Oscars 2025 Highlights: Adrien Brody, Mikey Madison Take Home Best Actor Awards, Sean Baker Lifts Best Director Trophy

Sean Baker['s directorial Anora wins Best Picture At the Oscars, bagging the fifth award for the movie.

Mikey Madison has won her Oscars for Best Actress for her performance in Anora.

Sean Baker lifts Best Director for Anora Award at Oscars.

Adrien Brody is the 10th man to have two Best Actor Oscars. He won his first in 2003 for “The Pianist.” Others in the elite club include Spencer Tracy, Marlon Brando and Tom Hanks. Adrien Brody is the 10th man to have two Best Actor Oscars. He won his first in 2003 for The Pianist. Others in the elite club include Spencer Tracy, Marlon Brando and Tom Hanks. Brody’s gap of 22 years would be the second longest between best actor wins. It was 29 years between wins for “Silence of the Lambs” and “The Father” for Anthony Hopkins.

 Adrien Brody has won the Oscars for Best Actor for his hit movie The Brutalist.

Best Actor, Best Director, Best Actress and Best Picture are yet to be announced.

“When we’re talking about Black excellence, we’re talking about Quincy,” Whoopi Goldberg said while introducing the former. Jones supervised the adaptation of songs from the Broadway musical for the 1978 film starring Michael Jackson. Jones and Jackson met while working on the film, leading to one of the greatest musician-producer partnerships of all time.

Daniel Blumberg is the winner of this year's Best Original Score for THE BRUTALIST.

Brazil snags the Oscar for Best International Feature Film, I'm Still Here.

Lol Crawley wins the Best Cinematography for The Brutalist.

Morgan Freeman gave tribute to two-time Oscar winner Gene Hackman, four days after Hackman was found dead. “This week our community lost a giant, and I lost a dear friend, Gene Hackman,” he said. “He received two Oscars and more importantly he won the hearts of film lovers all over the world.” Freeman and Hackman co-starred in the 1992 Clint Eastwood Western Unforgiven - the movie that earned Hackman his second Oscar. They were also both in 2000’s Under Suspicion. Towards the end, he said, “Rest in peace, my friend."

Host Conan O'Brien greeted India and said, “Greetings to the people of India. It's morning there, so I hope you enjoy your breakfast with the Oscars."

Victoria Warmerdam and Trent won Oscars for Best Live Action Short Film, I'm Not a Robot. The film beat, Priyanka Chopra's co-produced movie Anuja.

Paul Lambert, Stephen james, Rhys Salcombe and Gerd Nefzer won Oscars for Best Visual Effects in the movie Dune: Part Two.

Gareth John, Richard King, Ron Bartlett and Doug Hemphill won Oscars for Best Sound in the movie Dune: Part Two.

LAFD Captain Eric Scott reads a very lame gag about Joker 2 flopping. These heroes deserve better.

Best Documentary Feature film award was won by No Other Land.

Molly O'Brien and Lisa Remington won Oscars for Best Documentary Short Film for The Only Girl In The Orchestra.

Clément Ducol, Camille and Jacques Audiard win the Oscar for Best Original Song for 'El Mal' from Emilia Perez.

Nathan Crowley (Production Design) and Lee Sandales (Set Decoration) have won the Oscars for Best Production Design.

During the acceptance speech of her first 97th Academy Awards, Zoe broke down and dedicated her award to her family. She expressed her gratitude to her grandmother for coming to the country in 1961 and called herself a “proud child of Immigrant parents”. For the unversed, President Donald Trump has issued a new immigration policy and sent off illegal immigrants.

Zoe Saldaña, who played the role of Rita in Emilia Pérez, has won her Oscars for Best Supporting Actress. This is her first Academy Award.

Sean Baker has won his second Oscar of the night, and this time, in the Best Film Editing category for Anora.

Lisa of BLACKPINK sang her version of Live and Let Die.

The Substance has won the 97th Academy Award for Best Makeup And Hairstyling. The team included Pierre-Olivier Persin, Stephanie Guillon and Marilyna Scarselli.

Conan O'Brien kicked off the award night by mentioning the Karla Sofía Gascón controversy and taking a swipe at Jimmy Kimmel for rejecting to host this year. In his monologue, he said, “Little fact for you, Anora uses the F word 479 times. That's three more than the record set by Karla Sofia Gascon's publicist.” He then mimicked the actress's publicist talking on the phone and screamed, “She tweeted what?” Towards the end, he directly called out Karla and said, ”if you tweet about the Oscars tonight, my name is Jimmy Kimmel."

