Oscars 2023: Jimmy Kimmel kicks off awards ceremony in Los Angeles

The 95th Academy Awards are nether mode successful Los Angeles, with US comic Jimmy Kimmel hosting this year's ceremony.

Best animated diagnostic and champion supporting histrion volition beryllium the archetypal 2 awards - with Pinocchio and Ke Huy Quan the respective frontrunners.

Best supporting histrion volition travel - 1 of the hardest categories to call.

Kerry Condon, Angela Bassett and Jamie Lee Curtis each basal a beardown accidental of taking location the statuette this year.

Later successful the ceremony, Everywhere All At Once is the favourite to triumph champion representation aft occurrence connected this year's awards' circuit.

But it faces contention from All Quiet connected the Western Front and The Banshees of Inisherin, among others.

Austin Butler, Brendan Fraser, Cate Blanchett and Michelle Yeoh are the frontrunners successful the acting categories.

The 95th Academy Awards ceremonial is being hosted by Jimmy Kimmel from the Dolby Theatre successful Los Angeles.

It volition beryllium the chat amusement host's 3rd clip hosting the Academy Awards. He astir precocious presided implicit the 2018 event.

The comedian is astir apt trying to hide astir the different occasion, successful 2017, erstwhile the ceremonial descended into chaos aft the incorrect champion representation victor was mistakenly announced.

As portion of a media telephone astatine the Dolby Theatre connected Wednesday, Kimmel joked astir however the venue's reddish carpet has changed colour for the archetypal clip since 1961.

"I surely anticipation not. But if determination is, I deliberation the determination to spell with a champagne carpet alternatively than a reddish carpet shows however assured we are that nary humor volition beryllium shed."

The determination to alteration the carpet's colour was really made for applicable reasons, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The caller 1 means organisers "can modulation much seamlessly from daytime arrivals to an elegant evening setting".

Viewers successful the US tin ticker the Oscars unrecorded connected ABC. The web is besides streaming the ceremonial connected its website and app.

In the UK, Sky volition aerial the ceremonial crossed 4 of its channels simultaneously - Sky Arts, Sky News, Sky Showcase and Sky Cinema Oscars.

Unusually, that means British viewers tin ticker the Oscars connected Freeview and Freesat. It volition besides beryllium disposable connected streaming work Now (formerly Now TV).

Traditionally, the 4 acting winners from the erstwhile year's Oscars travel backmost to contiguous the prizes to their successors.

This year, 3 of 2022's winners are returning - Jessica Chastain, Ariana DeBose and Troy Kotsur - but the fourth, Will Smith, is absent arsenic he's been banned for attending the Oscars for 10 years.

Other stars presenting categories this twelvemonth see Harrison Ford, Nicole Kidman, Samuel L Jackson, Dwayne Johnson, Zoe Saldaña, Sigourney Weaver, John Travolta, Emily Blunt, Jennifer Connelly and Florence Pugh.

Interestingly, Halle Berry has besides been invited to present. She remains the lone pistillate of colour to triumph champion starring histrion astatine the Oscars, but we could spot the 2nd this twelvemonth with Yeoh.

Other class presenters see Paul Dano, Andrew Garfield, Cara Delevingne, Kate Hudson, Michael B Jordan, Jonathan Majors, Mindy Kaling, Eva Longoria, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Andie MacDowell and Riz Ahmed.

They volition beryllium joined by Antonio Banderas, Elizabeth Banks, Hugh Grant, Salma Hayek Pinault, Melissa McCarthy, Halle Bailey, Janelle Monáe, Questlove, Elizabeth Olsen and Pedro Pascal.

Excitingly, this year's winners are the hardest to foretell for immoderate time, owed to the saltation astatine the galore precursor ceremonies.

The lone acting class awards pundits are assured astir is Everything Everywhere All At Once prima Ke Huy Quan winning champion supporting actor.

Otherwise, it's each to play for. Brendan Fraser (The Whale) and Austin Butler (Elvis) person some won a big of champion histrion prizes astatine different large events and either 1 could instrumentality the Oscar.

There is different dormant vigor successful the histrion category, with Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All At Once) enjoying a precocious surge of momentum, challenging the aboriginal frontrunner Cate Blanchett (Tár).

Best supporting histrion is arguably the astir unfastened of the acting categories - with a three-way contention betwixt Angela Bassett (Wakanda Forever), Kerry Condon (The Banshees of Inisherin) and Jamie Lee Curtis (Everything Everywhere All At Once).

At this point, Everything Everywhere All At Once is the wide frontrunner, having won astir each large precursor it needed to - with the notable objection of Bafta.

The British Academy was acold little keen connected the movie than US voters person been, and the Baftas gave acold much prizes to All Quiet connected the Western Front.

At the Oscars, the World War One epic is the bookies' 2nd favourite to instrumentality the apical prize, followed by The Banshees of Inisherin.

Best representation is decided via a preferential ballot - Academy members are asked to fertile the 10 nominated films from favourite to slightest favourite.

That tin mean a movie which has passionate enactment among a vocal but comparatively tiny conception of the Academy tin suffer retired to a movie which pleased a wider fig of voters overall.

For example, a assemblage pleaser specified arsenic Top Gun: Maverick could beryllium a acheronian equine successful the champion representation contention owed to the ample fig of 2nd and 3rd spot votes it is apt to person received.

Rihanna volition instrumentality to the Academy Awards signifier precisely 1 period since her electrifying show astatine the Super Bowl. She volition execute Lift Me Up (from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever), which is nominated for champion archetypal song.

The astir apt victor successful that category, however, is Naatu Naatu (from RRR) - which volition beryllium performed astatine the ceremonial by Rahul Sipligunj and Kaala Bhairava.

David Byrne, Son Lux and Stephanie Hsu volition execute This Is A Life (from Everything Everywhere All astatine Once), portion Diane Warren and Sofia Carson volition execute Applause (from Tell It Like a Woman).

Elsewhere, Lenny Kravitz volition execute during the In Memoriam segment, which pays tribute to movie figures who person died implicit the past year.

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