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TONIGHT MARKS THE 95th Annual Academy Awards, and interest on this side of the Atlantic has never been higher.
The ceremony proper begins at 8pm EST, which is 12am Ireland time (Monday 13 March). Of course, there will be plenty of red carpet coverage in the run-up to the main event, and our own reporter Aoife Barry will be in attendance to bring us live updates from the Dolby Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center in Hollywood.
As for how to watch the ceremony live, you’ll either need to have the necessary package from Sky Showcase, Sky Arts, Sky News or Sky Cinema Oscars.
This year’s ceremony will be hosted by late night chat show host Jimmy Kimmel, who’s taking up the prestigious mantle for the third time. There have also been reports that security around the stage has been beefed up, following last year’s dramatic incident in which Will Smith stormed the stage to slap comedian Chris Rock.
While no official running order has been published at the time of writing, we can make some assumptions as to the timings of each category based on last year’s running order and Oscar traditions.
Best Supporting Actress
Kerry Condon (Banshees) is a dark horse for this year’s Best Supporting Actress category, which is stacked with major players. Both Stephanie Hsu and Jamie Lee Curtis are in the running for their performances in Everything Everywhere All At Once.
As we all know by now, Angela Bassett “did the thing” with her role in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, and Hong Chau has risen to prominence this year with stellar performances in The Menu and The Whale, the latter winning her the nomination.
This category kicked off the ceremony in 2022, so it’s possible that we could have news on this one shortly after 1am on Monday.
Best Supporting Actor
In a rare turn up for the books, Brendan Gleeson and Barry Keoghan are nominated for their supporting roles in the same movie (Banshees). Also in the category is Ke Huay Quan, whose Hollywood comeback has made him one of the most popular figures on the awards circuit this season. Bryan Tyree Henry is up for his role in a Causeway, a drama where he plays a soldier who suffers a brain injury, as is Judd Hirsch for The Fabelmans.
However, Keoghan did scoop this award at the BAFTAs, so it could be a good chance for an Irish actor bring home some silverware.
Best Live Action Short Film
An Irish Goodbye has already taken a BAFTA. Ross White and Tom Berkeley’s film about two estranged brothers thrown together again after their mother’s untimely death has been raved about by critics and is definitely in with a shout.
International Film
Colm Bairéad’s An Cailín Ciúin is Ireland’s first ever nominee in the International Film category, a stunning achievement in and of itself. German film All Quiet on the Western Front is expected to make major waves, having won Best Picture at the BAFTAs, and being nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars.
Other films up for the accolade are Argentina, 1985 (Argentina), EO (Poland) and Close (Belgium).
Best Actor
Both Colin Farrell (Banshees) and Paul Mescal (Aftersun) are up against each other in the Best Actor category, though neither are favourite among oddsmakers. They face stiff competition from Brendan Fraser, who impressed with his role in The Whale, and Austin Butler, who has continued to commit to his Elvis role for nearly a year since the film came out. The category is rounded off by veteran British actor Bill Nighy for his role in Living.
Best Actor typically tends to come towards the very end of the ceremony, so it’ll likely be well after 3am our time by the time we hear who has won.
Best Picture
The night is likely to finish with the awarding of Best Picture, and sees Martin McDonagh’s Banshees of Inisherin go up against nine other films.
Throughout the night, watch out for possible wins for Banshees in other technical categories, including Best Original Score, Best Original Screenplay and Best Film Editing.
McDonagh has also sealed his first nomination for Best Director, and faces competition from Steven Spielberg (The Fabelmans), Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (Everything Everywhere All At Once), Todd Field (Tár) and Robin Ostlund (Triangle of Sadness). You can also expect that category to be in the final four of the evening.
The Journal will be liveblogging through Sunday night and Monday morning, and you can also follow Aoife Barry on Twitter for on-the-ground updates.
It’s a demanding job? Oh yeah a month off for Christmas and unmandatory attendance, sounds real real tough.
