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PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images Sean Baker won best director at the 97th Academy Awards on Sunday night. This was his third Oscar win of the night for his film Anora. He also won for his original screenplay and for editing the movie. It was his first nomination in the best director category. Later […]

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences The 97th Academy Awards, hosted by Conan O’Brien, aired live from the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on Sunday, March 2. Anora was the night’s big winner, taking home five Oscars including best picture, best director for Sean Baker and best actress for Mikey Madison. Here are the […]

Kevin Winter/Getty Images There was no clear front-runner for best picture going into Oscar night, but in the end it was the independent film Anora that grabbed the trophy, beating out The Brutalist, A Complete Unknown, Conclave, Emilia Pérez and Wicked for the top honor. “We made this with very little money but all of our hearts,” producer […]

Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images Morgan Freeman made an appearance at the 97th Academy Awards Sunday, where he paid tribute to his “dear friend” Gene Hackman. “This week, our community lost a giant. And I lost a dear friend, Gene Hackman,” Freeman began, noting the two worked on Unforgiven and Under Suspicion. “Like everyone who ever shared a […]

Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Together they’ve recorded the hit song “Born Again,” but at the 97th Academy Awards Sunday night, LISA, Doja Cat and RAYE individually took to the stage to salute Bond … James Bond. As part of a tribute to the British super spy, The Substance star […]

Kevin Winter/Getty Images The Emilia Pérez track “El Mal,” written by Clément Ducol, Camille and Jacques Audiard, nabbed the Oscar for best original song Sunday, beating out songs by Elton John, Brandi Carlile, Bernie Taupin and Andrew Watt, Diane Warren and others. “We wrote ‘El Mal’ as a song to denounce corruption,” Camille shared during her […]

Kevin Winter/Getty Images Zoe Saldaña won best supporting actress at the 97th Academy Awards on Sunday night. This was her first Oscar nomination and win. Saldaña was awarded the prize for her performance in Emilia Pérez. She was nominated alongside Monica Barbaro, Ariana Grande, Felicity Jones and Isabella Rossellini. Last year’s winner, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, took to the stage […]

Sean Baker accepts the best original screenplay award for “Anora” — Kevin Winter/Getty Images Anora, a film about a sex worker’s marriage to the son of a Russian oligarch, picked up the Oscar for best original screenplay for screenwriter Sean Baker Sunday night, marking his first-ever Oscar win. “I want to thank the sex worker […]

Kevin Winter/Getty Images Kieran Culkin won best supporting actor at the 97th Academy Awards on Sunday night for his role in A Real Pain. This was Culkin’s first-ever Oscar nomination and win. He was nominated alongside Yura Borisov, Edward Norton, Guy Pearce and Jeremy Strong. Last year’s winner, Robert Downey Jr., took to the stage to […]

Brian Vander Brug/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images It appears that Halle Berry has paid Adrien Brody back for that surprise kiss he planted on her lips when he won his best actor Oscar in 2003. As you may recall, when Adrien went onstage to accept his award for the film The Pianist he pulled presenter Halle into his […]