They name it Oscar Sunday as a result of that’s what it’s—a whole day devoted to the 2024 Academy Awards. At round 1 p.m. in Los Angeles, the luminous award showgoers and nominees began their walks down the pink carpet, which was swagged with branches of vibrant California Bougenvellia (by Academy Awards artistic consultants Lisa Love and Raul Àvila), after which they discovered their seats inside Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre for an evening emceed by Jimmy Kimmel.

After his opening, which was peppered with knee-slappers like “Look youngsters, it’s Barbie and Ken! [to Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling]…I need you to know that even when neither one in every of you wins an Oscar tonight, you each already received one thing far more vital, the genetic lottery,” and, to Steven Spielberg: “Are you nominated tonight, or are you right here as a result of you have got season tickets?”

However alongside his many jokes got here a second to acknowledge what his business had undergone final yr—two historic, months-long guild strikes. “The explanation we have been capable of make a deal is due to the individuals who rallied beside us, so earlier than we have a good time ourselves, let’s have a really well-deserved spherical of applause for the individuals who work behind the scenes,” Kimmel stated. He referred to as to the stage a bunch of people that assist to run the present. “I’m gonna be sure this present is basically lengthy tonight, so that you get a ton of extra time,” he added.

However throughout the broadcast, ABC’s cameras can solely pan to so many faces. Fortunately for us, there are additionally photographers aplenty capturing the goings-on inside the celeb-packed viewers. From Robert De Niro greeting fellow nominee Jodi Foster earlier than the ceremony (47 years after they co-starred in Taxi Driver) to America Ferrera and Da’Vine Pleasure Randolph (each nominated for greatest supporting actress) taking selfies, listed here are our favourite moments.