CODA wins Best Picture. (Photo: AP)The 94th Academy Awards were held at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles and were hosted by Regina Hall, Amy Schumer and Wanda Sykes. CODA was the big winner of the night winning the Best Picture award. The film was nominated in three categories and won all three. The other two are Best adapted screenplay and Best supporting actor for Troy Kotsur.
Dune won six awards at the Oscars out of its ten nominations – Best original score, Best cinematography, Best visual effects, Best film editing, Best sound and Best production design.
The Power of the Dog, which had 12 nominations in its name, won only one award. Jane Campion won the award for Best director.
Will Smith won the first Oscar of his career for his performance in King Richard. Jessica Chastain won Best Actress for The Eyes of Tammy Faye. Best Supporting actress was won by Ariana DeBose for West Side Story.
Eight categories received Oscars before the live telecast. However, their wins were included in the telecast. The awards for – Animated Short Film, Documentary Short Subject, Film Editing, Live Action Short Film, Makeup and Hairstyling, Original Score, Production Design and Sound, were not broadcast LIVE.
Samuel Jackson, Elaine May and Liv Ullmann were honoured with the Honorary Academy Awards in 2022. The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award was given to Danny Glover.
Will Smith spotted at the Vanity Fair afterparty.
AP reported that during the commercial break, Daniel Kaluuya came to hug Will and Denzel Washington took him to the side of the stage. They talked and hugged, as Tyler Perry also joined. The agency reported that Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban also spoke to Will and Jada during one of the commercial breaks.
As per Variety, Chris Rock has declined to file a police report against Will Smith. A full statement from the Los Angeles Police Department reads: “LAPD investigative entities are aware of an incident between two individuals during the Academy Awards program. The incident involved one individual slapping another. The individual involved has declined to file a police report. If the involved party desires a police report at a later date, LAPD will be available to complete an investigative report.”
"I wanna apologize to the Academy... to all my fellow nominees. ... Art imitates life, I look like the crazy father! ... Love will make you do crazy things," said Will during his acceptance speech as he won Best Actor.
The show ends after the announcement of the Best Film nomination. The team of CODA accepted the award.
CODA wins Best Picture. The nominations in this category included - Belfast, CODA, Don’t Look Up, Drive My Car, Dune, King Richard, Licorice Pizza, Nightmare Alley, The Power of the Dog, West Side Story.
Lady Gaga and Liza Minnelli take the Oscar stage to present Best Film award.
Anthony Hopkins presents the Best Actress award to Jessica Chastain for The Eyes of Tammy Faye. The other nominees were: Olivia Colman – The Lost Daughter, Penelope Cruz – Parallel Mothers, Nicole Kidman – Being the Ricardos and Kristen Stewart – Spencer.
Will Smith wins his first Oscar for King Richard. The other nominees included: Javier Bardem – Being the Ricardos, Benedict Cumberbatch – The Power of the Dog, Andrew Garfield – Tick, Tick…Boom!, Denzel Washington – The Tragedy of Macbeth.
A 94th Academy Awards that steadily maintained a buoyant spirit was rocked by an unbelievable exchange after Will Smith took offense to a joke made by Chris Rock about his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith.
After Rock joked to Smith that he was looking forward to a sequel to “G.I. Jane,” Smith stood up from his seat near the stage, strode up to Rock and slapped him. After sitting back down, Smith shouted at Rock to “keep my wife’s name out of your (expletive) mouth.” When Rock, who joked about Jada Pinkett Smith while hosting the Oscars in 2016, protested that it was just a “GI Jane” joke, Smith repeated the same line.
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Samuel L Jackson, John Travolta and Uma Thurman take the stage as Pulp Fiction gets honoured on its 28th anniversary.
Jane Campion wins Best Director for The Power of the Dog. Other nominees were - Kenneth Branagh – Belfast, Drive My Car – Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Licorice Pizza – Paul Thomas Anderson, West Side Story – Steven Spielberg.
Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell win their first Iscar for No Time To Die in the category Best Original Song.
Francis Ford Coppola, Al Pacino and Robert De Niro take the stage as The Godfather gets honoured at completing 50 years.
After being nominated in the Best Documentary Feature category for this year’s Oscars, Delhi-based filmmakers Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh’s documentary, Writing with Fire had to bow out of the Oscar race as the prize was won by Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised).
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Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution could not be televised) wins Best documentary feature. Indian film Writing with Fire was also nominated in the same category.
