Sunday night, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences held the 97th Academy Awards. Below you will find the winners in each of the major categories, their fellow nominees, as well as a couple of notes about each category and winner. Without further ado, the winners:
This Best Picture race reminded me a lot of the 2012 Republican Presidential Primary. In the end, it was always going to be Anora, just like it was going to be Mitt Romney. At first, Anora was very strong. But there were weeks or months where it looked like it could be Dune: Part Two, then Wicked, then The Brutalist, then A Complete Unknown, then Emilia Perez, and then finally Conclave, but in the end, it was always Anora.
Jacques Audiard, Emilia Perez
Brady Corbet, The Brutalist
Coralie Fargeat, The Substance
James Mangold, A Complete Unknown
Sean Baker and Brady Corbet had been trading awards all season. Baker won the DGA Award, while Corbet won the BAFTA and the Golden Globe. In the end, Baker took home four Oscars for his work on Anora, an unprecedented haul.
Adrien Brody, The Brutalist
Timothee Chalamet, A Complete Unknown
Colman Domingo, Sing Sing
Sebastian Stan, The Apprentice
All awards season long, this award was destined for Adrien Brody. But then he lost the SAG Award to Timothee Chalamet and there was a question mark of what was to come. The back and forth reminded me a lot of Lily Gladstone versus Emma Stone for Best Actress last year. Where, I mistakenly thought that in a close race, the Academy members would defer to the first-time winner over a repeat. But I was wrong last year and wrong again last night as Brody took home his second Best Actor Oscar.
Karla Sofia Gascon, Emilia Perez
Demi Moore, The Substance
Fernanda Torres, I'm Still Here
Demi Moore has the inside lane to the Best Actress award. Up until last night, she had won every major award, except for the BAFTA which went to Mikey Madison. Strangely, pre-Golden Globes, Madison was the heavy favorite to take Best Actress. That front-runner status evaporated as awards season went on, but in the end, Mikey won the golden statuette, riding the Anora wave.
Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain
Edward Norton, A Complete Unknown
Guy Pearce, The Brutalist
Jeremy Strong, The Apprentice
If there was any guaranteed winning going into Oscar night, it was Kieran Culkin as he had picked up every Supporting Actor award before Sunday and topped his season off with an Academy Award.
Monica Barbaro, A Complete Unknown
Felicity Jones, The Brutalist
Isabella Rossellini, Conclave
Zoe Saldana, Emilia Perez
Just like Kieran Culkin, Zoe Saldana had won every major Supporting Actress award, so there was no question she would come out on top this year. That is two years in a row that the winners of both Supporting Actor and Supporting Actress were a forgone conclusion before Oscar night
