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Stuart Heritage
He’s even making jokes about the best documentary short category, and getting a roaring ovation for it. Amazon didn’t get any nominations, to which he screams “WHY CAN’T THE WEBSITE I BUY TOILET PAPER FROM WIN AWARDS?” The joke got vanishing few laughs, but I liked it.
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Arguably the best joke of the night, about Ryan Coogler refusing to become a voting member of the Academy because he doesn’t like judging his colleagues. “But the rest of you pricks don’t seem to mind it.”
Updated at 19.15 EDT
Stuart Heritage
O’Brien is doing a great job so far. The monologue is a lot more pointed than last year’s – he basically just yelled at Ted Sarandos for killing the theatrical experience, and wrote off last year’s Oscar winners as being minor – and he seems a lot more relaxed, too. Am I … enjoying the Oscars? This is unprecedented.
Updated at 19.11 EDT
Stuart Heritage
The children chase him on to the stage, and the ceremony begins proper. He is, he says, the last human host of the Oscars. And his first big joke is about opera and ballet, so well done me.
Updated at 19.08 EDT
Stuart Heritage
We begin with a short film of Conan dressed up as the woman from Weapons, or “Betty Davies with lupus” as he puts it.
He’s being chased by lots of children, through all the main films of the year. He runs around an F1 track. He plays a bit of ping pong. He travels back to Elizabethan England and then jumps out of a car. He turns up, animated, in KPop Demon Hunters and speaks Norwegian to Stellan Skarsgard. And Sinners.
This is spectacular. I kind of want to just watch this for four hours.
Updated at 19.07 EDT
Morwenna Ferrier
That’s a wrap from the fashion desk. A lot of brown. A lot of feathers. A lot of Chanel.
Over to the ceremony!
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And here we are. The red carpet is done and the awards are here. Strap in, everyone.
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Lauren Cochrane
Michael B Jordan is chic personified in a black suit with Nehru collar, and waist chain. Understated, but with something a bit interesting, who needs more?
Michael B Jordan. Photograph: Mike Coppola/Getty ImagesShare
Updated at 19.02 EDT
Morwenna FerrierPaul Mescal. Photograph: Mike Coppola/Getty Images
Paul Mescal has arrived at the eleventh hour in a black cardigan by Celine and it looks like he’s borrowed Ethan Hawke’s bolo tie. Gentle reminder: the cardigan is cashmere and it’s 27C
Updated at 19.01 EDT
Lauren Cochrane
It’s all white on the night for Timothée Chalamet. The suit – made by Sarah Burton at Givenchy – feels a little sci-fi, and not at all the world of Marty Supreme, which is set in the 40s, and has had a signature colour of orange. If the actor infamously leaned into that, with him and his partner Kylie Jenner wearing the colour for the film’s premiere, he’s gone for a blank canvas here. Add the shades and shoes that look like they could easily stand up to 10k steps a day and he could be a futuristic overlord. Maybe that’s his next role?
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Updated at 19.00 EDT