Breakthrough Prize Ceremony: Scientists and Stars Come Together | The Hollywood Reporter

Robert Downey Jr., Gal Gadot and John Legend helped to celebrate scientists, including Clifford Brangwynne and Anthony Hyman for discoveries seeded at MBL, as $15.75 million prizes were awarded.

The , which honors “scientists changing the world” with sizable cash prizes, came to Hollywood for the first time on Saturday night, having previously been held in San Francisco — and the world’s top innovators were surrounded by more stars than one can see in a telescope.

The ninth edition of the event — which was founded and is financially supported by Sergey Brin, Priscilla Chan and , Julia Milner and Yuri Milner and Anne Wojcicki, and has come to be known as “the Oscars of science” — took place on the open-air roof of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.

James Corden hosted, as has been the case in previous years; presenters included Kristen Bell, Lily Collins, Danny DeVito, Robert Downey Jr. (alongside Zuckerberg), Gal Gadot, Ashton Kutcher, Brie Larson, Edward Norton, Leslie Odom Jr., Chris Pine and Chloe Zhao; John Legend and will.i.am performed; and audience members included Christina Aguilera, Vin Diesel, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Mila Kunis, Lionel Richie and Maria Sharapova.

But the real toasts of the night were the scientists.