60 Fun Facts About Oscars 2024

On what date was the 96th Academy Awards ceremony held?

The 96th Academy Awards took place on March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, starting at 4 p.m. Pacific, an hour earlier than usual.

Which film won Best Picture at the 2024 Oscars?

Oppenheimer won Best Picture at the 96th Academy Awards; the atomic-bomb biopic grossed more than $900 million worldwide, the highest-grossing winner of the award since 2003.

How many Oscars did the 2024 Best Picture winner take home?

Seven Oscars went to the Best Picture winner: Picture, Director, Actor, Supporting Actor, Cinematography, Film Editing and Original Score, the most of any film that night.

How many nominations did the 2024 Best Picture winner receive, the most of any film that year?

The Best Picture winner led the field with 13 nominations; Poor Things was second with eleven and Killers of the Flower Moon third with ten, and Killers went home empty-handed.

Which comedian hosted the 2024 Oscars for the fourth time?

Jimmy Kimmel hosted for the fourth time, after 2017, 2018 and 2023; his wife Molly McNearney was one of the show's executive producers.

Who won Best Actor at the 2024 Oscars for playing the physicist behind the atomic bomb?

Cillian Murphy won on his first nomination; the Irish actor had already made five films with the same director, including the Dark Knight trilogy and Inception.

Who won Best Actress at the 2024 Oscars for playing the reanimated Bella Baxter in Poor Things?

Emma Stone took her second Best Actress Oscar for Bella Baxter and was also nominated as a producer of Poor Things in the Best Picture category.

Which 2016 musical earned the 2024 Best Actress winner her first Oscar?

La La Land brought her first Oscar, Best Actress at the 2017 ceremony; she had also been nominated for Birdman and The Favourite, her first film with Poor Things director Yorgos Lanthimos.

Who won Best Supporting Actor at the 2024 Oscars for playing Lewis Strauss?

Robert Downey Jr. won on his third nomination, 31 years after his first nod for playing Charlie Chaplin; it was his first Oscar.

The 2024 Best Supporting Actor winner was earlier nominated for Chaplin and which 2008 comedy?

In Tropic Thunder he played Kirk Lazarus, an Australian method actor who undergoes surgery to play a Black soldier, earning a Best Supporting Actor nomination.

Who won Best Supporting Actress at the 2024 Oscars for playing grieving school cook Mary Lamb?

Da'Vine Joy Randolph's turn in The Holdovers swept the season, taking the Golden Globe, BAFTA and SAG award before the Oscar.

The Holdovers is set at a New England boarding school in which year?

The Holdovers unfolds over the 1970 Christmas break at fictional Barton Academy; Alexander Payne shot it to look like a film of that era, and Paul Giamatti's grumpy classics teacher earned a Best Actor nomination.

The 2024 Best Picture winner was the first to also win both male acting awards since which 1959 film?

Ben-Hur's Charlton Heston and Hugh Griffith did it in 1960. Both of the 2024 winners had never won before.

Who won Best Director at the 2024 Oscars, after earlier nominations for Memento and Inception?

Christopher Nolan won his first Oscar for directing; Steven Spielberg presented the award, and Nolan also shared the Best Picture prize with his wife and producing partner Emma Thomas.

At 81, who became the oldest Best Director nominee in Oscar history in 2024?

Martin Scorsese, 81, became the oldest Best Director nominee; his Killers of the Flower Moon earned ten nominations, including Robert De Niro's first in 32 years, and won none.

Which 2024 nominee became the first US-born Native American person nominated for Best Actress?

Lily Gladstone, of Blackfeet and Nez Perce heritage, played Mollie Burkhart, an Osage woman whose family is murdered for oil money, in Killers of the Flower Moon.

How many years separated De Niro's first and 2024 nominations, a record span for an actor?

49 years separated De Niro's first nod, for The Godfather Part II at the 1975 ceremony, from his 2024 nomination for playing cattleman William King Hale, the longest span for any actor.

Which song won Best Original Song at the 2024 Oscars?

'What Was I Made For?', Billie Eilish's ballad for the Greta Gerwig film, beat that film's own 'I'm Just Ken', which Ryan Gosling performed live on the night.

Billie Eilish's first Oscar, before her 2024 win, was for which film's theme song?

'No Time to Die', the Bond theme, won at the 2022 ceremony; at 22 she became the youngest person ever to hold a second Oscar, sharing both awards with her brother and co-writer Finneas O'Connell.

Ryan Gosling's 2024 performance of 'I'm Just Ken' paid homage to a number from which classic film?

The staging echoed Marilyn Monroe's 'Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend' from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, with cameos from Slash, Wolfgang Van Halen and fellow Kens Simu Liu and Ncuti Gatwa.

How many actors dressed as Ken backed Ryan Gosling's 2024 Oscars performance?

