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03-03-2025
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Oscars 2025 winners list: 'Anora', 'Wicked', Zoe Saldaña and more
Oscars 2025 winners list: 'Anora', 'Wicked', Zoe Saldaña and more Show Caption Hide Caption 'Anora,' Adrien Brody and the full Oscars recap USA TODAY's Ralphie Aversa recaps the 97th Academy Awards from Los Angeles, where 'Anora' was the night's big winner. It's the night we wait for all awards season: the Oscars. The stars wowed in their most opulent fashions on the red carpet and host Conan O'Brien dished out jokes from Hollywood's Dolby Theatre. And then came time for the envelopes and the 24-karat gold-plated statuettes. The unique musical "Emilia Pérez" went into the night with 13 nominations, and took home two wins. 'The Brutalist' and 'Wicked' had 10 nods each, and left with three and two wins, respectively. Sunday truly belonged to a woman named "Anora." The independent film starring Mikey Madison walked away with five Oscars – the most of the evening – including honors for best actress, best director and the night's biggest prize of best picture. To see everyone who won – including Kieran Culkin ("A Real Pain") and Zoe Saldaña ("Emilia Pérez") – keep scrolling. Oscars 2025 winners full list: Best picture WINNER: "Anora" "The Brutalist" "A Complete Unknown" "Conclave" "Dune: Part Two" "Emilia Pérez" "I'm Still Here" "Nickel Boys" "The Substance" "Wicked" Best actress WINNER: Mikey Madison, "Anora" Cynthia Erivo, "Wicked" Karla Sofía Gascón, "Emilia Pérez" Demi Moore, "The Substance" Fernanda Torres, "I'm Still Here" Best director WINNER: Sean Baker, "Anora" Brady Corbet, "The Brutalist" James Mangold, "A Complete Unknown" Jacques Audiard, "Emilia Pérez" Coralie Fargeat, "The Substance" Best actor WINNER: Adrien Brody, "The Brutalist" Timothée Chalamet, "A Complete Unknown" Colman Domingo, "Sing Sing" Ralph Fiennes, "Conclave" Sebastian Stan, "The Apprentice" Best supporting actor WINNER: Kieran Culkin, "A Real Pain" Yura Borisov, "Anora" Edward Norton, "A Complete Unknown" Guy Pearce, "The Brutalist" Jeremy Strong, "The Apprentice" Best supporting actress WINNER: Zoe Saldaña, "Emilia Pérez" Monica Barbaro, "A Complete Unknown" Ariana Grande, "Wicked" Felicity Jones, "The Brutalist" Isabella Rossellini, "Conclave" Best original score WINNER: "The Brutalist" (Daniel Blumberg) "Conclave" (Volker Bertelmann) "Emilia Pérez" (Clément Ducol and Camille) "Wicked" (John Powell and Stephen Schwartz) "The Wild Robot" (Kris Bowers) Best international film WINNER: "I'm Still Here" (Brazil) "The Girl With the Needle" (Denmark) "Emilia Pérez" (France) "The Seed of the Sacred Fig" (Germany) "Flow" (Latvia) Best cinematography WINNER: "The Brutalist" "Dune: Part Two" "Emilia Pérez" "Maria" "Nosferatu" Best live-action short WINNER: "I'm Not a Robot" "A Lien" "Anuja" "The Last Ranger" "The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent" Best visual effects WINNER: "Dune: Part Two" "Alien: Romulus" "Better Man" "Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes" "Wicked" Best sound WINNER: "Dune: Part Two" "A Complete Unknown" "Emilia Pérez" "Wicked" "The Wild Robot" Best documentary film WINNER: "No Other Land" "Black Box Diaries" "Porcelain War" "Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat" "Sugarcane" Best documentary short WINNER: "The Only Girl in the Orchestra" "Death by Numbers" "I Am Ready, Warden" "Incident" "Instruments of a Beating Heart" Best original song WINNER: "El Mal" from "Emilia Pérez" (Clément Ducol and Camille) "The Journey" from "The Six Triple Eight" (Diane Warren) "Like A Bird" from "Sing Sing" (Abraham Alexander and Adrian Quesada) "Mi Camino" from "Emilia Pérez" (Camille and Clément Ducol) "Never Too Late" from "Elton John: Never Too Late" (Elton John, Brandi Carlile,Andrew Watt and Bernie Taupin) Best production design WINNER: "Wicked" "The Brutalist" "Conclave" "Dune: Part Two" "Nosferatu" Best editing WINNER: "Anora" "The Brutalist" "Conclave" "Emilia Pérez" "Wicked" Best