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Photos from the Oscars 2024: Inside the Governors Ball with the winners

Photos from the Oscars 2024: Inside the Governors Ball with the winners

The Governors Ball, just a short escalator ride from the Dolby Theater at Ovation Hollywood, is the first stop for winners and many of the other luminaries of the Oscar audience before they expand to more prestigious events (and difficult to access). ) parties.

However, the best place to see the winners is on a small stage at the back of the ballroom, where they will have their statues engraved. (Among those we saw taking the stand Sunday night was Da'Vine supporting actress Joy Randolph in a shade of light blue that nicely complemented the Oscar art mounted above.)

Waiters cut narrow zigzags across the packed ballroom wielding trays of bubbling hot macaroni and cheese, truffle pizza and tiny cheeseburgers with little paper cones filled with crispy French fries, while the winners waited with their handlers to see. their statues marked with their victories. As always, chef Wolfgang Puck's tiny golden chocolate Oscars were piled high on the dessert table.

Other star sightings at the ball included “Barbie” writer and director Greta Gerwig laughing as she entered; supporting actor winner Robert Downey Jr. (“Oppenheimer”), who largely kept to himself, looking introspective before being swept out of the room with the statue of him; and “American Fiction” nominee Jeffrey Wright, who sat with some friends at the other end of the room. “Poor Things” nominee Mark Ruffalo was sociable on the escalator to the party, joking about how he really thought he might be replaced by his friend Oscar Isaac during filming and how he didn't realize the enormous effect the movie I would have later. he was released.

But those who attracted as much attention as any of the honorees were Disney CEO Bob Iger, surrounded by supporters, fellow executives such as Craig Erwich of Disney Television Group and a group of press, and Jimmy Kimmel, who hosted the well-received broadcast . on ABC, owned by Disney.

Kimmel remained calm as he accepted praise for handling a difficult job, including one passerby who called him “the best Oscar host ever,” and seemed undaunted when it came to reopening his social media after a late joke about the former President Trump, who criticized Kimmel's performance on Truth Social. Whatever he does, Kimmel sighed, “half the people hate him and the other half love him.”