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Stars head to Oscars with 'Oppenheimer' poised for glory

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Agence France-Presse

<div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/asdd.jpg" class="fr-fic fr-dib"/><span class="fr-inner"><span id="isPasted" style="color:rgb(51, 51, 51);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline !important;float:none">Nominees of the 96th Academy Awards. EPA-EFE/Various</span> </span></span></span></div><p>HOLLYWOOD, United States — Hollywood A-listers are getting ready to lavish awards on Christopher Nolan&#x27;s atomic blockbuster &quot;Oppenheimer&quot; and party with &quot;Barbie&quot; on Sunday at the Oscars, the biggest night in showbiz.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;-webkit- text-size-adjust:100%;box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.3;letter-spacing:normal">Nolan&#x27;s drama about the inventor of the nuclear age, half of last summer&#x27;s massive &quot;Barbenheimer&quot; phenomenon, is the firm favorite to win the prize for best picture and much more at the star-studded gala.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;-webkit- text-size-adjust:100%;box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.3;letter-spacing:normal">With an overdue director, stellar cast, commercial and critical success, and urgent subject matter, &quot;there is no justifiable reason to predict anything else,&quot; said Hollywood Reporter awards columnist Scott Feinberg.</p><div><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/entertainment/2024/3/7/not-just-ken-oscars-producers-share-vision-for-gala-1243" id="isPasted">Not just Ken: Oscars producers share vision for gala</a></div><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;-webkit- text-size-adjust:100%;box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.3;letter-spacing:normal">Variety awards editor Clayton Davis said &quot;Oppenheimer&quot; is the &quot;biggest lock&quot; to win best picture since the final &quot;Lord of the Rings&quot; film two decades ago.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;-webkit- text-size-adjust:100%;box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.3;letter-spacing:normal">It is tipped to take golden statuettes for best director, supporting actor for Robert Downey Jr., and technical prizes from cinematography and editing to sound and score.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;-webkit- text-size-adjust:100%;box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.3;letter-spacing:normal">The film has a strong chance at best actor honors for Cillian Murphy, who is locked in a tight race with Paul Giamatti of &quot;The Holdovers,&quot; and could claim best adapted screenplay too.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;-webkit- text-size-adjust:100%;box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.3;letter-spacing:normal">&quot;It just had everything, the scale, the scope, the importance,&quot; said one Oscars voter, who asked to remain anonymous as Academy members are instructed not to discuss their ballots.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;-webkit- text-size-adjust:100%;box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.3;letter-spacing:normal">&quot;This is the year for &#x27;Oppenheimer,&#x27;&quot; the voter told AFP.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;-webkit- text-size-adjust:100%;box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.3;letter-spacing:normal">Elsewhere, the competition for best actress promises to be a nail-biter.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;-webkit- text-size-adjust:100%;box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.3;letter-spacing:normal">Emma Stone, who previously won an Academy Award for &quot;La La Land,&quot; gives a stunning, daring performance in the surreal, Frankenstein-esque &quot;Poor Things.&quot;</p><div><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/entertainment/2024/3/2/disney-to-livestream-96th-academy-awards-1157" id="isPasted">Disney+ to livestream 96th Academy Awards</a></div><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;-webkit- text-size-adjust:100%;box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.3;letter-spacing:normal">But Lily Gladstone of &quot;Killers of the Flower Moon&quot; has not just the clout of her director Martin Scorsese, but the weight of history behind her.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;-webkit- text-size-adjust:100%;box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.3;letter-spacing:normal">She is seeking to become the first Native American to win an acting Oscar.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;-webkit- text-size-adjust:100%;box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.3;letter-spacing:normal">&quot;Gladstone holds her own against Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio, these towering actors&quot; in Scorsese&#x27;s historical crime epic, said the anonymous voter.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;-webkit- text-size-adjust:100%;box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.3;letter-spacing:normal">Should the two frontrunners cancel one another out, Sandra Hueller of &quot;Anatomy of a Fall&quot; could be &quot;the underdog,&quot; the voter added.