Tag: 2024 Oscars

Steven Spielberg’s hysterical Oscars reaction might already be the best GIF of 2024

BEST GIF OF 2024 INCOMING

Steven Spielberg is one of the best filmmakers of all time, but he might’ve just turned into one of the best GIFs of 2024 during Sunday’s Oscars.

During a segment featuring Barbie stars America Ferrera and Kate McKinnon, the two joked about McKinnon finding out that Jurassic Park isn’t actually a documentary.

During one of McKinnon’s quips, the camera cut to Spielberg delivering the reaction of the night and a GIF that will surely flood your social media feed in the weeks and months to come.

Seriously, this is priceless, and we are so glad it now exists for us to use when we need to react to something on the internet.

Spielberg is such a good sport for participating in this gag, and we’re dually happy that we have this reaction from him now to use in all of our tweets.

This is what the Oscars are all about! New GIFs!

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Gwyneth Paltrow celebrates Robert Downey Jr.’s Oscar win from home

Paltrow celebrated the first Oscar win for Downey, with whom she co-starred in all three Iron Man movies.

Robert Downy Jr. finally winning his first Oscar was a cause for celebration for the crowd in attendance at the 2024 Academy Awards as well as for fans watching at home. Included among those fans celebrating Downey’s Best Supporting Actor award was his Iron Man co-star Gwyneth Paltrow.

In a post on her Instagram, Paltrow celebrated the win while getting ready for what we presume is a night full of post-Oscar parties. Paltrow and Downey appeared together in all three Iron Man movies as well as several other movies in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Stay tuned to For The Win for more coverage of the 2024 Oscars.

Yes, Robert Downey Jr. is surprisingly the first former SNL cast member to win an Oscar

Ironically, RDJ’s SNL run was pretty short, lasting just 16 episodes.

Robert Downey Jr. won his first Academy Award on Sunday night, taking home Best Supporting Actor for his work in Oppenheimer. It was the first award of the night that the film won.

It was the third time Downey had been nominated. He was up for Best Actor in 1990 for Chaplin, and Best Supporting Actor in 2009 for Tropic Thunder.

Downey’s performance as Lewis Strauss also won him a BAFTA, a Golden Globe, and a SAG Award. His portrayal of Strauss is incredibly key to making the film work, as director Christopher Nolan uses Strauss’s Senate confirmation hearing for Secretary of Commerce as a framing device to tell the story.

The win for Downey was not just significant for him and Oppenheimer, but also the show he was on in 1985, a little thing called Saturday Night Live.

Downey is in fact the first former SNL cast member to win an Oscar.

Yes, really.

That might be hard to believe considering the show has produced stars like Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Eddie Murphy, Adam Sandler, Will Ferrell, Tina Fey and Kristen Wiig. A lot of those folks have been nominated for Oscars, but never won.

Murray won a Golden Globe and a BAFTA for his work in 2003’s Lost In Translation, but lost the Best Actor Oscar to Sean Penn. Murphy was nominated for Best Supporting Actor in 2007 for his work in Dreamgirls, but lost to Alan Arkin. Wiig was nominated for Best Original Screenplay in 2012 for writing Bridesmaids, but the award went to Woody Allen for Midnight In Paris.

Ironically, Downey’s SNL run was pretty short, lasting just 16 episodes.

Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito joked with Michael Keaton about Batman villainy during Oscars

HOLY OSCARS, BATMAN!

 

The co-stars of the 1990s comedy Twins (and Hollywood legends) Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito reunited at the 96th Academy Awards to present two Oscars for Visual Effects and Editing.

However, the two started their time on stage complaining about how, as two previous on-screen Batman villains, they could never get past the Caped Crusader.

DeVito played The Penguin in Batman Returns, while Schwarzenegger played Mr. Freeze in Batman and Robin.

Well, one of the most recognizable Batmans in the world, Michael Keaton, was in the crowd, and Schwarzenegger and DeVito took their villainous grievances right to Bruce Wayne himself to the delight of the crowd.

Seriously, how awesome was this? It’s really not every day that you get to see two former Batman villains finally get their opportunity to let a former Batman know what they really think in front of the world, but that’s what the Oscars are for!

This is one of those moments that makes us really grateful for the Academy Awards.

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Robert Downey Jr. delivered an unforgettable speech after winning Best Supporting Actor

Robert Downey Jr. finally won his Oscar, and his speech rocked.

After years of working in the business, veteran actor Robert Downey Jr. has finally won his Academy Award.

