Oscars winners latest – 94th Academy Awards kicks off with the ‘golden hour’ off-camera with ‘Dune’ winning best sound
THE 94th Academy Awards has already started Sunday off-camera. The first eight awards were handed out at the Dolby Theatre before the show hit screens. The ceremony will return to the Dolby Theatre this year after a Covid-safe event in a Los Angeles railway station in 2021. Presenters Jason Momoa and Josh Brolin announced the […]
THE 94th Academy Awards has already started Sunday off-camera. The first eight awards were handed out at the Dolby Theatre before the show hit screens.
The ceremony will return to the Dolby Theatre this year after a Covid-safe event in a Los Angeles railway station in 2021.
Presenters Jason Momoa and Josh Brolin announced the winners, whose pre-recorded speeches will be edited into the broadcast, which begins at 8pm.
TECHNICAL AWARDS
Dune received the first award for best sound, Best Original Score, Best Production Design and Best Film Editing. The film is expected to win several more awards in the technical categories.
Dune also received the award for Best Cinematography, received by Greig Fraser, who was previously nominated for 2016’s Lion. The film also took the win for Best Visual Effects
The Queen of Basketball about Lusia Harris took Best Documentary Short Subject. Steph Curry and Shaquille O’Neal served as executive producers.
The Long Goodbye, starring Riz Ahmed, won Best Live Action Short Film while The Windshield Wiper won for Best Animated Short.
The Eyes of Tammy Fate won for Best Makeup and Hairstyling.
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Ariana DeBose took home the first televised award of the night for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Anita in West Side Story – saying it was proof “dreams come true,”
In her acceptance speech, she said: “Now you see why Anita says ‘I want to be in America’ because even in this weary world that we live in dreams do come true and that’s a heartening thing right now.”
On the production, she added: “It was the summer of a lifetime and I am the most privileged and grateful to have spent it with all of you.
“My God thank you, Steven Spielberg, you’re stuck with me now.”
DeBose became the second Hispanic woman to win the award after Rita Moreno, who won the award 60 years earlier in 1962 for the same role in the original film.
This is the first time two actresses won Oscars for the same role.
STARS IN THE RUNNING
Benedict Cumberbatch, Andrew Garfield, Olivia Colman, Dame Judi Dench and Sir Kenneth Branagh are among the British stars in the running to pick up Oscars as the star-studded ceremony returns to full form.
Cumberbatch is nominated for the best actor prize for his role as a cruel rancher in Jane Campion’s western The Power Of The Dog, which leads the pack with 12 nominations, but is tough competition from frontrunner Will Smith, who is nominated for his turn as the father of Venus and Serena Williams in King Richard.
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They are nominated alongside Garfield for his role as Rent playwright Jonathan Larson in Tick, Tick… Boom!, Javier Bardem for Being The Ricardos, and Denzel Washington for The Tragedy Of Macbeth.
Campion has made history as the first woman to be nominated for the best director Oscar twice and is widely tipped to take home the prize.
Colman, who won the best actress Oscar in 2019 for her turn in The Favourite, has landed her second nomination in that category for her role as a mother reflecting on her past in The Lost Daughter.
She picked up a supporting nod last year for her part in The Father.
She will compete for the best actress gong against Kristen Stewart for her performance as Diana, Princess of Wales in Spencer, Penelope Cruz for Parallel Mothers, Nicole Kidman for Being The Ricardos and apparent frontrunner Jessica Chastain for The Eyes Of Tammy Faye.
Dame Judi and Ciaran Hinds are nominated for their performances in Sir Kenneth’s autobiographical film Belfast.
Sir Anthony Hopkins, Mila Kunis, John Travolta, Daniel Kaluuya, Wesley Snipes, Zoe Kravitz, Lady Gaga, Lily James, Uma Thurman and Rami Malek are among the stars due to present at the ceremony.