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;-webkit- text-size-adjust:100%;box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.3;letter-spacing:normal">The French courtroom thriller is the frontrunner for best original screenplay.</p><div><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/V8ZFD8M6cD4?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span><br/></div><div><strong>PINK CARPET</strong></div><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;-webkit- text-size-adjust:100%;box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.3;letter-spacing:normal">And what about &quot;Barbie,&quot; released on the same weekend last summer as &quot;Oppenheimer,&quot; prompting a bizarre and highly meme-able double bill that collectively grossed $2.4 billion worldwide?</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;-webkit- text-size-adjust:100%;box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.3;letter-spacing:normal">The surreal feminist comedy is likely to earn technical prizes including costume design, and boasts the two frontrunners for best original song.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;-webkit- text-size-adjust:100%;box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.3;letter-spacing:normal">Both Billie Eilish&#x27;s &quot;What Was I Made For?&quot; and the movie&#x27;s showstopping &quot;I&#x27;m Just Ken&quot; will be performed during the Oscars gala.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;-webkit- text-size-adjust:100%;box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.3;letter-spacing:normal">Supporting actor nominee Ryan Gosling&#x27;s first-ever live performance of his character&#x27;s signature power ballad is likely to be a standout moment.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;-webkit- text-size-adjust:100%;box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.3;letter-spacing:normal">With Margot Robbie nominated as a producer, America Ferrera as supporting actress, and Greta Gerwig for screenplay, the cast and crew of &quot;Barbie&quot; are expected to turn the Oscars&#x27; famous red carpet a bright shade of pink.</p><div><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/entertainment/01/23/24/oppenheimer-tops-oscar-nominations-with-13" id="isPasted">&#x27;Oppenheimer&#x27; tops Oscar nominations with 13</a></div><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;-webkit- text-size-adjust:100%;box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.3;letter-spacing:normal">Da&#x27;Vine Joy Randolph (&quot;The Holdovers&quot;) is the firm favorite to win for best supporting actress, while race satire &quot;American Fiction&quot; could dampen the &quot;Oppenheimer&quot; sweep with adapted screenplay honors.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;-webkit- text-size-adjust:100%;box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.3;letter-spacing:normal">In best documentary, a win for &quot;20 Days in Mariupol&quot; should help redirect attention -- however momentarily -- to the war in Ukraine.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;-webkit- text-size-adjust:100%;box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.3;letter-spacing:normal">The United Kingdom is expecting its first-ever best international film Oscar, with Auschwitz drama &quot;The Zone of Interest.&quot;</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;-webkit- text-size-adjust:100%;box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.3;letter-spacing:normal">Japanese cinema has &quot;Godzilla Minus One&quot; tipped to win best visual effects, and &quot;The Boy and the Heron&quot; vying for best-animated feature, where it will battle against &quot;Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.&quot;</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;-webkit- text-size-adjust:100%;box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.3;letter-spacing:normal">Late-night funnyman Jimmy Kimmel returns to helm the Oscars for a fourth time.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;-webkit- text-size-adjust:100%;box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.3;letter-spacing:normal">His highly praised hosting last year helped boost ratings back to nearly double their pandemic-era lows.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;-webkit- text-size-adjust:100%;box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.3;letter-spacing:normal">The 96th Academy Awards take place in Hollywood on Sunday from 4 p.m. (2300 GMT).</p><div><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/entertainment/07/20/23/review-oppenheimer-could-well-be-years-best-film" id="isPasted">Movie review: &#x27;Oppenheimer&#x27; could well be this year&#x27;s best film</a></div><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;-webkit- text-size-adjust:100%;box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.3;letter-spacing:normal">© Agence France-Presse</p>

<p>Hollywood A-listers are getting ready to lavish awards on Christopher Nolan's atomic blockbuster "Oppenheimer" and party with "Barbie" on Sunday at the Oscars, the biggest night in showbiz.</p>

Hollywood A-listers are getting ready to lavish awards on Christopher Nolan's atomic blockbuster "Oppenheimer" and party with "Barbie" on Sunday at the Oscars, the biggest night in showbiz.

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Stars head to Oscars with 'Oppenheimer' poised for glory

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Published Mar 10, 2024 10:33 AM PHT

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