“Anora” came out on top during the 97th Academy Awards on Sunday.
The film, distributed by Neon, took home five trophies — best picture, best editing, best director, best original screenplay and best actress. It was the most of any film nominated.
Sean Baker, the auteur behind “Anora,” is now the first person to win four Oscars for the same film.The ceremony, which was broadcast live from the Dolby Theater in Hollywood on ABC, was hosted by comedian Conan O’Brien and featured announcements by Nick Offerman. It was streamed on Hulu, which suffered technical difficulties and cut out for some users just before the night’s biggest prizes.
This year’s awards was a night of firsts: “The Brutalist” star Adrien Brody became the first to go 2-for-2 in the best actor category, besting Timothée Chalamet, who was nominated for “A Complete Unknown.”
Paul Tazewell made history as the first Black man to win an Academy Award for costume design for his work on “Wicked.” The stars of the film, Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo, opened the ceremony, performing a trio of Oz-related songs. Watch the full performance below.
“Flow” became the first Latvian film to claim an Academy Award, winning best animated feature, and Zoe Saldana became the first American of Dominican descent to win an Oscar, hoisting a statue for her role in Netflix’s “Emilia Pérez.”
Diversity shone throughout the evening, with wins for filmmakers from Brazil (“I’m Still Here”) and Iran (“In the Shadow of the Cypress”). “No Other Land,” named best documentary film, tracks the expulsion of communities from the West Bank by the Israeli military and comes from a collective of Palestinian and Israeli filmmakers.
In the best picture contest, “Anora” beat out “The Brutalist,” “A Complete Unknown,” “Conclave,” “Dune: Part Two,” “Emilia Pérez,” “I’m Still Here,” “Nickel Boys,” “The Substance” and “Wicked.”
Here’s the full list of 2025 Oscar winners:
Best supporting actor: Kieran Culkin, “A Real Pain”
Best animated feature: “Flow”
Best animated short: “In the Shadow of the Cypress”
Best costume design: Paul Tazewell, “Wicked”
Best original screenplay: Sean Baker, “Anora”
Best adapted screenplay: Peter Straughan, “Conclave”
Best makeup and hairstyling: Pierre-Olivier Persin, Stéphanie Guillon and Marilyne Scarselli, “The Substance”
Best editing: Sean Baker, “Anora”
Best supporting actress: Zoe Saldana, “Emilia Pérez”
Best production design: Nathan Crowley and Lee Sandales, “Wicked”
Best original song: “El Mal” from “Emilia Pérez”
Best documentary short: “The Only Girl in the Orchestra”
Best documentary feature: “No Other Land”
Best sound: “Dune: Part Two”
Best visual effects: “Dune: Part Two”
Best live-action short: “I’m Not a Robot”
Best cinematography: Lol Crawley, “The Brutalist”
Best international feature: “I’m Still Here” (Brazil)
Best original score: Daniel Blumberg, “The Brutalist”
Best actor: Adrien Brody, “The Brutalist”
Best director: Sean Baker, “Anora”
Best actress: Mikey Madison, “Anora”
Best picture: “Anora”
Sean Baker, the auteur of best picture-winning “Anora” took the stage several times on Sunday night, winning awards for best original screenplay, best editing, best director and best picture.
During his best director speech, Baker made what he called his “battle cry,” a plea to the industry to remain stalwart in its commitment to the theater.
“We are all here tonight and watching this broadcast because we love movies,” he said. “Where did we fall in love with the movies? At the movie theater. Watching a film in a theater with an audience is an experience. We can laugh together, cry together, scream in fright together, perhaps, sit in devastated silence together. And in a time in which the world can feel very divided, this is more important than ever.”
He continued by saying that the communal experience of a movie theater cannot be replicated at home and noted that the industry lost more than 1,000 screens during the Covid pandemic.
“Filmmakers: Keep making films for the big screen. I know I will,” he said. “Distributors: Please focus first and foremost on the theatrical releases of your films. Neon did that for me, and I thank you from the bottom of my heart.”
“Anora” took home five trophies in total, with Mikey Madison winning for best actress.
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