Welcome to Deadline’s live blog for the 97th Oscars.
Much like Karla Sofía Gascón, Deadline Co-Editor-in-Chief, Film Mike Fleming and Executive Editor, Television Peter White are locked in to the Oscars, whether you like it or not, and will help you through the next three and a half hours (with some help from Oscarologists Pete Hammond and Baz Bamigboye and Deadline’s social media whiz Natalie Sitek, who are hunkered down inside the Dolby Theater).
Conan O’Brien, who has been living in a hotel since the L.A. wildfires after being evacuated, is the man in charge of tonight’s proceedings at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood, joking earlier this week that he needed the money even though it “pays very little.”
This year’s race has been a wild ride; last year, presumptive favorite Oppenheimer cleaned up, but there was a spread of winners including The Zone of Interest, Anatomy of a Fall and Poor Things, plus that Barbie number. This year’s Barbie seems to be Wicked, but the lack of an Oppenheimer means all eyes will be on whether Anora, Sean Baker’s dark sex comedy about a stripper and a budding Russian oligarch, or Conclave, a Pope movie that was released and voted on before the Vatican head’s current health issues emerged, pick up the Best Picture statue
Of course, this year’s race has been dominated by the controversy surrounding Emilia Pérez (whose Zoe Saldaña is a firm fave in Supporting Actress), as well as much back-and-forth as to whether Demi Moore can beat Anora’s Mikey Madison and I’m Still Here’s Fernanda Torres, whether The Brutalist can land any concrete wins such as Adrien Brody over Mr. Tambourine Man Timothée Chalamet, whether Baker can equal Walt Disney’s Oscar record and whether A Real Pain’s Kieran Culkin can top his recent run of Roman Roy-style speeches.
Here we go…
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