Oscars 2025 highlights: Anora wins Best Picture and 4 more awards at one of the most boring ceremonies in years

Oscars 2025 highlights: Anora won Best Picture while Best Actress was won by film's lead Mikey Madison. Adrien Brody took Best Actor.

Oscars 2025 highlights: Team Anora celebrates Mikey Madison's Best Actress win. (REUTERS)

Oscars 2025 highlights: The red carpet is laid out and the stars have begun arriving for the 97th Academy Awards on Sunday night (early Monday in India)....Read More

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• 3 Mar 2025, 09:14:19 AM IST

  Oscars 2025 live updates: Best Picture

  Anora wins Best Picture!

• 3 Mar 2025, 09:08:44 AM IST

  Oscars 2025 live updates: Best Actress

  Oscars 2025 live updates: Mikey Madison wins Best Actress for Anora. Mikey joins Jennifer Lawrence as the second actress born in the 90s to win the category. Lawrence was only 22 when she won.

  Mikey is the first GenZ to win an acting Oscar.

• 3 Mar 2025, 09:01:10 AM IST

  Oscars 2025 live updates: Best Director

  Sean Baker wins Best Director for Anora.

• 3 Mar 2025, 08:52:01 AM IST

  Oscars 2025 live updates: Best Actor

  Oscars 2025 live updates: Best Actor award goes to Adrien Brody for The Brutalist. “What I've always found beautiful and important about working in film is its permanence. It's leaving something beyond your time. If we look back at great performances and beautifully crafted films of other eras, they speak to other times, the style of work that was done, the contributions by artistic people. And if they're meaningful, they live on beyond our years," he said in an interview with HT

• 3 Mar 2025, 08:37:16 AM IST

  Oscars 2025 live updates: Best Score

  The Brutalist wins Best Score.

• 3 Mar 2025, 08:28:53 AM IST

  Oscars 2025 live updates: Best International Feature Film

  I'm Still Here from Brazil wins Best International Feature Film. The film is about a family ripped apart by a country's military dictatorship.

• 3 Mar 2025, 08:26:46 AM IST

  Oscars 2025 live updates: Best Cinematography

  The Brutalist wins Best Cinematography. Director Brady Corbet told HT about his movie, “It was definitely a cathartic experience. We exercised some demons during the process. It's a similar process to erecting a building, just dealing with hundreds of people, gathering a crew, working on a specific, unique vision. It definitely has a lot of similarities," says Mona. Brady, however, sounds more excited. “Every project is a hell of your own devising. It feels a very strange thing to be compelled to do over and over again. I feel like Sisyphus. You're essentially pruning a tree for, I don't know how many years. That's what it really is. You're working on it a little every single day until it's done," he says, heaving a sigh accompanied by a smile.

• 3 Mar 2025, 08:17:29 AM IST

  Oscars 2025 live updates: In Memorium

  In Memorium segment honours Maggie Smith, Gene Hackman, David Lynch, Shelley Duvall, and more lost stars from the gallery of Hollywood.

• 3 Mar 2025, 08:11:07 AM IST

  Oscars 2025 live updates: Live Action Short Film

  India's Anuja loses Live Action Short Film to I'm Not A Robot.

• 3 Mar 2025, 08:03:11 AM IST

  Oscars 2025 live updates: Best Visual Effects

  Back to back awards for Dune 2. It wins Best Visual Effects this time. The film is directed by ace filmmaker Denis Villenueve.

• 3 Mar 2025, 07:58:13 AM IST

  Oscars 2025 live updates: Best Sound

  Best Sound Oscar goes to Dune 2.

• 3 Mar 2025, 07:56:08 AM IST

  Oscars 2025 live updates: Conan's halftime show

  Conan O’Brien: “Well, we’re half way through the show, which means it’s time for Kendrick Lamar to come out and call Drake a pedophile.”

• 3 Mar 2025, 07:44:54 AM IST

  Oscars 2025 live updates: Best Documentary Feature

  No Other Land wins Best Documentary Feature.

• 3 Mar 2025, 07:42:45 AM IST

  Oscars 2025 live updates: Best Documentary Short

  The Only Girl in the Orchestra wins Best Documentary Short.

• 3 Mar 2025, 07:33:51 AM IST

  Oscars 2025 live updates: Best Original Song

  Emilia Perez song El Mal wins Best Original Song. The song was performed by Zoe Saldana and Karla Sofia Gascon in the movie.

• 3 Mar 2025, 07:28:28 AM IST

  Oscars 2025 live updates: Best Production Design

  Wicked wins Best Production Design.

• 3 Mar 2025, 07:18:27 AM IST

  Oscars 2025 live updates: Best Supporting Actress

  Zoe Saldana wins Best Supporting Actress for Emilia Perez.

