The 98th Academy Awards will kick off tonight at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles at 7pm EST/4pm PST, as the world’s biggest movie stars descend on Hollywood to grace the red carpet.
Sinners is tipped to sweep the night with a record-breaking 16 nominations, closely followed by One Battle After Another, which sees Leonardo DiCaprio up for Best Actor.
While officials stressed they have no direct intelligence of a specific threat, precautions are being taken. The LAPD confirmed that around 1,000 private security officers will be on duty for the show.
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Oscars stars (literally) heat up on the red carpet
Heated Rivalry star Hudson Williams brough an electric fan with him on the carpet as stars face soaring temperatures in Los Angeles today.
At 80 degrees, publicists are forced to use their folders as makeshift fans as celebrities take photographs under blaring hot lights.
‘It’s so hot!’ Arden Cho was overheard saying as she strutted the carpet. ‘It’s just you,’ a photographer yelled back.
Awful Timothee Chalamet’s ego is bigger than Kylie’s inflated butt… but it’s so clear what’s really going on here. I pray he loses at the Oscars: CAROLINE BULLOCK
If desperate-to-win Timothee Chalamet misses out on the best actor Oscar tonight for Marty Supreme he can only blame it on his other recent performances – appearing as himself on every red carpet and envelope opening in Tinseltown, writes Caroline Bullock.
Overexposed on the campaign trail with his unfathomable, pneumatic girlfriend Kylie Jenner, he’s been hawking the 1950s ping-pong flick harder than a Meghan Markle jam launch.
The result? The once edgy thespian appears a cynical sell out – his golden boy brand tarnished by tacky stunts and sly disses that suggest an ego bigger than Kylie’s long-rumored butt job.
Sweaty stars forced to bring fans onto the red carpet
Celebs fanned themselves as the walked the red carpet outside of Dolby Theater before the Oscars as temperatures soared to 80 degrees Fahrenheit.
A heat wave kicked off in Los Angeles today and will continue through Friday, according to the National Weather Service.
Woman who had years-long romance with Timothee Chalamet says he blindsided her with Kylie Jenner relationship: ‘I was in love with him’
When the news broke that Timothée Chalamet, a floppy-haired acting prodigy, was dating the world famous reality star Kylie Jenner, fans were predictably overcome.
Desperate to explain away what they believed at the time would be a fling at best, they frantically convinced themselves that the only way two vastly different worlds could possibly collide would be if the Kardashian-Jenner clan, namely matriarch Kris Jenner, had charmed their beloved Chalamet into a relationship.
Among those desperate for answers was Sarah Tena, a 32-year-old former adult entertainer who now says she was ‘blindsided’ by the new pairing.
Best Actress nominee Renate Reinsve looks glam in red dress
Marsai Martin cuts a svelte figure in a brown gown
McKenna Grace looks vibrant in pink gown
PwC representatives take the Oscars red carpet years after best picture blunder
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) representatives holding briefcases containing tonight’s award winners walk the red carpet.
In 2017, a PwC accountant gave the presenters the wrong envelope for the best picture category.
Presenters Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway announced the winner for best actress, Emma Stone for La La Land, instead.
Oscars gift bags for nominees are worth $350,000
This year’s stars will walk away with an Academy Award gift bag worth $350,000, Reuters reports.
The contents of the bag includes luxury vacations to pricey beauty treatments including body-sculpting liposuction and complimentary dental work from Beverly Hills Dental Arts.
Best actress nominee Rose Byrne dazzles on the red carpet
Felicity Jones shines in stunning yellow gown
Barbie Ferreira stuns in royal blue on the Oscars carpet