All the more reason to keep the cameras rolling
A missed opportunity ?? Literally wtf. .. A year to work on how to handle that incident and that’s what comes out….. and then to try follow it up with a put down based on gender quotas …..
Have a live CCTV link for the Dail Bar.
Just picture , no sound….
And let everyone see how long our TDs spend in it…
Oooo I’ve a demanding job too, does that mean it’s ok for me to get pissed and grope women too.
I have listened to that a couple of times & I have to say I do not really know what her point is but using an incident that happened between her and her party member — and seemed to go unpunished — as a means to attack Shane Ross: Enda would be proud.
What a cop out. She’s excusing and burying the fact that what happened to her was totally obnoxious, demeaning in the extreme to all women not just her and typical of the historically arrogant male dominated rump of Fine Gael. Fine Gael will never change as long as the women within it allow themselves to be dictated to by men and the mc nulty affair, this and cabinet reshuffle proved this fact!!
Wouldn’t let this creature on my knee ! No way!
What a charming comment. Do tell us more. Is it somehow ok then that she was pulled onto a man’s lap against her will? Was he doing her a favour? Have you anything to say on the sexual attractiveness of the lech who groped her?
In a case like this what’s sauce for the goose isn’t sauce for the gander. Her physical appearance is entirely irrelevant to her job and to this incident. How about commenting on the male TD involved or some of the issues raised by this incident, like an intelligent human being.
Jane you clearly remember this different to me. A drunken TD pulls another drunken TD on to his lap. I didn’t see her squirm or fight off the attention of the man which suggests to me that it was a bit of drunken craic. Nothing else. So tone down the deafening Feminism Jane it’s not like he groped her against her wishes.
It just was done in the wrong place where legislation was being discussed.
Spidey, did you actually read the comment I was replying to? Do you think that commenting negatively on the woman’s appearance in this incident, ignoring the man’s, was ok?
And yes, I did watch the video and I saw a woman with body language that showed that she was extremely uncomfortable.
I’m not denying she’s a muppet, by the way, but i’ll judge her on her words and actions rather than her appearance, exactly as i would Barry or any male TD.
Sorry men are all perverts and all women are angels is that your message?
That is what I am taking from what you are saying. No offence but it sounds a tad sexist. Feminism is a great thing don’t get me wrong but when it is used to beat men with then it is every bit as wrong as male chavanism.
How could you take that from what I said? I asked you to judge all people, men and women, by their actions and not by their appearance. How is unfair or partisan, by contrast with your comments on her appearance?
Nearly sure I saw this old trout on one of Vincent Browne’s public meetings last year.
She sat there in all her Brown Thomas clobber like Marie-Antoinette, looking at the audience like they were shite on her shoe.
A strange case of ‘excusitius’……from the victim. Anything to keep the money coming in to their accounts.
Lads would you ever go back to providing transcripts of the videos in articles? Watching these fools spout on drives me scats. Slightly less offensive reading what they have to say
Shane Ross Mick. Wallace. Maurice Fitzpatrick. Did not ask her to sit on their knee
I look forward to not voting for this idiot.
Aine who?
Ah yes she is the woman in the dail that sits on people’s laps….she looks like something out of an auld Irish marriage in the 1960′S….
Once again, what does her appearance have to do with her job? What about the male TD’s appearance?
Spidey …. I too find your comments as wrong as the incident itself
If she appears as though she is willing to have her arse pulled down onto some drunken clowns lap in the national parliament and laugh rather than complain about it, it would appear that she is not fit to do the job for which she was elected, Jane.
“If she appears as though she is willing to have her arse pulled down onto some drunken clowns lap in the national parliament and laugh rather than complain about it, it would appear that she is not fit to do the job for which she was elected”
Paul
Once again, what does the fact that she was groped at work have to do with her ability to do the job for which she was elected?
Have you any comment of the ability of the grouper to do the job for which HE was elected? I have far more misgivings about his competence than about hers.
Groper! Not grouper. Autocorrect seems to have gone bananas on the Journal app since the last update.
