• OK, well that’s a wrap from us, thanks for joining us throughout the day.
• You can find a full list of all the winners here, while in-depth coverage from our team over at Yahoo US can be found here.
• Breaking it down by film, as we’ve already established Anora was the big winner of the night with five wins. See below how everyone else fared.
• Anora – 5
• The Brutalist – 3
• Emilia Perez – 2
• Dune: Part Two – 2
• Wicked – 2
• A Real Pain – 1
• Flow – 1
• No Other Land – 1
• The Only Girl in the Orchestra – 1
• I’m Still Here – 1
• The Substance – 1
• Conclave – 1
• In the Shadow of the Cypress – 1
• I’m Not a Robot – 1
• Demi Moore was seen as the front-runner to win the award for Best Actress tonight after previously winning the Golden Globe, the Critics Choice Award and the SAG award. However, Mikey Madison ended up nabbing the trophy, leading many fans of The Substance to slam the Academy for the snub.
• “Demi got robbed, end of story, she deserved better and to win,” one user wrote on X.
• Demi Moore fans have slammed the Academy after she lost out on the award for Best Actress. Photo: Getty
• “How dare they rob Demi like that?!” another angry fan lashed out. “She was more deserving of that Oscar, for #TheSubstance and also for her body of work. Not to mention, she campaigned hard for it.”
• “Demi still won everything but the Oscar. She should be proud,” a third said.

Demi Moore wins damn near every award BUT loses at the #Oscars? The Acadamy really must not like horror movies after all.

— Matt Sutton (@CosmoBubba) March 3, 2025

• What do you think?
• Well it really was Anora’s night and director Sean Baker has made Oscars history.
• He becomes the first person to win four awards for one film.
• They were Best Picture, Best Director, Best Editing and Best Original Screenplay.
• Mikey Madison’s win in the Best Actress category made it five wins on the night for the film.
• Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal presented the award for Best Picture. Photo: Getty
• When Harry Met Sally stars Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan reunited onstage to present the award for Best Film to Anora – the film was nominated for six awards and took out five of them tonight.
• The filmmakers said that they felt they were living a dream, and were surprised that this was happening to them.
• “We made this with very little money, but all of our hearts,” Samantha Quan, producer of the film said. “To all of the dreamers and the young filmmakers out there. Tell the stories you want to tell. Tell the stories that move you. I promise you you will never regret it.”
• Alex Coco, Mikey Madison, Sean Baker, Samantha Quan and the cast of Anora accept their award. Photo: Getty

To @Lilfilm and the entire Anora team, congratulations on winning Best Picture at the 2025 #Oscars. What a whirlwind. It’s amazing to see @TheAcademy recognize a romantic comedy-drama, not usually the type to win Best Picture, like this. Anora is excellent and this was deserved. pic.twitter.com/Epur2rrjz6