makeup and hairstyling WINNER: "The Substance" "A Different Man" "Emilia Pérez" "Nosferatu" "Wicked" Best adapted screenplay WINNER: "Conclave" (Peter Straughan) "A Complete Unknown" (James Mangold and Jay Cocks) "Emilia Pérez" (Jacques Audiard) "Nickel Boys" (RaMell Ross and Joslyn Barnes) "Sing Sing" (Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar) Best original screenplay WINNER: "Anora" (Sean Baker) "The Brutalist" (Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold) "A Real Pain" (Jesse Eisenberg) "September 5" (Moritz Binder, Tim Fehlbaum and Alex David) "The Substance" (Coralie Fargeat) Best costume design WINNER: "Wicked" "A Complete Unknown" "Conclave" "Gladiator II" "Nosferatu" Best animated short WINNER: "In the Shadow of the Cypress" "Beautiful Men" "Magic Candies" "Wander to Wonder" "Yuck!" Best animated film WINNER: "Flow" "Inside Out 2" "Memoir of a Snail" "Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl" "The Wild Robot"
USA Today
03-03-2025
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- USA Today
'Anora's' big night
'Anora's' big night Sunday's Oscars delivered plenty of memorable moments, including "Anora" winning five of the six awards for which it was nominated. Thousands of acres have been scorched by wildfires raging across North and South Carolina. Figure skaters at Capital One Arena honored the victims of the deadly crash between an American Airlines plane and a military helicopter. 👋🏾 I'm Jane, Daily Briefing author. Here are the best and worst musical moments from cinema's biggest night. 'Anora' cleans up at the Oscars Leave it to the Oscars to dish up memorable moments that sometimes are on par with the indelible scenes from the movies they honor. The stars wowed in their most opulent fashions on the red carpet, and host Conan O'Brien dished out jokes from Hollywood's Dolby Theatre at the 97th Academy Awards. "Anora" walked away with five Oscars – the most of the evening – including honors for best actress for Mikey Madison, best director for Sean Baker and the night's biggest prize of best picture. – the most of the evening – including honors for best actress for Mikey Madison, best director for Sean Baker and the night's biggest prize of best picture. Adrien Brody took home best actor for "The Brutalist,' Zoe Saldaña, won best supporting actress for "Emilia Pérez" and Kieran Culkin was named best supporting actor for "A Real Pain." for "The Brutalist,' Zoe Saldaña, won best supporting actress for "Emilia Pérez" and Kieran Culkin was named best supporting actor for "A Real Pain." The musical "Emilia Pérez" took home two wins. 'The Brutalist' and 'Wicked' left with three and two wins, respectively. South Carolina governor issues state of emergency as wildfires burn Dozens of wildfires raged across North and South Carolina on Sunday, prompting officials to issue evacuation orders and open emergency shelters. In South Carolina, 175 wildfires burned across the state, scorching over 4,200 acres of land and straining firefighting resources. The largest of the brush fires erupted Saturday in Carolina Forest, a community west of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Gov. Henry McMaster issued a state of emergency to unlock funds and resources for the ongoing response effort. A statewide ban on outdoor fires remains in effect, he said. Read more More news to know now What's the weather today? Check your local forecast here. Education Department offers employees $25K to quit by Monday Quit by Monday and get $25,000. Maybe. That was the message of a Friday afternoon email from the U.S. Department of Education's top human resources official, Jacqueline Clay, who made the "one-time offer" to all staffers ahead of what she called a "very significant" impending workforce reduction. Staffers have until Monday at 11:59 p.m. to accept. Their resignations would take effect on March 31, according to the email. The memo is the latest sign of tumult at the federal Education Department, which has already experienced serious turnover since