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The 2024 Academy Awards performers have been revealed…and yes, Ryan Gosling is performing “I’m Just Ken” from the hit film Barbie!

Clayton Davis Senior Awards Editor All five of this year’s Academy Award-nominated original songs will be performed on the Dolby Theatre stage at the 96th Oscars. Jon Batiste, Becky G, Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell, Scott George and the Osage Singers, and as Variety previously reported, Ryan Gosling and Mark Ronson will perform the memorable numbers.

It’s a pretty stacked field for the Best Song Academy Award this year, and the Oscarcast producers today set the performers who’ll be bringing the nominated tunes to the stage.

Academy Awards are right around the corner. The event will be hosted on March 10th, with the first round of presenters being announced. The line up has a mixture of actors that include Zendaya and Lupita Nyong’o.

The 2024 Oscars ceremony is less than two months away, and details about the show, the nominees and who may win are coming into focus.

There’s even more 2024 Academy Awards news today: Ryan Gosling is officially set to perform his Barbie hit “I’m Just Ken” at the upcoming ceremony!

The first wave of 2024 Academy Awards presenters have been revealed!

Clayton Davis Senior Awards Editor Zendaya, Michelle Pfeiffer and Oscar winners Nicolas Cage and Al Pacino are among the first group of presenters for this year’s 96th Oscars ceremony. Also presenting are last year’s four acting winners — Brendan Fraser from “The Whale” and Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan, and Jamie Lee Curtis from the best picture winner “Everything Everywhere All at Once.” Oscar winners Mahershala Ali (“Moonlight” and “Green Book”), Jessica Lange (“Tootsie” and “Blue Sky”), Matthew McConaughey (“Dallas Buyers Club”), Lupita Nyong’o (“12 Years a Slave”) and Sam Rockwell (“Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”) also are set to take the stage. Raj Kapoor serves as the Oscars’ executive producer and showrunner, alongside executive producers Molly McNearney and Katy Mullan.

Selena Gomez will never forget this awkward AF encounter with another celebrity, all thanks to her boyfriend Benny Blanco!

Larry David has found another adversary.

Marc Malkin Senior Editor, Culture and Events Everyone could use a good cry now and again. And what better way to get those tears flowing than watching a movie? Variety caught up with this year’s Oscar nominees at the Academy’s annual nominees luncheon at the Beverly Hilton to find out the last time they cried at the movies. “I cried at ‘Parallel Mothers,’” said “Oppenheimer” star Emily Blunt.

Barbie filmmaker Greta Gerwig is finally addressing Oscars snub.

to a complaint filed Saturday in Manhattan federal court, Santos claims Kimmel duped him into producing over a dozen personalized videos through the video platform Cameo, which Kimmel then featured on his ABC talk show.Santos was expelled from the House of Representatives Dec. 1, a little more than a year after he won the election, despite fabricating much of his personal and professional history, lying about his campaign’s finances and defrauding donors.Among other things, Santos lied about attending prep school, attending Baruch College and NYU, working at Goldman Sachs, his mother dying in the 9/11 terror attacks, employing victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting, founding a pet rescue charity and getting mugged.

Jimmy Kimmel is hinting at the end of his talk show and late night hosting career.

Jimmy Kimmel has a word for the lawsuit filed against him over the weekend by former Rep. George Santos. Actually, he has seven: “The most preposterous lawsuit of all time.”

Academy Awards — but everything changed after watching Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie.” “I did not think I would ever do it again,” Kimmel, 56, told the Los Angeles Times regarding the award show that is set to take place next month in Los Angeles. “I did two of them, and they went well — something crazy happened at one of them with a story I’ll have for the rest of my life,” Kimmel mused, referring to his first hosting stint in 2017 when Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway accidentally announced that “La La Land” had won Best Picture instead of “Moonlight.” “I know how much work goes into [the Oscars], so I thought, ‘Yeah, I don’t necessarily want to do this ever again,'” Kimmel added, reflecting on his time as host during the 2017, 2018 and 2023 ceremonies.According to Kimmel, he was persuaded to join the 2023 ceremony after watching Tom Cruise’s “Top Gun: Maverick.” “I knew there was a movie that people had seen, and it just makes the job easier,” he told the outlet, adding that this year he had the same feeling while watching Gerwig’s masterpiece.

Katy Perry announced she’s leaving her role on the judging panel later this year. “Oh hiiii @AmericanIdol,” Sparks, 34, tweeted on Friday. “I hear a seat opened up at the judges table! I’m putting my name in the hat!” Sparks’ public plea comes days after Perry, 39, told Jimmy Kimmel last week that the current Season 22 will be her last after seven years on the show.

endless love for this left-out music legend.The “All Night Long” crooner revealed Friday that he and several celebrities made the mistake of not asking Madonna as well as Cyndi Lauper to appear on the iconic track “We Are the World” during an appearance on “Jimmy Kimmel Live.” “You guys talk about Cyndi Lauper and Madonna,” Kimmel, 56, said referring to Richie’s new Netflix documentary “The Greatest Night In Pop,” which tells the story of the song’s creation. “We know Cyndi Lauper was in this thing,” Kimmel continues.

