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Missed opportunity there for that Eminem performance to transition into Venom, and then a Venom 2 teaser premiere.

Production Design is the only category presented so far that it had a shot of winning, albeit a slight one.

Very pleased for Taika. I was hoping Greta would win here but I can't begrudge this outcome.

Keanu Reeves announcing Bong Joon-Ho as an Oscar winner. Lovely stuff.

Cue the "Kelly Marie Tran got more dialogue at the Oscars than in Rise of Skywalker" jokes.

"About time that person won an acting Oscar!" - something I'll be saying more than once tonight.

True, but the last time they were this early was the year Spotlight and The Big Short won those categories and they were locks. Still, interesting change-up.

Interesting presentation schedule. The Screenplay categories are slightly competitive this year so I assumed they would be handed out later in the show, and International Film is unusually at the back end of the ceremony. Animated Short being given out after Animated Feature is another rarity.

It just seems to happen more often that it did before, but that's not surprising given we're in the age of social media where people crave talking points or memes.

This is one of my pet peeves with the Oscars. Why get people who are, to varying extents, close with one of the nominees to present an award unless it's an absolute lock like Scorsese winning Director for The Departed? Sometimes it makes for a really nice moment like Matt Damon presenting Kenneth Lonergan with his Oscar or Samuel L. Jackson giving Spike Lee his one last year, but then you have occasions like Ansel Elgort and Eiza Gonzalez presenting the Sound categories which Baby Driver was up for, only for it not to win either of them.

The preferential ballot has its problems, but if it weren't in place the Best Picture race wouldn't have been as open as it has over the last few years. I'm sticking with 1917 to win the big prize mostly because of its PGA win which demonstrates its strength on a preferential ballot. However, Parasite's SAG and WAG wins have shaped it as a strong alternative to 1917. The identity of the Best Picture presenter has been kept closely under wraps according to reports from the rehearsal...

Unless I'm mistaken, they didn't show Cardi B's character...

You think this is crazy, wait until Fast 10. THAT my friends will be the cinematic event of a generation.

This franchise is basically an action movie soap opera, so the melodrama is pretty much guaranteed. Just look at the farcical amount of "resurrections", corny dialogue, family-related twists, etc.

So between Star Wars and now Fast and the Furious, 9th installments of tentpole franchises have set a trend of bringing back characters who were assumed dead. Looking forward to seeing the shocking return of Sean Ambrose (Dougray Scott) in Mission: Impossible 9.

One of my biggest grievances with the marketing for these films is how many money shots they throw into the trailers. At least leave some of the third act insanity to the imagination.

As someone who mildly enjoyed the first two films, I had a great time with this one. Turns out that the best way to revitalize a popular franchise starring Will Smith is: a) Get Will Smith back b) Have a soul The action never surpasses the insanity of the second film but I felt like almost every other area of this movie saw an improvement - tone (more heartfelt), humor, music (Mark Mancina's theme being brought back made me so happy), secondary characters (especially the villains) and the overall story. It gave me a similar feeling to the one I had after <em>Fast Five</em>, where I went from being ambivalent about the franchise to eager for a follow-up.

Film Twitter has been against Joker since September.

Last year and this year's set of Best Picture nominees have made that Popular Film idea look even worse in hindsight.

This reminds me of the 2010 and 2014 set of nominees whereby so many categories consist of Best Picture contenders when the individual branches could've gone for much more inspired choices (Screenplay, Acting, Costumes, Film Editing and Sound in particular). Thankfully, The Lighthouse's cinematography wasn't a victim of this. It hurts more when the likes of Awkwafina, Nyong'o and Lopez are recognised by their precursors just to give us hope before AMPAS delivers crushing disappointment. All that being said, there's no Best Picture nominee in that line-up I had mixed or negative feelings towards (unlike last year) and given the way the race is shaping up I'll probably be satisfied with the majority of winners too.

I'll be watching these on my phone on my bus commute home from work, but if Uncut Gems gets nominated for any major categories I may let out a shriek.

I could somewhat subscribe to that line of thinking if they hadn't nominated Robbie and Johansson TWICE, especially the former in the same category. This isn't an outlier either: BAFTA is notorious for overlooking some POC when it comes to big awards e.g. Denzel Washington never being nominated and Barry Jenkins failing to get a Director nomination for Moonlight. I'm absolutely thrilled for Jessie Buckley. Her turn in Wild Rose is one of my top 5 favourite performances from an actress and I was also lucky to see her perform here in Dublin last June where she was brilliant. She has a bright future ahead of her.