Regardless of combining for 32 nominations, Netflix and Apple TV+ had been almost shut out of of the 2024 Oscars, with Netflix successful a single award for Wes Anderson’s The Great Story of Henry Sugar (Greatest Stay Motion Brief Movie). The massive shock was Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon (Apple TV+) not gaining a single statue, notably Lily Gladstone dropping the Greatest Actress prize to Poor Issues‘ Emma Stone.
Common was the massive winner with Oppenheimer (Greatest Image, Greatest Director, modifying, Greatest Actor, Greatest Supporting Actor, authentic rating, cinematography) whereas Poor Issues (Disney’s Searchlight Footage) garnered 4 prizes. The opposite half of “Barbenheimer,” (Barbie, ofc) took only a single prize for finest music with Billy Eilish’s What Was I Made For (and never I am Simply Ken, sung stay on the ceremony by supporting actor nominee Ryan Gosling).
The gala was a letdown for Netflix, which scored six prizes final 12 months. Netflix has gained 23 Oscars since 2017, however has but to win within the Greatest Image or Greatest Actor/Actress classes. That is regardless of 4 nominations this 12 months for Bradley Cooper and Carey Mulligan (Maestro), Colman Domingo for Rustin and Annette Bening for Nyad.
Lily Gladstone was maybe barely favored over Stone to win for Killers of the Flower Moon and she or he additionally would have been the primary Indigenous American to win an Academy Award for Greatest Actor or Actress. The studio was additionally up for Greatest Supporting Actor with nominee Robert De Niro and Greatest Director for Scorsese. Aside from Gladstone’s loss, although, awards had been distributed largely as anticipated.
This 12 months, it could not be stated that judges had been swayed by an absence of theatrical presence from streamers. Killers of the Flower Moon had a reasonably extensive launch in cinemas, whereas Maestro stayed in theaters for a month previous to its Netflix launch. Each chalked up respectable field workplace numbers.
The ceremony itself seems to have been watchable, with Deadline proclaiming that producers “lastly made an Academy Awards ceremony for the twenty first century” and The Hollywood Reporter calling it “busy and eclectic.” USA At the moment did describe it as “boring,” however each Oscars for the previous 20 years has gotten the identical knock.
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