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97th Academy Awards: Oscars Have Found Their Owners

Oscars have found their owners on the 97th Academy Awards night ceremony in Los Angeles. Anora was the production that left its mark on the night at the awards night when the cream of 2024 films was feted.

Anora was crowned Best Film of the 2025 Oscars during Conan O'Brien's ceremony last Sunday night, March 3. Anora's star, Mikey Madison, won Best Actress, while Anora's director Sean Baker won four awards, the highest number of awards won by a director for the same film on one night. Sean Baker equaled Walt Disney's Oscar record by winning the Best Picture, Best Director, Best Editing and Best Original Screenplay honors. The great illustrator and producer Walt Disney, however, achieved this in four separate films in 1953.

Emilia Perez was the front-runner film with 13 nominations at the event, and Wicked and The Brutalist were going head to head with 10 nominations. Anora, which also won the Palme d'Or, made its presence felt during the evening by winning five of six nominations. The Brutalist won the Best Cinematography and Best Original Score awards, and Adrien Brody won the Best Actor award for his performance in The Brutalist. The award-winning actor had earlier received an Oscar for The Pianist in 2002. Brody, aged 29, made history by becoming the youngest actor ever to receive the Best Actor award.

Kieran Culkin received the Best Supporting Actor award for A Real Pain, while Zoe Saldaña received the Best Supporting Actress award for Emilia Pérez.

Here is the full list of winners of the 97th Oscars:

Best Picture: Anora

The Brutalist
A Complete Unknown
Conclave
Dune: Part Two
Emilia Pérez
I’m Still Here
Nickel Boys
The Substance
Wicked

Best Director: Sean Baker

Sean Baker – Anora
Jacques Audiard – Emilia Pérez
Brady Corbet – The Brutalist
Coralie Fargeat – The Substance
James Mangold – A Complete Unknown

Best Actress: Mikey Madison

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

Best Actor: Adrien Brody

Adrien Brody – The Brutalist
Timothée Chalamet – A Complete Unknown
Colman Domingo – Sing Sing
Ralph Fiennes – Conclave
Sebastian Stan – The Apprentice

Other Categories:

Best Costume Design: Wicked
Best Production: Wicked
Best Makeup and Hairstyling: The Substance
Best Adapted Screenplay: Conclave – Peter Straughan
Best Original Screenplay: Anora – Sean Baker
Best Animated Feature Film: Flow
Best Animated Short Film: In the Shadow of the Cypress
Best Supporting Actress: Zoe Saldaña
Best International Film: I’m Still Here – Brezilya
Best Supporting Actor: Kieran Culkin
Best Visual Effects: Dune: Part Two
Best Editing: Anora
Best Documentary Short Film: The Only Girl in the Orchestra
Best Documentary Feature: No Other Land
Best Cinematography: The Brutalist
Best Short Film: I’m Not a Robot
Best Sound: Dune: Part Two
Best Original Score: The Brutalist
Best Original Song: “El Mal” – Emilia Pérez

The History of the Oscars with Their Firsts and Bests

The Oscars, which were first awarded in 1929 and are officially known as the Academy Awards, are the largest event organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to honor the advancement of the movie industry. The first ceremony, held in 1929, at the beginning of the Great Depression, was only 15 minutes long with 270 attendees.

The first production to have won the "Best Picture" title in the Oscar's history was "Wings", a silent movie by director William Wellman. This film is also completely silent and the only film to have won an award in this category. Emil Jannings became the inaugural winner of the Best Actor award for his performances in The Last Command and The Way of All Flesh, while Janet Gaynor was the first to win the Best Actress award for her roles in 7th Heaven, Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans and Street Angel.

American filmmaker and artist Walt Disney holds an undefeated record as the person who has won the most Oscars with 26 awards. The films that have won the most Oscars are Ben-Hur, Titanic, and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King with 11 awards.

Tatum O'Neal, winner of the Best Supporting Actress for Paper Moon, is the youngest Oscar winner at the age of 10 years old. Anthony Hopkins is the oldest Best Actor winner for The Father at the age of 83 years old. Christopher Plummer was the oldest actor to win when he won the Best Supporting Actor award for Beginner at 82 years old. Meryl Streep, who holds the most Oscar nominations, has a total of 21 nominations.

One of the interesting events in the history of the awards is that Beatrice Straight won the Best Supporting Actress award at the 1977 ceremony despite having a role of only 5 minutes in the film Network. Anna Paquin, on the other hand, won the Best Supporting Actress award at the 1994 ceremony at the tender age of only 11 years.

At the Oscars ceremony in 2020, the South Korean film Parasite was the first non-English language film to win the award for Best Picture.

Finally, The Shawshank Redemption, a highly successful Stephen King adaptation by director Frank Darabont, is the most highly rated film in history (IMDB: 9.3/10), but it is among the interesting facts in Oscar history that it did not win any in 1995 despite 7 nominations.