The film’s five Academy Awards seen as act of normalisation by commentators in country still persecuting critics of its war on Ukraine• Anora dominates the Oscars as Mikey Madison named best actress• How Anora swept the OscarsIt was an unfamiliar sight for Russians watching state TV on Monday morning. For the first time since Vladimir Putin launched his full-scale invasion of Ukraine three years ago, the Oscars made the news.The state anchor devoted the tightly controlled news bulletin to Anora, the night’s runaway success, spotlighting its cast of Russian actors – chief among them best supporting actor nominee Yura Borisov, who earned global praise for his performance as a brutish yet unexpectedly sensitive Russian bodyguard. Continue reading...

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Mikey Madison won best actress for her starring role in the thriller slash comedy caper

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Rising star Mikey Madison, 25, took home the award for Best Actress at the Oscars last night and became the ninth youngest woman to win the prize for her performance in Anora

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Epic period drama The Brutalist was responsible for two first-time British winners.

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Anora won five gongs, with The Brutalist winning three and Wicked winning two Oscars

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The Brutalist, a period drama about a Hungarian-Jewish Holocaust survivor László Tóth (portrayed by Adrien Brody) pursuing the American Dream, had been nominated for 10 Academy Awards

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Anora won five gongs, with The Brutalist winning three and Wicked winning two Oscars.

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Adrien Brody was slammed over a 'disgusting' act as he won his second Best Actor Oscar at the 2025 ceremony on Sunday.

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At the 97th Academy Awards in Los Angeles, Adrien Brody wins best actor for The Brutalist, while Zoe Saldaña and Kieran Culkin take prizes. Join us for full coverage• The complete list of winners• The red carpet – in picturesAnd now a special live update from the Guardian’s Xan Brooks at the Dolby theatre in Hollywood First trip to the Oscars. Impossibly glamorous arrival. Non-celebrity guests, I discover, access the Dolby theatre by walking around the police cordons, across a filling station forecourt and past a shuttered bowling alley to the theatre doors. This is perhaps what’s known unofficially as the Karla Sofía Gascón Entrance. But I’m now safely inside and have been handed a spring roll to eat. Continue reading...

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Sean Baker’s film picked up five awards including best picture while Israel-Palestine documentary No Other Land also gets major winOscars 2025 — follow live Academy Awards updatesSee complete list of winners and photos from the red carpetLow-budget comedy Anora has triumphed at this year’s Oscars winning five Oscars, including best picture and best actress while Adrien Brody took home best actor.Anora, which follows Mikey Madison’s sex worker who gets married to the son of a Russian oligarch, premiered at the Cannes film festival last year and has become the fourth Palme d’Or winner to be named best picture. Continue reading...

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Sean Baker’s film picks up five awards including best picture while Israel-Palestine documentary No Other Land also gets major win• Oscars 2025 – follow live Academy Awards updates• Complete list of winners and photos from the red carpetLow-budget comedy Anora has triumphed at this year’s Oscars winning five Oscars, including best picture and best actress while Adrien Brody took home best actor.Anora, which follows Mikey Madison’s sex worker who gets married to the son of a Russian oligarch, premiered at the Cannes film festival last year and has become the fourth Palme d’Or winner to be named best picture. Continue reading...

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Adrien Brody has clinched his second Oscar for best actor, winning at Sunday’s 97th Academy Awards for his role as a visionary Hungarian-Jewish architect in “The Brutalist.”

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Sole previous scoring credit on a full-length film for the singer, guitar player and visual artist is The World to ComeAnora dominates the Oscars — here’s the complete list of winnersThe young British composer Daniel Blumberg has won his first Oscar for his second-ever musical score for a feature film, for Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist.Blumberg, 34, won the Bafta award last month for the score, which has met with considerable praise and which plays a prominent role in the film. The Brutalist is the story of a fictitious Hungarian architect, László Tóth, who moves to the US after surviving the Holocaust.Anora takes home best picture OscarAdrien Brody and Mikey Madison win best acting prizesKieran Culkin and Zoe Saldaña win supporting awardsAnora’s Sean Baker wins for directing, editing and screenplay Continue reading...

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Adrien Brody and Mikey Madison were among the big winners at the BAFTA film awards, which was presented by David Tennant and celebrates the biggest and brightest in film at London's Royal Festival Hall

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US stars Adrien Brody and Mikey Madison were among the big winners at the Bafta film awards as they triumphed in the acting categories.

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Both Edward Berger and Brady Corbet’s dramas take four awards while Demi Moore denied comeback prize as competition heats up for next month’s OscarsFull list of winnersBaftas after-parties: Pamela Anderson, Selena Gomez and Ariana Grande – in picturesRed carpet, ceremony and winners – as it happenedConclave, Edward Berger’s Vatican-set thriller starring Ralph Fiennes as a cardinal overseeing the election of a new pope, went into this year’s Bafta ceremony with a dozen nominations – the most of any contender. It ended up with four awards: for best picture, outstanding British film, adapted screenplay and editing.Accepting the second of those, Berger – who swept the board at the awards two years ago with his remake of All Quiet on the Western Front, which won seven prizes – said: “We live in a time of a crisis of democracy. Institutions used to bringing us together are used to pull us apart. Sometimes it’s hard to keep the faith, and that’s why we make movies.” Continue reading...

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