62 dancers dressed as Ken backed him, with guitarists Slash and Wolfgang Van Halen also appearing; choreographer Mandy Moore staged the number.

Which 2024 Oscar winner was the first non-English-language British film to win Best International Feature?

The Zone of Interest, an Auschwitz drama filmed in German, Polish and Yiddish, was the United Kingdom's entry and the first British film to win the category.

The 2024 Best International Feature winner follows the family of which real Auschwitz commandant?

Rudolf Höss, played by Christian Friedel, ran the camp; the film, loosely based on Martin Amis's 2014 novel, has Sandra Hüller as his wife Hedwig tending a garden beside the camp wall.

Who won Best Film Editing at the 2024 Oscars for cutting the Best Picture winner?

Jennifer Lame took Best Film Editing for the atomic-bomb biopic, her first Oscar; she had previously edited Tenet and Marriage Story.

Which Japanese film won Best Visual Effects at the 2024 Oscars, reputedly made for around $10M?

Godzilla Minus One's director Takashi Yamazaki also served as its visual-effects supervisor and shared the award, the first Oscar for any Godzilla film in the franchise's 70-year history.

Which film won Best Animated Feature at the 2024 Oscars?

The Boy and the Heron, Hayao Miyazaki's first film since coming out of retirement, was years in the making after production began in 2016; the 83-year-old director did not attend the ceremony.

Which French courtroom drama won Best Original Screenplay in 2024 after taking the Palme d'Or at Cannes?

Anatomy of a Fall's writers Justine Triet and Arthur Harari took the screenplay prize; at Cannes the film had also won the Palm Dog for Messi the border collie, who attended the Oscars.

Cord Jefferson won Best Adapted Screenplay in 2024 for American Fiction, based on which Percival Everett novel?

Erasure, Everett's 2001 novel, gave Jeffrey Wright's frustrated novelist Monk Ellison, who writes a deliberately stereotyped book as a joke and watches it become a hit.

Which Ukrainian film won Best Documentary Feature at the 2024 Oscars?

20 Days in Mariupol, directed by Mstyslav Chernov, was shot during the first weeks of the Russian invasion in 2022 and brought Ukraine its first Oscar.

Which US news organisation's journalists filmed the 2024 Best Documentary Feature winner?

Associated Press journalists Mstyslav Chernov, Evgeniy Maloletka and Vasilisa Stepanenko shot the footage, compiled with PBS's Frontline; Chernov said in his speech he wished he had never had to make the film.

Which director won Best Live Action Short in 2024 for The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar?

Wes Anderson's Roald Dahl adaptation, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, brought his first Oscar after a string of earlier nominations; he skipped the ceremony.

The 2024 Best Animated Short winner, 'War Is Over!', was inspired by the music of which couple?

Inspired by the music of John and Yoko, as its full title says, the film was produced by their son Sean Ono Lennon and follows a pair of soldiers on opposing sides playing chess by carrier pigeon.

Which film won Best Documentary Short at the 2024 Oscars, about a workshop that fixes school instruments?

The Last Repair Shop, co-directed by composer Kris Bowers and Ben Proudfoot, visits the workshop that repairs instruments for Los Angeles public school students free of charge.

Which composer won Best Original Score in 2024 for the atomic-bomb biopic?

Ludwig Göransson's second win came after Black Panther; fellow nominee John Williams, up for Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, extended his record for most nominations of any living person.

How many Oscars did Poor Things win in 2024?

Four awards went to Poor Things: Best Actress plus Production Design, Costume Design and Makeup and Hairstyling, second only to the Best Picture winner's haul.

Who shot the 2024 Best Cinematography winner, using IMAX black-and-white film for the first time?

Hoyte van Hoytema alternated colour and black-and-white sections to separate subjective and objective points of view; Kodak developed the black-and-white IMAX film stock for the production.

Which was the highest-grossing Best Picture nominee at the 2024 Oscars, with about $636M domestically?

Barbie earned about $636 million domestically, nearly double the Best Picture winner's $326 million; Greta Gerwig's blockbuster went home with just one Oscar, for Original Song.

The 2024 Best Picture winner was the highest-grossing winner in that category since which 2003 film?

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, the 2003 winner, was the last bigger earner; the 2024 winner grossed more than $950 million worldwide, the third-biggest film of 2023, boosted by the 'Barbenheimer' craze.

Which pair announced the 2024 Oscar nominations on January 23, 2024?

Zazie Beetz and Jack Quaid read the nominations at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, the Academy's usual venue for the early-morning announcement.

Who presented Best Picture alone at the 2024 Oscars, skipping the nominees and blurting the winner?

Al Pacino skipped reading the nominees and simply blurted the winner's title, leaving the room briefly confused; he later said the producers had asked him to go straight to the envelope.

Which star presented Best Costume Design at the 2024 Oscars, appearing to be naked behind the envelope?

