Academy Awards: All the winners and losers from the Oscars ceremony celebrating the best in film industry
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Anora was crowned best picture and won five of the six awards for which it was nominated.
Its lead star Mikey Madison pulled off an upset when she beat out Demi Moore in best actress but there was no stopping the Anora momentum.
Its writer, director, producer and editor Sean Baker equalled a 1954 record set by Walt Disney of the most wins by one person in a single year.
But even with Anora’s triumph, it was a year that rewarded many films, reflecting the unpredictable and open race nature of this awards season.
The Brutalist, which went in with 10 nominations, won three gongs including best actor for Adrien Brody, as well as in cinematography and original score.
Emilia Perez picked up two, one for Zoe Saldana in the supporting actress competition and the other in original song. Wicked won two technical awards for costume design and production design while Dune: Part Two won in sound and visual effects.
Conclave, the other best picture leading contender, won in adapted screenplay.
Kieran Culkin won in supporting actor for A Real Pain, the only person who managed to beat Anora in any category.
In international feature, Brazilian film I’m Still Here beat out Emilia Perez and The Seed of the Sacred Fig while Latvian film Flow pulled off a surprise win in animated feature.
The ceremony was hosted by Conan O’Brien and featured an opening performance from Wicked’s Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande.
In a break from tradition, none of the nominated original songs were performed but, hey, everyone cares more about “Defying Gravity” (which is not eligible because it originated on Broadway) while there were also musical tributes to Quincy Jones and the James Bond franchise.
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Key Events
It's Bond, James Bond
One of Hollywood’s remaining first-class franchises that hasn’t YET been milked to death, James Bond, gets its own song-and-dance number.
It opens with an introduction from Bond girl Halle Berry before it transitions into a clips package and then into Margaret Qualley dancing with a throng of tuxedo-ed men, because, well, because they could?
Lisa from BlackPink then does a rendition of “Live and Let Die” before Doja Cat comes out to belt Shirley Bassey’s iconic “Diamonds are Forever”, then Raye takes on Adele’s “Skyfall
Last month, Amazon MGM took over creative control of the franchise from Eon Productions, whose owners, the Broccoli family, had overseen the films for more than six decades.
This segment was locked out in before the news - Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson were given an honourary Oscar earlier in the year - but the timing kind of works as a capper to an era of Bond movies.
Fans and the industry have expressed unease over a streaming platform taking over a storied franchise and exploiting it to the point of exhaustion with endless TV spin-offs.
At the end of the segment, the camera cuts to Ralph Fiennes, who has been in the past three Bond films. If the Oscar voters had nominated Daniel Craig for his performance in Queer, they could’ve cut to him, but, alas, they didn’t so they couldn’t.
The Substance takes make-up and hairstyling
The Substance is a body horror film and the make-up was literally horrifying as Demi Moore’s character ages in the most extreme way.
The winning team have little nods to the colour of the liquid Moore’s character injects into herself.
MAKE-UP AND HAIRSTYLING
A Different Man
Emilia Perez
Nosferatu
The Substance - WINNER
Wicked
Conclave wins adapted screenplay election
Conclave picked up the Oscar for adapted screenplay, which also keeps it in play for the best picture.
It’s writer Peter Straughan’s first Oscar but second nomination. He thanked author Robert Harris, whose book the film was based on.
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
James Mangold and Jay Cocks, A Complete Unknown
Peter Straughan, Conclave - WINNER
Jacques Audiard, Thomas Bidegain, Lea Mysius and Nicholas Livecchi, Emilia Perez
Ramell Ross and Joslyn Barnes, Nickel Boys
Clint Bentley, Greg Kewdar, Clarence Maclin and John “Divine G” Whitfield, Sing Sing
Anora takes out original screenplay
Sean Baker has won the first of the four Oscars he’s nominated for this year.
A win here for Anora is also a great sign of wider momentum and love for the film. Often the path to best picture goes through screenplay.
Baker paid tribute to lead star, Mikey Madison, “Mikey, you elevated everything I wrote and made me look very good. Thank you.”
He also mentioned the sex worker community who “shared their stories, they shared their live experience with me over the years.
“My deepest respect, thank you, I share this with you.”
Baker has previously told the stories of sex workers in Tangerine, in addition to Anora.
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Sean Baker, Anora - WINNER
Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold, The Brutalist
Jesse Eisenberg, A Real Pain
Moritz Binder, Tim Fehlbaum and Alex David, September 5
Coralie Fargeat, The Substance
Wicked takes its first
Wicked just picked up its first Oscar, for Paul Tazewell’s costume design. He is the first Black man to win in this category, and when Tazewell points this out, he gets a standing ovation.
