Briefly
- The 98th Academy Awards happen in Los Angeles on Monday.
- Sinners has a record-breaking 16 nominations, with One Battle After One other shut behind at 13.
The 98th annual Academy Awards are upon us, setting the stage for an exciting contest between the vampire sensation “Sinners” and the satirical political thriller “One Battle After One other.”
This 12 months, the Oscars highlight a number of Australian skills, notably Rose Byrne, who’s within the operating for Greatest Actress.
Returning for his second consecutive 12 months as host, Conan O’Brien will information the night’s festivities. Moreover, the artists behind the hit tune “Golden” from “KPop Demon Hunters” will ship a dwell efficiency in the course of the occasion.
Right here’s every thing you could know.
Who’re the Australians up for an award?
Australia’s standout contender at this 12 months’s Oscars is Rose Byrne, who’s vying for the Greatest Actress award due to her outstanding efficiency in “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You.”
Byrne has already secured the Greatest Actress title at 4 main pre-Oscar ceremonies, together with the distinguished Golden Globes.
Byrne is up towards Jessie Buckley in Hamnet, Kate Hudson in Track Sung Blue, Renate Reinsve in Sentimental Worth and Emma Stone in Bugonia.
Jacob Elordi, in the meantime, is up for finest supporting actor due to his position in Guillermo Del Toro’s Frankenstein, one in all 9 nods for the Netflix movie.
Australian-born musician Nick Cave, in the meantime, is up for finest authentic tune. Cave was nominated for the title tune to Clint Bentley’s movie Prepare Desires, which stars Australian actor Joel Edgerton.
Edgerton, the central pillar of Prepare Desires, was not nominated, though the image earned 4 nominations, together with finest image.
Australian costume and manufacturing designer Fiona Crombie has additionally been nominated for an Oscar in one of the best manufacturing design class for her work on Hamnet.
What movies have essentially the most Oscar nominations?
Sinners, a horror movie directed by Ryan Coogler and starring Michael B Jordan, has earned a record-breaking 16 nominations at this 12 months’s Oscars.
One Battle After One other is shut behind with 13 nominations. The movie, written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, stars Leonardo DiCaprio and is loosely primarily based on Thomas Pynchon’s novel Vineland.
Each movies are up for the night time’s high honour — finest image — alongside Bugonia, F1, Frankenstein, Hamnet, Marty Supreme, The Secret Agent, Sentimental Worth and Prepare Desires.
One Battle After One other, starring DiCaprio as a one-time radical activist now parenting an adolescent, was seen because the frontrunner for finest image after stacking up trophy after trophy at latest ceremonies.
However Sinners, which weaves its supernatural themes with a celebration of blues music and Black tradition within the Segregation-era US South, made a late surge with a win this month on the Actor Awards.
Each Jordan and DiCaprio are additionally vying for one of the best actor award. Timothée Chalamet might additionally clinch the award for his titular position in Marty Supreme, with Ethan Hawke nominated for Blue Moon and Wagner Moura for The Secret Agent.
What time is the Oscars ceremony?
This 12 months’s Oscars ceremony will begin at 10am AEDT and run for round three hours.
For those who’re in Australia, purple carpet protection will start from 9:30am AEDT on Channel 7 and 7Plus earlier than the primary ceremony kicks off, with an encore screening at 9pm AEDT.
What’s new about this 12 months’s Oscars?
This 12 months’s Academy Awards features a new award recognising achievement in casting.
Casting administrators Nina Gold, Jennifer Venditti, Cassandra Kulukundis, Gabriel Domingues and Francine Maisler are competing for the honour.
The Academy additionally took steps this 12 months to strive to make sure voters have truly watched the films they’re voting on.
The net balloting system, for the primary time, tracks whether or not a voter has streamed every film. Voters, nevertheless, can test a field to say they watched the film elsewhere outdoors the Academy web site.
Winners of the gold Oscar statuettes are chosen by about 10,000 actors, producers, administrators and movie craftspeople who make up the Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences.
— With extra reporting by Reuters and the Australian Related Press.
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