Lights! Camera! Oscars! Final prep wraps for Hollywood’s big night

With under 24 hours to go, it was jeans-and-sneakers day at the Dolby Theater on Saturday night when stars like Eddie Murphy, Jennifer Aniston, Liam Neeson, Benedict Cumberbatch, Naomi Watts, Kevin Hart, Channing Tatum and Zoe Saldana showed up for final rehearsals. Nicole Kidman, Reese Witherspoon, Marion Cotillard, Jared Leto, Dwayne Johnson and Oprah Winfrey were also on hand, but dressed things up. A day before the Hollywood celebration seen around the world, stars paraded through the theatre to test-drive their lines on the teleprompter, try out their show-day shoes and get comfortable with the winners’ envelopes.

From here, we’re going to take it up a notch and go for frozen yogurt.

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Tatum, wearing a gray sweatshirt, baggy khakis, untied boots and his ballcap askew, took time backstage to chat with the students of Team Oscar: aspiring young filmmakers who won the chance to carry Oscar statuettes onstage during the big show. Tatum told them about dancing with Charlize Theron during his first Academy Awards appearance. The red carpet for the 87th Academy Awards will start at around midnight GMT, with the ceremony itself beginning 90 minutes later at 1.30am.

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