Jane right when I sat down and thought of it I see your point. Her appearance has nothing to do with it and I take it back.
However she is not a victim in this. She had a choice in this and went along with it. So it’s not really the man that is fully at fault. It is split down the middle with her and him.
Seriously … willing?
Or can men and women not partake in public displays of affection these days without a man being labelled a pervert?
Abeit this is in the worng place and shouldn’t happen in the Dail chamber.
Spidey stop typing your making a complete creep out of yourself …..
Me. Jesus mate. Are you serious?
Where did that come from???
Do you understand that a man and a woman can actually flirt with each other every now and again and keep it all friendly?
My point was it was wrong place wrong time. I do not see what is pervy about that but you should think about how sick of a mind you have Jon.
Spidey, kudos for rethinking your position. That takes guts.
However, as a woman I’ve been groped in public, at work, on the street, places you wouldnt believe.* I have never reacted as i would have liked to; with the snappy comeback or perfect put-down that pops into mind about an hour later. I’d say it’s the same for most women. An assault like that comes so out of the blue, it takes us by surprise and we often freeze and don’t know how to handle it.
It doesn’t help that we’ve been told all our lives that it’s “only a bit of fun” and that we should “be flattered” or “learn to take a joke”. I’m in my forties and only learning to fight back now, at an age when such unpleasant attentions are thankfully getting rarer. I’m not going to judge any woman for how she did or didn’t react to being groped; I’ll save my judgement for the creep who groped her.
*cue predictable and negative comments on my own appearance by cretins who think i have no right to speak out as I do.
Yeah … your correct and I must apologise. .. After reading all of your comments on this subject including your peachy line ”all men are perverts and all wemon are angels” it’s clear I’m the one who is mislead…. to help me further would you define flirting for me ?
You didn’t laugh about it. She did.
Nervous laughter ? What could she do in fairness with all her peers watching ?
I tell ya what enough of this bs spidey and Paul Roche would you do what he did ?
She did not complain. To anyone at the time.
I mean, it’s nice you’re being such an understanding gentleman about it, Jonathan, but she’s not worth it. 18 months is a long time to realise you should have done something sooner.
That’s a beautiful defence there Paul … sure she didn’t complain !! You failed to answer if you would have done the same?
Paul
Read my answer above about complaining.
Jon get a life. The only perve here is you picking at people’s words. Thanks.
Jane I agree with you on occasions when a women or a man because let’s face it the world is equal gets groped out of the blue and its totally vile. No person should ever have to go to work and put up with that. With that you make an excellent point.
However in the case where both parties are drunk and know each other quite well and can be seen as harmless craic then that is all it is. The Dáil was the wrong place for this and if there were any bad feelings or misplaced affection then 1. Drink is not something that should have been consumed and 2. Work is no place for schenagians.
And no I don’t drink. Maybe a pint or two a year so I don’t engage with this carry on especially not at work. Do you Jon?
Indeed how preverted of me to judge a man by his words ….
She should be flattered.
Not sure what she has achieved since becoming a TD other than have a drunk colleague unwittingly entice her onto his lap.
Has she anythink to say perhaps about hospital waiting lists or the fact tha Fine Gael think its ok to pay childrens allowance to CEO’s and millionaires…..
Why did she have to bring Mick. Shane. Maurice into this she should have defended herself
While she has a very low national profile I think she comes across as quite genuine overall. There’s a sort of steady determination about her.
How can any workplace have a bar to it even in this day of health and safety, you think that the Health and Safety Authority would step in and close it or has no one reported the Dail Bar to them yet?
I see their email address is wcu@hsa.ie
Head Office:
The Metropolitan Building
James Joyce Street
Dublin 1 – See more at: http://www.hsa.ie/eng/Contact_Us/#sthash.aiCzK5zs.dpuf
Being a TD in Dáil Éireann is a real “hands on” job.
a missed opportunity, sorry I still don’t understand her point? a missed opportunity to to deflect to the opposition.
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