2024 Oscars highlights: Ryan Gosling's 'I'm Just Ken' steals the show, Jimmy Kimmel trolled by Trump, John Cena's 'naked' bit

Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer was awarded Best Picture at the 2024 Oscars, with the film winning six other awards, including Best Director, Best Actor for Cillian Murphy, and Best Supporting Actor for Robert Downey Jr.

But the most memorable highlights from the event go far beyond just award wins, with 96th Academy Awards' key moments including Ryan Gosling's "I'm Just Ken" performance, a naked John Cena and passionate acceptance speeches.

Here are the highlights to see from the 2024 Oscars:

Ryan Gosling's 'I'm Just Ken' performance

In this instance, the most memorable moment didn't even come close to the beginning of the show, it happened almost at the end of the ceremony, Gosling's "I'm Just Ken" performance.

This is very likely be one of the most memorable moments in awards show history, Gosling in a hot pink, bedazzled suit, singing with a large group of dancers. The crowd was brought to their feet and we were mesmerized at home.

We'll be watching this on repeat.

'Barbie' jokes, Robert De Niro jab and being trolled by Trump

But the evening began with a monologue from Jimmy Kimmel, a veteran Oscars host.

He took a little jab at the critical failure Madame Web, saying Academy Awards night is "full of enormous talent and untold potential, but so was Madame Web."

Then he moved on to the Barbie movie.

"What an achievement to take a plastic doll no one even liked anymore, … now Barbie’s a feminist icon," Kimmel said.

The host also mentioned the criticism around Barbie director, Greta Gerwig, not getting nominated for an Oscar.

"I know you’re clapping, but you’re the ones who didn’t vote for her," Kimmel said to the crowd.

He also reassured nominees Margot Robbie and Gosling that if they don't win, they've already won the "genetic lottery."

One of the biggest movie stars of the year was actually the dog, Messi, from Anatomy of a Fall, who was at the ceremony.

"I haven’t seen a French actor eat vomit like that since Gérard Depardieu," Kimmel said.

Kimmel also pointed out that Robert De Niro and Jodie Foster are both nominated for Oscars, for Killers of the Flower Moon and Nyad, respectively, after both being up for awards for Taxi Driver in 1977.

"Now she’s 20 years too old to be his girlfriend," Kimmel said.

He also mentioned the lengthy writers and SAG-AFTRA strikes that occurred last year, and had the audience thank all the people behind the scenes.

"I’m going to make sure the show goes really long tonight so you get a lot of overtime," Kimmel said.

Near the end of the night, Kimmel read a Truth Social post from former U.S. president Donald Trump, saying "get rid of Kimmel" and replace him with "another washed up but cheap ABC talent, George Slopanopoulos."

"Thank you President Trump. Thank you for watching. ... Isn’t it past your jail time?" Kimmel said in response to cheers from the audience.

'You were riding Barbie's coattails all summer'

One thing that defined the 2023 year in movies is absolutely "Barbenheimer," the culture phenomenon of the coinciding release of the films Oppenheimer and Barbie.

Emily Blunt and Gosling took to the stage together at the Oscars to celebrate stunt workers, and to put the Barbenheimer rivalry to bed.

"The way this award season's turned out, wasn't that much of a rivalry," Blunt said. "So just let it go."

"It's true, you guys are doing very well. Congratulations," Gosling said. "But you know, I think I kind of figured out why they call it Barbenheimer not Oppenbarbie. You were riding Barbie's coattails all summer."

Da'Vine Joy Randolph's first Oscar for 'The Holdovers'

Da'Vine Joy Randolph, who played Mary Lamb in Alexander Payne's The Holdovers, took home her first Oscar in the Supporting Actress category, with her costar Paul Giamatti walking her up to the stage.

"I didn't think I was supposed to be doing this as a career," she said, going on to share that she started as a singer and her mother compelled her to walk into a theatre department

"For so long I’ve always wanted to be different, and now I realize I just need to be myself. And I thank you. I thank you for seeing me."

John Cena in the nude

John Cena has certainly been flexing his comedy muscle, including his most recent film Ricky Stanicky, but he had a particularly revealing gag at the Oscars with Kimmel.

The host referenced the 1974 Academy Awards incident when activist Robert Opel rushed the stage naked. That's when we saw Cena hiding behind a set piece, telling Kimmel he doesn't want to do the streaking bit anymore.

"It’s an elegant event," Cena said. "The male body is not a joke!"

Eventually, Cena walked to the centre of the stage, with an envelop covering his private area, with a quick cut away where he was then seen in a toga-esque outfit to present the award for Best Costume Design.

Emma Stone wins her second Oscar, with a broken dress

We love an honest and relatively relatable moment in such a star-studded event, and this year it came from Emma Stone, who won an Oscar for her role as Bella Baxter in Yorgos Lanthimos' Poor Things.

Clearly emotional about the win, also revealed that she ripped her dress, possibly while belting out the lyrics to "I'm Just Ken" with Gosling.

Stone closed out her speech by thanking her daughter, "I love you bigger than the whole sky, my girl."

Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito: The men who tried to kill Batman

Twins stars Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito came together on stage at the Oscars, reminiscing about how they both tried to kill batman. Schwarzenegger in Batman & Robin and DeVito in Batman Returns.

Of course, they're doing the bit in front of Batman himself, Michael Keaton, starring them down.

'Our film shows where dehumanization leads at its worst'

Jonathan Glazer's The Zone of Interest won the Oscar for Best International Feature Film.

"Our film shows where dehumanization leads at its worst,” Glazer said as he accepted the award. "Right now we stand here as men who refute their Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation, which has led to conflict for so many innocent people."

"Whether the victims of October the seventh in Israel, or the ongoing attack on Gaza, all the victims of his dehumanization, how do we resist?"

'20 Days in Mariupol' director: 'I wish I never made this film'

The documentary 20 Days in Mariupol won the documentary feature award at the Oscars, the first Academy Award for a Ukrainian film. The movie is a first-person journey through the early days of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last year.

"I wish I never made this film, I wish to be able to exchange this to Russia never attacking Ukraine, never occupying our cities," director Mstyslav Chernov said. "I wish for them to release all the hostages, all the soldiers who are protecting their land, all the civilians who are now in their jails."

"But I cannot change the history. I cannot change the past, but we, all together, ... we can ensure that the history record is set straight and the truth will prevail."

'There are so many people out there who want the opportunity that I was given'

American Fiction writer and director Cord Jefferson accepted the award for Best Adapted Screenplay, the film based on Percival Everett's novel "Erasure."

Jefferson used his speech to say that he's been talking about how many people passed on making this movie, but this isn't a sign of him being "vindictive."

"It's a plea to acknowledge and recognize that there are so many people out there who want the opportunity that I was given," he said.

Jefferson added that he's aware the industry is "risk averse," but maybe we need to consider making more films that are less expensive, from more first-time filmmakers, stepping away from only producing movies with massive budgets and established talents.

"They just want a shot, and we can give them one," he said.