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Lupita Nyong’o also came, wearing perhaps the most beautiful collection of sequins we will see all night. This is either the outfit that will hit the most impressive headlines of the night, or it is a catastrophic fire hazard. Lupita Nyong’o Photo: Jordan Strauss / Invision / AP

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And here’s Alana Haim, a wonderful mermaid. I decided to form a filial bond with Heim tonight, because she looks completely confused from all over the red carpet, as any normal person would do. Alana Haim arrives Photo: Jordan Strauss / Invision / AP

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Kodi Smit-McPhee is here, in a set so completely white that it makes me nervous. The last time I tried anything, even from a distance, I sat on an After Eight chocolate and had to go around reassuring people that I had not lost control of my gut. Kodi Smit-McPhee Photo: David Livingston / Getty Images Updated at 11.10 p.m. BST

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Jude Hill, from Kenneth Branagh in Belfast, is just 11 years old and can already be hovering. We must, as one, fear him. Jude Hill, the kid from Belfast. Photo: Eric Gaillard / Reuters Updated at 11.05 p.m. BST

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You will be glad to know that PriceWaterhouseCoopers accountants have arrived. None of them wear particularly bold clothes, but that is for a good reason. If they spoil them, as they did with La La Land last year, it makes it much easier for them to steal invisibly at night. Hollywood accountants from PriceWaterhouseCoopers pose on the red carpet. Note: this is the fifth anniversary of the Moonlight / La La Land disaster and you will have fun with it … Photo: Eric Gaillard / Reuters Updated at 11:00 p.m. BST

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DJ D-Nice showed up, thank God, and he’s wearing a big hat. Please come with me to pity anyone who has to sit behind DJ D-Nice’s big hat tonight. DJ D-Nice in a big hat Photo: Emma McIntyre / Getty Images Updated at 22:55 BST

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Stuart Heritage The ceremony may not start for another two and a half hours, but judging by the red carpet show (in E if you are watching in the UK), the stars are already flocking to the theater. Jamie Lee Curtis and Lily James have already appeared, for example, which can only mean one of two things: either they are the kind of people who like to go to parties while you are still dressed, or I am pathologically drawn to wandering around. in the lobby for punishment for a long time. Updated at 22:41 BST

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Stuart Heritage Welcome to The Guardian’s 2022 Oscar live blog. This is the moment you were expecting a rapidly declining number of you. Last year, in the heat of Covid, the Academy lost its damned mind and won the Oscars for Glenn Close to twerk at a train station. This year, however, cooler heads have prevailed. This year’s Oscars will be held at the Dolby Theater with a reasonable number of guests and some real hosts. Tonight, Amy Schumer, Wanda Sykes and Regina Hall will be the first hosts to win the Oscars since 2018. It is an enviable mission: do well and no one will notice, do badly and you will be slaughtered online. Well done to them for not leaving for the hills as soon as the offer came. Now, the movies. Just a few weeks ago, it seemed that The Power of the Dog – Jane Campion’s long, sparse, gay cowboy drama – was all set. But now the tables are starting to change. Coda, a small deaf drama that ended up on Apple TV +, is starting to gain momentum. Troy Kotsour is already guaranteed to win the second male role tonight and the film can be awarded in other categories as well. Likewise, Jessica Chastain’s once-tight grip on Best Actress, thanks to her prosthetic makeover in The Eyes of Tammy Faye, seems to have loosened and lost ground from Penelope Cruz’s series in Parallel Mothers. Have you seen any of these movies? You care? Either way, I will be here for the next six or seven hours and I could use your company urgently. First, provided I can find my TV remote control, I will watch all the action on the red carpet at E! (which, if nothing else, will be a test to see all the different ways I can reheat the phrase “She’s wearing a dress”). Then, in a few hours, the show itself will start and I will be there for every brutal beat. May God have mercy on our souls. Updated at 22:56 BST