Peter Straughan won the award in Best Adapted Screenplay category for Conclave, beating Emilia Perez.

 Sean Baker won Oscars for writing the screenplay of Anora.

Paul Tazewell won his first Oscars and became the first black man to win the Best Designer Award at the Oscars. Paul was previously nominated for West Side Story but couldn't win back then.

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Halle Berry and Adrien Brody recreated their controversial on-stage kiss from 2003, but this time on the red carpet. In 2003, when Brody won Best Actor for The Pianist, he stunned the audience after kissing Berry. 

Doja Cat walked the red carpet in a hand-embroidered body-hugging leopard print dress designed by Olivier Rousteing. The dress was made in around 5,600 hours and a team of 46 artisans worked on it, Vogue reported.

The Oscar for Best Animated Short Film goes to Shirin Sohani and Hossein Molayemi for In the Shadow of the Cypress.

The animated movie FLow has won the 97th Academy Awards for Best Animated Feature Film.

Emilia Perez’s star Zoe Saldana, nominated for Best Supporting Actress, walked on the red carpet in a tiered burgundy strapless gown.

Whoopi Goldberg, Adrien Brody, Georgina Chapman, Emma Stone and Amy Poehler with fans at the 97th Academy Awards.

Kieran Culkin has won his first Oscars in the Best Supporting Actor category for his performance in the movie A Real Pain.

Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande perform Defying Gravity at the 97th Academy Awards.

Selena Gomez walked the red carpet in a Ralph Lauren custom gown. The pinkish nude dress nodded to similar gowns worn by Sophia Loren in the Golden Age of Hollywood. It had glass droplets and Rosemont crystals, around 16,000 to be precise, per Elle.

BLACKPINK's Lisa looked pretty in a deconstructed tuxedo dress. The K-pop idol made her acting debut in the HBO series The White Lotus.

Ariana Grande, nominated for Best Supporting Actress for Wicked, walked the red carpet in a white ball gown.

The academy has announced that, unlike previous years, the original song nominees will not be performed this time. That doesn’t mean there won’t be music, though.

Producers said Wednesday that Queen Latifah will be part of a musical tribute to the late Quincy Jones, who was honored in November with one of the academy’s Governor’s Awards just weeks after his death.

Doja Cat, LISA of Blackpink, Queen Latifah and RAYE will also perform, as will Wicked’s Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande. (The songs from Wicked weren’t eligible for best song since, hailing from the Broadway musical, they aren’t original to the movie.) The Los Angeles Master Chorale will also appear.

The academy on Wednesday added to its extensive lineup of presenters. Dave Bautista, Harrison Ford, Gal Gadot, Andrew Garfield, Samuel L. Jackson, Margaret Qualley, Alba Rohrwacher, Zoe Saldaña and Rachel Zegler will all present. They join a roster of previously announced presenters including Selena Gomez, Oprah Winfrey, Joe Alwyn, Ana de Armas, Halle Berry, Scarlett Johansson, Bowen Yang, Lily-Rose Depp and Sterling K. Brown. Last year’s acting winners — Emma Stone, Robert Downey Jr., Cillian Murphy, Da’Vine Joy Randolph — will also take part in the ceremony. Though the academy initially said it would bring back the “fab five” style of presenting the acting awards, with five previous winners per category, organizers have reportedly abandoned those plans for Sunday’s ceremony. Nick Offerman will serve as the show’s announcer.

Conan O’Brien is hosting the Academy Awards for the first time. “I never have been invited to the Oscars,” the late-night host-turned-podcaster and occasional movie star said at a news conference Wednesday. “I only hosted so that I could be invited.” O’Brien said he would not hesitate to talk about the nation’s fraught political situation. “I cannot ignore the moment we’re in,” he said. “But I also have to remember it’s threading a needle. I also have to remember what we’re here to celebrate and infuse the show with positivity.”

In a first, the Oscars will be streamed live on Hulu. You can also watch via Hulu Live TV, YouTube, AT&T TV and FuboTV. The award ceremony will be streamed live on television on Star Movies. JioHotstar will also broadcast the show live and will also stream a repeat telecast at 8:30 PM. Several OTT platforms provide free services for the frosty 30-days to users, which can be used to watch the award ceremony for free.

The Academy Awards are traditionally held on a Sunday in the United States of America. Consequently, the ceremony will be streamed in India on Monday. This year, the 97th Oscar Awards will be streamed in India from 5:00 am, at the break of dawn on March 3.