President Donald Trump took office. Read more UK, France and Ukraine will present a peace deal to Trump Britain and France will work on a peace deal with Ukraine and present it to President Donald Trump, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Sunday. Starmer, hosting Western leaders in London in a bid to revive a peace deal, said he hoped a European "coalition of the willing" would come together to support Kyiv, but that any ceasefire had to be underpinned by the United States. Starmer spoke to French President Emmanuel Macron and Trump on Saturday after he hosted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Downing Street, a day after Trump and Zelenskyy clashed in an extraordinary meeting at the White House. Read more Today's talkers Monday marks the national anthem's birthday. the national anthem's birthday. Here are the Women's March Madness bracket predictions. bracket predictions. Alabama QB Jalen Milroe is the biggest boom or bust candidate of the NFL draft. is the biggest boom or bust candidate of the NFL draft. Watch the moment a stolen labrador was returned to its owners − 8 years later. Figure skating icons honor victims of D.C. plane crash at 'Legacy on Ice' tribute When American Airlines 5342 collided with a military helicopter over the Potomac River on Jan. 29, the first feelings that rippled throughout the U.S. figure skating community were shock and grief − mourning for the skaters, coaches and parents who were lost. Then, it was: What can we do to honor them? "As skaters," 1992 Olympic gold medalist Kristi Yamaguchi explained, "we learn to express our emotions through artistry." They took to the ice at Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C., on Sunday for "Legacy on Ice," a tribute show to honor the 67 victims and raise money for the families and first responders. Read more Photo of the day: See every look on the Oscars red carpet The hottest names in Hollywood brought glamour and sparkle to Sunday's 97th Academy Awards in Los Angeles. See every look they showcased on the red carpet. Sign up for the Daily Briefing email here. Reuters contributed reporting.
USA Today
03-03-2025
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Mick Jagger jokes he was a 'younger' replacement for Bob Dylan at Oscars
Mick Jagger jokes he was a 'younger' replacement for Bob Dylan at Oscars Show Caption Hide Caption Andrew Garfield, Halle Berry arrive on Oscars red carpet Stars like Andrew Garfield, Halle Berry, Margaret Qualley, Lily-Rose Depp and Michelle Yeoh arrive to the Oscars 2025 red carpet. Entertain This! Mick Jagger is far from "A Complete Unknown," but the rock icon may not have had top billing at the 2025 Oscars. The Rolling Stones frontman appeared at the 97th Academy Awards on Sunday night to present the award for best original song, which ultimately went to "El Mal" from "Emilia Pérez." While on stage, Jagger joked that another music superstar was meant to present the honor: Bob Dylan. The acclaimed singer-songwriter is the subject of James Mangold's musical biopic "A Complete Unknown." None of the songs from the Timothée Chalamet-led film were nominated in the best song category. "I'm greatly honored to be invited to give this award for the best original song tonight," Jagger said. "And much as I love doing it, I wasn't the first choice to give this award out. The producers really wanted Bob Dylan to do this." The 81-year-old musician added that Dylan, 83, allegedly didn't want to present the award "because he said the best songs this year were obviously in the movie 'A Complete Unknown.'" He concluded: "Bob said, 'You should find somebody younger.' I said, 'OK, I'm younger! I'm younger than Bob, I'll do it.' So, here I am." Released in December, "A Complete Unknown" — based on the 2015 Elijah Wald book "Dylan Goes Electric!" — chronicles Dylan's early years of music stardom, including the folk-rock legend's friendships with artist Sylvie (Elle Fanning), mentor Pete Seeger (Edward Norton) and superstar Joan Baez (Monica Barbaro). The film grossed $111.6 million at the global box office and racked up a slew of nominations this awards season, including eight Oscar nominations. Some of those nods included best picture, best sound and a best leading actor nomination for Chalamet. Ahead of the film's release, Dylan praised Chalamet in a December X post, writing, "Timmy's a brilliant actor so I'm sure he's going to be completely believable as me. Or a younger me. Or some other me." Contributing: Brian Truitt, USA TODAY
