Key occasions
WINNER! JESSIE BUCKLEY, BEST ACTRESS
WINNER! MICHAEL B JORDAN, BEST ACTOR
WINNER! PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON, BEST DIRECTING
WINNER! GOLDEN, BEST ORIGINAL SONG
WINNER! SENTIMENTAL VALUE, BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE
WINNER! SINNERS, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
WINNER! ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER, BEST EDITING
WINNER! F1, BEST SOUND
WINNER! SINNERS, BEST SCORE
WINNER! MR NOBODY AGAINST PUTIN, BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE FILM
WINNER! ALL THE EMPTY ROOMS, BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM
WINNER! AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH, BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
WINNER! FRANKENSTEIN, BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
WINNER! SINNERS, BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
WINNER! ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER, BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
WINNER! SEAN PENN, BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
WINNER! TWO PEOPLE EXCHANGING SALIVA, (ALSO) BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM
WINNER! THE SINGERS, BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM
WINNER! CASSANDRA KULUKUNDIS, BEST CASTING
WINNER! FRANKENSTEIN, BEST MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
WINNER! FRANKENSTEIN, BEST COSTUME DESIGN
WINNER! THE GIRL WHO CRIED PEARLS, BEST ANIMATED SHORT
WINNER! KPOP DEMON HUNTERS, BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
WINNER! AMY MADIGAN, BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
The ceremony begins
And the Oscar goes to … you! And us!
WINNER! JESSIE BUCKLEY, BEST ACTRESS
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Hamnet’s sole Oscar is the one everybody knew it could win. Buckley seems shellshocked as she walks to the stage, then begins laughing with disbelief as she begins to speak. It’s a standard speech, stuffed with thanks, however its being delivered with such explosive depth which you can’t assist however be swept up by it.
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“We’re almost there,” whispers Conan O’Brien to himself, presumably with out realising that the digicam was on him. Honestly, right now of night time I do know precisely how he feels. Anyway, simply two awards left now.
WINNER! MICHAEL B JORDAN, BEST ACTOR
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Tremendous. This complete race has been pitched between Chalamet and DiCaprio, and it regarded as if Jordan’s unimaginable work in Sinners – taking part in each conceivable emotion in two alternative ways – was going to be neglected. And but now he’s on stage holding an Oscar. He thanks his mother and father, and Ryan Coogler, and the solid, and the Black actors who got here earlier than him. It appears inconceivable that this would be the final Oscar he wins, too. What a expertise.
WINNER! PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON, BEST DIRECTING
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We’re all the way down to the final 4 large awards of the night time now, and presumably the second the place One Battle After Another breaks right into a spring. Really, this award has been a very long time coming, and PTA acknowledges this early on. He additionally mentions his late artistic accomplice Adam Sumner, as he has all through awards season. He’s audibly nervous, however talks of his love of working with a crew. Well deserved.
WINNER! GOLDEN, BEST ORIGINAL SONG
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A win for OkayPop Demon Hunters! Ejae, Mark Sonnenblick, Joong Gyu Kwak, Yu Han Lee, Hee Dong Nam, Jeong Hoon Seo and Teddy Park settle for, an array of winners that basically makes me want I used to be paid by the phrase. And they’re performed off.
Oh wow, they’re correctly performed off as nicely. As quickly as one of many writers began speaking, the microphone was retracted, the lights went off and no quantity of protesting may deliver them again. That’s the primary time this has occurred tonight, and it has to sting.
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Ohhhh, it’s as a result of Lionel Richie is the following presenter. “I’m back, I’m back, I’m back,” says Richie, to a world viewers largely unaware that he had been away.
WINNER! SENTIMENTAL VALUE, BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE
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Joachim Trier accepts. It’s a extremely well-liked win for a movie that, regardless of all its nominations, regarded set to vanish with out hint tonight. Trier speaks warmly and simply to his household, shouts out his fellow nominees after which paraphrases James Baldwin. And then he’s performed off to an instrumental model of Say You, Say Me by Lionel Richie.
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Here’s Priyanka Chopra and Javier Bardem to current best worldwide function. I used to be going to say that the YouTube commenter will lastly be glad, however Bardem started by shouting “free Palestine”, in order that’s most likely a bit extra newsworthy.
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Oh, it’s over. That felt extraordinarily truncated. Go to mattress youngsters. You’ve bought college in six hours.
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And now, for any British youngsters who’re inexplicably nonetheless awake at 2am, right here’s the much-anticipated OkayPop Demon Hunters efficiency. It begins with loads of conventional Korean dance, after which HUNTR/X flip up and sing Golden, which stays as a lot of a banger because it did the day the movie got here out.
And now I do know what the maraca was. Everyone within the viewers has one, and so they’re lighting up in time with the music. Somewhere within the room you’re taking a look at, at this exact second in time, venerable Guardian movie reviewer Peter Bradshaw goes completely bonkers on a maraca.
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While Autumn Durald Arkapaw makes her speech, Ryan Coogler runs to the again of the auditorium and grabs (I believe) her son. She makes all the opposite girls within the viewers rise up. In a large shot, we see that one of many girls is holding an enormous maraca.
WINNER! SINNERS, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
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Another small second of Oscars historical past, since Autumn Durald Arkapaw turns into the primary lady to ever win a cinematography award.
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And now right here’s Demi Moore, dressed as some seaweed, to current best cinematography.
WINNER! ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER, BEST EDITING
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Andy Jurgensen accepts on what’s quickly changing into One Battle After Another’s night time. Jurgensen tells his mates to binge drink, earlier than sincerely thanking everybody from his colleagues to his mother and father, to his aunt who labored on the Academy. Very pretty.
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Bill and Lewis Pullman (the Pullmen, if you’ll) are right here to announce the modifying awards. It in a short time turns right into a psychodrama about father-son expectations. Weirdly, it’s so stilted that I’m now left believing that the Pullmen have by no means truly met one another earlier than this night.
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And now for the boring half the place somebody from the Academy comes ahead and tells everybody how sensible the Academy is. She’s speaking about awards and museums and the truth that she has met Tom Cruise. And I imply you most likely would brag about that, wouldn’t you?
