'Anora' bags Best Picture Oscar
Sean Baker's Anora won the Best Picture Oscar. This is the fifth trophy bagged by the film at this year's awards ceremony.
Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan present Best Picture Oscar
Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan took the stage to present the Oscar for Best Picture. They introduced the nominees, which included Anora, The Brutalist, Conclave, Dune: Part 2, Emilia Perez, I'm Still Here, Nickel Boys, The Substance, Wicked.
'Anora' star Mikey Madison wins Best Actress
Anora star Mikey Madison won the Best Actress Oscar. The Sean Baker directorial stars her as a sex worker in a troubled marriage with Mark Eydelshteyn's Vanya Zakharov, the son of a Russian oligarch. Demi Moore was the frontrunner in the category.
In her acceptance speech, Madison paid a tribute to the community of sex workers.
Emma Stone to present the award for Best Actress
Emma Stone will present the award for Best Actress. She won the category last year for her performance in Poor Things.
Fernanda Torres, Demi Moore, Mikey Madison, Cynthia Erivo and Karla Sofia Gascon are nominated for Best Actress Oscar.
Sean Baker wins Best Director trophy for 'Anora'
Sean Baker won his third award at this year's ceremony. He bagged the Best Director trophy for Anora. He had previously bagged the trophies for Best Original Screenplay and Best Editing.
Quentin Tarantino is set to present the Oscar for best director
Quentin Tarantino will present the Oscar for Best Director.
Adrien Brody wins Best Actor trophy for 'The Brutalist'
Adrien Brody won the Oscar for Best Actor for Brady Corbet's The Brutalist. In the film, Brody plays László Tóth, a Hungarian-Jewish Holocaust survivor who immigrates to the United States. This is Brody's second Best Actor trophy. He won his first trophy for The Pianist in 2002. The Best Actor trophy also marks The Brutalist's third win at this year's ceremony.
Cillian Murphy to present Best Actor trophy
Cillian Murphy, who won the Best Actor trophy for Oppenheimer last year, introduced the nominees for the category.
Queen Latifah performs The Wiz song
American rapper-singer Queen Latifah set the stage on fire with a rendition of a song from the 1978 musical fantasy film The Wiz.
Hollywood legends Oprah Winfrey and Whoopi Goldberg get standing ovation
Hollywood legends Oprah Winfrey and Whoopi Goldberg got a standing ovation as they took the stage to introduce a special tribute to Quincy Jones.
Daniel Blumberg wins Best Original Score for 'The Brutalist'
The Oscar for the Best Original Score was handed out by Stars Wars actor Mark Hamill to Daniel Blumberg for The Brutalist. This is the second win tonight for Brady Corbet's film.
Brazilian film 'I'm Still Here' bags Best International Feature Film
Actress Penelope Cruz presented the Oscar for Best International Film. The trophy was bagged by Brazilian film I'm Still Here. The film trumps Emilia Perez, which has won in the category at major awards including BAFTA, Golden Globe and Critics Choice.
India's entry for the Best International Feature category, Laapataa Ladies, failed to get shortlisted at the Oscars. The Kiran Rao-directed social satire released in theatres a year ago on March 1.
Lol Crawley wins Best Cinematographer Oscar for 'The Brutalist'
Joe Alwyn, Alba Rohrwacher, Zoe Saldana, Willem Dafoe and Dave Bautista presented the Oscar for Best Cinematographer, introducing the nominees from their respective films.
The trophy was bagged by Lol Crawley for Brady Corbet's The Brutalist, starring Adrien Brody as a Hungarian-Jewish Holocaust survivor who immigrates to the United States.
This marked the film's first win at this year's awards ceremony.
Morgan Freeman pays tribute to Gene Hackman
Morgan Freeman paid a tribute to Gene Hackman. Hackman and his wife Betsy Arakawa were found dead at their home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on February 27.
Michelle Trachtenberg was missing in the Oscar In Memorium montage which featured legends like Maggie Smith, James Earl Jones.
Priyanka Chopra-backed 'Anuja' fails to bag Best Short Film trophy
Sterling K. Brown and Ana de Armas presented the Oscar for Best Live Action Short. Anuja, backed by Priyanka Chopra, Guneet Monga and Mindy Kaling, was nominated but failed to bag the trophy. The award was won by Victoria Warmerdam's I'm Not A Robot (2023).
'Dune: Part 2' bags a second Oscar, this time for Best Visual Effects.
Dune Part 2 bagged a second trophy for Best Visual Effects. The film also stars Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson, Josh Brolin, Stellan Skarsgård, Dave Bautista, Charlotte Rampling and Javier Bardem in key roles.
Rachel Zegler and Gal Gadot handed out the Oscar for Visual Effects to Paul Lambert, Stephen James, Rhys Salcombe and Gerd Nefzer.
'Dune: Part 2' wins Oscar for Best Sound
Gareth John, Richard King, Ron Bartlett, and Doug Hemphill win the Oscar for Best Sound for Dune Part 2. This is the first award for Denis Villeneuve's sci-fi epic starring Timothee Chalamet at this year's awards ceremony.
Miles Teller and Miley Cyrus indulge in banter as they present Oscar for Best Sound
Miles Teller and Miley Cyrus indulged in a banter on stage as they presented the Oscar for Best Sound. "Sound is what I do, Miles," Miley told her co-presenter.
The Academy honours first responders from the Los Angeles wildfires
The Academy honoured the first responders from the Los Angeles wildfires. As the officers took stage at the 97th Oscars, the audience gave them a standing ovation.
'No Other Land' wins the trophy for Best Documentary Film
No Other Land (2024) clinched the award for Best Documentary Film. Directed by Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, the film is based on the Israel-Palestine conflict.
In The Shadow of the Cypress won Best Animated Short Film. On the other hand, Flow bagged the trophy for Best Animated Film