Crazy these records are still being broken, but they are.
COSTUME DESIGN
A Complete Unknown
Conclave
Gladiator II
Nosferatu
Wicked - WINNER
Iranian winners didn’t even have their visa yesterday
Iranian animated short In the Shadow of the Cypress won in its category and its charming filmmakers revealed they only landed at LAX three hours earlier.
They didn’t hadn’t even been approved for their visa until the day before.
“Until yesterday, we hadn’t even obtained our visa and we were totally disappointed. Now we are standing here with this statuette in our hands.
“Just the fact that we managed to make this film under the extraordinary circumstances of our country is a miracle. If you remain faithful, miracles do happen.
“We’re going to dedicate our film and this precious award to all those who are still fighting the inner and outer battles, heroically and nobody knows about it. Especially to our fellow Iranians who are still suffering.”
Another Iranian film, The Seed of the Sacred Fig, is nominated in international feature but that movie was submitted by Germany after its filmmaker, Mohammad Rasoulof, went into political exile.
ANIMATED SHORT FILM
Beautiful Men
In the Shadow of the Cypress - WINNER
Magic Candies
Wander to Wonder
Yuck!
Flow beats The Wild Robot
Little Latvian film Flow just beat out Dreamworks juggernaut The Wild Robot to win animated feature.
It’s the first time any Latvian film has been nominated at the Oscars, and the movie is also up in the international feature category.
The film is about a cat’s adventure in a post-human, flooded world in which a pack of animals band together for survival. It’s dialogue-free.
Flow’s co-writer and director Gints Zilbalodis said, “Thank you to my mum and dad. Thank you to my cats and dogs. I’m really moved by the warm reception our film has had and I think and I hope that it will open more doors to independent animation filmmakers around the world.”
Flow was reportedly made for 3.5 million euros, and will be released in Australia on March 20.
ANIMATED FEATURE
Flow - WINNER
Inside Out 2
Memoir of a Snail
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
The Wild Robot
Kieran Culkin propositions his wife
As expected, Kieran Culkin wins for A Real Pain, and graciously singles out his Succession brother Jeremy Strong for his performance in The Apprentice.
He also drops two F bombs within the first 10 seconds because Culkin is pure chaos, and we love it.
Culkin is also, apparently, expanding his brood of two kids to four after extracting another public promise from his wife, Jazz Charlton.
“About a year ago, I very publicly (on stage at the Emmys) that I want a third kid from her because she said if I won the award she would give me the kid. Turns out she said that because you didn’t think I was going to win.
“People were really annoying her and I think it got to her. After the show, we walked into the parking lot, she was holding the Emmy. (Manager) Emily (Saines), you were there, you’re witness.
“(Jazz) realised she did say that and she said she owed me a third kid. I said that I really want that. She turned to me and said that she would give me a fourth when I win an Oscar.
“I held out my hand and she shook it. I’ve not brought it up once until just now. Honey, love of my life, ye of little faith, no pressure, I love you, I’m really sorry I did this to you again, and let’s get cracking on those kids? What do you say? I love you.”
With that, kids, ask your parents how that happens.
SUPPORTING ACTOR
Yura Borisov, Anora
Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain - WINNER
Edward Norton, A Complete Unknown
Guy Pearce, The Brutalist
Jeremy Strong, The Apprentice
Adam Sandler invites everyone for basketball
Conan O’Brien has a little help from buddy Adam Sandler during his opening monologue, with Sandler appearing as a heightened (or truthful) version of himself. He’s decked out in a hoodie and shorts.
“I like the way I look and I’m a good person! I don’t care about what I wear or what I don’t wear! My snazzy gym shorts and fluffy sweatshirts offend you so much that you have to mock me in front of my peers!”
Sandler leaves in dramatic fashion but not before approaching Timothee Chalamet with a callback to a Golden Globes joke. He screams, “Chalamaaaaaaaaay!”
Conan’s Gascon zinger!
Conan O’Brien is on form.
He couldn’t resist this little dig at Karla Sofia Gascon.
“I love Anora. I really did. True story. A little fact for you - Anora uses the F word 479 times. That’s three more than the record set by Karla Sofia Gascon’s publicist. ‘She did what?!’.
“I’m having fun. Karla Sofia Gascon is here tonight. If you are going to tweet about the Oscars, remember my name is Jimmy Kimmel.”