John Cena shuffled out apparently naked behind the oversized envelope, a gag referencing the streaker who crossed the stage at the 1974 ceremony; Poor Things' Holly Waddington won the award.

Which two actors presented Best International Feature at the 2024 Oscars?

DeVito and Schwarzenegger, reunited from Twins, presented Visual Effects and Editing while ribbing Michael Keaton, who had beaten both of them as Batman.

Which format did the 2024 producers use for the four acting categories?

Five past winners each introduced a nominee, the 'fab five' format revived from 2009; Nicolas Cage, Brendan Fraser, Ben Kingsley, Matthew McConaughey and Forest Whitaker handled Best Actor.

Which singer performed 'Time to Say Goodbye' with his son during the 2024 In Memoriam segment?

Andrea Bocelli and his son Matteo Bocelli sang 'Time to Say Goodbye' as the montage played, a staging criticised for wide shots that made the honourees' names hard to read.

Which two actors presented the tribute to stunt performers at the 2024 Oscars?

Emily Blunt and Ryan Gosling's bit doubled as a plug for their upcoming film The Fall Guy, with the pair trading jabs about the 'Barbenheimer' rivalry between their 2023 films.

Roughly how many US viewers watched the 2024 Oscars on ABC?

19.49 million viewers tuned in, per Nielsen, up about 4 percent on the 2023 ceremony and the telecast's largest audience since 2020.

Which of these received an Honorary Oscar at the Governors Awards ahead of the 2024 ceremony?

Mel Brooks, 97, was honoured alongside Angela Bassett and editor Carol Littleton, while Sundance's Michelle Satter received the Jean Hersholt award; the strikes pushed the event from November 2023 to January 2024.

For which 2022 film had Angela Bassett lost Best Supporting Actress before her 2024 Honorary Oscar?

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever earned Bassett her second nomination, for playing Queen Ramonda, but she lost to Jamie Lee Curtis; her first nod was for What's Love Got to Do with It.

Which of these was NOT one of the ten 2024 Best Picture nominees?

Society of the Snow, the Spanish survival drama about the 1972 Andes crash, was nominated for International Feature and Makeup and Hairstyling instead; the rest were all Best Picture nominees.

For the first time in Oscar history, how many 2024 Best Picture nominees were directed by women?

Three of the ten were directed by women: Greta Gerwig, Justine Triet and Celine Song, though only Triet was nominated for Best Director.

Which acting nominee in 2024 was recognised for playing composer Leonard Bernstein?

Bradley Cooper also co-wrote, directed and produced Maestro; Carey Mulligan was nominated for playing Bernstein's wife Felicia Montealegre.

Which 2024 Best Actor nominee played civil rights organiser Bayard Rustin?

Colman Domingo earned his first nomination for Rustin, a Netflix film produced by the Obamas' company Higher Ground about the organiser of the 1963 March on Washington.

Which 2024 Best Actress nominee played long-distance swimmer Diana Nyad?

Annette Bening earned her fifth nomination, after The Grifters, American Beauty, Being Julia and The Kids Are All Right; co-star Jodie Foster was nominated for playing Nyad's coach Bonnie Stoll.

Which duo from Greta Gerwig's 2023 blockbuster earned supporting-acting nominations?

Ryan Gosling and America Ferrera were the film's only acting nominees, while Margot Robbie and Gerwig were passed over as actress and director; Robbie was nominated as a producer, and Gerwig with Noah Baumbach for Adapted Screenplay.

Which television director helmed the 2024 Oscars telecast, produced by Raj Kapoor and Katy Mullan?

Hamilton, a Super Bowl halftime veteran, won an Emmy for the broadcast, which won four in total.

Which actress hosted the Academy's 2024 Scientific and Technical Awards?

Natasha Lyonne hosted the Sci-Tech Awards, which are handed out separately at the Academy Museum in Los Angeles a few weeks before the main show.

Which 2024 Oscar winner's Gaza speech was misquoted, prompting duelling open letters?

Jonathan Glazer said he stood 'as men who refute their Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation'; more than 1,000 Jewish industry members signed a letter denouncing the speech, and others signed one supporting it.

From 2024, Best Picture contenders had to meet at least how many of four new inclusion standards?

Two standards had to be met, chosen from a set covering on-screen representation, creative leadership, industry access and audience development; films not entered for Best Picture were exempt.

Which ABC sitcom aired a new episode as the lead-out after the earlier-starting 2024 Oscars?

Abbott Elementary aired a new episode straight after the ceremony, which ABC had moved up an hour to 4 p.m. Pacific so it would finish earlier for East Coast viewers.

Which comedian-journalist served as the 2024 Oscars' social media and red carpet correspondent?

Amelia Dimoldenberg, host of the web series Chicken Shop Date, was the Academy's official red carpet correspondent, working alongside Reece Feldman on social-media interviews.