Welcome to our Oscars Open Post for 2024, the finale of an awards season which felt like it was eight months long. The Oscars start early this year – 7 pm EST, on ABC. For non-Americans, check your listings (IDK). We’ll be updating this post with the acting winners, plus the Best Director & Best Picture winners, plus if something interesting or scandalous happens in the middle of the ceremony (ahem, like a slap on the Oscar stage), we’ll update this post too.

Our Open Post is hosted by Messi the dog, who played Snoop in Anatomy of a Fall. Snoop was such a vital character in the story and Messi is such a great actor! Neon actually flew Messi out to LA for some of the awards-season events, like the Oscar luncheon, and as it turns out, some Oscar nominees and producers were super-salty about it. The Hollywood Reporter exclusively reported that Messi didn’t fly into LA for the Oscars, but he will enjoy watching from his home in France. THR also mentioned that “Multiple companies with nominated films complained to the Academy that allowing him to attend the [Oscars luncheon] event gave Anatomy of a Fall an advantage during the voting window, according to a source with knowledge of the complaints.” People were mad that a cute dog came to the luncheon, even though Messi was part of an Oscar-nominated film!!

Most of this year’s winners are sure things, but I’m expecting one or two big surprises, probably in the screenplay categories and Best Actress. You can follow us on Twitter at @Celebitchy and @KaiseratCB.

Best Supporting Actress (by CB): Da’Vine Joy Randolph for The Holdovers. Lupita Nyong’o gave the introduction for Da’Vine in the lead up to the announcement of the winner. All of the introductions were moving and incredible. Lupita brought Da’Vine to tears when she mentioned that that Da’Vine wore her grandmother’s glasses in the movie. In her acceptance speech Da’Vine said that she wasn’t sure she would be an actress as she started as a singer. She thanked her mom for telling her to go across the street to the theater to pursue acting. She said “for so long I thought I wanted to be different, but I realized I just needed to be myself. Thank you all for seeing me.” She also gave a shout out to her publicist. Congratulations to Da’Vine!

Screenplays (by Kaiser): Anatomy of a Fall won Original Screenplay and American Fiction won Adapted Screenplay. Such great wins, two of the best scripts of the year!

Best Supporting Actor (by Kaiser): Robert Downey Jr for Oppenheimer, not a surprise – he’s won all of the big awards and he waged a brilliant campaign and this caps off a brilliant career full of ups and downs, interspersed with occasionally amazing performances. He thanked “my terrible childhood and the Academy, in that order.” Gave love to his team and his wife Susan, who absolutely saved him and his career. There was some awkwardness with how he greeted the presenters though, right?

Best Song: Billie Eilish (by Kaiser) for “What Was I Made For” from Barbie. This is Billie’s second Oscar, omg.

Best Actor (by CB): Cillian Murphy for Oppenheimer. If anyone else won in this category it would have been an upset. Cillian was introduced by Sir Ben Kingsley who called his performance “riveting to watch.” He greeted all the Oscar winners on stage and then he thanked the Academy, film makers Chris Nolan and Emma Thomas, and everyone who worked on Oppenheimer. He also thanked his team, partner and kids and ended by saying “I’m a very proud Irish man and we made a film about the man who created the atomic bomb. For better or for worse we’re all living in Oppenheimer’s world so I’d really like to dedicate this to the peacemakers everywhere.” Congratulations to Cillian!

Best Director: Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer. The craziest thing is that this is Nolan’s first Oscar – he’s been recognized as a master for more than a decade, but I would agree with the idea that Oppenheimer is his best and most mature work. Nolan’s speech was simple and British – he thanked the Oppenteam, his lovely wife (who is his partner in all things personal and professional) and the Academy. What a way to win too – being presented the Oscar by Steven Spielberg!

Best Actress: Emma Stone, Poor Things. Quelle surprise, or not so much – while Lily Gladstone won the SAG Award, Emma made a late surge for two months and she rode that wave to her second Best Actress Oscar. I’m sad for Lily, but I’m really happy for Emma, she killed it so hard in Poor Things. She really gave an incredible performance.

Best Picture: Oppenheimer. Again, like Nolan’s win for Best Director, the writing was on the wall for several months. Oppenheimer is a wonderful film and at the very least, it’s great that such a big hit film (about a very real history of the Manhattan Project) which was seen by so many people. IDK, I think this is well deserved!

Photos courtesy of Neon’s Instagram.