Oscars 2025 highlights: Anora wins Best Picture, Mikey Madison and Adrien Brody take acting honours
Entertainment | Hollywood Oscars Awards 2025: Anora was the big winner of the night, with the movie winning five Oscars overall, including Best Picture, Best Director for Sean Baker, and Best Actress for Mikey Madison.
Oscars Awards 2025: The 97th Academy Awards is over, and the new batch of Oscar winners is here! Held at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, the night saw some of the biggest actors of the showbiz world.
Anora was the big winner of the night, with the movie winning five Oscars overall, including Best Picture, Best Director for Sean Baker, and Best Actress for Mikey Madison. The Brutalist actor, Adrien Brody, won Best Actor. This was Brody's second Oscar win afterThe Pianist in 2002.
Oscars 2025
The ceremony honors the best cinema work released in 2024 and marks the grand finale of the glitzy awards season.
Jacques Audiard’s Spanish-language film Emilia Pérez, was leading the nominations with an impressive 13 nods, including Best Picture, Best Actress for Karla Sofía Gascón, Best Director for Jacques Audiard, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Supporting Actress for Zoe Saldaña. However, the movie won only two awards.
Other major nominees for the night include Wicked, The Brutalist, and Anora, among others.
As the curtain falls for this year's Oscars, check out the highlights of the night here!
Mikey Madison won her first Academy Award, winning best actress for her role as a sex worker. The young actress beat The Substance actor Demi Moore, Brazilian actress Fernanda Torres, Wicked actress Cynthia Erivo and Emilia Perez star Karla Sofia Gascon.
Adrien Brody has won his second Oscar for best actor for his role in The Brutalist.
Brody’s performance as Hungarian-Jewish architect Laszlo Toth in Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist has made him one of the strongest leading candidates for best actor, competing against Timothee Chalamet.
Two Hollywood legends, Oprah Winfrey and Whoopi Goldberg, took the stage to pay tribute to iconic music producer Quincy Jones and introduce Queen Latifah, who gave an electrifying tribute performance to Jones.
Firefighters who were on the frontlines during the California wildfires were honored.
The 97th Academy Awards are underway at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles. For the first time, comedian Conan O'Brien hosted the event. Check the winners list here
Demi Moore, the first-time Oscar nominee, walked the red carpet wearing a sparkly, custom-made Giorgio Armani Privé body-hugging gown.
Moore, 62, is among the frontrunners in the Best Actress category for her role in The Substance.
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Released in India three days ahead of the Oscars 2025, A Complete Unknown showcases actor Timothee Chalamet talent in music as well. Chalamet has been nominated in the Best Actor category for his performance as Bob Dylan in the film.
Read WION's full review of the film here. - A Complete Unknown review: Timothee Chalamet's act as Bob Dylan is worth an Oscar nod
The Spanish-language musical Emilia Perez leads the nominations with 13 nods, setting a record in Oscar history for a non-English-language film. The movie has garnered nominations in top categories, including Best Picture, Best Director (Jacques Audiard), Best Actress (Karla Sofía Gascón), Best Supporting Actress (Zoe Saldaña), and Best Adapted Screenplay (Jacques Audiard)./wion/media/post_attachments/320a4717-414.png)
Emilia Perez is a musical crime drama about a Mexican cartel leader who fakes her own death to undergo gender transition and start a new life.
Ahead of the ceremony, Academy CEO Bill Kramer addressed the controversy around actress Karla Sofia Gascón, who is the big nominee of this year's ceremony.
Gascon became the topic of discussion after some of her old and controversial posts went viral. In the years-old statement, the Spanish actress had shared hate words against the Muslim community and racist remarks against diversity at the Oscars.
Ahead of the ceremony on March 2, CEO Bill Kramer addressed the controversy, saying that, ''Academy does not condone hate speech.'' Read the full story here.
Earlier announced as one of the prominent names who will be seen presenting an award at the Oscars stage, veteran star Harrison Ford has stepped away owing to health issues. As for Harrison Ford, the 82-year-old actors is said to have been diagnosed with shingles which is a “viral infection that causes a painful rash,” according to the Mayo Clinic. Read the full story here:
In India, the Oscar will stream on Monday, March 3, 2025, at 5:30 AM IST. The awards show can be watched live on Star Movies Select and Star Movies. Viewers can also watch the ceremony on Jio Hotstar, where it will be live-streamed. Read more here.
