6 h. ago Russian state propagandists overjoyed at Anora’s Oscar triumph

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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8 h. ago Demi Moore goes viral for reaction to Mikey Madison’s surprise Best Actress Oscars win

Demi Moore reacted with grace to Mikey Madison’s Best Actress win at the 2025 Oscars on Sunday (2 March), but her fans were less accepting.

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11 h. ago Inside rising star Mikey Madison's acting career as she wins Best Actress Oscar

After her recent role in Anora, Mikey Madison was awarded Best Actress last night at the Oscars and won Leading Actress at the BAFTAs - here’s everything you need to know about the actress's rise to fame

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13 h. ago Oscars 2025: Demi Moore reacts to Mikey Madison’s surprise Best Actress win amid fan backlash

Moore was favourite to win the category

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14 h. ago Who is Mikey Madison as she beats Demi Moore to win Best Actress for Anora?

Mikey Madison, 25, beat Hollywood stalwart Demi Moore to take home the Best Actress Oscar for her role in the comedy Anora on Sunday night - but who is the American actress?

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14 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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14 h. ago Demi Moore fans make same telling comment after Oscars result is announced

Demi Moore was the hot favourite to win the Best Actress Oscar for The Substance – but fans were left saying the same thing when the result was announced at the Academy Awards

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15 h. ago Who is Oscar winner Mikey Madison as she clinches top acting prize?

Her Oscars win comes after the Anora star won the Bafta leading actress gong in February.

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16 h. ago Was Demi Moore snubbed? Anora best picture win at 2025 Oscars divides fans

Anora was the night's big winner at the 2025 Oscars, although many fans made it clear online that The Substance's Demi Moore deserved to scoop an Academy award for Best Actress

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16 h. ago Anora best picture win at Oscars divides fans as they say Demi Moore 'snubbed'

Anora was the night's big winner at the 2025 Oscars, although many fans made it clear online that The Substance's Demi Moore deserved to scoop an Academy award for Best Actress

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16 h. ago Full list of Oscars 2025 winners ‘Anora’ takes home best picture

Anora dominated the 97th Academy Awards, winning big with five golden statues, including Best Picture and Best Actress for Mikey Madison, beating out favourite Emilia Perez

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16 h. ago Full list of Oscars 2025 winners as Anora takes home best picture

Anora dominated the 97th Academy Awards, winning big with five golden statues, including Best Picture and Best Actress for Mikey Madison, beating out favourite Emilia Perez

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

Follow along for updates throughout the night, including the best and worst red carpet looks, the most dramatic moments during the show, the winners, and more.

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16 h. ago Oscar winners, snubs and speeches in full: Demi Moore can't hide her fury as Mikey Madison wins Best Actress and leads Anora to huge night of victory

The 25-year-old rising star reached the pinnacle of acting at the 97th Academy Awards in Hollywood on Sunday night as the drama won the most awards on the night with five.

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16 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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17 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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17 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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17 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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17 h. ago Breakout star Mikey Madison wins best actress Oscar for ‘Anora’ over Hollywood veteran Demi Moore

Mikey Madison has won the best actress Oscar for “Anora” in an upset over Hollywood veteran Demi Moore

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17 h. ago Oscars 2025: Mikey Madison, 25, beats Demi Moore to take home Best Actress award

The nominees for Actress In A Leading Role at this year's Oscars included Cynthia Erivo, Karla Sofía Gascón, Mikey Madison, Demi Moore and Fernanda Torres

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