6 h. ago Oscars 2025 LIVE: Inside moments from afterparties as celebs let their hair down

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10 h. ago Anora has swept the Oscars. I can’t help feeling that shouldn’t have happened | Catherine Shoard

Sean Baker’s film is muddled, hollow at the middle and about the fifth least vital of the best picture lineupHow Anora swept the Oscars – and the complete list of winnersThe red carpet and Oscars ceremony – in picturesIt is hard to imagine a more charming Oscar winner than Sean Baker. The director – and writer, editor and producer – of Anora was wonderfully persuasive and gracious and fluent at the Academy Awards. He was funny picking up best editing, and then he was sweet accepting the screenwriter prize.When it came to the directing gong, he was downright godlike: the podium his soapbox, superbly leveraged for a gang-busting call to arms about the importance of cinema and the need for people to support bricks and mortar venues. Continue reading...

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10 h. ago The Oscars were an exhilarating triumph for Anora and newly minted star Mikey Madison

Political metaphors were the dark undercurrent in this year’s crop, from Anora’s toxic masculinity to the revolutionary defiance of I’m Still HereSo, as Conan O’Brien pointed out, the Oscars went to a film about someone standing up to a Russian, and maybe recent events mean we have to probe its political metaphor even further. Sean Baker’s cacophonous, crazy non-love story Anora won five Academy Awards including best actress for that rather amazing and newly born star Mikey Madison, playing the tough, smart, beautiful New York lap dancer who gets a Vegas quickie marriage to the spoilt and pusillanimous son of a Russian oligarch and then has to stand up to his parents. Madison embodies Anora’s complex courage: not exactly romantic, not exactly in love, but certainly believing in the wedding contract, in her own status as a legally married woman and in the possibility of happiness which is no more remote for her than for anyone else. She is the thoroughly modern, thoroughly 21st-centu...

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10 h. ago Oscars 2025 LIVE: Stars attend afterparties as fans react to Academy Awards ceremony

Conclave, Wicked, The Substance, Emilia Pérez, and Dune: Part Two all claimed awards

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11 h. ago Oscars stars dare to bare at Vanity Fair afterparty as Demi Moore snub rocks Hollywood: Live updates

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12 h. ago Anora wins Best Picture Oscar as 2025's biggest winner of the night

Sean Baker's Anora took home the Best Picture award at the 97th Academy Awards, marking a groundbreaking win for independent cinema...

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12 h. ago Oscars 2025: Anora's Sean Baker issues 'battle cry' to save cinemas as he wins Best Director

Sean Baker picked up his third prize of the night for 'Anora', after wins for Best Original Screenplay and Best Editing, to take the statuette ahead of Brady Corbet, James Mangold, Jacques Audiard and Coralie Fargeat

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12 h. ago Fans outraged as Mikey Madison beats Demi Moore for Best Actress Award at 2025 Oscars: live updates

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12 h. ago Oscars 2025 LIVE: Anora wins Best Picture as it dominates the Oscars, winning five awards

Conclave, Wicked, The Substance, Emilia Pérez, and Dune: Part Two all claimed awards

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12 h. ago Oscars 2025 live updates: Mikey Madison beats Demi Moore for Best Actress as Anora sweeps with five awards

This year’s Oscar nominees include Demi Moore (’The Substance’), Timothée Chalamet (’A Complete Unknown’), Kieran Culkin (’A Real Pain’) and Ariana Grande (’Wicked’)

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12 h. ago Oscars 2025 live: Anora sweeps awards with best picture, best director and best actress

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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12 h. ago Anora sweeps the Oscars as Mikey Madison named best actress and Adrien Brody wins for The Brutalist

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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12 h. ago Anora dominates the Oscars as Mikey Madison named best actress and Adrien Brody wins for The Brutalist

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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13 h. ago Anora: Why Sean Baker’s sad and sexy glitter bomb of a film was the right Best Picture winner

The awards season staple features a star-making performance from 25-year-old Mikey Madison – who took home Best Actress at Sunday’s Oscars – and a tone that oscillates between slapstick, romcom and bleak drama, writes Annabel Nugent

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13 h. ago Sean Baker wins best director Oscar for ‘Anora,’ his 3rd of the night

Sean Baker has won best director at the Oscars for “Anora,” the story of a Brooklyn exotic dancer who marries the impetuous son of a Russian oligarch

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13 h. ago Oscars host Conan O'Brien makes subtle dig at Donald Trump: Live updates

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13 h. ago Oscars 2025 live updates: Adrien Brody refuses to be played off after winning Best Actor

This year’s Oscar nominees include Demi Moore (’The Substance’), Timothée Chalamet (’A Complete Unknown’), Kieran Culkin (’A Real Pain’) and Ariana Grande (’Wicked’)

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13 h. ago Oscars 2025 live: Anora, Wicked and Emilia Pérez pick up early awards as Dune wins for sound and visual effects

Conan O’Brien is hosting the 97th Academy Awards in Los Angeles. Zoe Saldaña and Kieran Culkin take the supporting actress and actor 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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13 h. ago Oscars 2025 LIVE: Morgan Freeman pays tribute to Gene Hackman, as Zoe Saldaña wins best supporting actress

Conclave, Wicked, The Substance, Emilia Pérez, and Dune: Part Two have all claimed awards

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14 h. ago Oscars 2025 LIVE: Zoe Saldaña wins best supporting actress for Emilia Pérez as Anora picks up two awards

Conclave, Wicked and Anora have all scooped up the first awards at this year’s event

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