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WHEN: Sunday, March 2, 2025 beginning at 7PM ET And the OSCAR goes to .... Movie fans will be ued to the small screen when the 97th annual Academy Awards is televised live from Los Angeles on Sunday, March 2, 2025 on ABC beginning at 7PM ET / 4PM PT. Your host for the evening? It's funnyman Conan O'Brien. With that news, “America demanded it, and now it’s happening: Taco Bell’s new Cheesy Chalupa Supreme,” he said. “In other news, I’m hosting the Oscars.” Meanwhile, 2025 Oscar nominees are expected to be revealed on Friday, January 15th. Stay tuned.
While next year's Oscars are still months out, the early money is on a handful of films, some of them yet to be released. That doesn't mean Hollywood isn't already buzzing bou tthem as likely 2025 contenders. So far, the MOST buzzed about are five ffilms that are on most critics' list as most likely to appear at this year's awards. Also keep your eye on "Sing Sing" based on a true story about an acrting drama program set in one of the world's most infamous maximum security prisons . Along with a knockout performance by star Colman Domingo, it's also probably destined for a Best Picture nod.
2024 Oscar nominees (also see WINNERS, below) had frontrunner "Oppenheimer" with 13 nominations, followed closely by “Poor Things" witj 10 nods. “Killers of the Flower Moon" also received 10 nominations. Best Picture nominees included “Oppenheimer,” “Barbie”, “Killers of the Flower Moon” along with “Poor Things,” “American Fiction,” “Anatomy of a Fall,” “The Holdovers,” “Maestro,” “Past Lives,” and “The Zone of Interest.”
Giving out Oscars on awards night was Zendaya, Michelle Pfeiffer, Nicolas Cage, Al Pacino, Brendan Fraser, Michele Yeoh, and Jamie Lee Curtis, Emily Blunt, Cynthia Erivo, America Ferrera, Sally Field, Ryan Gosling, Ariana Grande, Ben Kingsley, Melissa McCarthy, Issa Rae, Tim Robbins, Steven Spielberg, Mary Steenburgen, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlize Theron, Christoph Waltz and Forest Whitaker Joining them as presenters were Mahershala Ali, Jessica Lange, Matthew McConaughey, Lupita Nyong’o, Sam Rockwell, Bad Bunny, Chris Hemsworth, Dwayne Johnson, Michael Keaton, Regina King, Jennifer Lawrence, Kate McKinnon, Rita Moreno, John Mulaney, Catherine O’Hara, Octavia Spencer and Ramy Youssef. The performance lineup? What began as only a hot Hollywood rumor,- "Barbie" star Ryan Gosling took the stage to perform "I'm Just Ken" live during the Oscar telecast in what was one the biggest musical number in Oscar history. Another "Barbie" Best Song nominee, "What Was I Made For?", was by Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell (WINNER, Best Song).
Summer blockbusters come and go, but this year saw the opening of Oppenheimer, an epic film about the development of the atomic bomb that stunned critics and theater audiences alike at its July premiere. Then came two knockout performances by Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling in Barbie, followed by Emma Stone tearing up the screne with a gender-bending remake of the Frankenstein tale, Poor Things. Just up ahead, check out the the 2024 Oscar nominees and WINNERS, along with Oscar fun facts and related resources around the web about Hollywood's biggest night! 2025 Critics Choice Awards | 2025 Golden Globes | 2025 SAG Awards • There's good reason that stars holding the Oscar are surprised by its sheer weight. Each 24-karat gold-plated Oscar award stands 13.5 inches tall and weighs around 8 1/2 lbs. or about the equivalent of a gallon of milk. • The worst Oscars performance of all time goes to unlucky aspiring actress Eileen Bowman who appeared as Snow White during the 1989 show. She was there to entertain stars such as Tom Hanks, Dustin Hoffman, and Sigourney Weaver who sat in the audience, dumbstruck. (An awkward duet with actor Rob Lowe didn't help.) The following day, The New York Times declared that the performance earned "a permanent place in the annals of Oscar embarrassments." • In 1974, actor David Niven appeared to introduce the Best Picture nominees when a streaker stormed the stage and ran behind him. The witty British actor quickly remarked, "The only laugh that man will ever get in his life is by stripping ... and showing his shortcomings.” • Midnight Cowboy (1969) is the only X-rated film to ever win the Best Picture award. • In 1940, The Los Angeles Times leaked the complete winners list the night before the ceremony. So Hollywood star Vivien Leigh, for example, arrived at the Oscars already aware that she had won Best Actress for "Gone with Wind" that year. Academy voting results have been a closely guarded secret ever since. 2024 Oscar Nominees & WINNERS
Academy Awards - Wikipedia - Check out the whole story from its earliest days until the present including voting rules, what's in those gift bags, and more with photos and related resources. The Academy Awards through the years - Check out his special feature from the Los Angeles Times with a year-by-year at the Oscars. |
