Oscars 2024 LIVE updates: Oppenheimer wins ‘Best Picture award’, Christopher Nolan's film bags 7 awards

Late Bollywood art director Nitin Chandrakant Desai was honoured with an emotional tribute during the Oscars' 'In Memoriam' segment alongside Tina Turner, Matthew Perry and many more.

John Cena walked onto the stage naked to introduce the award for best costume design. Meanwhile, host Jimmy Kimmel pointed out that it had been 50 years since David Niven was interrupted on the Oscars stage by a streaker.

Before a sheepish-looking John Cena stunned the crowd, Jimmy Kimmel asked the audience thrice , "Can you imagine if a nude man ran across the stage today?"  

Ryan Gosling dazzled the night as he performed “I’m Just Ken," a huge 80s power ballad. He donned a glittering pink suit as neon pink lights set the background tone during his performance.

Barbie only scooped one Oscar - for best original song-"What Was I Made For?" by Billie Eilish.

However, supporting actor nominee Ryan Gosling brought the house down with a star-studded rendition of "I'm just Ken," accompanied by Guns 'n Roses guitarist Slash during the award night.

Christopher Nolan is an indisputable Hollywood hitmaker whose ambitious and challenging blockbusters entice mainstream audiences and cult followings alike. The British-American filmmaker has been named 'Best Director' at the Academy Awards for Oppenheimer.

Nolan, 53, had come close to Oscars success in the past, most notably with his stunning 2017 war epic "Dunkirk." However, he never won an Oscar before "Oppenheimer".

Born in 1970, the son of a British advertising copywriter and an American air hostess, Nolan had a distinctly trans-Atlantic childhood.

After watching "Star Wars" and a re-release of "2001: A Space Odyssey" in theaters at the age of seven, Nolan quickly began making films on his father's old Super 8 camera.

Nolan attended an austere boarding school before studying English literature at University College London -- which he chose in part for its filmmaking facilities.

While there, he met and ran a movie society with his future wife and producer, Emma Thomas, who he followed to Los Angeles after graduating.

Nolan came to fame at age 30 with "Memento." Later, veteran director Steven Soderbergh recommended Nolan to Warner Bros.

The movie's success enabled Nolan to pitch Warner his gritty, realistic vision for the new Batman films the studio was planning.

The resulting "Batman Begins" kick-started a trilogy of Nolan-directed movies starring Christian Bale as the caped crusader.

Part two, "The Dark Knight," is often considered the greatest superhero film ever made. It was certainly the first to gross $1 billion, and the first to earn an acting Oscar, a posthumous prize for Heath Ledger as the villainous Joker.

The third, "The Dark Knight Rises," drew less critical acclaim, but remains the biggest commercial hit of Nolan's, in a career filmography that has grossed more than $6 billion.

"Inception" consolidated Nolan's reputation as a unique Hollywood filmmaker.

It won four Oscars, including for its stunning visual effects, and earned Nolan his first individual Academy Award nomination since "Memento."

His next original sci-fi, "Interstellar," claimed another visual effects Oscar, and kick-started Nolan's ongoing collaboration with esteemed theoretical physicist Kip Thorne.

Nolan then directed "Dunkirk", a story on World War II. The movie earned Nolan his first Best Director nomination.

Likewise, his next movie "Tenet" -- another ambitious, original sci-fi -- introduced Nolan's concern with nuclear armageddon.

BEST PICTURE: Oppenheimer

BEST ACTOR: Cillian Murphy, “Oppenheimer”

BEST ACTRESS: Emma Stone, “Poor Things”

BEST DIRECTOR: Christopher Nolan, “Oppenheimer”

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Robert Downey Jr., “Oppenheimer”

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Da’Vine Joy Randolph, “The Holdovers”

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: American Fiction

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Anatomy of a Fall

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM: The Boy and the Heron

BEST ANIMATED SHORT: War is Over! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko

BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE: The Zone of Interest- United Kingdom

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE: 20 Days in Mariupol

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT: The Last Repair Shop

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE: Oppenheimer

BEST ORIGINAL SONG: What Was I Made For? “Barbie"

BEST SOUND: The Zone of Interest

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN: Poor Things

BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT: The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Oppenheimer

BEST MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING: Poor Things

BEST COSTUME DESIGN: Poor Things

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS: Godzilla Minus One

BEST FILM EDITING: Oppenheimer

'Oppenheimer' crowned best picture at the Oscars.

Emma Stone claimed her second Academy Award, winning the best actress trophy for her role as a woman revived from the dead in the dark comedy "Poor Things."

The 35-year-old actress scored her first Oscar for 2016 musical "La La Land."

In the Frankenstein-inspired "Poor Things," Stone played Bella Baxter, a woman who is reanimated after suicide by a mad scientist (Willem Dafoe).

Stone has said the role was her favorite of her career. The actress said the admired Bella's curiosity and her appreciation for the good and the bad.

Cillian Murphy, the veteran Irish actor whose titanic performance as J. Robert Oppenheimer centered one of the year’s most acclaimed films, has won best actor at the Academy Awards.

Murphy, in his acceptance speech said, "I'm a very proud Irish man standing here tonight...For better or worse, we're all living in Robert Oppenheimer's world. I'd like to dedicate this to the peacemakers".

Oppenheimer’s Christopher Nolan won his first Oscar for 'Best Director' He was previously nominated in this category for 2018’s Dunkirk.

The others in 'Best Director' race were:

• Justine Triet — Anatomy of a Fall
• Martin Scorsese — Killers of the Flower Moon
• Yorgos Lanthimos — Poor Things
• Jonathan Glazer — The Zone of Interest

Cillian Murphy won his first Oscar today. He won the Oscar award for the 'Best Actor in a Leading Role' for Oppenheimer.

Time for one of the biggest awards--Actor in a leading role

The nominees are:

• Bradley Cooper for Maestro
• Colman Domingo for Rustin
• Paul Giamatti forThe Holdovers
• Cillian Murphy for Oppenheimer
• Jeffrey Wright for American Fiction

Ludwig Göransson, who won the Best Original Score Oscar for 'Oppenheimer', thanked his parents "for giving me drums instead of video games" growing up.

He also thanked his wife who is a violinist and worked on the film sound with him.

It is his second Oscar, he previously won the award for Black Panther sound.

Ludwig Göransson won the Best Original Score Oscar for 'Oppenheimer'.

Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell win the Oscar for Best Original Song for "What Was I Made For?" from 'Barbie'.

Barbie actor Ryan Gosling performed at Oscars on 'I'm Just Ken'. Donning a sparkly pink suit, he began his performance in the audience wearing a cowboy hat. The song is nominated for a best original song Oscar, facing competition from another member of the “Barbie” family — Billie Eilish’s “What Was I Made For?"

"To Kill a Tiger", set in a village in Jharkhand, lost to "20 Days in Mariupol" in the best documentary feature category at Oscars.

Directed by Ukrainian filmmaker and war correspondent Mstyslav Chernov, "20 Days in Mariupol" is a troubling first-person account of the initial days of Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

In his award acceptance speech, an emotional Chernov said he wished he didn't have to make the film at all and urged Russia to cease aggression in his home country.

Chernov spent 20 days with his colleagues in besieged Mariupol after Russia began its invasion of Ukraine. The director compiled footage that he collected in Mariupol together with the team from Frontline and the Associated Press (AP).

About 'To Kill a Tiger'

"To Kill a Tiger" is directed by Delhi-born Nisha Pahuja, an Emmy-nominated filmmaker based in Toronto. It had its world premiere at Toronto International Film Festival 2022 where it won the Amplify Voices Award for Best Canadian Feature Film.

The film follows Ranjit's uphill battle to find justice for his 13-year-old daughter who was abducted and later sexually assaulted by three men.

It premiered on Netflix hours before Oscars day.

It is a Holocaust drama that explores questions of complicity while depicting the mundane lives of a Nazi family in their home adjacent to the Auschwitz death camp.

The Zone of Interest has won the Academy Award for best international film as well.

The film has been nominated for five Academy Awards, including best director, sound and adapted screenplay.

The Zone of Interest won Oscars for 'Best Sound', beating Oppenheimer, Maestro, Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One, and The Creator.

The winner for live action short film is Wes Anderson's The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar. It was his first Oscar after eight nominations. Anderson was not present at the Dolby Theater to accept the award.