Anora has dominated the Academy Awards, winning five gongs including best picture.
The film's star, Mikey Madison, who plays a sex worker that marries the son of a Russian oligarch, took home the best actress award.
Anora filmmaker Sean Baker was named best director, while the film also took home two other wins for best original screenplay and best editing.
The film's director and star both thanked sex workers who consulted on the film, saying they could never have made it without them.
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Winning all four awards he was up for, Mr Baker tied with Walt Disney's record for the most Oscar wins by a single person in a single night - although Disney won his awards for multiple works, rather than a single film as Baker has done.
Adrien Brody won the best actor Oscar for playing Hungarian architect Lazlo Toth in architectural epic The Brutalist.
It was his second Academy Award win in the category some 22 years after his first, for The Pianist back in 2003.
Cillian Murphy, left, and Adrien Brody, winner of the award for best performance by an actor in a leading role for "The Brutalist," pose in the press room at the Oscars on Sunday, March 2, 2025, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)Best cinematography also went to The Brutalist director Brady Corbet, and the film was also awarded the prize for best original score.
Papal thriller Conclave, starring Ralph Fiennes, took one award for best adapted screenplay.
Kieran Culkin took home best supporting actor for his role in comedy drama A Real Pain, while the best supporting actress prize was won by Emilia Perez star Zoe Saldana, her first Oscar nomination and win.
From left to right: Adrien Brody, Mikey Madison, Zoe Saldana and Kieran Culkin pose in the press room at the Oscars on Sunday, March 2, 2025, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)Best song also went to Emilia Perez's El Mal (which translates as "Evil"), while the prize for costume design went to Wicked's Paul Tazewell, who became the first black man to receive the award.
Best production design was also awarded to Wicked.
Brazilian director Walter Salles won best international feature for Portuguese-language film I'm Still Here, set in the 1970s in the midst of the Brazil's brutal military dictatorship.
Make-up and hairstyling was awarded to body horror The Substance, a film which showcased extreme prosthetics, make-up and gore throughout.
The Substance 2024. Image: Pictorial Press Ltd / Alamy. 19 December 2024The documentary categories went to The Only Girl In The Orchestra and No Other Land - made by a Palestinian-Israeli collective - for short film and feature film respectively.
Accepting the prize, No Other Land makers Basel Dra and Yuval Abraham made a political plea to the US.
"The foreign policy in this country is helping to block [the path of peace]," Mr Abraham, who is also an Israeli journalist, said.
"Why? Can't you see that we are intertwined? There is another way.
"It's not too late for life, for the living."
Basel Adra, left, and Yuval Abraham, winners of the award for best documentary feature film for "No Other Land," the Governors Ball after the Oscars on Sunday, March 2, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/John Locher)Best sound and best visual effects went to Dune: Part Two, directed by Canadian filmmaker Denis Villeneuve.
Best animated feature went to Latvian computer-generated film Flow, while best animated short film was won by Iranian entry The Shadow Of The Cypress.
Live action short film went to I'm Not A Robot, a study in an AI-fueled identity crisis.
During the ceremony's in memoriam section, Morgan Freeman paid tribute to two-time Oscar-winning actor Gene Hackman, who was found dead in his home along with his wife and dog earlier this week.
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Main image: Mikey Madison accepts the award for best performance by an actress in a leading role for "Anora" during the Oscars on Sunday, March 2, 2025, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
