Posted on 03/03/2025 7:20:56 AM PST by Red Badger
"Anora" won big at the 2025 Oscars Sunday night, taking home five awards, including best picture and best director, at the 97th Academy Awards.
Sean Baker, who directed, edited, wrote and co-produced "Anora," won four Oscars at Sunday's ceremony, tying Walt Disney's record for the most Academy Awards won by a single person in one year. Baker distinguished himself by winning all four awards for the same movie, while Disney won for four different projects at the 1954 ceremony. (Bong Joon-Ho accepted four statues at the 2020 ceremony, but the win for best international feature was technically awarded to South Korea, and not him as an individual.)
"Emilia Pérez" had the most nominations this year with 13, including nods for best picture, best director, best writing and multiple acting nominations. Karla Sofía Gascón made Oscar history when she became the first transgender woman to be nominated in any acting category when she received a best actress nomination for playing the film's title role. Her Oscar campaign, however, was marred by controversy after offensive posts she made on social media surfaced. The award for best actress ultimately went to Mikey Madison, who played the title role in "Anora."
Zoe Saldaña — who became the first American of Dominican descent to win an Oscar — won best supporting actress, one of just two wins for "Emilia Pérez" on Sunday night.
"Wicked," based on the hit Broadway musical, and "The Brutalist" both came into the night with 10 nominations each, and were also competing for best picture, best director and a slew of acting nominations.
Adrian Brody won his second best actor Oscar for his role as architect László Tóth in "The Brutalist." When Brody won his first Oscar for 2002's "The Pianist" at age 29, he became the youngest person to win the award. Timothée Chalamet was also nominated for best actor for his performance as the iconic folk singer Bob Dylan in "A Complete Unknown," and had been hoping to break Brody's record. Also nominated in the category were Ralph Fiennes, who starred in "Conclave," Colman Domingo, and Sebastian Stan, who could have become the first person to ever win best actor for playing the sitting U.S. president had he gone home with the award.
Former "Late Night" and "The Tonight Show" host Conan O'Brien helmed this year's ceremony. A two-time host of the Emmys, this was O'Brien's first time as master of ceremonies for the Academy Awards.
Below is the full list of winners and nominees:
Best picture
"Anora" — Winner
Best actress
Mikey Madison, "Anora" — Winner
Best actor
Adrian Brody, "The Brutalist" — Winner
Best supporting actor
Kieran Culkin, "A Real Pain" — Winner
Best supporting actress
Zoe Saldaña, "Emilia Pérez" — Winner
Best director
Sean Baker, "Anora" — Winner
See the rest at link...........................
So now we celebrate whores, wonderful.
Well, the choice was between a whore and a witch................
At least the tranny lost
I remember years ago, we’d seen all the movies that were up for best picture, knew the actors and actresses - and eagerly anticipated the Oscars. We even filled out the forms in the paper and placed small bets on the outcome.
Haven’t watched it in at least a decade and never plan to again, and I love movies...
The only one I saw was “The Substance” - not best picture material, but Demi Moore was robbed of the Oscar, IMO.
Have no desire to see any of the movies listed, especially one about a sex worker.
I actually wish it would have won.
The Oscar for the least curious about what Hollywood craps out, goes to me!
“I’d like to thank everyone for turning me completely off movies and it’s self centered and egotistical players”
Didn’t watch...don’t care
😴😴😴😴😴😴😴. As irrelevant as grammys, nobells, pulitzers, emmys, civilian peace prizes........
Wow, I have actually heard of ONE of these people:
Adrian Brody
A very good actor. Not on the screen for his looks.
I have not seen any of these movies though.
I did watch “Oppenheimer” over the weekend on Prime.
It was pretty well done. Of course, they had to make it more about the fact that he associated with communists than a brilliant physicist.
We don’t, hollyweird does.
The oscars dominates the NY post website today.
From what little I saw, the usual freak show complete with several all but naked females.....what is it with Hollywood and public nudity?
It’s like awarding a garbage dump a “Good Housekeeping” seal. The “ Oscars “ are a joke.
I really would rather have a lefty real woman win. Cause if she’s nutz, she at least has the right innards...
Yep. Got better things to do than watch a bunch of overly self important millionaires congratulating each other on what a great job they did playing make believe.
I think I won simply by being completely unaware of the existence of any of these movies, or that it was Oscar night.
I saw a picture of Timothée Chalamet as he was dressed for the Academy Awards that someone posted yesterday on Facebook.
It was a matching YELLOW pants and waste coat.
I made the comment that it reminded me of what disco dancing men wore back in the 1980s. Called a LEISURE SUIT.
My post/comment actually received a return comment from someone who called themselves Timothée Chalamet in kind of broken English language. I should have saved the post because both mine and the reply were deleted/gone later.
lol.
I’d try to challenge you for the award but I couldn’t have made a better acceptance speech so I’ll let you have it.
Wonderful, such diversity of representation at the Oscar’s. Never mind that if you are white and straight and had a white and straight cast your film wouldn’t qualify for a nomination, even if you made the film Titanic. It’s not the quality of the movie that matters, it’s about the diversity of your cast and crew.
I never even heard of these films (well, I did see ads for The Brutalist). They should probably do the Oscars 3 years after the fact when everyone had a chance to see them in Netflix or Amazon.
“Who won Oscars for 2025?”
Is that still a “thing”?
Hollywood is DEAD. FH
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