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Who wants a tux when you’ve gotten a leather-based embroidered blazer? The Depraved actor and Saturday Evening Stay solid member Bowen Yang is presenting one of many awards throughout tonight’s ceremony and has determined to shun a conventional swimsuit for one thing with a bit extra persona. Leather-based below these spotlights although? We concern he has acquired an extended sweaty night forward.

Morwenna Ferrier

I’m going to exit on a limb right here and say that Arianne Phillips, the very good costume designer behind A Full Unknown (and As soon as Upon a Time in Hollywood), is sporting classic. Nearly your entire costume division for the Dylan movie got here from flea markets, sellers and markets, so it’s protected to say she is aware of her manner round Vinted. Right here, the Prada-y colored bib frill, the quick lace gloves (the Oscars loves a glove!), the ornate Nineteen Twenties clutch, and the superbly balanced hem and practice. Armani it ain’t.

Xan Brooks

And now a particular reside replace from the Guardian’s Xan Brooks on the Dolby theatre in Hollywood …

First journey to the Oscars. Impossibly glamorous arrival. Non-celebrity company, I uncover, entry the Dolby theatre by strolling across the police cordons, throughout a filling station forecourt and previous a shuttered bowling alley to the theatre doorways. That is maybe what’s recognized unofficially because the Karla Sofía Gascón Entrance. However I’m now safely inside and have been handed a spring roll to eat.

Chloe Mac Donnell

The Depraved star Jeff Goldblum is thought for his love of a unusual purple carpet look. Tonight he has performed with clashing, taking extra formal items and contrasting them with extra sudden selections. He has left a conventional cream double-breasted blazer undone to disclose a daring patterned shirt beneath. On prime, he has added a purple scarf and a basic bow tie. All through the promotional tour for Depraved he experimented with numerous brooches, together with sparkly variations, and outsized corsages. This night he has taken it one step additional with some recent flowers that just about look like blooming from his lapel. No notes!

Gwilym Mumford

Attention-grabbing little bit of element from Observer movie columnist Man Lodge: this 12 months options the bottom variety of totally different characteristic movies nominated since 1991. We’ve talked about this being probably the most unpredictable Oscars in years, however the pool that these winners are coming from is unusually shallow. Unusual Oscars 12 months, huh!

Morwenna Ferrier

Brady Corbet, director of The Brutalist and award nominee, has arrived together with his accomplice, the Norwegian actor Mona Fastvold. The black sun shades and swimsuit, the off-white drop shoulder robe – it appears like a pleasant little his-and-hers monochrome double act. However squint and also you’ll see Corbet is definitely sporting a “blavy” (black/navy) shirt. Ask any politician and so they’ll inform you that blavy is the most secure color you’ll be able to put on.

Essentially the most thrilling a part of the outfit, although, is definitely the brooch. It’s designed by Sauvereign, who additionally made Cillian Murphy a bespoke brooch the evening he received his greatest actor award. Not saying the 2 issues are linked, however … the 2 issues are most likely linked.

Gwilym Mumford

Peter Bradshaw, Andrew Pulver and Catherine Shoard have all had their say on Oscar predictions, so right here’s my stab at them. I’m bravely/idiotically veering from the herd by backing Chalamet for greatest actor as a substitute of Brody:

Greatest image Anora

Greatest actor Timothée Chalamet, A Full Unknown

Greatest actress Demi Moore, The Substance

Greatest supporting actor Kieran Culkin, A Actual Ache

Greatest supporting actress Zoe Saldaña, Emilia Pérez

Greatest director Brady Corbet, The Brutalist

Greatest tune El Mal, Emilia Pérez

Greatest tailored screenplay Conclave

Greatest unique screenplay Anora

Greatest documentary No Different Land

Greatest animated movie The Wild Robotic

Greatest worldwide movie I’m Nonetheless Right here

Gwilym Mumford

As Stu has already talked about, Conan O’Brien is internet hosting this 12 months’s ceremony, taking on from Jimmy Kimmel, who hosted the final two. Did the Academy go for somebody much less prone to take purpose at Trump? Did Kimmel not fancy it? Regardless, O’Brien must be a enjoyable host – likable, irreverent and never afraid to sort out a tune and dance quantity:

In the meantime, this 12 months’s presenters have been introduced and as per Oscar traditions, final 12 months’s profitable actors – Cillian Murphy, Emma Stone, Robert Downey Jr and Da’Vine Pleasure Randolph – shall be presenting this 12 months’s performing classes. Different stars lined as much as current classes embrace Dave Bautista, Gal Gadot, Andrew Garfield, Samuel L Jackson, Margaret Qualley, Alba Rohrwacher, Zoe Saldaña and Rachel Zegler. However Harrison Ford, who was scheduled to current an award, will miss the ceremony, reportedly as a result of a shingles prognosis. Ouch.

Chloe Mac Donnell

We’re kicking issues off with Amelia Dimoldenberg. The creator of the YouTube sequence Rooster Store Date is again on the purple carpet for the second 12 months in a row, interviewing the celebs as they arrive. Chatting with the Guardian earlier this month about dressing for occasions, Dimoldenberg stated: “Crimson carpets are an incredible alternative to showcase vogue, to specific your self.” We all know from previous purple carpets and her Rooster Store Dates that Dimoldenberg likes a flirty look. Her selection tonight of a blue sparkly cutout costume by Versace matches the transient completely.

