The 96th Academy Awards are underway and that means all things glitz, glamour, and some incredibly exciting reunions!
During the annual awards ceremony at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood, Oscars producers upped the ante by taking the previously announced list of presenters and pairing them together to recreate iconic pairings and collaborations from throughout film history.
ET has rounded up a list of all the co-stars who took to the stage during the show to bring nostalgia and hilarity.
Anya Taylor-Joy and Chris Hemsworth
If you’re wracking your brain trying to figure out which movie you’ve seen these two in together, here’s a hint: you haven’t… yet. The 40-year-old Australian actor and 27-year-old Peaky Blinders actress are slated to appear alongside side each other in the new film, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, which will release on May 24, 2024.
Hemsworth and Taylor-Joy took the stage early in the Academy Awards broadcast to present statues to the winners of the Best Animated Short Film and Best Animated Feature Film. The first award went to War Is Over: Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko while the second went to Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron.
Getty ImagesMelissa McCarthy and Octavia Spencer
For Best Original Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay, the Oscars pulled together the Thunder Force co-stars to hand off the Oscar to Justine Triet for Anatomy of a Fall and Cord Jefferson for American Fiction, respectively. For a full and updated list of the Academy Award winners, click here.
The actresses — who have been friends for more than two decades — kept it on-script but hilarious — of course — during their bit, bantering back and forth over a miscommunication regarding a line in their script about Chip ‘n Dale. While Spencer thought McCarthy was talking about the male dancers (Chippendales), McCarthy was referencing the Disney characters.
ABC via Getty ImagesCatherine O’Hara and Michael Keaton
Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice… Be– grateful the Academy Awards reunited these two! O’Hara, 70, and Keaton, 72, starred alongside each other in the original Beetlejuice film in 1988 and again recently for the long-awaited sequel. The pair, who presented Best Makeup and Hairstyling and Best Production Design, joked during their bit that without these vital players in the film world, actors would never look presentable.
The categories were apt for the duo who were recently hard at work on Beetlejuice 2, which also stars returning actor Winona Ryder and newcomer Jenna Ortega — who joins the cast as the daughter of Ryder’s character, Lydia Deetz.
During a recent interview with ET’s Cassie DiLaura, Keaton said that after 30 years with no news about a sequel, he had all but given up on the idea of giving the audience more Beetlejuice.
“It took a while to get there,” Keaton recently told ET. “I didn’t really think we were gonna do it and didn’t want to do it, various times [in the] last few years, but it was more fun than the other one.”
Beetlejuice 2 releases on Sept. 6, 2024.
This is a live story and will be updated throughout the evening.
The 2024 Academy Awards, hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, airs live from the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on Sunday, March 10, at 4 p.m. PT/7 p.m. ET on ABC. Follow along at ETonline.com for full Oscars coverage, including red carpet arrivals, the complete winners list and more.
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