Oscars 2025 – Results: Best Picture goes to “Anora” – Brody and Madison are the big winners in acting

The 97th Academy Awards ceremonial concluded astatine the Dolby Theater successful Los Angeles, successful a dazzling nighttime honoring the apical cinematic achievements of the year, focusing connected the productions of 2024.

For the archetypal time, Emmy-winning comedian, screenwriter, and erstwhile late-night big Conan O’Brien took connected the relation of host, succeeding Jimmy Kimmel. O’Brien’s beingness brought a caller consciousness of wit and sarcasm to the Oscars stage.

Although Emilia Pérez had garnered 13 nominations and was considered the frontrunner, contention surrounding the racist remarks of its pb actress, Karla Sofía Gascón, seemed to impact its trajectory. The movie yet won lone 2 awards, disappointing its supporters.

The large victor of the nighttime was Anora, which claimed a full of 5 Oscars: Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Editing.

The evening was besides triumphant for Adrien Brody, who won the 2nd Oscar of his vocation for his show successful The Brutalist. In his acceptance speech, Brody expressed gratitude for the emotion and respect helium has received, acknowledged the unpredictable quality of acting arsenic a profession, and stated that this grant was not conscionable a milestone but a caller beginning. He shared the grant with his chap nominees, his team, collaborators, and family, dedicating portion of his code to advocating for a satellite escaped from hate, racism, and oppression.

A large upset occurred successful the Best Actress category, with Mikey Madison winning for Anora. The favourite for the grant had been Demi Moore, but the 25-year-old actress’s show was deemed arsenic exceptional.

“This feels truthful surreal,” Madison said astatine the opening of her speech. “I grew up successful Los Angeles, but Hollywood ever felt truthful acold distant from me, truthful being present successful this country contiguous is genuinely unbelievable. I privation to admit and grant the enactment idiosyncratic community,” she added. “Yes. I volition proceed to enactment and beryllium an ally. The unthinkable people, the women I had the privilege of gathering from this community, were 1 of the top gifts of this unsocial experience.”

Madison concluded her code by saying, “I besides privation to admit the thoughtful, intelligent, beautiful, and almighty enactment of my chap nominees. It is an grant to basal alongside you. This is simply a imagination travel true.”

This year’s Best Director class was peculiarly interesting, arsenic each nominees were first-time contenders for the award. Jacques Audiard (Emilia Pérez), Sean Baker (Anora), Brady Corbet (The Brutalist), Coralie Fargeat (The Substance), and James Mangold (A Complete Unknown) competed for the coveted statuette, bringing caller and bold storytelling to cinema. The eventual victor of the nighttime was Sean Baker, who took location 3 awards successful full for Anora.

Zoe Saldana won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her show successful the musical-thriller Emilia Pérez, which tells the communicative of a Mexican cause lord who undergoes a sex transition. The 46-year-old histrion became the archetypal Dominican Republic-born performer to triumph an Oscar, having antecedently earned a Golden Globe, a BAFTA, and a Screen Actors Guild (SAG) grant for the aforesaid role.

In the Best Supporting Actor category, Kieran Culkin took location the Oscar for his relation successful A Real Pain, wherever helium portrays a delicate American Jew traveling to Poland with his relative to grant their grandmother’s memory. The 42-year-old histrion was the category’s frontrunner, and his Oscar was awarded during the archetypal large presumption of the night.

Here is the database of winners:
Best Picture

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

Best Director

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

Best Actor

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

Best Actress

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

Best Supporting Actress

Winner: Zoe Saldana – Emilia Pérez
Monica Barbaro – A Complete Unknown
Ariana Grande – Wicked
Felicity Jones – The Brutalist
Isabella Rossellini – Conclave

Best Supporting Actor

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

Best Original Screenplay

Winner: Anora
The Brutalist
A Real Pain
September 5
The Substance

Best Adapted Screenplay

Winner: Conclave
A Complete Unknown
Emilia Pérez
Nickel Boys
Sing Sing

Best International Feature Film

Winner: 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 Film

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

Best Animated Short Film

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

Best Costume Design

Winner: Wicked
A Complete Unknown
Conclave
Gladiator II
Nosferatu

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

Winner: The Substance
A Different Man
Emilia Pérez
Nosferatu
Wicked

Best Film Editing

Winner: Anora
The Brutalist
Conclave
Emilia Pérez
Wicked

Best Production Design

Winner: Wicked
The Brutalist
Conclave
Dune: Part Two
Nosferatu

Best Documentary Feature

Winner: No Other Land
Black Box Diaries
Porcelain War
Soundtrack to a Coup d’État
Sugarcane

Best Documentary Short Film

Winner: The Only Girl successful the Orchestra
Death by Numbers
I Am Ready, Warden
Incident
Instruments of a Beating Heart

Best Original Score

Winner: The Brutalist
Conclave
Emilia Pérez
Wicked
The Wild Robot

Best Original Song

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

Best Sound

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

Best Visual Effects

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

Best Live-Action Short Film

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

Best Cinematography

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