After the countdown to the most important awards present of the yr, the 95th Academy Awards is lastly right here.
After an enormous 28 awards ceremonies spanning the previous three months, together with the Golden Globes, the BAFTAs and the SAGs, its now all about winning an Oscar on Monday (AEDT) – the last word take-home leisure trade prize.
This yr, 10 Australians have been nominated, together with the producers, cinematographers and set designers on the COVID-era Elvis film shot on the Gold Coast, Oscar-winning actress Cate Blanchett for Tár and Brisbane movie scholar Lachlan Pendragon for An Ostrich Informed Me The World Is Faux and I Assume I Imagine It.
Third time fortunate
US late evening discuss present host Jimmy Kimmel, 55, has hosted the Oscars ceremony twice, together with the notorious 2017 yr when presenters and Hollywood royalty Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway acquired the fallacious envelope for the most effective image winner.
Only a recap – La, La Land was learn out. It was, actually, Moonlight.
Kimmel then graciously accepted the internet hosting gig off the again of final yr’s notorious on-stage incident, the place host Chris Rock was slapped by actor Will Smith after making remarks about his spouse. Jada Pinkett Smith, and her alopecia.
“It is so necessary to have a bunch who is aware of the way to deal with stay tv and a stay viewers,” Academy boss Invoice Kramer mentioned. “He is humorous, he is respectful, his edges aren’t too sharp.”
Kimmel is prepared.
He’s ‘unslappable’
He instructed The Hollywood Reporter he was ready to be slapped once more and would retaliate besides if it was Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson doing the slapping.
“If any individual comes up on the stage and slaps me? Properly, I dimension them up, and, if I am greater than they’re, I beat the shit out of them on tv.
“And if it is the Rock, I run.
“When Invoice [Kramer] mentioned my edges aren’t too sharp, I believe what he was saying is I am fats. I take that as fats shaming. And I’ve instructed him I am attempting to drop extra pounds.
“I didn’t match into the tuxedo I wore in 2018, and it was disturbing.
“However I do know what he means. I am in a novel place in that my job is to make enjoyable of individuals in Hollywood after which to have them sit subsequent to me on the stage.
“The Oscars is one thing that could be very significant to individuals within the film trade, and for a lot of of them, this would be the largest skilled evening of their lives. The very last thing I need to do is spoil it for anybody.”
He will not, he is had 20 years of observe balancing jokes and celebrities.
Elvis
Now, again to the Aussies.
Ausfilm says that because the Oscars began in 1929, Australians have acquired 196 nominations and received 58 Oscars.
This yr, Elvis director Baz Luhrmann, spouse Catherine Martin and Schuyler Weiss had been nominated in the most effective movie class as producers.
Martin was additionally nominated for greatest costume design and once more with colleagues Karen Murphy and Bev Dunn for manufacturing design.
David Lee and Wayne Pashley had been nominated for greatest sound, and Jason Baird for make-up and hair styling.
General, the massively praised cinematic masterpiece, which has received awards within the UK, Australia and the US, is up for eight nominations.
When Austin Butler received a Golden Globe for greatest actor in January, he thanked Luhrmann and mentioned he owed the award to a “daring, visionary filmmaker”.
Luhrmann had been on the publicity path solidly since earlier than and after the movie launched in June final yr, by no means being far-off from a crimson carpet occasion, an awards evening or a microphone to advertise the movie, which took two years to make.
On the eve of the Oscars, he was nonetheless taking to Instagram to reward the good work of his lead actor, Butler, who gave a outstanding interpretation of the 1950s icon, and his cinematographer of 20 years, Mandy Walker.
He instructed the Seven community – which has unique broadcast rights for Monday’s present – if Ms Walker had been to win, she would grow to be the primary girl to win the coveted award within the 95-year historical past of the Oscars.
“All of us perceive the Oscars race… ultimately somebody goes to win… within the second [on stage] you are nervous,” Luhrmann mentioned.
If he wins greatest movie, as one of many 5 producers, he mentioned a very powerful factor can be to thank everybody in simply 45 seconds!
Tar
Cate Blanchett is the one Australian actress to win two Academy Awards, for The Aviator in 2004 and earlier than Blue Jasmine in 2014.
Having been in additional than 70 movies and 20 stage productions, a greatest actress Oscar would cap off a stellar season, after she received greatest actress for Tár at this yr’s Golden Globes, on the BAFTA and at dozens of circuit critics awards reveals throughout the US.
An Ostrich Informed Me The World Is Faux and I Assume I Imagine It
After Brisbane movie scholar Lachlan Pendragon’s movie was nominated for Finest Animated Quick Movie in January, he says it modified his life.
He made the movie over 10 months in his front room after which all of the sudden he obtained a nod alongside 4 different proficient filmmakers.
“It was by no means a factor we anticipated, it was simply this snowball impact.
“Even simply submitting it to the Oscars was a giant deal! We by no means even thought that will occur! So yeah, you are simply sitting there, sort of nervous, going: “It may’t probably be taking place”! However right here we’re,” he instructed the popular culture web site Novastream.
The Seven community will carry the unique free-to-air broadcast on March 13, with protection kicking off on their breakfast present, Dawn from 5.30am.
Lengthy-time community host Sonia Kruger is reporting stay from the crimson carpet on the Dolby Theater in Hollywood as the celebrities arrive (you too can watch on 7Bravo for E!’s crimson carpet protection between 8am and 11am AEDT).
The massive present begins at 11am AEDT (with a repeat broadcast at 8.45pm after Australian Idol‘s stay verdict present).
Who’s performing and presenting?
Music celebrity Rihanna will carry out her Oscar-nominated tune Elevate Me Up from Black Panther: Wakanda Without end.
GRAMMY-winning musician Lenny Kravitz will ship the In Memoriam efficiency.
Presenters embrace Riz Ahmed, Emily Blunt, Glenn Shut, Jennifer Connelly, Ariana DeBose, Samuel L. Jackson, Dwayne Johnson, Michael B. Jordan, Troy Kotsur, Jonathan Majors, Melissa McCarthy, Janelle Monáe, Deepika Padukone, Questlove, Zoe Saldaña and Donnie Yen.
Climax of the evening
The Hollywood Reporter has carried out the laborious work and used a mathematical mannequin to work out who’s almost certainly to win an Oscar.
“Some years will probably be like final yr, when 19 of the 20 mathematical favorites from my mannequin went on to win Oscars.
“Some years could have extra upsets.
“We’re about to seek out out which kind of yr it’s.”
