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  • Oscars: 97th Academy Award Winners in Main Categories

    Oscars: 97th Academy Award Winners in Main Categories

    Here are the winners in key categories for the 97th Academy Awards (Oscars), which were handed out in Hollywood on Sunday.

    “Anora” was the big winner of the night, with five Oscars: best picture, best director, best actress, best film editing, and best original screenplay.

    Best picture: “Anora”

    Best director: Sean Baker, “Anora”

    Best actor: Adrien Brody, “The Brutalist”

    Best actress: Mikey Madison, “Anora”

    Best supporting actor: Kieran Culkin, “A Real Pain”

    Best supporting actress: Zoe Saldana, “Emilia Perez”

    Best original screenplay: Sean Baker, “Anora”

    Best adapted screenplay: Peter Straughan, “Conclave”

    Best international feature film: “I’m Still Here” (Brazil)

    Best animated feature: “Flow”

    Best documentary feature: “No Other Land”

    Best film editing: Sean Baker, “Anora”

    Best costume design: Paul Tazewell, “Wicked”

    Best production design: Nathan Crowley and Lee Sanders, “Wicked”

    Best makeup and hairstyling: “The Substance”

    Best original song: Clement Ducol, Camille and Jacques Audiard, “El Mal” from “Emilia Perez”

  • List Of Nominations In Full For Oscars 2025

    List Of Nominations In Full For Oscars 2025

    Hollywood has revealed the nominations for this year’s Oscars, which will honour the film industry’s finest stars and movies from the past 12 months.

    The announcement was going to be last week but was postponed twice due to fires in the Los Angeles area.

    Best picture

    • Anora
    • The Brutalist
    • A Complete Unknown
    • Conclave
    • Dune: Part Two
    • Emilia Pérez
    • I’m Still Here
    • Nickel Boys
    • The Substance
    • Wicked

    Best actor

    • Adrien Brody – The Brutalist
    • Timothée Chalamet – A Complete Unknown
    • Colman Domingo – Sing Sing
    • Ralph Fiennes – Conclave
    • Sebastian Stan – The Apprentice

    Best actress

    • Cynthia Erivo – Wicked
    • Karla Sofía Gascón – Emilia Pérez
    • Mikey Madison – Anora
    • Demi Moore – The Substance
    • Fernanda Torres – I’m Still Here

    Best supporting actress

    • Monica Barbaro – A Complete Unknown
    • Ariana Grande – Wicked
    • Felicity Jones – The Brutalist
    • Isabella Rossellini – Conclave
    • Zoe Saldaña – Emilia Pérez

    Best supporting actor

    • Yura Borisov – Anora
    • Kieran Culkin – A Real Pain
    • Edward Norton – A Complete Unknown
    • Guy Pearce – The Brutalist
    • Jeremy Strong – The Apprentice

    Best director

    • Jacques Audiard – Emilia Pérez
    • Sean Baker – Anora
    • Brady Corbet – The Brutalist
    • Coralie Fargeat – The Substance
    • James Mangold – A Complete Unknown

    Best adapted screenplay

    • A Complete Unknown – Jay Cocks and James Mangold
    • Conclave – Peter Straughan
    • Emilia Pérez – Jacques Audiard
    • Nickel Boys – RaMell Ross and Joslyn Barnes
    • Sing Sing – Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar

    Best original screenplay

    • Anora – Sean Baker
    • The Brutalist – Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold
    • A Real Pain – Jesse Eisenberg
    • September 5 – Moritz Binder, Tim Fehlbaum, Alex David
    • The Substance – Coralie Fargeat

    Best original song

    • Never Too Late – Elton John: Never Too Late
    • El Mal – Emilia Pérez
    • Mi Camino – Emilia Pérez
    • Like A Bird – Sing Sing
    • The Journey – The Six Triple Eight

    Best original score

    • The Brutalist
    • Conclave
    • Emilia Pérez
    • Wicked
    • The Wild Robot

    Best international feature

    • I’m Still Here – Brazil
    • The Girl with the Needle – Denmark
    • Emilia Pérez – France
    • The Seed of the Sacred Fig – Germany
    • Flow – Latvia

    Best animated feature

    • Flow
    • Inside Out 2
    • Memoir of a Snail
    • Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
    • The Wild Robot

    Best documentary feature

    • Black Box Diaries
    • No Other Land
    • Porcelain War
    • Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
    • Sugarcane

    Best costume design

    • Wicked
    • Nosferatu
    • A Complete Unknown
    • Conclave
    • Gladiator II

    Best make-up and hairstyling

    • A Different Man
    • Emilia Pérez
    • Nosferatu
    • The Substance
    • Wicked

    Best production design

    • Wicked
    • The Brutalist
    • Dune: Part Two
    • Nosferatu
    • Conclave

    Best sound

    • A Complete Unknown
    • Dune: Part Two
    • Emilia Pérez
    • Wicked
    • The Wild Robot

    Best film editing

    • Anora
    • The Brutalist
    • Conclave
    • Emilia Pérez
    • Wicked

    Best cinematography

    • The Brutalist
    • Dune: Part Two
    • Emilia Pérez
    • Maria
    • Nosferatu

    Best visual effects

    • Alien: Romulus
    • Better Man
    • Dune: Part Two
    • Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
    • Wicked

    Best live action short

    • Anuja
    • I’m Not a Robot
    • The Last Ranger
    • A Lien
    • The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent

    Best animated short

    • Beautiful Men
    • In the Shadow of the Cypress
    • Magic Candies
    • Wander to Wonder
    • Yuck!

    Best documentary short

    • Death by Numbers
    • I Am Ready, Warden
    • Incident
    • Instruments of a Beating Heart
    • The Only Girl in the Orchestra
  • Police Were Ready To Arrest Will Smith But It Was Chris Rock Who Stopped Them

    Police Were Ready To Arrest Will Smith But It Was Chris Rock Who Stopped Them

    (Reuters) – Los Angeles police were on site and ready to arrest actor Will Smith at the Academy Awards on Sunday for slapping presenter Chris Rock, the producer of the Hollywood ceremony said on Thursday.

    The authorities did take not any action because Rock declined to press charges, producer Will Packer said, echoing what a police spokesperson said on Sunday.

    “They were saying, you know, this is battery, was a word they used in that moment,” Packer said in excerpts from an interview that will air Friday on ABC’s “Good Morning America.”

    “They said, we will go get him. We are prepared. We’re prepared to get him right now,” Packer added.

    During the live Oscars telecast, Smith strode up to the stage after Rock made a joke about the appearance of Smith’s wife, then smacked the comedian’s face.

    Less than an hour later, Smith gave a tearful speech on stage as he accepted the best actor trophy for his role in “King Richard.”

    Behind the scenes, police were discussing options with Rock, Packer said.

    Rock “was being very dismissive of those options. He was like, ‘No, no, no, I’m fine.’ And even to the point where I said, ‘Rock, let them finish,’” Packer added.

    Representatives for Rock did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

    Smith apologized to Rock, producers and viewers in a statement on Monday, saying he had “reacted emotionally”. read more

    Rock’s joke about Smith’s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, made a reference to the 1997 film “G.I. Jane” in which actress Demi Moore shaved her head. It was unclear whether Rock was aware that Jada Pinkett Smith has a condition that causes hair loss.

    A police spokesman said Sunday night that the individual involved in the incident had declined to press charges, but did not provide details about the interactions at the awards show.