• 3 Mar 2025, 07:12:23 AM IST

  Oscars 2025 live updates: Best Editing

  Best Editing Oscar went to Anora. The haul for the movie is at 2 now.

• 3 Mar 2025, 06:54:08 AM IST

  Oscars 2025 live updates: Best Makeup and Hair

  Substance wins Best Makeup. The film starred Demi Moore as a forgotten Hollywood star who would go to great lengths to be desirable again.

• 3 Mar 2025, 06:44:03 AM IST

  Oscars 2025 live updates: Best Adapted Screenplay

  Peter Straughan wins Best Adapted Screenplay for Conclave. Conclave -- a film about the secretive and cutthroat election of a new Catholic leader, lent an uncanny timeliness by the real-life Pope Francis's health woes -- appears to have won over many late voters.

• 3 Mar 2025, 06:40:21 AM IST

  Oscars 2025 live updates: Best Original Screenplay

  Sean Baker wins Best Original Screenplay for Anora. This is his first Oscar win. Anora is about a New York stripper and escort who weds a wealthy Russian playboy, only to learn that her dream marriage is a nightmare illusion -- won the Cannes festival's Palme d'Or last May.

• 3 Mar 2025, 06:30:13 AM IST

  Oscars 2025 live updates: Best Costume

  Oscars 2025 live updates: Best Costume award goes to Wicked. Paul Tazewell is the first Black man to win the award.

• 3 Mar 2025, 06:28:01 AM IST

  Oscars 2025 live updates: Conan speaks Hindi

  Host Conan spoke Spanish, Hindi and Mandarin on stage to reach out to people watching across the world. He mentioned how people would be watching the show in India while having their breakfast. He also sent a message to the Chinese, asking them to hire him in their movies and give some ‘financial help’.

• 3 Mar 2025, 06:16:51 AM IST

  Oscars 2025 live updates: Best Animated Short

  Oscars 2025 live updates: Best Animated Short goes to In the Shadow of the Cypress.

  In the Shadow of the Cypress is a 2023 Iranian animated short film directed by Hossein Molayemi and Shirin Sohani. This 20-minute, dialogue-free narrative centers on a former ship captain suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) who lives with his daughter in an isolated seaside home. Their strained relationship is tested further when they discover a beached whale near their residence, prompting a joint effort to save the creature.

• 3 Mar 2025, 06:13:21 AM IST

  Oscars 2025 live updates: Best Animated Feature

  Oscars 2025 live updates: Latvian film Flow wins the Best Animated Feature award. Set in a seemingly post-human world, "Flow" follows a courageous cat whose home is devastated by a catastrophic flood. Seeking refuge on a boat, the cat encounters various animals—a dog, a capybara, a ring-tailed lemur, and a secretary bird. Together, they navigate the submerged remnants of human civilization, learning to cooperate despite their differences to survive and find habitable land.

• 3 Mar 2025, 06:00:27 AM IST

  Oscars 2025 live updates: Best Supporting Actor

  Kieran Culkin wins Best Supporting Actor for A Real Pain. This is his first nomination and win. He shared words of admiration for his Succession co-star Jeremy Strong who was also nominated in the category.

  Kieran Culkin delivers a standout performance as Benji Kaplan in A Real Pain, earning critical acclaim and awards recognition. His portrayal of Benji, a character navigating complex family dynamics during a journey through Poland, showcases his ability to balance humour and depth.

• 3 Mar 2025, 05:57:52 AM IST

  Oscars 2025 live updates: Adam Sandler takes over

  Oscars 2025 live updates: Adam Sandler took everyone's attention as he turned up in a hoodie and basketball shorts. He went out screaming Timothee Chalamet's name.

• 3 Mar 2025, 05:49:52 AM IST

  Oscars 2025 live: Karla Sofia Gascon is here

  This year's most controversial figure at Oscars is Emilia Perez lead actor Karla Sofia Gascon and she has already got a few jokes cracked on her. Conan joked that should she feel compelled to tweet about the ceremony, remember his name: Jimmy Kimmel.

  He also joked, Anora uses the F-word 479 times. That's 3 more than the record set by Karla Sofía Gascón's publicist."

• 3 Mar 2025, 05:42:55 AM IST

  Oscars 2025 live: Conan O'Brien kicks of show with a monologue

  ‘Please sit down’, host Conan O'Brien said to the already-seated audience as he started the show.

• 3 Mar 2025, 05:32:58 AM IST

  Oscars 2025 live: LA gets a special tribute as show kicks off

  The ceremony has kicked off with a tribute for Hollywood, specially after the devasting LA fires last year. Ariana Grande sang ‘Somewhere Over the Rainbow’ from Wizard of Oz.