Morwenna Ferrier

Hiya! Morwenna and Chloe from the Guardian’s vogue desk right here. We’ll be watching the purple carpet so that you don’t should, guiding you thru the possible hits and unlikely misses from Timothée, Mikey, Demi et al. Wherever you stand on purple carpet vogue, the query of who will put on what is sort of as frequent because the query of who will take residence a statuette. It simply is! The site visitors doesn’t lie. Everyone knows that the purple carpet is now an economic system unto itself, a surprisingly cultivated branding train for celebrities and a advertising device for the style business, constructed on an phantasm that the robes and dandy fits are an expression of a star’s private model, when in truth they’ve been picked by a stylist. However that doesn’t cease it being enjoyable, too.

Catherine Shoard

Perhaps you’re coming to this 12 months recent, having seen not one of the movies and never having heard of Karla Sofía Gascón. In that case, we’re right here to assist!

Right here’s every thing it’s worthwhile to know concerning the 2025 Academy Awards however have been too afraid to ask.

The timetable
The purple carpet heats up about 10pm GMT; the ceremony begins at midnight GMT and ends at 3am Monday; and we’ll wrap up reside protection about 7am. For extra, together with the best way to watch, attempt right here and right here.

The competitors
Ten movies are up for greatest image this 12 months. You possibly can learn Guardian writers put the case for every one in every of them right here, and there’s an summary of the race right here – and of the very best director, actor and actress contests.

Predictions
Peter Bradshaw has accomplished his right here and Andrew Pulver right here. For what it’s value, listed here are my last-minute ideas in some key classes:

Greatest image: Anora (spoiler, Conclave)

Greatest director: Brady Corbet (spoiler, Sean Baker)

Greatest actor: Adrien Brody

Greatest actress: Demi Moore

Greatest supporting actor: Kieran Culkin

Greatest supporting actress: Zoe Saldaña

Greatest unique screenplay: A Actual Ache

Greatest tailored screenplay: Conclave

Greatest worldwide movie: I’m Nonetheless Right here

Greatest documentary: No Different Land

Additional studying
What’s in these goodie luggage?

Is that this probably the most open Oscars race in latest reminiscence?

Timothée Chalamet deserves an Oscar – for his Oscar marketing campaign

A Depraved disgrace! In 2025, blockbuster success spells Oscars failure

Saldaña squished and Chalamet chafing as Ariana and Cynthia bag the very best seats: the 2025 Oscars class photograph

‘The digicam is extra impactful than a rifle’: the married Ukrainian artists who filmed the battle – and at the moment are up for an Oscar for Porcelain Warfare

An interview with the makers of fellow documentary contender, No Different Land

From Blitz to Gladiator II: the Oscar-aiming movies that missed this season

The rise and fall of Emilia Pérez: how did all of it go so fallacious for the Oscar-nominated movie and its star?

‘Stick-it-to-the-man sentiment’: Oscar-nominated movies compete to bait Donald Trump

God’s position on this 12 months’s race

Plus interviews with key gamers: Cynthia Erivo, Demi Moore, Mikey Madison, Karla Sofía Gascón, Sean Baker, Brady Corbet, Coralie Fargeat, Jesse Eisenberg & Kieran Culkin, Adrien Brody, and Ralph Fiennes, John Lithgow & Stanley Tucci.

It begins!

Stuart Heritage

Good night, and welcome to the Guardian’s reside protection of the 2025 Oscars. We’ve all been right here earlier than, in fact – this shall be an extended evening of well-known individuals and good attire and overlong speeches – however this 12 months all bets are off.

The California wildfires have despatched the Academy right into a panicked spiral of attempting to find the proper tone (there have been even requires the entire ceremony to be cancelled as a mark of respect), so there’s an excellent probability that proceedings is likely to be extra sombre than typical. Then once more, in Conan O’Brien the Oscars have a number value truly getting enthusiastic about. After which there are the awards themselves.

In the event you’re a hardened movie fan, you’ll be nicely conscious that there are not any useless certs this 12 months. Except for a few classes (primarily those for supporting artists), that is probably the most open an Oscars has been for years, which implies that each winner will come as a complete shock.

Of the ten motion pictures nominated for greatest movie, solely two – Depraved and Dune: Half Two – can genuinely be referred to as blockbusters, and so they’re the one ones that positively received’t win. The others, mixed, have a box-office gross roughly equal to a Marvel opening weekend. And I’m speaking about 2025 Marvel, too, which is de facto saying one thing. Sure, historically this lack of common fare implies that few individuals will hassle watching the Oscars, however at the very least for individuals who do, this has the potential to be a studying expertise.

As for tonight’s playbook, the great and nice of the Guardian shall be available all through the evening to supply reactions and evaluation of every thing you’ll be able to presumably consider. Crimson carpet appears? Examine. Political implications? Examine. The Oscars forgetting to incorporate anybody important within the In Memoriam part? Examine. And I’ll be right here responding to the ceremony itself, second by second. If every thing goes proper, we’ll all get out of right here with our will to reside intact. What extra may you need?