Best Actress nominee Viola Davis paid tribute from the red carpet to her late co-star Chadwick Boseman, who is nominated posthumously for Best Actor for his role in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.

“He was authenticity on steroids,” Davis said of Boseman, who died in August last year at the age of 43 from cancer.

Best Actress nominee Carey Mulligan has arrived (in a two-piece by Valentino Couture)! She’s up against Viola Davis, Andra Day, Vanessa Kirby, and Frances McDormand. She discussed the film along with director Emerald Fennell in an interview with The Independent, which you can read below:

If she wins Best Supporting Actress tonight, Glenn Close has a few ideas on where her trophy will end up… and it’s not a shelf or her fireplace mantel.

Tonight’s ceremony is being held at Union Station in Los Angeles – a first in Oscars history. The Academy Awards usually take place at the Dolby Theatre, but logistics had to change this year due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Here’s a look at what the preparations looked like to get Union Station ready for its close-up…

Hard to disagree with this take from our film critic Clarisse Loughrey:

Well, well, well, if it isn’t Best Supporting Actress nominee Glenn Close! She earned her eighth Oscar nomination for her role in Hillbilly Elegy and is up against Maria Bakalova, Olivia Colman, Amanda Seyfried, and Youn Yuh-jung.

Our lifestyle writer Olivia Petter tells me Close’s electric blue tunic is by Armani Prive, is in crystal beads, and took three weeks to make. Close paired the tunic with purple leather gloves and black cigarette trousers.

Close told E! from the red carpet that if she wins tonight, she will display her Oscar to her local library or her local coffee shop “so that people can actually what it’s like” and to bring the Academy Awards into everyday life.

For more excellent red carpet looks, right this way:

Emerald Fennell has arrived! The filmmaker is up for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay tonight for the revenge film Promising Young Woman. Our lifestyle writer Olivia Petter tells me Fennell’s floaty floral gown, featuring a pastel green and pink gown with a billowing skirt covered in ruffles, is by Gucci. Fennell stopped to chat to E! on the red carpet. She praised Carey Mulligan, the lead in Promising Young Woman, who is up for Best Actress for her performance. “I think every day she was surprising because she’s so good,” Fennell said. “But she’s also just incredibly funny. That’s the thing. Dramatic actors very rarely get to be funny, and she’s dynamite at comedy.”

Fennell described her red carpet look as “Susan, your pottery teacher who has a business opportunity for you which is absolutely not a pyramid scheme”.

Chloé Zhao’sNomadland is among the favourites in the Best Picture category tonight. The anti-capitalist odyssey stars Frances McDormand as Fern, a woman who becomes a nomadic van-dweller.

Our writer Adam White argues why this “snapshot of modern America” should be crowned Best Picture tonight:

Steven Yeun, who is up for Best Actor tonight for his role in Minari. He spoke to E! during his arrival on the red carpet, paying tribute to his mother who has always been “so supportive and so loving” and watching the ceremony live. Yeun also called the acclaim for Minari “wonderful” and says the film says something “honest and true” about “the humanity that we all share”.

Here is Yeun on the red carpet with his wife, photographer Joana Pak: