The 2023 Oscars are organising for a dramatic end.
Seemingly everybody, all over the place is speaking about the breakout indie darling “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” but it surely might want to beat big-budget blockbusters and acclaimed movies by Steven Spielberg and Martin McDonagh to assert prime prizes at Sunday’s ceremony.
Right here’s every thing you must know earlier than the Academy Awards at Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre.
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Sunday’s ceremony kicks off at 8 p.m. EDT and can air reside on ABC. Subscription streaming companies together with FuboTV, YouTubeTV and Hulu Reside TV are carrying the awards present as nicely.
ABC can even air pre-ceremony protection all through the day, beginning with “On the Pink Carpet Reside” from 1-4 p.m. EDT and adopted by a “Countdown to the Oscars” particular starting at 6:30 p.m.
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Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel returns for his third Oscars internet hosting gig and first since 2018. He famously emceed the 2017 ceremony the place Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty mistakenly announced “La La Land” for best picture as an alternative of the particular winner, “Moonlight.”
Kimmel jokingly shared his plan ought to an incident happen like Will Smith slapping Chris Rock final yr.
“You imply, if any individual comes up on the stage and slaps me? Effectively, I dimension them up, and, if I’m bigger than they are, I beat the s–t out of them on tv,” Kimmel instructed The Hollywood Reporter. “And if it’s the Rock, I run.”
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“The whole lot In every single place All at As soon as,” the genre-defying, multiverse-jumping hit that’s dominated awards season to date, leads all movies with 11 nominations.
It enters as the favourite for finest image following wins at a number of Oscars bellwethers, together with final month’s Display screen Actors Guild Awards. Nonetheless, the movie faces competitors from Spielberg’s semi-autobiographical “The Fabelmans”; McDonaugh’s darkish comedy “The Banshees of Inisherin”; James Cameron’s titanic splash “Avatar: The Way of Water”; and the visually beautiful, Tom Cruise-led “Top Gun: Maverick.”
“The whole lot In every single place” star Michelle Yeoh is nominated for finest actress, as is “Tár” star Cate Blanchett. Brendan Fraser’s portrayal of a severely overweight man in “The Whale” and Austin Butler’s performance as the title music icon in “Elvis” have them within the combine for finest actor.
One heavy favourite is “The whole lot In every single place” star Ke Huy Quan, who already received honors on the Golden Globes, SAG Awards, Critics’ Alternative Awards and Movie Unbiased Spirit Awards.
Spielberg, McDonaugh and the “The whole lot In every single place” duo Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert are among the many finest director nominees.
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Contemporary off her Super Bowl halftime show final month, Rihanna returns to a nationwide stage to carry out “Elevate Me Up,” her hit from “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” which is nominated for finest unique music.
“The whole lot In every single place” star Stephanie Hsu will take the stage with David Byrne and the band Son Lux for his or her Oscar-nominated “It is a Life,” which was written for the film.
Lenny Kravitz will carry out through the “In Memoriam” phase.
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Yeoh may obtain a number of milestones with an Oscars win, together with changing into the primary Malaysian artist to take action and the primary Southeast Asian to be named finest actress, in line with the ActionNetwork.com.
Quan could be the primary Oscar-winning actor born in Vietnam, whereas Hsu could be the primary actress of Chinese language descent to take residence an Oscar if she’s named finest supporting actress.
Spielberg would change into the fourth filmmaker to win a 3rd finest director trophy, and at 76 could be the oldest to obtain the distinction.
Angela Bassett, who’s up for finest supporting actress for “Wakanda Forever,” may change into the primary individual to win for a efficiency in a Marvel Cinematic Universe film and the primary lady to win for a comic-book movie.
