Oscars 2024: A night of 'Oppenheimer,' quiet protest, and Ryan Gosling just being Ken
The 2024 Oscars weren't long on surprises. Oppenheimer won best picture, a tight race between Lily Gladstone and Emma Stone for best actress went to Stone in the end, and the Billie Eilish Barbie song beat out the Ryan Gosling Barbie song.
Most of the takeaways from the evening are modest rather than revolutionary, suitably reassuring for a year when Hollywood saw some high-earning movies that were reviewed well, too.
Oppenheimer rolled, but not quite as much as it might have.
It's hard to look at a night when won a bunch of , including best picture, and realize how much room was left for otherbeat it in three straight categories: production design, costumes and makeup/hairstyling. It also lost the award for best adapted screenplay to Cord Jefferson's script for . So while it certainly had a huge night, there was room to share the wealth.
