Whatever We Know About the 2024 Academy Awards
By Jason P. Frank, a Vulture author covering funny, theater, and music
[[In the design of Billie Eilish:]What was this produced? Ahead of his hosting gig at this year's early-bird Oscars, Jimmy Kimmel starred in a remarkably long Barbie-themed advertisement to promote the awards event. We're talking sets, outfits, and a tiny cast reunion. Kate McKinnon repeated her function as Weird Barbie to rattle off some puns about this year's chosen films. After stating hey there to Weirder Barbie (Bella from Poor Thingsand dealing with challenges such as Bradley Cooper's sweat and Matt Damon's face, the set showed up in OscarsLand. There, America Ferrera changed her Barbie monologue to be about Kimmel's upcoming hosting gig, and Ryan Gosling appeared to shriek about Greta Gerwig not being chosen for Best Director. If this five-minute clip is expected to set the tone for the real occasion … what's next, an Oscarsheimer parody at the Dolby Theatre? Listed below, what we understand about the 96th Academy Awards.
This year, the Oscars are coming quicker than anticipated– one hour quicker, to be specific. The 96th Academy Awards on March 10 will start, for the really very first time, at 7 p.m. Preshow celebrations will now start at 6:30, according to an Academy news release.
Yup. It's his 4th time commemorating the Big O. Kimmel's ended up being an essential of the Academy Awards, and with this news, he's been the host the very same variety of times as Whoopi Goldberg and Jack Lemmon. It makes good sense when you recognize that the “I Told My Kids I Ate Their Halloween Candy” trick he runs is quite comparable to informing Glenn Close she's lastly going to win an Oscar, then providing it to Olivia Colman on her very first election rather. The number of Barbenheimer jokes will Kimmel pack into the event? We're thinking someplace in between 60 and 75.
Molly McNearney will return as executive manufacturer of the event. “We are delighted about Jimmy going back to host and Molly returning as executive manufacturer for the Oscars,” Academy CEO Bill Kramer and Academy president Janet Yang stated in a declaration to Range“They share our love of films and our dedication to producing a vibrant and amusing program for our international audience.”
Far, the list of speakers the Academy has actually exposed consists of: Mahershala Ali, Nicolas Cage, Jamie Lee Curtis, Brendan Fraser, Jessica Lange, Matthew McConaughey, Lupita Nyong'o, Al Pacino, Michelle Pfeiffer, Ke Huy Quan, Sam Rockwell, Michelle Yeoh, and Zendaya. In the mix are: 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. That list varies from the anticipated (the winners of in 2015's acting classifications) to the famous (Pacino,
