By Noor NanjiCulture reporter12 March 2024, 09:06 GMTUpdated 1 hour agoImage supply, Getty ImagesImage caption, Al Pacino did not trouble to learn out all the perfect image nomineesAl Pacino has defined why he didn’t learn out the names of all 10 finest image nominees on the Oscars, saying the present’s producers made the choice.The veteran actor handed out the ultimate trophy of the evening, at Sunday’s star-studded occasion in Los Angeles.However there was confusion when he abruptly introduced the winner as Oppenheimer with out first itemizing the nominees, as is customary.”It was not my intention to omit them,” Pacino mentioned in a press release.As a substitute, the 83 yr outdated mentioned, it was “a selection by the producers to not have [the nominees] mentioned once more since they had been highlighted individually all through the ceremony”.Extra on the OscarsIn his assertion, which was issued on Monday afternoon, the Oscar-winning actor added that he “selected to observe” the best way the producers wished the award to be offered.”I realise being nominated is a big milestone in a single’s life and to not be absolutely recognised is offensive and hurtful,” Pacino mentioned.”I say this as somebody who profoundly relates with film-makers, actors and producers so I deeply empathise with those that have been slighted by this oversight and it is why I felt it essential to make this assertion.”Pacino’s announcement meant the evening ended on a complicated be aware, with not one of the typical fanfare across the evening’s largest prize.Opening the envelope, he mumbled “my eyes see ‘Oppenheimer’,” leaving the viewers momentarily confused as as to whether the movie had truly received.Picture caption, Oppenheimer swept the awards with Cillian Murphy successful finest actorBBC Tradition reporter Emma Saunders, who was on the occasion in Los Angeles, mentioned his announcement “had folks sitting up of their chairs” as they tried to parse the data.Whereas it wasn’t on the size of the chaos on the finish of the 2017 awards, when Moonlight and La La Land had been blended up for the perfect image award, she mentioned it gave reporters backstage “a panic assault proper on the finish of the ceremony”.McNearney, who’s married to Oscars host Jimmy Kimmel, added: “By the point you get to the tip of the present, you’ve got seen all 10 finest image clip packages.”Folks simply wish to hear who wins, they usually’re fairly prepared for the present to be over. No less than that is what we anticipated. So, we didn’t give him a clip package deal. We didn’t give him nominations to learn.”Addressing Pacino, she apologised if the choice “put him in a troublesome spot”.”That made it somewhat complicated. However hear, that is the joy of stay tv. You by no means know you are going to get precisely!”The ten movies nominated for finest image had been American Fiction, Anatomy of a Fall, Barbie, The Holdovers, Killers of the Flower Moon, Maestro, Oppenheimer, Previous Lives, Poor Issues and The Zone of Curiosity.Oppenheimer swept the ceremony, successful finest image, finest actor for Cillian Murphy, finest director for Christopher Nolan, and finest supporting actor for Robert Downey Jr.An estimated 19.5 million folks tuned in to look at Sunday evening’s 96th Academy Awards, in accordance with broadcaster ABC.That is the very best determine in 4 years, and practically double the pandemic-era low. Nonetheless, the scores are nonetheless disappointing for a ceremony that usually pulled in additional than 40 million viewers a decade in the past.This yr’s Oscar nominations included smash hits like Barbie and Oppenheimer, that the general public had truly seen, in comparison with the extra esoteric and art-house movies that dominated nominations at latest ceremonies. The Academy additionally moved the present an hour earlier this yr, which can have helped to spice up scores.Pacino, an appearing legend, received the Oscar for finest actor in 1993 for Scent of a Girl.