— Yoko Higuchi (@theYokoHiguchi) March 3, 2025

• Well it’s turning into a special night for Anora.
• Mikey Madison has taken out Best Actress for yet another win for the film.
• In a very endearing moment, she read her acceptance speech from a piece of paper.
• “This is very surreal, forgive me,” she said as she began reading.
• “I grew up in Los Angeles but Hollywood always felt so far away from me so to be here standing in this room today, is really incredible.”
• Mikey Madison wins the Oscar for Best Actress in a Leading Role for “Anora” during the Oscars show at the 97th Academy Awards in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, U.S., March 2, 2025. REUTERS/Carlos Barria
• Anora’s Sean Baker has won his third Oscar for the night, taking out Best Director after winning Best Film Editing and Best Original Screenplay.
• He used his speech to encourage his fellow filmmakers to continue making films for the big screen.
• “I’m going to take this time up here really quick to read something I’m very passionate about,” he began. “Well, first off, thank you to the Academy, this means so much. Thank you to my fellow nominees, your films are incredible, and it’s an honour to be in this category with you.”
• Sean Baker has won three awards at tonight’s Oscars. Photo: Getty
• “So we’re all here tonight and watching this broadcast because we love movies. Where did we fall in love with the movies? At the movie theatre, watching a film, watching a film in the theatre with an audience, is an experience. We can laugh together, cry together, scream and fight together, perhaps sit in devastated silence together, and in a time in which the world can feel very divided, this is more important than ever. It’s a communal experience you simply don’t get at home.
• “And right now, the theatre going experience is under threat. Movie theatres, especially independently owned theatres, are struggling, and it’s up to us to support them. During the pandemic, we lost nearly 1000 screens in the US, and we continue to lose them regularly. If we don’t reverse this trend, we’ll be losing a vital part of our culture. This is my battle cry. Filmmakers, keep making films for the big screen. I know I will.”
• He continued, “Parents, introduce your children to feature films in movie theatres, and you’ll be molding the next generation of movie lovers and filmmakers and for all of us, when we can please watch movies in the theatre and let’s keep the great tradition of the movie going experience alive and well. And one last thing my mother introduced me to cinema at five years old. Today is also her birthday. Happy birthday, Mom, I love you, thank you for everything. And this is for you.”
• Adrien Brody has won his second Best Actor award, 22 years on from his first win.
• Brody was emotional as he was handed the Oscar for his performance in The Brutalist.
• “I feel so fortunate,” he told the audience.
• “Acting is a very fragile profession. It looks very glamorous, and in certain moments it is, but the one thing that I have gained, having the privilege to come back here, it to have some perspective.
• And no matter where you are in your career, no matter what you have accomplished, it can all go away. And I think what makes this night most special, is the awareness of that.”
• And as the music began to close his acceptance speech, Brody called for it to be turned off in a moment the crowd certainly enjoyed.
• “I am wrapping up. Please turn the music off, I have done this before! It is not my first rodeo,” he said, prompting widespread laughter.
• Adrien Brody held off tears as he claimed his second Oscar. Source: Reuters
• OK, the awards are being handed out pretty rapidly here, and now we’ve the four big ones to go. Sit tight.
• Well you didn’t think we’d go an evening without mention of the US president, did you?
• Host Conan O’Brien appears to have taken a swipe at Donald Trump and his growing alliance with Russian president Vladimir Putin as he praised the success of Anora.
• “Americans are excited to see someone finally stand up to a powerful Russian,” O’Brien said, initially prompting laughs that quickly turned into applause.
• Anora follows a sex worker whose twisted Cinderella story goes awry after she marries the son of a Russian oligarch.
• Dune: Part Two has taken out the award for Best Sound and Best Visual Effects, but fans have been left shocked that director Denis Villeneuve was snubbed for the Directing award.
• While picking up the award for Best Sound, fans were left annoyed that Gareth John, Richard King, Ron Bartlett and Doug Hemphill were cut off by the music and were unable to finish their thank you speech, despite the Emilia Perez songwriters and musicians singing for what felt like an awkward eternity after finishing their speech.

So the Emilia Pérez songwriters get to sing a whole song during their acceptance speech but the last guys accepting awards for Dune: Part Two get cut off and are not able to speak at all? #Oscars #Oscars2025

— Stef 💗 (@StefSWriter) March 3, 2025

They cut off the dune 2 acceptance speech but they let the emilia perez people sing? Wtf?? #Oscars

— Joseph Adame (@Josephangel_) March 3, 2025

• The winners ensured that they thanked Denis profusely in their speeches, with fans appreciating the effort they were putting into thanking him.

Everyone in that room should be embarrassed that Denis didn’t get nominated for Dune #Oscars

— SANA (@S4N4R4Y) March 3, 2025

The Oscars really despised Dune 2. Cutting the acceptance short vs. others. Nice to see the winners give Denis Villeneuve (a Canadian) the recognition he deserves!

I’m still sad the 🐐 Hans Zimmer wasn’t allowed to be nominated for The Best Score. pic.twitter.com/WkYI0oaQEc

