Behind the Scenes: What you didn’t see at the 2024 Oscars

LOS ANGELES — There is a whole other show that happens offscreen at the Oscars that the home audience doesn’t see on television. Here’s what The Associated Press saw that the cameras did not capture.

THE OSCARS START AT… 7ISH?

Things got off to a late start, about 6 minutes behind schedule and not everyone made their way to their seats by the start of the show. Among the last seated around 7:06 pm EDT were Martin Scorsese, Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling. Carey Mulligan missed the moving cutoff though and spent Jimmy Kimmel’s opening monologue and the supporting actress prize standing off to the side, but she had husband Marcus Mumford there to keep her company.

3 MINUTES TO CHAT

At the first commercial break people bolted out of their seats to find their friends. Emma Stone immediately found her longtime friend Jennifer Lawrence and the two ran out the clock laughing and gesticulating wildly as their husbands looked on.

Greta Gerwig beelined to Robbie and America Ferrera, all in good spirits after the supporting actress prize went to Da’Vine Joy Randolph. And yes, Mulligan and Mumford finally found their seats.

EMMA STONE STEPS OUT AT THE WRONG TIME

Emma Stone was out in the lobby bar with a glass of champagne in hand when “Poor Things” won best production design. She yelped out and jumped up and down and attentively watched the speech.

She then turned to Florence Pugh, standing nearby and the two talked animatedly about Pugh’s “sprinkled dress.”

All of a sudden, Pugh laughed and looked up at the monitor to see an almost naked John Cena. “Oooh it’s because he looks like the Oscar!”

A few seconds later “Poor Things” also won for costume design and Stone jumped and screamed again.