Join us for full coverage of the 97th Academy Awards. Will it be The Brutalist or Anora’s year? Or might we see white smoke for Conclave?
• The complete list of nominees
And now a special live update from the Guardian’s Xan Brooks at the Dolby theatre in Hollywood …
First trip to the Oscars. Impossibly glamorous arrival. Non-celebrity guests, I discover, access the Dolby theatre by walking around the police cordons, across a filling station forecourt and past a shuttered bowling alley to the theatre doors. This is perhaps what’s known unofficially as the Karla Sofía Gascón Entrance. But I’m now safely inside and have been handed a spring roll to eat.
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