OSCAR CHEAT SHEET
After a winter barrage of award shows, the grandaddy of them all, the Academy Awards, are around the corner. Here's everything you need to know about this year's 96th Oscars show:
When are the Oscars?
The Oscars will be held Sunday, March 10, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. The ceremony is set to begin at 7 p.m. ET — one hour earlier than usual — and be broadcast live on ABC and CTV. A preshow will begin at 6:30 p.m. ET. This is your reminder to set your clocks accordingly — it's the first day of daylight saving time in North America.
Who's hosting the Oscars?
Jimmy Kimmel, who hosted last year's ceremony, will MC for the fourth time. That ties him with fellow four-timers Whoopi Goldberg and Jack Lemmon, and leaves Kimmel trailing only Johnny Carson (five), Billy Crystal (nine) and Bob Hope (11) among repeat Oscar hosts. “I always dreamed of hosting the Oscars exactly four times,” said Kimmel.
What's nominated for best picture?
The 10 nominees for best picture are: American Fiction; Anatomy of a Fall; Barbie; The Holdovers; Killers of the Flower Moon; Maestro; Oppenheimer; Past Lives; Poor Things; and The Zone of Interest.
Who are the Canadian nominees?
Ryan Gosling is up for best supporting actor for his role as Ken in the Barbie movie. Late Toronto musician Robbie Robertson is nominated for his work on the original score of Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon, while playwright and director Celine Song's Past Lives is vying for best picture and best original screenplay. Other Canadian nominees include the National Film Board of Canada's To Kill a Tiger (directed by Toronto's Nisha Pahuja), which is up for best documentary feature; Quebec filmmaker Vincent René-lortie's Invincible, nominated in the live action short category; and Nova Scotia filmmaker Ben Proudfoot's The Last Repair Shop, which has a nod for best documentary short.
What else is there to look for?
Composer John Williams is nominated for his record 49th best-score Oscar, for Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, and 54th overall. Godzilla is going to the Oscars for the first time, with Godzilla Minus One notching a nomination for best visual effects. And for the first time, two non-english language films are up for best picture: the German language Auschwitz drama The Zone of Interest and the French courtroom drama Anatomy of a Fall.