Billie Eilish performs her Oscar nominated original song No Time To Die at the 94th Academy Awards.
Siân Heder wins Best adapted screenplay for CODA. Drive My Car, Dune, The Lost Daughter and The Power of the Dog were the other nominees.
Kenneth Branagh wins his first Oscar after eight nominations. He won the Best Original Screenplay award for Belfast.
BTS introduced the Will Smith starrer King Richard as the Best Picture nominee via video message.
Jenny Beavan wins Best costume design for Cruella at the 94th Academy Awards. The other nominees were - Massimo Cantini Parrini and Jacqueline Durran – Cyrano, Jacqueline West and Robert Morgan – Dune, Luis Sequeira – Nightmare Alley, Paul Tazewell – West Side Story.
Tiffany Haddish and Simu Liu take the stage at the Oscars as they present Best International Feature. Drive My Car wins the Oscar. The nominations were - Drive My Car (Japan), Flee (Denmark), The Hand of God (Italy), Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom (Bhutan) and The Worst Person in the World (Norway).
Troy Kotsur received a standing ovation as he accepted his Oscar at the 94th Academy Awards.
Troy Kotsur wins Best supporting actor for CODA. The nominations were - Ciaran Hinds – Belfast, Troy Kotsur – CODA, Jesse Plemons – The Power of the Dog, JK Simmons – Being the Ricardos, Kodi Smit-McPhee – The Power of the Dog.
Encanto wins Best animated feature. Flee, Luca, The Mitchells vs The Machines and Raya and the Last Dragon were also noinated for the award.
Dune wins Best Visual Effects. MCU's Spider Man: No Way Home loses against Denis Villeneuve's film.
Greig Fraser wins Best Cinematography for Dune. The nominations were - Greig Fraser – Dune, Dan Laustsen – Nightmare Alley, Ari Wegner – The Power of the Dog, Bruno Delbonnel – The Tragedy of Macbeth, Janusz Kaminski – West Side Story.
Jason Momoa and John Brolin take the stage to announce the Best Sound award. The award was given before the ceremony began. The pre-recorded bit was telecast during the LIVE.
Ariana DeBose thanked Rita Moreno in her Oscar speech. Rita played Anita in the 1961 film. Ariana won her Oscar for the same role in Steven Spielberg's film.
HER and Daniel Kaluuya take the stage and present the award for Best Supporting Actress. The nominations are - Jessie Buckley – The Lost Daughter, Ariana DeBose – West Side Story, Judi Dench – Belfast, Kirsten Dunst – The Power of the Dog, Aunjanue Ellis – King Richard. The winner is - Ariana DeBose for West Side Story.
Samuel L Jackson, Elaine May, Liv Ullmann and Danny Glover were honoured with Governors Awards on Friday.
Amy Schumer, Wanda Sykes and Regina Hall take the stage at the Oscars 2022. DJ Khaled welcomes the trio.
Venus Williams and Serena Williams welcome Beyonce for the first performance of the night. She is nominated for Best Original Song for King Richard's Be Alive.
The Eyes of Tammy Faye's Linda Dowds, Stephanie Ingram and Justin Raleigh win Best Makeup and Hairstyling for Oscars 2022.
Dune wins the Oscar for Best Production Design. Production design: Patrice Vermette; set decoration: Zsuzsanna Sipos.
Joe Walker wins Best Editing for Dune.
Hans Zimmer wins the Oscar for Dune.
Aneil Karia and Riz Ahmed win the Oscar for The Long Goodbye.
The Windshield Wiper wins Best Animated Short Film.
The Queen of Basketball wins Best Documentary Short Subject.
Mac Ruth, Mark Mangini, Theo Green, Doug Hemphill and Ron Bartlett win Best Sound for Dune.
In India, viewers can watch the Oscars LIVE on Hotstar starting at 5 am on March 28. The red carpet starts at 5 am and the ceremony starts at 5:30 am. Television viewers can watch the events LIVE as they unfold on Star Movies, Star Movies Select HD, Star Movies HD, Star World, Star World Premiere HD and Star World HD at 5:30 am.
Lin-Manuel Miranda, one of this year’s most prominent Oscar nominees, will sit out the ceremony after his wife tested positive for COVID-19. “Made it to Hollywood,” Miranda wrote. “This weekend, my wife tested + (positive) for COVID. She’s doing fine. Kids & I have tested - (negative) but out of caution, I won’t be going to the Oscars tomorrow night.”
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Celebrities take the red carpet at the 94th Academy Awards.