The snack bowls are full, the finest seat on the couch is reserved, and Hollywood's finest have got their glad rags on, which can only mean one thin
The snack bowls are full, the finest seat on the couch is reserved, and Hollywood’s finest have got their glad rags on, which can only mean one thing — It’s Oscars night! And with the 2025 Academy Awards due to get underway in just a couple of hours, bringing the most unpredictable awards season in recent memory to what promises to be a thrilling climax, Team Empire is here to drink it all in with you on this, our Oscars live blog! Here you will find every single award, every single winner, every single live performance, every single unmissable moment. It’s going to be dramatic, emotional, epic, Wicked even… and we’ll be following along with you through every twist and turn the night takes.
It’s going to be a delayed night, folks, so keep the sugar levels up, the caffeine levels high, and your eyes with us on this very page for all the latest updates — we’re all in this together.
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10.39pm Snack update from Empire Mission Control: The Randoms are gone and the popcorn is dwindling! It’s still over an hour yet til the show starts… welp!
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10.35pm We’re an hour into our live Oscars blog coverage here, and the UK telecast for the night is officially underway. Jonathan Ross is hosting this year on the box, and among his guests is none other than Jason Isaacs — a hearty hello to you, Mr Isaacs!
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10.27pm Find some space folks and hold it close — somebody very Pop-u-lar just arrived on the red carpet! Ariana Grande, who’s up for Supporting Actress for her turn as Galinda/Glinda in Wicked, is a vision in pink as she makes her way into the Dolby Theatre. She and co-star/co-nominee Cynthia Erivo are expected to open tonight’s Oscars with a medley from their musical movie blockbuster, so expect to see plenty more from Ari as the evening goes on!
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10.18pm She may be nominated for I’m Still Here, but Brazillian Leading Actress hopeful Fernanda Torres (not to be confused with Liverpool Football Club’s legendary No. 9!) is well on her way there — to the Dolby Theatre, that is — with this elegant Oscars look, previewed on the star’s Insta just ahead of her red carpet arrival. If Torres takes home the gold statue tonight, she will become her country’s first Leading Actress winner, avenging her mother Fernanda Montenegro’s loss to Shakespeare In Love‘s Gwyneth Paltrow back in 1999.
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10.01pm With just under two hours to go until the 97th Academy Awards officially gets underway, here’s what some of the team at Empire HQ are hoping to see at this year’s ceremony. If you too feel like Denis Villeneuve and A Different Man star Adam Pearson were done royally filthy by this year’s Oscar noms, then please find solace in the below:
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9.49pm And while we’re talking Animated Feature hopefuls, check out the incredible cufflinks Flow filmmaker Gints Zilbalodis is rocking this evening. How much do they cost? And where are they from? Asking for an us… (Also, Fun Fact: The cat from Flow didn’t have a name when Zilbalodis was making the movie, but so many people are now calling the feline kitty Flow that it is now, officially, called Flow! The more you know, eh?)
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9.46pm This year’s red carpet is already off to a cracking start as the makers and stars of Best Animated Feature hopeful Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl have arrived. Wallace, Gromit, and Norbot have all dickied up for the occasion, and— WAIT! NOBODY MOVE! IT’S THAT FELONIOUS FAKE FOWL FEATHERS MCGRAW! He’ll be hoping to steal Oscar gold later this evening… keep an eye out for that one.
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9.38pm Here we go again! The Oscars are here and the red carpet is well underway outside the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles. But while the stars are shining out in LA, your warm neighbourhood Team Empire back here in Blighty are loading up on Lucozade, Randoms, and that fancy chocolate-dipped popcorn from Joe & Seph’s as we await the ceremony proper’s kick-off at approximately midnight. Once it begins, we’ll be bringing you the winners, the special guest presenters, the awkward/hilarious comedy bits, and everything in between — including, if reports prove true, a special musical tribute to James Bond with a license to thrill! More updates back here shortly, we’re off to fill a thermos with coffee for those wee compact hours…
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