Oscars 2024...

Good morning: In today's edition of The Industry, we look at:

Oppenheimer’s reign, Emma Stone's joy, Cord Jefferson's indie math, Xena Warrior Princess sells at SXSW, and honey.

Let’s go!

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OSCAR WINNERS

Robert Downey Jr. wins the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for Oppenheimer. REUTERS/Mike Blake

Best Picture

• ​​​Oppenheimer​​ (prod: Emma Thomas, Charles Roven, Christopher Nolan)

  • Anatomy of the Trinity test ​scene​

Best Actor

• ​​​Cillian Murphy​​, Oppenheimer

  • “Near Zero” ​clip​

Best Actress

• ​Emma Stone - Poor Things

  • ​Trailer​

Best Supporting Actor

• Robert Downey Jr., Oppenheimer

  • Lewis Strauss ​clip​

Best Supporting Actress

• ​​Da'vine Joy Randolph​​, The Holdovers

  • “Stuck babysitting” ​Clip​

Best Director

• Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer

Best Original Screenplay

• ​​Justine Triet​ and ​Arthur Harari​ - Anatomy of a Fall

  • Read the screenplay ​here​ (half English/French)

Best Adapted Screenplay

• ​​Cord Jefferson​ - American Fiction

  • Read the screenplay ​here​.

Best International Feature

• ​​The Zone of Interest​ (United Kingdom)

  • ​Trailer​​

Best Animated Feature

• ​​The Boy and the Heron​​

  • ​Trailer​

Best Documentary Feature

• ​​20 Days in Mariupol​ (Ukraine)​

  • ​Trailer​

Best Cinematography

• Oppenheimer (​Hoyte van Hoytema​)

Best Production Design

• Poor Things (​James Price​ and ​Shona Heath​ Set Decoration: ​Zsuzsa Mihalek​)

Oppenheimer captured the most wins with 7 Academy Awards. Poor Things won 4.

Biggest upsets of the night:

• Emma Stone’s win for Best Actress (beating out Lily Gladstone)

• American Fiction’s win for Best Adapted Screenplay (beating out Oppenheimer and Poor Things)

Wes Anderson won his first Oscar: Best Live Action Short Film for ​The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar​. This was also Netflix’s only win of the night out of 19 nominations.

Check out the full list of winners ​here​.

Notable Quotes:

Justine Triet (Best Original Screenplay):

​”It will help me through my mid-life crisis.”

Da'vine Joy Randolph (Best Supporting Actress, The Holdovers):

“I didn’t think I was supposed to be doing this as a career…for so long, I've always wanted to be different. And now I realize I just need to be myself. And I thank you, I thank people for seeing me. Ron Van Lieu [Yale School of Drama], I'll thank you when I was the only black girl in that class. When you saw me and you told me ‘I was enough’ and when I told you ‘I don't see myself’, you said ‘that's fine’. We're going to forge our own path. You're going to lay a trail for yourself. I'm so grateful to all the women who have been by my side…”

Cord Jefferson:

“I understand that this is a risk-averse industry, I get it, but if $200 million movies are also a risk, you know and and it doesn't always work out, but you take the risk anyway. And instead of making one $200 million movie, try making 20 $10 million movies or 50 $4 million movies… I promise you the next Martin Scorsese, the next Greta's out here…”

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