, Mar. 10, 2024.
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"The Color Purple" star Brooks, who is nominated for best supporting actress, wore a black gown with a train.

PHOTO: Danielle Brooks attends the 96th Annual Academy Awards, March 10, 2024, in Hollywood.
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Danielle Brooks attends the 96th Annual Academy Awards, March 10, 2024, in Hollywood.
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See more red carpet fashion here.


Mar 10, 2024 10:20 PM

Which stars are battling it out for best actress?

The five actresses nominated for best actress tonight include Annette Bening for "Nyad," Lily Gladstone for "Killers of the Flower Moon," Sandra Hüller for "Anatomy of a Fall," Carey Mulligan for "Maestro" and Emma Stone for "Poor Things."

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A look at the best actress race for the 2024 Oscars.
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Stone is the only one in the group who has previously won an Oscar. Mulligan and Bening have been nominated in the past, while Gladstone and Hüller are first-time Oscar nominees.

Learn more about the nominees here.



Mar 10, 2024 10:12 PM

Which stars are battling it out for best actor?

Bradley Cooper, Colman Domingo, Paul Giamatti, Cillian Murphy and Jeffrey Wright are all nominated tonight for the best actor Oscar.

Cooper, who is nominated for his performance as legendary composer Leonard Bernstein in "Maestro," and Paul Giamatti, who is nominated for his performance as a grumpy boarding school professor in "The Holdovers," have received past Oscar nominations.

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A look at the best actor race for the 2024 Oscars.
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Domingo, Murphy and Wright, who are being recognized for their respective performances in "Rustin," "Oppenheimer" and "American Fiction," are all first-time Oscar nominees.

Read more about the actors here.


Mar 11, 2024 12:24 AM

'Poor Things' wins best costume design

"Poor Things" won the Oscar for best costume design.

After doing a bit with Jimmy Kimmel about the Oscars streaker at the 46th Oscars in 1974, John Cena presented the award to "Poor Things" costume designer Holly Waddington.

PHOTO: Holly Waddington wins the Oscar for Best Costume Design for "Poor Things" during the Oscars show at the 96th Academy Awards, March 10, 2024, in Hollywood.
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Holly Waddington wins the Oscar for Best Costume Design for "Poor Things" during the Oscars show at the 96th Academy Awards, March 10, 2024, in Hollywood.
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"Thank you to the academy, thank you to my fellow nominees," Waddington began. "It's an amazing privilege to be in the same room as you all. You're the people who inspired me to be a costume designer in the first place."

"'Poor Things' was a very rare opportunity to be really free and artistic in a creative process as a costume designer," she continued. "Thank you, Yorgos [Lanthimos], for that and for making such bold and brave work."

Other nominees in the category included "Barbie," "Killers of the Flower Moon," "Napoleon," "Oppenheimer."


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