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03-03-2025
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Oscars winners live: See who got awards, including Zoe Saldaña and 'Wicked'
Oscars winners live: See who got awards, including Zoe Saldaña and 'Wicked' Show Caption Hide Caption Will Timothée Chalamet and Demi Moore win Oscars? USA TODAY weighs in. USA TODAY film critic Brian Truitt gives his Oscar predictions for best picture, actress and actor. The Academy Awards air Sunday on ABC and Hulu. It's the night we wait for all awards season: the Oscars. The stars wowed in their most opulent fashions on the red carpet and host Conan O'Brien dished out jokes and jabs from Hollywood's Dolby Theatre (7 EST/4 PST on ABC and Hulu). "Anora," "Conclave," "The Substance," and "Wicked" have already taken home 24-karat gold-plated statuettes. And Kieran Culkin and Zoe Saldaña have been honored for their supporting roles. As a reminder, the unique musical "Emilia Pérez" hit a high note with the Academy (before becoming controversial) leading nominations with 13. 'The Brutalist' or 'Wicked' may prove equally 'Popular' (10 nods each). The night could go to 'A Complete Unknown,' those nominated from the Bob Dylan biopic or the aforementioned 'Conclave.' Each movie scored an impressive eight nominations. Here are the 2025 Academy Award winners (in bold) and nominees. Best actor WINNER: Adrien Brody, "The Brutalist" Timothée Chalamet, "A Complete Unknown" Colman Domingo, "Sing Sing" Ralph Fiennes, "Conclave" Sebastian Stan, "The Apprentice" Best original score WINNER: "The Brutalist" (Daniel Blumberg) "Conclave" (Volker Bertelmann) "Emilia Pérez" (Clément Ducol and Camille) "Wicked" (John Powell and Stephen Schwartz) "The Wild Robot" (Kris Bowers) Best international film WINNER: "I'm Still Here" (Brazil) "The Girl With the Needle" (Denmark) "Emilia Pérez" (France) "The Seed of the Sacred Fig" (Germany) "Flow" (Latvia) Best cinematography WINNER: "The Brutalist" "Dune: Part Two" "Emilia Pérez" "Maria" "Nosferatu" Best live-action short WINNER: "I'm Not a Robot" "A Lien" "Anuja" "The Last Ranger" "The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent" Best visual effects WINNER: "Dune: Part Two" "Alien: Romulus" "Better Man" "Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes" "Wicked" Best sound WINNER: "Dune: Part Two" "A Complete Unknown" "Emilia Pérez" "Wicked" "The Wild Robot" Best documentary film WINNER: "No Other Land" "Black Box Diaries" "Porcelain War" "Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat" "Sugarcane" Best documentary short WINNER: "The Only Girl in the Orchestra" "Death by Numbers" "I Am Ready, Warden" "Incident" "Instruments of a Beating Heart" Best original song WINNER: "El Mal" from "Emilia Pérez" (Clément Ducol and Camille) "The Journey" from "The Six Triple Eight" (Diane Warren) "Like A Bird" from "Sing Sing" (Abraham Alexander and Adrian Quesada) "Mi Camino" from "Emilia Pérez" (Camille and Clément Ducol) "Never Too Late" from "Elton John: Never Too Late" (Elton John, Brandi Carlile,Andrew Watt and Bernie Taupin) Best production design WINNER: "Wicked" "The Brutalist" "Conclave" "Dune: Part Two" "Nosferatu" Best supporting actress WINNER: Zoe Saldaña, "Emilia Pérez" Monica Barbaro, "A Complete Unknown" Ariana Grande, "Wicked" Felicity Jones, "The Brutalist" Isabella Rossellini, "Conclave" Best editing WINNER: "Anora" "The Brutalist" "Conclave" "Emilia Pérez" "Wicked" Best makeup and hairstyling WINNER: "The Substance" "A Different Man" "Emilia Pérez" "Nosferatu" "Wicked" Best