The veteran actor, best known for playing Tony Stark/Iron Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar on Sunday night at the 96th Oscars for his role as Lewis Strauss in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer.

Downey Jr. gave predictably charismatic speech where he honored his wife Susan Downey, Nolan and everyone he worked with on the blockbuster film.

It was the perfect speech for such a beloved actor, as so many in the room looked very happy to see the Hollywood legend finally get his due.

It’s been a long time coming for Downey Jr., who was last nominated in the same category for Tropic Thunder back in 2008. Now, he’ll have his first Oscar to put on the shelf at home for an illustrious career stretching back decades.

It’s such a cool moment for Downey Jr. and all movie fans that he finally got his Academy Award, and his speech reflected just how special that moment was.

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Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt hysterically roasted each other over Barbenheimer during 2024 Oscars

Okay, this was hilarious.

“Barbenheimer” was the biggest film event of 2023, and two of its central players had a blast ribbing each other over being in the rival films.

Emily Blunt, who played Kitty Oppenheimer in Oppenheimer, and Ryan Gosling, who played Ken in Barbie, both got a really fun moment in Sunday’s 96th Oscars ceremony while introducing a tribute to stunt workers.

The two roasted each other over their movies, as Oppenheimer has fared better at the awards but Barbie made more money and led the cultural conversation.

The two will be in this May’s The Fall Guy, and we’re already loving the chemistry these two have while joking with each other.

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John Cena showed up naked to the Oscars, and we can’t un-Cena it

A naked John Cena was not on our bingo card.

John Cena seemingly presented the award for Best Costume Design at the Oscars while naked. Yes, NAKED.

Jimmy Kimmel and John Cena surprised the entire audience at the Academy Awards with the naked body of Cena. Kimmel was reminiscing about a previous Academy Awards moment when a man streaked across the stage. He then asks the audience, “Can you imagine if a nude man ran across the stage today?” At that point, Cena was supposed to streak across the stage but was “afraid” to do the deed.

Kimmel told him to stop making it weird. That’s when John slowly inched his way out to the podium, with only an envelope covering his nether region, to present the award for Best Costume Design. He fittingly opened his award presentation dialogue with “Costumes are so important.”

The order of awards for the 96th Oscars may have leaked

What order will the Academy Awards be given out tonight? We’ve got you covered.

Every year we tune into the Oscars and wonder if anyone actually knows the order of awards handed out. Well, aside from the people who are in the room where it happens.

The ceremony’s run of show is typically kept quiet to maximize viewership, but every once in a while the order leaks out on social media. It looked like that was the case last year, but the last few categories didn’t quite line up.

Well, here we are again watching the Academy Awards and again it appears the order has leaked. Best Actress and Best Actor will take their typical place towards the end of the show with Best Picture serving as the final category of the night.

There you have it — maybe. We’ll find out soon enough.

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Paul Giamatti was moved to tears during his Holdovers co-star Da’Vine Joy Randolph’s Oscar speech

Paul Giamatti was moved to tears by his Holdovers co-star Da’Vine Joy Randolph’s Oscar speech.

During Da’Vine Joy Randolph’s heartwarming speech for winning the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance in The Holdovers, her co-star Paul Giamatti was moved to tears by the moment.

Giamatti escorted Randolph to the stage to accept her very first Oscar win and watched with everyone in the crowd as Randolph deliver a powerful speech that had Giamatti getting misty.

It’s so wonderful to see actors supporting each other like this, and Giamatti’s sincere reaction to Randolph’s win is one of the best parts about the Oscars. You just can’t script something this; it comes straight from the heart.

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Da’Vine Joy Randolph honored her mom in an incredibly heartfelt speech after winning Best Supporting Actress

Da’Vine Joy Randolph gave such a great Oscar speech after winning Best Supporting Actress.

After delivering one of the best performances of 2023, stage and screen veteran Da’Vine Joy Randolph deservedly won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar on Sunday night for her performance in The Holdovers.

After a really touching tribute from previous Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o, Randolph gave an incredibly heartfelt speech after winning the Academy Award, her first in her career, one where she thanked her mother for encouraging her to pursue acting.

It’s always so moving to watch someone win their first Academy Award, and Randolph showed exactly why it’s such an incredible moment to be honored for your career in such a way as winning an Oscar.

After an awards season filled with wins, Rudolph finally won the biggest prize.

While her victory might’ve been one most people saw coming after so many precursor victories at previous shows, it doesn’t make it any less awesome.

She delivers one of the strongest performances in one of 2023’s best movies, and that alone is worth celebrating. The Oscar is just the grand finale.