Oppenheimer sweeps awards with best picture and actor wins

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We are going to shortly close this live page, so just before we leave you, here's what you need to know about last night's Oscars:

• Oppenheimer scooped seven awards including best picture and best actor for Cillian Murphy. The biopic also won best supporting actor for Robert Downey Jr, as well as best director for Christopher Nolan. The film also won an Oscar for film editing, cinematography and original score

• Best actress went to Emma Stone for her role in Poor Things, which also won best production design, make-up and costume design

• The Holdovers' star Da'Vine Joy Randolph won best supporting actress for her performance of a bereaved mother who lost a son in Vietnam

• Ukraine won its first ever Oscar with best documentary 20 Days in Mariupol, which was filmed inside the city during the assault by Russian forces
• The UK won best international film for Holocaust drama The Zone of Interest.

• Barbie, the highest-grossing film of 2023, won only one of the eight prizes it was nominated for - best original song for What Was I Made For? by Billie Eilish

• One of the films missing out was Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon, which had been nominated in 10 categories
• And finally, stealing the show was Ryan Gosling dressed in glittering pink performing Barbie anthem I'm Just Ken

As the 96th Academy Awards comes to a close, reaction across US media has been dripping in.

Los Angeles Times television critic Robert Lloyd describes this year’s Oscars as: “An upbeat Oscars, on the edge of good taste and not entirely divorced from reality.”

Writing in USA Today, TV critic Kelly Lawler is much more critical: “The 2024 Oscars were worse than bad. They were boring.”

Film critic Gene Seymour tells CNN the “big question for many” is “whether Hollywood will, or even should, continue to stake its future on films made with $100 million or $200 million budgets”.

Meanwhile, Sara Stewart says: “Let’s be honest: the Academy has never been big on movies that are fun. Or by and about women. 'Barbie' may not have dominated the awards, but I’m betting it gets watched a lot more, in years hence, than the one that just scooped up most of the major awards.”

Let's hear from the woman behind the make-up and hairstyling plaudits for Poor Things.

British make-up and hair stylist Nadia Stacey says her Oscar in the category "hasn't sunk in yet."

"It's unbelievable. It's amazing."

Holding the famous statuette, she says she's looking forward to "celebrating with the rest of the gang" at the Vanity Fair afterparty.

She adds that Poor Things actress and Oscar winner Emma Stone gave "the performance of the year".

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The best picture-nominated 'Anatomy of a Fall' boasted a four-legged break-out star: Messi, the border collie who plays Snoop in the French courtroom drama.

Following days of speculation over whether he would show, Messi appeared at the ceremony, sitting in a plush red seat with a black bow-tie around his neck.

Messi even got some screen time later in the evening. The camera panned to him to show his paws up in applause for Robert Downey Jr's best supporting actor win.

Gosling also looked delighted to see Messi again, having previously made his acquaintance at the Oscars Luncheon last month.

And because we all love a bit of glitz and glamour, here are a few more celebrity guests putting their best feet forward at the post-Oscar celebrations in Beverly Hills.

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As we've been reporting, The Holdovers' star Da'Vine Joy Randolph won an Oscar for best supporting actress.

"She [Randolph] has won everything this season," film critic Helen O'Hara tells BBC News. "I don't think there has been a single award show that didn't give her best supporting actress."

"It is a moving, eye-catching performance," O'Haha adds.

"She doesn't overplay it but absolutely breaks your heart in the film when she plays a bereaved mother who lost a son in Vietnam."

Commenting on trends in the best actress field, O'Hara adds "most best actress and supporting actress winners tend to be younger women".

"Women don't get roles in their 40s and 50s, so there have been relatively few winners of that age group".

It's the opposite for men, she says. "Men tend not to win best actor until they turn 40."

The musician and broadcaster Jarvis Cocker has been talking to the BBC's Radio Four Today programme about his cameo role in The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar.

Director Wes Anderson has won his first Oscar for the film, which stars Benedict Cumberbatch. It's an adaptation of Roald Dahl's short story about a rich gambler with an astonishing skill to cheat at cards.

Asked why he took a role in the film, Cocker tells the BBC: "No one else would have me in a film because I can't act.

"In this film I do actually have a line which is 'good evening Mr Sugar', and I said that line about 30 times" in a scene when Henry Sugar arrives at the casino.

"Wes makes everything happen in front of the camera," Cocker adds.

"It was an extensively choreographed scene," he says, "and I am glad to have been part of it."

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And here are a few more pictures from the star-studded red carpet of the Oscars afterparty.

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Irish Culture and Arts Minister Catherine Martin has congratulated Cillian Murphy on becoming the first Irish-born star to win an Oscar for best actor.

The 47-year-old, who was born in Douglas in Cork, was awarded for playing theoretical physicist J Robert Oppenheimer in the biopic about the father of the atomic bomb.

In his acceptance speech, Cillian Murphy spoke of being "a very proud Irishman".

Catherine Martin says: "This award for his title role in Oppenheimer is the pinnacle of any actor’s career and a fitting recognition of the immense talent of Cillian Murphy."

A post from the President of Ireland's account on X also celebrates the actor: "Congratulations to Cillian Murphy on his wonderful achievement in winning the Best Actor Oscar, which he so appropriately dedicated to the peacemakers everywhere."

