Pictures: Highlights of the 97th annual Academy Awards in Hollywood

“Anora,” a strip membership Cinderella story with out the fairy story ending, was topped greatest image on the 97th Academy Awards on Sunday, handing Sean Baker’s gritty, Brooklyn-set screwball farce Hollywood’s prime prize.

Eight of the ten films nominated for greatest image got here away with no less than one award on the Dolby Theatre on Sunday, in a ceremony that noticed the performing wins go to Madison, Adrien Brody, Kieran Culkin and Zoe Saldaña.

Twenty-two years after profitable greatest actor for “The Pianist,” Brody received the identical Oscar once more for his efficiency as one other Holocaust survivor in Brady Corbet’s “The Brutalist. His win came over Timothée Chalamet (“A Complete Unknown”), who had the possibility of changing into the youngest greatest actor ever, a document owned by Brody.

Mikey Madison received greatest actress for her breakthrough efficiency in “Anora,” a victory that came to visit the class favourite, Demi Moore. (“The Substance”)

Although the Oscars featured the primary time an actor was nominated for portraying a sitting U.S. president (Sebastian Stan as a younger Donald Trump in “The Apprentice”), politics went largely unmentioned within the first half of the ceremony.

Host Conan O’Brien prevented the subject fully in his opening monologue. The primary exception was almost two hours in, when presenter Daryl Hannah introduced merely: “Slava Ukraini” (“Glory to Ukraine!”)

“No Other Land,” a documentary about Israeli occupation of the West Financial institution made by a collation of Palestinian and Israeli filmmakers, received greatest documentary.

“There is a different path, a political solution, without ethnic supremacy, with national rights for both our people,” mentioned Yuval Abraham, an Israeili, talking beside co-director Basel Adra, a Palestinian. “And I have to say, as I am here, the foreign policy in this country is helping to block this path. Why? Can’t you see that we are intertwined, that my people can’t be truly safe if Basel’s people aren’t truly free?

Host Conan O’Brien, center, performs during the Oscars on Sunday, March 2, 2025, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello) Mikey Madison accepts the award for best performance by an actress in a leading role for “Anora” in the course of the Oscars on Sunday, March 2, 2025, on the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Picture/Chris Pizzello) Cillian Murphy presents the award for greatest efficiency by an actor in a number one position in the course of the Oscars on Sunday, March 2, 2025, on the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Picture/Chris Pizzello) Paul Tazewell accepts the award for greatest costume design for “Wicked” in the course of the Oscars on Sunday, March 2, 2025, on the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Picture/Chris Pizzello) Members of the Los Angeles County Fireplace Division and Host Conan O’Brien, far proper, on stage in the course of the Oscars on Sunday, March 2, 2025, on the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Picture/Chris Pizzello) Elton John, left, and Timothee Chalamet within the viewers in the course of the Oscars on Sunday, March 2, 2025, on the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Picture/Chris Pizzello) Queen Latifah, heart, performs “Ease on Down the Road” in the course of the Oscars on Sunday, March 2, 2025, on the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Picture/Chris Pizzello) Adrien Brody accepts the award for greatest efficiency by an actor in a number one position for “The Brutalist” in the course of the Oscars on Sunday, March 2, 2025, on the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Picture/Chris Pizzello) Margaret Qualley performs in the course of the Oscars on Sunday, March 2, 2025, on the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Picture/Chris Pizzello) Kieran Culkin accepts the award for greatest efficiency by an actor in a supporting position for “A Real Pain” in the course of the Oscars on Sunday, March 2, 2025, on the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Picture/Chris Pizzello) Dancing Deadpool, heart, performs in the course of the Oscars on Sunday, March 2, 2025, on the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Picture/Chris Pizzello) Adrien Brody accepts the award for greatest efficiency by an actor in a number one position for “The Brutalist” in the course of the Oscars on Sunday, March 2, 2025, on the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Picture/Chris Pizzello) Cynthia Erivo, left, and Ariana Grande carry out “Defying Gravity” in the course of the Oscars on Sunday, March 2, 2025, on the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Picture/Chris Pizzello) Paul Tazewell, heart, accepts the award for greatest costume design for “Wicked” in the course of the Oscars on Sunday, March 2, 2025, on the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Lily-Rose Depp, from left, Elle Fanning, John Lithgow, Connie Nielsen, an d Bowen Yang look on from again(AP Picture/Chris Pizzello) Zoe Saldana accepts the award for greatest efficiency by an actress in a supporting position for “Emilia Perez” in the course of the Oscars on Sunday, March 2, 2025, on the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Picture/Chris Pizzello) Basel Adra, from left, Rachel Szor, Hamdan Ballal, and Yuval Abraham settle for the award for greatest documentary characteristic movie for “No Other Land” in the course of the Oscars on Sunday, March 2, 2025, on the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Picture/Chris Pizzello) (L-R) Timothée Chalamet and Kylie Jenner are seen in the course of the 97th Annual Oscars at Dolby Theatre on March 02, 2025 in Hollywood, California. (Picture by Kevin Winter/Getty Pictures)