— Nadine (@nadinelindsey_) March 3, 2025

• The Brutalist finally has its first win. It’s missed out on a handful of its 10 nominations, but has taken the award for Best Cinematography.
• Well that was emotional. Morgan Freeman began the In Memoriam with some touching words about close friend Gene Hackman, a two-time Oscar winner.
• “This week our community lost a giant. And I lost a dear friend,” he began after the death of the 95-year-old alongside his wife just days earlier at their Santa Fe home.
• “He always said, I don’t think about legacy, I just hope people remember me as someone who tried to do good work. So I think I speak for us all when I say Gene, it will be remembered for that and so much more.
• “Rest in peace, my friend.”
• It’s the most nominated film of the evening, and has so far claimed two awards.
• But there has been no mention of Karla Sofia Gascón in either acceptance speech for Emilia Pérez.
• The film was at one point the favourite to win Best Picture but thanks to a scandal surrounding Gascón’s offensive X posts, their campaign was left in damage control.
• Probably unsurprisingly, songwriters Camille and Clément Duco failed to mention Gascón when they accepted Best Original Song and neither did Zoe Saldaña when she wont Best Supporting Actress.
• Gascón herself is up for Best Actress. It must be noted she did get an applause when host Conan O’Brien announced she was present for the evening.
• Karla Sofía Gascón seen in an embrace at the Oscars. Source: Getty
• Well that was a big reception.
• Mick Jagger was given huge applause and a standing ovation as he arrived to present Best Original Song. “That’s very kind of you,” he told the audience.
• The Rolling Stones frontman claimed he wasn’t actually first choice to present the award, saying Bob Dylan was the preferred option but he declined the opportunity as he thought all the best songs were in A Complete Unknown.
• While Wicked has won the Oscars for Best Costume Design and Best Production Design so far, fans were left heartbroken when Ariana Grande missed out on the award for Best Supporting Actress, which went to Zoe Saldaña.
• “Ariana Grande has truly been so robbed of awards this season,” one fan wrote on X. “She truly gave an incredible performance in #Wicked regardless.”
• “Ariana deserved that win but I loved Zoe’s speech #Oscars,” another agreed.
• “I did not wanna wait til next year for Ariana to get the Oscar for part 2, she should’ve gotten it NOW!” a third added.
• We’ve got another first.
• Zoe Saldaña has become the first Dominican to win an Oscar. The Emilia Pérez star got a huge round of applause after she claimed the Best Supporting Actress award.
• “I am the proud child of immigrant parents… I am the first American of Dominican origin to accept an Academy award and I know I will not be the last, an emotional Saldaña said.
• Zoe Saldana accepts the Best Actress In A Supporting Role award. Source: Getty
• While we often expect to see Nicole Kidman at the biggest events, the Australian isn’t at this year’s Oscars.
• Despite a Best Performance by a Female Actor nomination at the Golden Globes for Babygirl, the film has been snubbed at the Academy Awards.
• But eagle-eyed viewers have pointed out there’s quite possibly a nod to Kidman at the awards, with Margaret Qualley’s outfit very similar to Kidman’s iconic Chanel No. 5 ad.
• A tribute to James Bond featuring Doja Cat, Lisa and Raye has divided fans, with many confused why they didn’t bring back performers of iconic Bond songs to sing the tracks.
• “A James Bond Tribute and y’all didn’t call Gladys Knight, Adele, Sam Smith, Billie Eilish and the top tier singers that made their songs.. really #Oscars,” one user questioned on X.
• “I made the mistake of putting on the Oscars/Academy Awards for a bit only to see the awful tribute to James Bond,” another said. “Odd dance followed by three females murdering a trio of Bond theme songs. How am I supposed to sleep now?”
• “WTF are the Oscars celebrating James Bond and not having the original singers of the numerous songs performing them? You really dropped the ball on this one #Oscars,” a third wrote.
• However, others loved it, in particular Raye and Margaret Qualley, who danced onstage during the tribute, with one person writing, “Raye is a powerhouse and absolutely killed that James Bond tribute.”
• “Raye should sing the song for the next James Bond film!” another added.
• “The Margaret Qualley as a bond girl opening was the correct choice,” a third said.
• “What are people not getting about the Bond tribute at the #Oscars?” another pointed out. “As was said in the introduction of the tribute, this was in honor of longtime producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson, who received Honorary Oscars for their work on the Bond franchise.”
• Anora, the favourite for Best Picture, has won its first Oscar of the night.
• Director Sean Baker accepted the award for Original Screenplay, calling the win “crazy”.
• The romantic comedy drama about a sex worker’s marriage to a Russian oligarch claimed the award over The Brutalist, A Real Pain, September 5 and The Substance.