Oscar 2024 nominations – live: Ryan Gosling responds to Greta Gerwig snub, Lily Gladstone makes history

Whether you’re a film buff or curious to learn more about the real events at the centre of the film, Killers of the Flower Moon is a great choice for a Saturday night spent on the sofa. Here’s everything you need to know about the film, including how to watch it for free.

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How to watch Scorsese’s Oscar-nominated Killers of the Flower Moon for free

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Paul Mescal has revealed who he’s backing to win at this year’s Oscars.

The Irish actor, 27, who was nominated for best actor last year, revealed who he thinks will take some of the top awards as he spoke to reporters on the red carpet at the All of Us Strangers London gala screening earlier today.

Delivering a great Oscar acceptance speech requires a bit of magic, with the winner having to strike just the right balance of charm and humility.

However, often the speeches most remembered are those that end in disaster.

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Ryan Gosling has issued a statement responding to his Oscar nomination for Barbie, and expressing his disappointment that the film’s director Greta Gerwig and star Margot Robbie were overlooked in their individual categories.

“There is no Ken without Barbie, and there is no Barbie movie without Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie, the two people most responsible for this history-making, globally-celebrated film,” said Gosling.

Read his full statement here:

How do you follow an Oscars night like the controversial 2022 ceremony?

Amid all the unscripted Will Smith dramatics at the 2022 Academy Awards, it was easy to overlook the well-received performance from the ceremony’s three hosts: Regina Hall, Amy Schumer and Wanda Sykes.

This year, producers will surely be hoping for a more subdued night, with Jimmy Kimmel set to compere the event for a second consecutive year.

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When the ballot results came in to decide the first winner of the Oscar for Best Actor, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences realised they faced a tricky problem. The “actor” who had collected the most votes was actually a dog called Rin-Tin-Tin, who had starred as Rinty in popular films such as A Dog of the Regiment and Jaws of Steel. The film board were concerned that awarding the first statuette to a canine would hardly give credibility to their new awards. To avoiding appearing to be barking mad, they diverted the 1929 Oscar to Emil Jannings.

The academy awarded some honours in their inaugural year for performances in more than one film. Jannings won for his portrayal of both a bank clerk in 1927’s The Way of All Flesh, and for playing Grand Duke Sergius Alexander in the 1928 film The Last Command.

Looked at through the long lens of history, the decision backfired. A committee who were so worried about the embarrassment of honouring a dog ended up commemorating a man whose career ended in ignominy as a reviled propagandist for Adolf Hitler. The Oscars snubbed a German shepherd and got a Nazi poodle instead.

Read Martin Chilton’s fascinating look back at the first ever Best Actor winner here:

Do the Oscars always get it right? Of course they don’t!

Here, The Independent’s Geoffrey Macnab chooses the more ridiculous films to have ever won Hollywood’s most prestigious award:

There’s a stacked list of nominees for Best Original Song this year, featuring Becky G’s “The Fire Inside” from Flamin’ Hot, Billie Eilish’s “What Was I Made For?” from Barbie, Jon Batiste’s “It Never Went Away” from American Symphony, Osage Tribal Singers’ “Wahzhazhe (A Song for My People)” from Killers of the Flower Moon and Ryan Gosling’s “I’m Just Ken”, also from Barbie.

But what’s the greatest Original Song winner of all time? Roisin O'Connor investigates:

There’s always a long list of people to thank when an actor wins an Oscar, but for some they should probably include a grateful word to the rivals who passed on the project in the first place.

Here, Clémence Michallon looks back at 12 Oscar winners who weren’t first choice for their parts but went on to win the grand prize anyway: