Notably, the Russian invasion of Ukraine was not talked about through the opening to the lighthearted present, which featured a D.J., a second standup routine from Schumer, and a sketch from Corridor that discovered a shirtless Chalamet and different male stars onstage. Three sports activities stars — Tony Hawk, Kelly Slater and Shaun White — arrived to introduce a montage celebrating 60 years of the James Bond franchise. (The academy lastly acknowledged the struggle in Ukraine with a second of silence after Reba McEntire’s efficiency of a nominated tune, “By some means You Do,” and by flashing the hashtag #StandWithUkraine on the display.)
In a startling break from academy customized, the telecast was used as an overt promo for some coming films. Chris Evans introduced a commercial for “Lightyear,” a coming “Toy Story” prequel from Pixar that can arrive completely in theaters in June. A prolonged pretaped promotion for the academy’s new museum in Los Angeles featured Sykes taking a tour.
Final yr, the tv viewers for the Academy Awards dropped so precipitously (down 60 % from 2020, already a document low) that organizers determined to remodel the stay broadcast. The presentation of Oscars in eight classes — the less-starry ones — have been moved to a nontelevised portion, with the academy saying it might document the acceptance speeches and combine edited bits into the primary present. Cue howls of dismay, each from film followers and from the sidelined artists.
However the academy stood agency. “Dune,” which was nominated in 10 classes in complete, gained the Oscars for finest sound, rating, manufacturing design and enhancing throughout what the academy had branded “the Golden Hour” in try and assuage bruised egos. Hans Zimmer, who wrote the “Dune” rating, was not available to simply accept the Oscar, the second of his profession after “The Lion King” (1989), with a presenter explaining that he was away on tour.
The crew behind Chastain’s transformation right into a televangelist with tarantula eyelashes in “The Eyes of Tammy Faye” gained the Oscar for make-up and hairstyling. Chastain embraced the group from her seat within the entrance row. (The superstar quotient through the nontelevised portion of the ceremony grew because the hour went on, with seat fillers on heavy rotation.)
The short-film winners have been “The Windshield Wiper,” the animated story of a person considering love in a restaurant whereas smoking a pack of cigarettes; “The Lengthy Goodbye,” a violent live-action brief starring and co-written by Riz Ahmed that takes place within the lead-up to a marriage; and “Queen of Basketball,” a 22-minute New York Occasions documentary about Lusia Harris, the primary and solely girl ever formally drafted into the N.B.A.