Oscars 2024: Predictions and when to watch in South Africa

Oscars 2024: Predictions and when to watch in South AfricaThe 96th Academy Awards will take place in Los Angeles on Sunday, 10 March. Here's who we think the Oscars will go to

by Garrin Lambley

09-03-2024 14:12

in Entertainment

Oppenheimer v Barbie: Here's who we think the Oscars will go to Image: Robyn BECK / AFP)

The 96th Academy Awards will take place at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles on Sunday, 10 March.

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The E! channel gets things under way with Brunch at the Oscars at 22:00 (SA time), then moves to Live from the Red Carpet show at midnight (SA time).

The ceremony itself will begin at 02:00 (Monday, 11 March SA time) and is expected to last three and a half hours.

Jimmy Kimmel will be the show's host for a fourth time.

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And the Oscar goes to Oppenheimer leads the way with 13 nominations, followed by Poor Things (11) and Killers of the Flower Moon (10)

While some of the main award winners are dead certainties, others are less so.

Here's who The South African website predicts will walk away the winners in 12 of the biggest Oscars 2024 categories:

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Best picture Oppenheimer (Emma Thomas, Charles Roven and Christopher Nolan, producers)

Best actor Cillian Murphy (Oppenheimer)

Best actress Lily Gladstone (Killers of the Flower Moon)

Best supporting actor Robert Downey jnr (Oppenheimer)

Best supporting actress Da'Vine Joy Randolph (The Holdovers)

Best director Christopher Nolan (Oppenheimer)

Best song What Was I Made For? (from Barbie, music and lyric by Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell)

Best adapted screenplay American Fiction (written for the screen by Cord Jefferson)

Best original screenplay Anatomy of a Fall (screenplay by Justine Triet and Arthur Harari)

Best documentary 20 Days in Mariupol (Mstyslav Chernov, Michelle Mizner and Raney Aronson-Rath)

Best animated film The Boy and the Heron (Hayao Miyazaki and Toshio Suzuki)

Best international film The Zone of Interest (United Kingdom)

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