The most beautiful couples who have ever walked the Academy Awards red carpet From two icons of movie history like Marlon Brando and Grace Kelly to Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt's coolness in the early 2000s

Oscar Night 2024 is just a few hours away. The 96th edition of the Academy Awards will be broadcast live on Rai 1 and RaiPlay and hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, who will have to entertain the home audience and the star-studded parterre in the seats of the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles. The list of presenters alone, who have to utter the fateful phrase "and the winner is"," sounds like the cast of a mega Hollywood production and heightens the anticipation for the red carpet. A few names? Zendaya, Michelle Pfeiffer, Brendan Fraser, Michelle Yeoh, Nicolas Cage, Al Pacino, Jennifer Lawrence, Chris Hemsworth, Emily Blunt, America Ferrera, Charlize Theron, Ariana Grande, Issa Rae, Anya Taylor-Joy, Steven Spielberg, Forest Whitaker and Ryan Gosling, who will sing the Barbie song I'm Just Ken on stage together with Mark Ronson, which is nominated in the "Best Original Song" category. However, the biggest curiosity is about this year's possible winners. Given the number of nominations, the films most likely to scoop multiple Oscars are Oppenheimer,Poor Things, Killers of the Flower Moon and Barbie, which despite 8 nominations has caused a stir because its director Greta Gerwig and its star and producer Margot Robbie were excluded from the main categories. If these are the titles that will also be competing for the top spot in the Best Picture category, Lily Gladstone, who is almost certain to be named Best Female Lead for her role in Killers of the Flower Moon, and Cillian Murphy, who is predicted to be the 2024 Best Male Lead for Oppenheimer, will be the most excited about these Oscars. If so, the Irish actor will have to overcome his famous aversion to social life and be in the spotlight for his acceptance speech, unless the other nominees in the same category like Paul Giamatti, Bradley Cooper, Colman Domingo or Jeffrey Wright win in a complete surprise.

What will happen on the red carpet? Although we'd love to see Rooney Mara and Joaquin Phoenix eating a veggie burger sitting on a staircase again shortly after he won Best Actor for The Joker because they were too cute, from the new edition of the Oscars we expect less slapping between actors and more group selfies like the viral one that in 2014 captured Ellen DeGeneres, Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Julia Roberts, Meryl Streep, Kevin Spacey, Jared Leto, Channing Tatum, Lupita Nyong'o and her brother Peter in the same shot. If the latest fashion shows are any indication, perhaps we will see a return to old school glamour, with many vintage garments and new creations of understated elegance, with the addition of a few couple looks, such as the 2019 matchy-matchy one of Jason Momoa and Lisa Bonet and the super-cool one of Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt who, both in black, walked the red carpet at the Academy Awards in 2000.

In the last ten years Hollywood power couples have not made any great surprises by daring with highly sophisticated looks, but have opted for major brands and classic dresses. The top five couples who have walked the red carpet of the Oscars between 2010 and 2022? Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie in a Versace skirt with a deep slit; Benjamin Millepied and Natalie Portman in a Dior dress that hid a feminist statement; the bff Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet in Ralph Lauren; Rami Malek and Lucy Boynton in Rodarte; Liev Schreiber and Naomi Watts in Armani.