The 97th annual Academy Awards were hosted last night by talk show personality Conan O’Brien live from Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre.
There were two notable wins of the night. “Flow” won Best Animated Film and brought Latvia its first Academy Award. Additionally, “No Other Land” won Best Documentary Feature Film, highlighting the Israeli military’s destruction of the director’s hometown, Masafer Yatta.
Sean Baker’s “Anora” won five Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Brady Corbet’s “The Brutalist” was up next with three.
The show kicked off with a medley of music from “Wicked” stars Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande. The pair sang “Somewhere Over the Rainbow,” “Home” and “Defying Gravity.”
Following the performance, O’Brien took the stage and set the mood with his opening monologue. He poked fun at several moments in the film industry throughout the year. O’Brien then broke into a song about ensuring that the Oscars run smoothly and don’t waste viewers’ time.
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Unfortunately, it seems that the show’s crew didn’t receive the memo. This year’s ceremony felt bloated and reached for any sort of time filler.
Unlike previous ceremonies, this year’s event lacked the live performances of the nominees in the “Best Original Song” category.
What audiences instead received was a tribute to James Bond with renditions of some of the series’ most popular songs sung by BLACKPINK’s LISA, Doja Cat and Raye.
While this tribute was visually and audibly impressive, it felt like nothing more than fluff to pad the time in an already slow-paced ceremony.
Other moments between awards featured skits starring O’Brien and a performance from Queen Latifah honoring producer and composer Quincy Jones with a rendition of “Ease on Down the Road” from 1987’s “The Wiz.”
A complete list of winners and nominees is listed below.
Best Picture
“Anora” — WINNER
“The Brutalist”
“A Complete Unknown”
“Conclave”
“Dune: Part Two”
“Emilia Pérez”
“I’m Still Here”
“Nickel Boys”
“The Substance”
“Wicked”
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Mikey Madison — “Anora” — WINNER
Cynthia Erivo — “Wicked”
Karla Sofía Gascón — “Emilia Pérez”
Demi Moore — “The Substance”
Fernanda Torres — “I’m Still Here”
Best Actor in a Leading Role
Adrien Brody — “The Brutalist” — WINNER
Timothée Chalamet — “A Complete Unknown”
Colman Domingo — “Sing Sing”
Ralph Fiennes — “Conclave”
Sebastian Stan — “The Apprentice”
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Zoe Saldaña — “Emilia Pérez” — WINNER
Monica Barbaro — “A Complete Unknown”
Ariana Grande — “Wicked”
Felicity Jones — “The Brutalist”
Isabella Rossellini — “Conclave”
Best Supporting Actor
Kieran Culkin — “A Real Pain” — WINNER
Yura Borisov — “Anora”
Edward Norton — “A Complete Unknown”
Guy Pearce — “The Brutalist”
Jeremy Strong — “The Apprentice”
Best Director
Sean Baker — “Anora” — WINNER
Brady Corbet — “The Brutalist”
James Mangold — “A Complete Unknown”
Jacques Audiard — “Emilia Pérez”
Coralie Fargeat — “The Substance”
Best Original Screenplay
“Anora” — WINNER
“The Brutalist”
“A Real Pain”
“September 5”
“The Substance”
Best Adapted Screenplay
“Conclave” — WINNER
“A Complete Unknown”
“Emilia Pérez”
“Nickel Boys”
“Sing Sing”
Best Cinematography
Lol Crawley — “The Brutalist” — WINNER
Greig Fraser — “Dune: Part Two”
Paul Guillaume — “Emilia Pérez”
Edward Lachman — “Maria”
Jarin Blaschke — “Nosferatu”
Best Original Score
“The Brutalist” — WINNER
“Conclave”
“Emilia Pérez”
“Wicked”
“The Wild Robot”
Best Original Song
“El Mal” — “Emilia Pérez” — WINNER
“The Journey” — “The Six Triple Eight”
“Like a Bird” — “Sing Sing”
“Mi Camino” — “Emilia Pérez”
“Never Too Late” — “Elton John: Never Too Late”
Best Editing
“Anora” — WINNER
“The Brutalist”
“Conclave”
“Emilia Pérez”
“Wicked”
Best Production Design
“Wicked” — WINNER
“The Brutalist”
“Conclave”
“Dune: Part Two”
“Nosferatu”
Best Costume Design
“Wicked” — WINNER
“A Complete Unknown”
“Conclave”
“Gladiator II”
“Nosferatu”
Best Makeup and Hairstyling
“The Substance” — WINNER
“A Different Man”
“Emilia Pérez”
“Nosferatu”
“Wicked”
Best Sound
“Dune: Part Two” — WINNER
“A Complete Unknown”
“Emilia Pérez”
“Wicked”
“The Wild Robot”
Best Visual Effects
“Dune: Part Two” — WINNER
“Alien: Romulus”
“Better Man”
“Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes”
“Wicked”
Best International Feature
“I’m Still Here” (Brazil) — WINNER
“The Girl with the Needle” (Denmark)
“Emilia Pérez” (France)
“The Seed of the Sacred Fig” (Germany)
“Flow” (Latvia)
Best Animated Feature
“Flow” — WINNER
“Inside Out 2”
“Memoir of a Snail”
“Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl”
“The Wild Robot”
Best Animated Short
“In the Shadow of the Cypress” — WINNER
“Beautiful Men”
“Magic Candies”
“Wander to Wonder”
“Yuck!”
Best Live—Action Short
“I’m Not a Robot” — WINNER
“A Lien”
“Anuja”
“The Last Ranger”
“The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent”
Best Documentary Feature
“No Other Land” — WINNER
“Black Box Diaries”
“Porcelain War”
“Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat”
“Sugarcane”
Best Documentary Short
“The Only Girl in the Orchestra” — WINNER
“Death By Numbers”
“I Am Ready, Warden”
“Incident”
“Instruments of a Beating Heart”