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Da’Vine Joy Randolph's performance The Holdovers earned her an Oscar for best supporting actress.

In the film that received five nominations, Paul Giamatti plays curmudgeonly prep school teacher Paul Hunham.

He has to oversee several unwilling students staying on campus during the Christmas holidays.

Alexander Payne’s film sees him form an unlikely bond with troublemaker Angus (Dominic Sessa) and the school’s head cook, played by Da’Vine Joy Randolph, who has just lost her son in the Vietnam War.

You can read more about the film and whether it could become the new Christmas classic here.

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Despite the flurry of nominations, Greta Gerwig's film Barbie won only one accolade - the best original song for What Was I Made For? by Billie Eilish and her brother, Finneas O'Connell.

Ahead of the night, the film had eight nominations and its lead, played by Margot Robbie, lives an uncomplicated life in Barbieland until an existential crisis prompts her to travel to the human world, to find her true purpose.

She takes her boyfriend Ken (Ryan Gosling), whose existence depends on being acknowledged by her, and it turns out to be an enlightening experience.

You can find out what the critics made of the film by heading here.

Here are a few more images of stars attending the Vanity Fair bash following the Academy Awards ceremony.

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Billie Eilish, her brother Finneas O'Connell and Mark Ruffalo were among some of the stars who arrived on the red carpet last night wearing red Artists4Ceasefire pins.

The group says the pin symbolises "support for an immediate and permanent ceasefire, the release of all of the hostages and the urgent delivery of humanitarian aid to Gaza".

The Egyptian-American actor Ramy Youssef was one of the presenters at the ceremony, and said that he wanted a "lasting justice for the people of Palestine".

Avi Arad, an Israeli-American film producer and chief executive of Marvel Entertainment, wore a yellow ribbon, which shows solidarity with hostages who have been held captive in Gaza by Hamas since the 7 October 2023 attack on Israel.

Zone Of Interest director Jonathan Glazer focused on the war in Gaza in his acceptance speech, saying he refuted his "Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation".

Outside, pro-Palestinian protesters delayed the start of the ceremony as they blocked traffic in the streets.

Close to the Vanity Fair afterparty, giant photos of Israeli hostages were projected onto the walls of a building in a campaign organised by supporters of the hostage families.

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Back in November the Ukrainecast team were joined in the studio by Ukrainian journalist and writer, Mstyslav Chernov, who made the film 20 Days in Mariupol.

It's just won the Oscar for best documentary feature, so we thought it would be a good opportunity to remind you of the episode.

Listen to the episode on BBC Sounds to hear Chernov describe what it was like to shoot the documentary from inside Mariupol. He also chronicles the Russian invasion of the Ukrainian port city in 2022.

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Le'ts take a closer look at Cillian Murphy - the actor who's talk of the town after winning best actor last night.

He made his name battling zombies in 28 Days Later and ruling a ruthless gang in Peaky Blinders, and now Murphy has been recognised as a Hollywood heavyweight after winning his first Oscar for playing the father of the atomic bomb in Oppenheimer.

As an actor with a serious reputation and a serious talent, it was refreshing that the first thing to come out of Murphy's mouth when he went on stage to accept his best actor statuette was a joyful laugh.

Not someone usually given to public displays of emotion, it was clear how much winning an Oscar meant.

He may have been the frontrunner to win throughout awards season, but he was still "a little overwhelmed" to have the Oscar in his hand, he told the audience.

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Good morning if you are just joining us, here's a recap of the biggest night in Hollywood:

• Summer blockbuster Oppenheimer was the big winner of the night taking home seven awards, including best picture and best actor for Cillian Murphy
• Taking home the other big prize of the night was Emma Stone who picked up best actress for Poor Things
• Oppenheimer's Robert Downey and Christopher Nolan won their first Oscars, for best supporting actor and best director respectively, while Da'Vine Joy Randolph received best supporting actress for The Holdovers
• But stealing the show was Ryan Gosling dressed in glittering pink performing Barbie anthem I'm Just Ken

Head to the links below for all the news, gossip and analysis from last night:

• Cillian Murphy wins best actor as Oppenheimer sweeps Oscars 2024
• Ryan Gosling, nudity and a dog who stole the Oscars

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Earlier on in the night, the Academy Awards paid tribute to stars who died in the past year.

The In Memoriam section opened with a clip of Alexei Navalny from the Oscar-winning documentary Navalny, as singer Andrea Bocelli and his son Matteo performed Time To Say Goodbye

The Russian opposition leader and Putin critic died in a Siberian penal colony last month; he was profiled in last year's documentary feature winner “Navalny”.

Other stars remembered included:

• Friends actor Matthew Perry
• Sir Michael Gambon who played Harry Potter's Albus Dumbledore
• Two-time Oscar winning actress and MP Glenda Jackson
• Actor Julian Sands who went missing on a hike last year
• Singing legend and actress Tina Turner

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Oscars night is one of the best to watch the stars mingle. Take a look at some of the moments snapped tonight:

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It was third time lucky for Robert Downey Jr who won his first acting Oscar in the best supporting acting category for his role in Oppenheimer.

The star jokingly thanked his "terrible childhood" for the award.

Downey Jr was previously nominated for playing the titular tramp in 1992's “Chaplin,” and the crazed, all-too-method actor Kirk Lazarus in 2008's “Tropic Thunder".