The 96th Academy Awards Ceremony was one of the most fun and interesting Oscars we have had in a while. With its stunning outfits on the red carpet, shocking upsets to the motivational speeches were going to give this Oscars a quick run down!

This year’s Oscars was hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and it’s his 4th time hosting the prestigious award show which is getting kind of boring for a while. But even before the ceremony had started there was some controversy around Barbie. Which was one of the biggest films this year making a total of 1.446 billion dollars at the box office. Sadly the film did not get a lot of nominations compared to other films like Killers of the Flower Moon which got 10 nominations. But even though the movie did not take home a lot of awards like people thought it still was a very big topic since the hit songs “What was I Made For” and “I’m Just Ken” were performed with surprise guest Slash coming in towards the end of the performance to blow away the audience.

Later on, some controversy occurred when Emma Stone won the Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. This was a shocking upset for many people since the crowd-favorite nominee was Lily Gladstone with her breathtaking performance as Mollie Burkhart in Killers of the Flower Moon. Even Emma Stone was shocked when her name was announced as the winner of the award. Even though Lily did not win the award she was still happy to see her friend win the prestigious award. But someone that everyone is happy to see win his first Academy Award of his long and inspiring career. Robert Downey Jr. has gotten 2 other notions in the past years but just now took the award home. And he deserved it since he completely changed his whole life and worked hard. His story is truly inspirational and if you have not looked into it I recommend that you do. The project that Robert Downey Jr. worked on to get nominated was the phenomenal film Oppenheimer directed by Christopher Nolan. This movie to me was the movie of the year and was just an event and a beautiful movie to watch. Oppenheimer won a total of 7 Academy Awards and it was the project with the most wins this year. Later on in the show was a shocking yet funny presentation of the Oscar for Best Costume Design. It was presented by John Cena With nothing on but the winner’s envelope. But he soon changed onstage with a robe on. But overall this year’s Oscars was a great one and I hope the future ones can follow the structure of this year since it was nearly perfect. But all we can do now is wait for fun and good movies to release and we decide who we want to win!