• 3 Mar 2025, 05:25:24 AM IST

  Oscars 2025 live: What will the nominees get?

  The special gift that they all would get is a very expensive gift bag.

  Distinctive Assets Legendary, an entertainment firm based in Los Angeles, arranged this year's nominee gift bags, featuring a distinctive moniker “Everyone Wins.”

  The Oscar-nominated celebrities who will receive a gift bag include Timothée Chalamet, Demi Moore, Adrian Brody, Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo, and Kieran Culkin.

  Some of the items in the bag will help families affected by deadly wildfires in Los Angeles, as per Lash Fary, creator of Distinctive Assets.

• 3 Mar 2025, 05:17:04 AM IST

  Oscars 2025 live: Adrien Brody interview

  Oscars 2025 live: Best Actor nominee for The Brutalist, Adrien Brody talked to us about the parallels between the film and The Pianist. He said that they make for vastly different storytelling. “But both are about the power of the human spirit to endure and the power of artistic pursuits to process, acknowledge, and represent a time in history, and how those hardships and triumphs inform the journey of the artist moving forward,” adds Adrien, for whom the immigrant struggle isn't just Oscar bait, but a lived-in reality of his own ancestry.

• 3 Mar 2025, 05:09:34 AM IST

  Oscars 2025 live: What are the chances?

  Oscars 2025 live: As stars make the final adjustments to their gowns and tuxedos, the race for Hollywood's grandest prize is too close to call, with two wildly different films seen as frontrunners for best picture.

  "There will be real tension," said Rotten Tomatoes awards editor Jacqueline Coley. "I would say if 'Conclave' doesn't win, it's definitely going to be 'Anora.'"

  "Both sides are feeling more nervous than confident... that should be an indicator that this is really a nail-biter," The Hollywood Reporter's awards expert Scott Feinberg told AFP.

  Sean Baker's "Anora" -- about a New York stripper and escort who weds a wealthy Russian playboy, only to learn that her dream marriage is a nightmare illusion -- won the Cannes festival's Palme d'Or last May.

  But, Coley says, "it is a little bit polarizing because of the sex worker aspect."

• 3 Mar 2025, 05:00:28 AM IST

  Oscars 2025 live: Meet the host

  Oscars 2025 live: Comedian and host Conan O'Brien said he planned to mix jokes, celebrations of filmmakers and serious moments including tributes to Los Angeles as it recovers from January's wildfires. He likely will address U.S. politics but not dwell on it, he said.

  "Good jokes are really important, but there's also more than that," O'Brien told reporters last week as he prepared for his first Oscars hosting gig. "We're trying to go for different tones, different textures."

• 3 Mar 2025, 04:59:45 AM IST

  Oscars 2025 live: Who is presenting?

  Oscars 2025 live: Presenters at the Oscars 2025 include Dave Bautista, Gal Gadot, Andrew Garfield, Samuel L Jackson, Margaret Qualley, Alba Rohrwacher, Zoe Saldana and Rachel Zegler.

  Conan O'Brien will host Oscars 2025, which will be live in India on streamer JioHotstar and TV channel Star Movies.

• 3 Mar 2025, 04:51:54 AM IST

  Oscars 2025 live: What's happened to Harrison Ford?

  Hollywood veteran Harrison Ford will give the 97th Academy Awards a miss after being diagnosed with shingles.

  The 82-year-old actor's representative confirmed Ford's diagnosis and his absence from the ceremony to the entertainment news outlet Variety.

  Ford, whose latest film appearance is "Captain America: Brave New World", was supposed to be one of the presenters at Sunday's awards gala but was diagnosed with shingles on Friday.

  As per the Mayo Clinic, the disease -- also known as herpes zoster -- is a painful rash caused by the varicella-zoster virus.

• 3 Mar 2025, 04:38:07 AM IST

  Oscars 2025 live: Selena Gomez looks stunning in vintage look

• 3 Mar 2025, 04:24:03 AM IST

  Oscars live: Full list of nominees

  Emilia Perez and The Brutalist and Wicked dominated the Oscars 2025 nominations. Anuja, a film backed by Guneet Monga and Priyanka Chopra, has secured a historic nod for India as it got nominated in the Best Live Action Short Film category. Check out the list here.

• 3 Mar 2025, 04:13:22 AM IST

  Oscars live: Stars begin arriving on red carpet

  Oscars live: Mindy Kaling, Jeff Goldblum and his co-stars from Wicked were among the first to arrive. The musical’s co-stars – British star Cynthia Erivo, 38, and US pop star Grande – are nominated for best actress, and best supporting actress, respectively, for the prequel to The Wizard Of Oz. The 97th Academy Awards, will see Erivo – who played the green witch Elphaba in the film – and Grande, 31, among the performers at this year’s ceremony.