adapted screenplay WINNER: "Conclave" (Peter Straughan) "A Complete Unknown" (James Mangold and Jay Cocks) "Emilia Pérez" (Jacques Audiard) "Nickel Boys" (RaMell Ross and Joslyn Barnes) "Sing Sing" (Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar) Best original screenplay WINNER: "Anora" (Sean Baker) "The Brutalist" (Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold) "A Real Pain" (Jesse Eisenberg) "September 5" (Moritz Binder, Tim Fehlbaum and Alex David) "The Substance" (Coralie Fargeat) Best costume design WINNER: "Wicked" "A Complete Unknown" "Conclave" "Gladiator II" "Nosferatu" Best animated short WINNER: "In the Shadow of the Cypress" "Beautiful Men" "Magic Candies" "Wander to Wonder" "Yuck!" Best animated film WINNER: "Flow" "Inside Out 2" "Memoir of a Snail" "Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl" "The Wild Robot" Best supporting actor WINNER: Kieran Culkin, "A Real Pain" Yura Borisov, "Anora" Edward Norton, "A Complete Unknown" Guy Pearce, "The Brutalist" Jeremy Strong, "The Apprentice" Best picture "Anora" "The Brutalist" "A Complete Unknown" "Conclave" "Dune: Part Two" "Emilia Pérez" "I'm Still Here" "Nickel Boys" "The Substance" "Wicked" Best actress Cynthia Erivo, "Wicked" Karla Sofía Gascón, "Emilia Pérez" Mikey Madison, "Anora" Demi Moore, "The Substance" Fernanda Torres, "I'm Still Here" Best director Sean Baker, "Anora" Brady Corbet, "The Brutalist" James Mangold, "A Complete Unknown" Jacques Audiard, "Emilia Pérez" Coralie Fargeat, "The Substance"
USA Today
03-03-2025
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What 'Emilia Pérez' gets wrong about Mexico: 'It's a cartoon'
Spoiler alert: We're discussing plot details from Oscar best-picture contender "Emilia Pérez"(streaming now on Netflix). The ending of Netflix's "Emilia Pérez" was both poignant and where the film felt its most hypocritical. Perhaps that's the essence of the controversial film that's nominated for 13 Oscars. After the film climaxes in a predictable shootout, the title character − a Mexican cartel leader who undergoes gender-affirming surgery and is reborn as an activist − is sanctified and immortalized. Her image is resurrected in the form of a life-size Virgen de Guadalupe as mourners lead a procession. Emilia − played by Spanish actress Karla Sofía Gascón, the first openly transgender best actress nominee − is atoned and forgiven for the deaths she's responsible for as a drug kingpin. A powerful and moving scene, for sure, but it leaves a sour taste. Are we just ignoring that she was a cartel leader for much longer than she was a woman of the people, helping Mexican citizens find the remains of loved ones killed by organized crime? The film, directed by French filmmaker Jacques Audiard and starring Zoe Saldaña, Selena Gomez and Mexican actress Adriana Paz, was seemingly a strong Oscar contender. Then Gascón's racist and xenophobic social media posts resurfaced in the thick of awards season, shifting how it was received by audiences and voters alike. Rate your 'Film of the Year': Join our Movie Meter panel and make your voice heard! The problem with "Emilia Pérez," however, didn't start with Gascón's tweets. It began with the movie's representation of Mexico and how it depicted one of the country's most vulnerable groups of people. For decades, Mexico has dealt with a drug problem that's caused the mass disappearance of people at the hands of criminal organizations in the country. Since 2006, Human Rights Watch reports, Mexico has seen an estimated 90,000 disappearances, and more than 460,000 homicides including politicians, students and journalists, according to the Council on Foreign Relations. Between 2007 and 2023, the Mexican government counted nearly 6,000 clandestine graves, per the International Center for Transitional Justice. It's "such a sensitive topic, one that you really have to tread lightly with," says Jason De León, an anthropologist and author of "Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling." Instead, Audiard's approach feels rather