Laura Dern wins best supporting actress Academy Award for her role as a high-powered divorce attorney in “Marriage Story.”
LOS ANGELES — The Latest on the 92nd Academy Awards, which are being bestowed Sunday at the Dolby Theatre :Commercial breaks at the Oscars offer the nominees, presenters and other stars a chance to do some quick power-mingling, stretch their legs and check their texts before the show returns to air.
It is Dern’s first Oscar win and caps an awards season where the actress has also collected honors from the Screen Actors Guild and Golden Globes. To the contrary, LaBeouf and Gottsagen are close friends from their time filming in the Georgia countryside. Thow then spent evenings watching wrestling between 12-hour shoots. LaBeouf has even credited Gottsagen for helping him get sober.
Waititi directed and starred in “Jojo Rabbit,” playing Adolf Hitler, who is the imaginary friend of the title character. The film is also competing for best picture.“Parasite” is the winner of the best original screenplay Academy Award, delivering Bong Joon Ho his first Oscar. The four-time nominee won the best supporting actor Academy Award for his role as a stuntman in “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood.”
Monae started off the show donning a red sweater like Mister Rogers wore in a nod to “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood.” She walked into the audience and serenaded the film’s star, Tom Hanks, and other nominees.She shifted into an upbeat number with several dancers wearing attire honoring other nominees. Monae shed the sweater as she sang and danced.
Gerwig, nominated for best adapted screenplay, was accompanied by her fiancé Noah Baumbach, who was nominated for his original screenplay for “Marriage Story.”The two posed together and separately and Baumbach looked on lovingly as Gerwig stopped to say hi to Billy Porter. Rodrigo Prieto, a Mexican cinematographer nominated for “The Irishman,” said his awareness of biases in Hollywood has heightened with time.
“Anytime I saw him or his family there’s always been love,” Questlove said. “It’s very devastating. We’re all grieving right now.”“Hair Love” director Matthew A. Cherry has brought a special guest to the Oscars red carpet — Deandre Arnold, a Texas high school student who was told he couldn’t attend graduation unless he cut his dreadlocks.
“Regardless of the outcome, I think the door has been opened,” the director from South Korea said. “I think as long as we continue this effort, the door will just open wider and wider.” “After the ceremony, there will be a party, and after the party I will get to go home,” he said. “So thinking about those two things, doesn’t make me nervous at all.”“Frozen 2’s” Kristen Anderson-Lopez has a secret hiding under her emerald gown: Sneakers.
“I was so thrilled to see a story like this and see it get shared,” Beetz said Sunday before the Oscars. “To be a part of it has been wonderful.”
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