Clockwise from top left, stills from movies all nominated for Oscar awards, The Color Purple, Anatomy of a Fall, The Holdovers, Oppenheimer, Killers of the Flower Moon and Barbie.Supplied
Even with the Emmy Awards and Golden Globes in ratings free-fall, the 96th Academy Awards might mark the Oscars big comeback year, Barry Hertz writes.
For the first time in ages, the biggest box-office performers of the year are also leading the Academy’s nominations, with Oppenheimer scoring a massive 13 nods, including Best Picture and Best Director for Christopher Nolan, and Barbie netting eight, including Best Picture (but not, noticeably, Best Director for Greta Gerwig). Perhaps audiences will tune in to an awards show that celebrates films they’ve actually seen.
Here’s our complete guide to the 96th annual Academy Awards.
The basics
What time do the Oscars start?
This year, the Academy Awards start at 7 p.m. ET on Sunday March 10, 2024, an hour earlier than usual. They air on CTV and CTV2 in Canada, and ABC in the U.S.
Who’s hosting the 2024 Oscars?
Jimmy Kimmel is hosting this year’s Academy Awards, his fourth time as emcee.
Who is performing at this year’s Oscars?
Ryan Gosling will sing the pop power ballad I’m Just Ken at the show on March 10. Others set to perform their nominated original songs include Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell, Jon Batiste, Scott George and the Osage Singers and Becky G.
The nominees: The biggest Academy Award snubs, surprises and reality checks
Barry Hertz lays out the best, worst and strangest things about the 2024 Oscar nominations. Plus, check out the full list of nominees here.
This year’s best bets
The Globe and Mail’s film critic Barry Hertz has rounded up his picks for who he thinks is most likely to win, who he thinks should win, and who was passed over on the list of nominees.
For best picture Hertz says Oppenheimer will win, The Zone of Interest should win, and May December should have been a contender.
Read the full list of 2024 Oscar winner best bets.
Where you can watch Oscar-nominated movies
It’s time to watch as many of this year’s Oscar-nominated films as you can before the red carpet is rolled out for the Academy Awards on March 10.
The Globe’s guide to watching this year’s Oscar nominated films lets you know which movies you can watch or stream on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, Crave, Disney+, Paramount+, Video on Demand or in theatres.
Illustration by Steven P Hughes
The great open secret of Hollywood media: it’s a one-company town
While the average reader might neither understand nor care about the editorial nuances that differentiate Variety (meat-and-potatoes coverage) from The Hollywood Reporter (glossier, longer-form features) and Deadline (breathless scoops on hirings and firings) from IndieWire (essentially the nerdiest subset of Film Twitter come to life), most certainly don’t realize one crucial thing: the fact that all the publications are owned by the same company, Penske Media. Barry Hertz writes about the great unspoken truth of the Oscar “For Your Consideration” campaign.
Ranjit’s daughter looking out in a field in "To Kill A Tiger". Courtesy of the NFB and Notice Pictures Inc., 2021NFB
‘This can go the distance’: How the tiny Canadian documentary To Kill a Tiger made it to the Oscars
Canadian documentary To Kill a Tiger’s writer-director Nisha Pahuja tells Johanna Schneller how the film made it to the Oscars with the winning combination of a righteous subject, told well, indefatigable passion and non-stop fundraising.
Illustration by Steven P Hughes
Oscars and the apocalypse: Why Barbenheimer might mark the last great gasp of Hollywood
Thanks to the cultural phenomenon of Barbenheimer, this year’s Oscars stand to go down as the most box-office-friendly Academy Awards in a generation, perhaps stretching back to when Titanic triumphed in 1998.
This time around, though, there is every reason to expect that Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer will walk away with Best Picture and a boatload of other awards, while Greta Gerwig’s Barbie should snag at least one or two little gold men (I’m Just Ken for Best Original Song is as close to a shoo-in as the film has). If you want your ailing awards show to prove its worth to today’s moviegoers, this is exactly how you do it.
Yet while the Oscars will shine a big, burning spotlight on the two biggest films of 2023 – films that proved the magic of moviegoing can never be replaced, ever! – it will be doing so as Hollywood faces several extinction-level events, from the streaming wars to strike fallout. Will Sunday go down as the night that saved Hollywood, or the last great gasp of an industry on fire?
How to stream the best movies snubbed by the 2024 Academy Awards
This Sunday’s 96th Academy Awards will offer one more red-carpet push for the films that dominated both the critical discourse and the box office for the past 12 months. But for those over Barbenheimer, there are a Dolby Theatre’s worth of eligible movies that didn’t get any love from the Academy at all.
Which is why The Globe and Mail presents its annual Alterna-Oscars: a quick guide to the should’ve-been-contenders – and how you can watch them from the comfort of your own home this weekend.
Raj KapoorIllustration by Photo illustration by The Globe
Meet Raj Kapoor, the Canadian running this year’s Oscars awards show
Fresh off executive-producing the 2024 Grammy Awards, the Edmonton-raised director is in the midst of preparing film’s biggest night: the 96th Academy Awards, a.k.a. the Oscars.
