The 97th Oscars celebrated cinematic excellence across 23 categories, showcasing a diverse range of films from 2024. Hosted by comedian Conan O’Brien, the ceremony honored the best films of 2024.

The Oscars saw ‘Anora’ triumph with five wins, including Best Picture, Best Director for Sean Baker, and Best Actress for Mikey Madison. Adrien Brody won Best Actor for ‘The Brutalist’ while Kieran Culkin the real-life brother to Macaulay Culkin who first appeared in the Home Alone franchise in 1991 and Zoe Saldaña took home Best Supporting Actor and Actress, respectively, for ‘A Real Pain’ and ‘Emilia Pérez’.

Here’s the complete list of winners who took home the coveted Oscar statuettes:

Best Picture

The Brutalist
A complete Unknown
Conclave
Dune: Part Two
Emilia Pérez
The Substance
Nickel Boys
Im Still Here
Wicked
Anora (Winner)

Best Director

Jacques Audiard, Emilia Pérez
Sean Baker, Anora (WINNER)
Brady Corbet, The Brutalist
Coralie Fargeat, The Substance
James Mangold, A Complete Unknown

Best Actor

Adrien Brody, The Brutalist (WINNER)
Timothée Chalamet, A Complete Unknown
Colman Domingo, Sing Sing
Ralph Fiennes, Conclave
Sebastian Stan, The Apprentice

Best Actress

Cynthia Erivo, Wicked
Karla Sofía Gascón, Emilia Pérez
Mikey Madison, Anora (WINNER)
Demi Moore, The Substance
Fernanda Torres, I’m Still Here

Best Supporting Actor

Yura Borisov, Anora
Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain (WINNER)
Edward Norton, A Complete Unknown
Guy Pearce, The Brutalist
Jeremy Strong, The Apprentice

Best Supporting Actress

Monica Barbaro, A Complete Unknown
Ariana Grande, Wicked
Felicity Jones, The Brutalist
Isabella Rossellini, Conclave
Zoe Saldaña, Emilia Pérez (WINNER

Best Original Screenplay

Anora (Written by Sean Baker) (WINNER)
The Brutalist (Written by Brady Corbet, Mona Fastvold)
A Real Pain (Written by Jesse Eisenberg)
September 5 (Written by Moritz Binder, Tim Fehlbaum; Co-Written by Alex David)
The Substance (Written by Coralie Fargeat)

Best Adapted Screenplay

A Complete Unknown (Screenplay by James Mangold and Jay Cocks)
Conclave (Screenplay by Peter Straughan) (WINNER)
Emilia Pérez (Screenplay by Jacques Audiard; In collaboration with Thomas Bidegain, Léa Mysius and Nicolas Livecchi)
Nickel Boys (Screenplay by RaMell Ross & Joslyn Barnes)
Sing Sing (Screenplay by Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar; Story by Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar, Clarence Maclin, John “Divine G” Whitfield)

Best Animated Feature Film

Flow (WINNER)
Inside Out 2
Memoir of a Snail
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
The Wild Robot

Best International Feature Film

I’m Still Here (Brazil) (WINNER)
The Girl With the Needle (Denmark)
Emilia Pérez (France)
The Seed of the Sacred Fig (Germany)
Flow (Latvia)

Best Documentary Feature

Black Box Diaries
No Other Land (WINNER)
Porcelain War
Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
Sugarcane

Best Cinematography

The Brutalist (Lol Crawley) (WINNER)
Dune: Part Two (Greig Fraser)
Emilia Pérez (Paul Guilhaume)
Maria (Ed Lachman)
Nosferatu (Jarin Blaschke)

Best Film Editing

Anora (Sean Baker) (WINNER)
The Brutalist (David Jancso)
Conclave (Nick Emerson)
Emilia Pérez (Juliette Welfling)
Wicked (Myron Kerstein)

Best Production Design

The Brutalist
Conclave
Dune: Part Two
Nosferatu
Wicked (WINNER)

Best Costume Design

A Complete Unknown (Arianne Phillips)
Conclave (Lisy Christl)
Gladiator II (Janty Yates and Dave Crossman)
Nosferatu (Linda Muir)
Wicked (Paul Tazewell) (WINNER)

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

A Different Man (Mike Marino, David Presto and Crystal Jurado)
Emilia Pérez (Julia Floch Carbonel, Emmanuel Janvier and Jean-Christophe Spadaccini)
Nosferatu (David White, Traci Loader and Suzanne Stokes-Munton)
The Substance (Pierre-Olivier Persin, Stéphanie Guillon and Marilyne Scarselli) (WINNER)
Wicked (Frances Hannon, Laura Blount and Sarah Nuth)

Best Original Score

The Brutalist (Daniel Blumberg) (WINNER)
Conclave (Volker Bertelmann)
Emilia Pérez (Clément Ducol and Camille)
Wicked (John Powell and Stephen Schwartz)
The Wild Robot (Kris Bowers)

Best Original Song

El Mal” from Emilia Pérez (Music by Clément Ducol and Camille; Lyric by Clément Ducol, Camille and Jacques Audiard) (WINNER)
“The Journey” from The Six Triple Eight(Music and Lyric by Diane Warren)
“Like a Bird” from Sing Sing (Music and Lyric by Abraham Alexander and Adrian Quesada)
“Mi Camino” from Emilia Pérez (Music and Lyric by Camille and Clément Ducol)
“Never Too Late” from Elton John: Never Too Late (Music and Lyric by Elton John, Brandi Carlile, Andrew Watt and Bernie Taupin)

Best Sound

A Complete Unknown (Tod A. Maitland, Donald Sylvester, Ted Caplan, Paul Massey and David Giammarco)
Dune: Part Two (Gareth John, Richard King, Ron Bartlett and Doug Hemphill) (WINNER)
Emilia Pérez (Erwan Kerzanet, Aymeric Devoldère, Maxence Dussère, Cyril Holtz and Niels Barletta)
Wicked (Simon Hayes, Nancy Nugent Title, Jack Dolman, Andy Nelson and John Marquis)
The Wild Robot (Randy Thom, Brian Chumney, Gary A. Rizzo and Leff Lefferts)

Best Visual Effects

Alien: Romulus
Better Man
Dune: Part Two (WINNER)
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
Wicked

Best Animated Short Film

Beautiful Men
In the Shadow of the Cypress (WINNER)
Magic Candies
Wander to Wonder
Yuck!

Best Documentary Short Film

Death by Numbers
I Am Ready, Warden
Incident
Instruments of a Beating Heart
The Only Girl in the Orchestra (WINNER)

Best Live Action Short Film

A Lien (Sam Cutler-Kreutz and David Cutler-Kreutz)
Anuja (Adam J. Graves and Suchitra Mattai)
I’m Not a Robot (Victoria Warmerdam and Trent) (WINNER)
The Last Ranger (Cindy Lee and Darwin Shaw)
The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent(Nebojša Slijepčević and Danijel Pek)

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