Former Rep. George Santos is suing Jimmy Kimmel.

Michaela Zee Former Rep. George Santos has filed a civil lawsuit against Jimmy Kimmel, claiming that the late-night television host used fake names to request Cameo videos from the ex-congressman and then misused the footage on his talk show. Santos sued Kimmel on Saturday for copyright infringement, fraud, breach of contract and unjust enrichment, and is seeking at least $750,000 in damages, The Hill reports.

George Santos seems to have never met a camera or a misrepresentation he didn’t like, except when it comes to Jimmy Kimmel.

Expelled ex-Rep. George Santos is suing television host Jimmy Kimmel for allegedly misusing his Cameo clips on his show, The Post has learned.Santos claims Kimmel duped him into producing over a dozen personalized videos through the video platform, which he then featured on his late-night talk show, according to a complaint filed Saturday in Manhattan federal court.

When Netflix’s new romantic drama One Day hit our screens last week, it’s safe to say many of us were hooked from episode one - with many of us even having binged out way through the entire 14 episode series in a mere matter of days. But while the story alone, which is based on the book of the same name by David Nicholls left viewers at home on the very edge of their seats, it was the show’s male lead Leo Woodall that truly captured the hearts of fans at home.

coronation in May 2023.The “Firework” singer, 39, revealed on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” that she was staying at Windsor Castle at the time, and bumped right into the newly crowned monarch, 75, on the property. “I brought my mother because, I mean, that’s like the best gift you could ever give your mom,” Perry said on Monday.The “American Idol” judge — who will leave at the end of the 22nd season — came face to face with Charles and his wife, Queen Camilla, after the ceremony ended.The trio were filming a segment for the ABC singing competition series alongside fellow judge Lionel Richie.“Everyone was running,” Perry explained, adding that she had to take a specific walking pathway into the castle, so she didn’t walk into any members of the royal family.She continued: “I ran straight into them, and I was like, ‘Oh, went the wrong way!’ ”The “I Kissed a Girl” singer went on to gush over Lionel Richie, 74, saying that he helped put the concert together with the Firm.The “We Are the World” producer “could convince anyone to do anything.”Perry went viral during the actual May 6 coronation, where she rocked a purple hat and matching dress.

Jimmy Kimmel enlisted Weird Barbie to help him get to the 2024 Oscars in a new promo video for the upcoming awards ceremony!

on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” Monday night, the “Firework” hitmaker announced news of her departure to an unsuspecting audience.After host Jimmy Kimmel asked the singer how long she plans to remain as a judge on the hit ABC show, Perry said that the upcoming 22nd season will be her last.“Well, you know, this fall, this September, I’m going to be doing this huge music festival in Brazil called Rock in Rio. It’s really exciting,” she shared.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences hosted its annual Oscar Nominees Luncheon on Monday at the Beverly Hilton.

If there’s any Hollywood BFF duo you could confuse for brothers, it’s Ben Affleck and Matt Damon.

It’s a fact of life, people love the Oscars most when the film Academy or its members are doing something dumb. Slapping a host. Naming the wrong winner. Singing about bare breasts. That sort of thing.

wrote on X (formerly Twitter). “Maybe it really is just a coincidence,” a second fan seethed. “But it feels pretty shitty of ABC to promote that one of the contestants in ‘Celebrity Jeopardy!’ championship is going to be on Kimmel later that night.

Marc Malkin Senior Editor, Culture and Events It was recently announced that Joel Kim Booster was teaming up with Searchlight Pictures again following the awards-nominated success of his 2022 queer rom-com “Fire Island.” This time around, Booster’s new script is about the gay best friend (Booster) of a bride-to-be who’s in charge of making sure his bestie’s wedding goes off perfectly. However, Booster says he’d like to start moving away from playing the “gay best friend.” “I know how the industry works,” Booster tells me on this week’s episode of the “Just for Variety” podcast. “I know that there are a couple more gay best friends in my future.

The 2024 Oscar nominations were just unveiled on Tuesday morning (January 23)!

Chrissy Teigen is hard at work promoting her new show!

Fans of the Barbie movie have been left outraged and demanding 'justice' for its main actress after the nominations for the 2024 Oscars were announced today (January 23). The nominees for the 96th Academy Awards were revealed this afternoon, ahead of the ceremony taking place in Los Angeles in early March.

Oscars have been announced, so here’s how you can catch-up on all the nominees for Best Picture.The 96th Academy Awards will take place on Sunday, March 10 at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles. The event will be hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, who previously hosted the event in 2017, 2018 and 2023.READ MORE: Oscars 2024 nominations – see the full listOppenheimer is currently the frontrunner for awards success with 13 nominations, followed by Poor Things with 11 nods and Killers Of The Flower Moon with 10.The award for Best Picture is the most coveted prize, with last year’s going to Everything Everywhere All At Once.

The nominations for the 2024 Oscars are finally here, and we have the full list for you to see!