Biggest bombshells that stunned this year’s Oscars
From Australia’s sole nominee missing out on an award, to the first foreign language film winning best picture, these are the moments that defined this year’s Oscars.
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Homegrown superstar Margot Robbie may not have taken home an Oscar last night, but she won the final red carpet of her jam-packed awards season with some chilled out Aussie magic.
The 29-year-old producer and actor, whose meteoric rise has seen her become one of Hollywood’s most powerful players in five short years, missed out to veteran actress and longtime favourite Laura Dern for best supporting actor.
Clearly relaxed about her outside chances on the way into the ceremony, Robbie joked around with rising star Timothée Chalamet after he photo-bombed her on the red carpet.
Stunning in a vintage Chanel navy gown with cuff sleeves and a jewel pendent, she was the sole Australian nominee.
While the four favourites took out the top acting gongs, the 92nd Oscars still packed some shocks.
Dark comic thriller Parasite pulled off a surprise coup to become the first foreign language film to win best picture.
The South Korean drama toppled some of Hollywood’s biggest names, including legendary directors Martin Scorsese and Quentin Tarantino, to win four of the Academy’s biggest gongs, including best director and best screenplay.
“It’s really f—-ing crazy!,” said filmmaker Bong Joon Ho at a backstage press conference.
“When I was at school, I studied Martin Scorsese’s films,” he said earlier through a translator.
“Just to be nominated was a huge honour. I never thought I would win.
Bong finished by saying in English: “Thank you. I will drink until next morning. Thank you.”
One of the evening’s more startling moments came with a performance by vintage rapper Eminem, who reprised his Oscar winning Lose Yourself, from 2002’s Eight Mile as a tribute to film music.
Best actress Renée Zellweger won her second Oscar, for her nuanced portrayal of Judy Garland in the last years of the fabled performer’s troubled life.
She described making the biopic Judy as one of the most “meaningful experiences of my life”.
“Ms Garland, you were certainly among the heroes who unite and define us, and this is for you,” she said.
Brad Pitt won his first Academy Award for acting, and continued a clean sweep of awards season for his role as a charmingly faded stuntman in Quentin Tarantino’s comeback film Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood.
Pitt described the award as the ‘honour of honours’, paid tribute to Tarantino and thanked his co-star Leonardo DiCaprio.
“Leo I will ride on your coat-tails any day man, the view is fantastic,” Pitt said.
“This is for my kids who colour everything I do, I adore you.”
Laura Dern’s Oscar was the first to be won by her acting dynasty family, with both parents Dianne Ladd and Bruce Dern, whom she had thanked onstage in her acceptance speech, having previously been nominated.
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She said she was honoured to be “finally holding the statute”, particularly given she had brought along her mother and daughter to the ceremony.
“My mother was very moved, and that just makes me so happy to stand up and sing their praises,” she said.
“They literally got me here and artistically got me here as well so it means a lot.”
The “host less” ceremony opened with a lively number from singer/songwriter and actress Janelle Monae which drew a standing ovation from the star studded audience.
Comedians Steve Martin and Chris Rock, who have both previously been Oscars hosts, were the first on stage and joked about their “incredible demotion”, which they blamed on Twitter.
Originally published as Biggest bombshells that stunned this year’s Oscars