Pro-Palestinian protesters blocked the traffic near the ceremony, and on the red carpet some of the candidates - including Billie Eilish - walked with a pin calling for a ceasefire. This, in the background of the ongoing war in Gaza, and the growing criticism of Israel in the United States.
One of the protesters, an unknown director named Laura Delhauer, told the New York Times that "it breaks my heart to know that taxpayers' money is being used to finance the murder of innocent citizens"