The Oscars served drama from the moment the telecast began … which was five minutes late, due to pro-Palestine protesters blocking roads and delaying some of the biggest stars’ arrivals at the Dolby Theater.
Host Jimmy Kimmel opened the night with a monologue that included jokes about Robert Downey Jr’s drug use, the disaster that is Marvel’s Madame Web, and Killers of the Flower Moon’s three-and-a-half hour runtime. Messi, the seriously impressive canine actor from Anatomy of a Fall, made a cameo. (Rumors swirled that the pup would not attend, but Messi showed up in a dashing bow-tie to prove the haters wrong.)
