Behind the Scenes: What you did not see on the 2024 Oscars
LOS ANGELES — There’s a complete different present that occurs offscreen on the Oscars that the house viewers does not see on tv. Right here’s what The Related Press noticed that the cameras didn’t seize.
Issues acquired off to a late begin, about 6 minutes not on time and never everybody made their technique to their seats by the beginning of the present. Among the many final seated round 7:06 pm EDT had been Martin Scorsese, Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling. Carey Mulligan missed the shifting cutoff although and spent Jimmy Kimmel’s opening monologue and the supporting actress prize standing off to the aspect, however she had husband Marcus Mumford there to maintain her firm.
On the first industrial break individuals bolted out of their seats to seek out their pals. Emma Stone instantly discovered her longtime pal Jennifer Lawrence and the 2 ran out the clock laughing and gesticulating wildly as their husbands appeared on.
Greta Gerwig beelined to Robbie and America Ferrera, all in good spirits after the supporting actress prize went to Da’Vine Pleasure Randolph. And sure, Mulligan and Mumford lastly discovered their seats.
Emma Stone was out within the foyer bar with a glass of champagne in hand when “Poor Issues” gained greatest manufacturing design. She yelped out and jumped up and down and attentively watched the speech.
She then turned to Florence Pugh, standing close by and the 2 talked animatedly about Pugh’s “sprinkled costume.”
Swiftly, Pugh laughed and appeared up on the monitor to see an nearly bare John Cena. “Oooh it’s as a result of he appears to be like just like the Oscar!”
A couple of seconds later “Poor Issues” additionally gained for costume design and Stone jumped and screamed once more.
“I’m lacking all of them,” she cried. “It’s not OK, it’s unhealthy, I’m going residence.”
Out within the foyer Gerwig had a fan who wished to speak to her about one thing very particular: Ann Roth’s ‘Barbie’ cameo.
“I would like you to understand how a lot that meant to me,” mentioned academy board member Eduardo Castro, who’s within the costume designers department.
Roth, 92, performed the lady on the bench in “Barbie,” a bit that Kimmel even mimicked in his opening. She’s a two-time Oscar winner for “The English Affected person” and “Ma Rainey’s Black Backside.”
Castro, whose credit embrace “Ugly Betty” and “Bride and Prejudice,” mentioned he considers Roth a mentor.
“She’s particular,” Gerwig mentioned. “She mentioned ‘Greta I don’t know if I can do it, I can’t do it! Simply give me a martini.’”
Castro laughed: “She loves a martini.”
By that time Gerwig’s husband Noah Baumbach had made his technique to her they usually made their technique to the bar. (They didn’t, nevertheless, order martinis.)
A few half hour earlier than Gosling turned the Oscars right into a wildly enjoyable live performance for just a few valuable minutes, the Kens had been out within the foyer warming up. Clad in cowboy hats, some had been stretching, some working in place, and all had been discovering their Kenergy.
In the course of the efficiency, the Dolby Theatre took on the texture of a Taylor Swift live performance, with everybody within the room standing and breaking into spontaneous, joyous dance. And the most important fan within the room was Gerwig, who was given her personal private Ken proper up in her face.
In the course of the industrial break Mark Ronson discovered his technique to Gerwig, Robbie and a crowd of admirers. The entire room was buzzing lengthy after the efficiency, Ronson possibly most of all — he went again to his seat proudly donning his pink Ken shirt, which he wore for the remainder of the present.
The Oppenhomies stayed up on the stage for a couple of minutes after the cameras turned off, hugging and celebrating all of the wins. Downey held up his trophy doing a little bit of a fist pump with it. Among the final ones on the stage had been Emily Blunt and Kimmel, who chatted casually and made their manner out.
On the best way to the Governors Ball, Wire Jefferson was beaming as he walked by way of the foyer, leaping and clutching his Oscar. Kate McKinnon had a second with Marlee Matlin and Steven Spielberg made his manner out in a masks.
And although Gerwig and “Barbie” went residence principally empty handed she was in nice spirits, nonetheless vibrating from “I’m Simply Ken,” which she known as “legendary.”
