Welcome to Oscars night!
AFP is bringing you all the latest developments from the star-studded 98th Academy Awards in Hollywood.
First up is the red carpet, where cinema’s A-listers will don their most fabulous fashion ahead of entertainment’s most glam evening of the year.
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has earned acclaim for her role as Leonardo DiCaprio’s daughter in the top nominated film
-- though she did not receive an individual nomination.
But she was out on the carpet as part of the film’s entourage in a stunning Louis Vuitton gown with a fitted bodice and cancan-esque train.
She said working on the film that starred nominees DiCaprio, Teyana Taylor and Sean Penn “was the ultimate masterclass.”
“I think it was the most perfect experience I could’ve ever asked for,” she said, adding she feels “so privileged for my entire experience on this film and this run.”
“It feels really crazy that it’s coming to an end today.”
Jessie Buckley , the favorite to win best actress for her role in “Hamnet,” said the evening was “overwhelming.”
“You just never ever think when you’re growing up that it’s going to be a real thing,” the Irish actress said on the carpet, wearing a custom Chanel ruby and pink gown that exuded Grace Kelly. “Hollywood was so exotic.”
The film centers on William Shakespeare’s wife and her experience of motherhood’s expansive love and profound pain -- a role Buckley said met her as she was getting ready to become a mother.
“She taught me the capacity of love a mother can have,” Buckley, whose child was born last year, said of her character. “I was changed after I got to live beside her and inside her.
Best actress nominee
-- the star of the film “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You” -- said her role in the film that also centers on the trials of motherhood “was truly such a gift.”
“It was an examination of parenthood, of motherhood, so you reflect on your own limitations,” said the Australian Byrne, who walked the carpet in a minimalist low bun, a popular hairstyle on Sunday.
-- who stars in Norwegian family dramedy
for which she is up for best actress -- said on the carpet she’s “so overwhelmed.”
“But it’s so nice to be here with the whole crew celebrating. This whole year has been so insane,” said the actress, who wore a minimalist cherry red column gown -- also Vuitton.
Though Buckley is tipped in that category, Reinsve said, “I feel I’ve won by being nominated.”
“It’s your peers voting,” she said. “That is very moving to me.”
Hollywood’s perennial nominee but never a winner, said on the red carpet that “I never give up hope” -- maybe the 17th time is the charm.
The American songwriter’s first nomination came in 1988, and she’s gotten nods each of the last nine years, but she’s never taken home a statuette.
While Warren is a fixture, she said she still feels like “the underdog.”
But “I’m relentless,” she promised.
Likewise
, the singer who is among the ensemble scheduled to perform the best original song nominee
from “Sinners,” said “it’s just a dream come true.”
“I think the magic of the movie is captured on that stage tonight.”
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