careless and exploitative. After Emilia's transition and return to Mexico, she's stopped in a food market by a grieving mother searching for her lost son killed by cartels. Touched by the gesture, and guilt gnawing at her, Emilia proposes to Rita (Saldaña) that they open a nonprofit dedicated to finding the disappeared. We're expected to brush off the fact that it's now that she chooses to clean up the messes she's had a hand in, simply because she's moved past her former life. "People who lose a loved one because they've disappeared is probably the worst form of trauma that anybody can experience," says De León, who previously ran a nonprofit working with families of missing migrants. "It can never be resolved because you never quite know what happened." At its best, "Emilia Pérez" tackles love and identity with Saldaña and Gascón pouring it all into their roles − but even if Audiard never intended the film to be about Mexican drug cartels, it's what he calls back to constantly. "The cartels are these symbolic metaphorical ideas in the American imagination," says Héctor Tobar, author of "Our Migrant Souls" and professor at the University of California in Irvine. "That subject material is always going to be extremely problematic and like every other film about cartels, it can't help but glorify them." In a recent interview, Audiard dismissed objections to the depiction of cartels and their victims. "The representation of the cartels in the film is thematic," he told Deadline. "It's not something that I'm particularly focused on in the film. There's one scene that deals with it." Rita is essentially abducted by Manitas' cartel multiple times throughout the film, and she's tasked with visiting imprisoned drug lords to uncover leads about mass graves. There's an entire musical number, "Para," where Rita, Emilia and volunteers help find missing people. When kidnapped in the final scenes of the movie, Emilia instructs Rita to call on her former cartel workers to bail her out. And then it all ends in a shootout. "As someone who cares about my community and cares about my country, and cares about my art, it's sad," says Tobar. "You have all these incredibly talented people working on a story that, in the end, turns out to be another narco telenovela." Cartels may be thematic in Audiard's version of Mexico but for many families, they're a point of trauma − an open wound reduced to a melodramatic musical using a drug baron's redemption arc as the catalyst. Or as Mexican screenwriter Héctor Guillén wrote on X in a post viewed more than 2.7 million times: "Almost 500K dead and France decides to do a musical." As a result, we get a film that doesn't take the issue of mass disappearances seriously and a film that doesn't represent Mexico or its people accurately, let alone intentionally. "It's like you have to ask permission if you're a Latino to tell a story that doesn't involve gangs, drugs, cartels or migration," De León adds. "It's indicative of an incredible lack of imagination in Hollywood when it comes to the Latino experience." "Emilia Pérez," France's Oscar submission, marks the first time since 2018's "Roma" (directed by Mexican filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón) that a film about the Mexican community is nominated for best picture. And yet, the 13 Oscar nominations it's up for don't feel like a reason to celebrate for many Mexicans and Mexican Americans. (Or for LGBTQ communities. GLAAD called it a "retrograde portrayal of a trans woman.") "Emilia Pérez" doesn't tell the empowering story it thinks it's portraying about a trans character and self-acceptance, and it sure doesn't use Mexico's mass disappearances responsibly as a vehicle to tell that story. It uses a country and victims of drug crimes as an aesthetic rather than to bring awareness to the issue or tell a different and actually thought-provoking story. "Hollywood only likes Latinos telling certain types of stories and playing certain kinds of roles," De León says. It "could have been so much more, but instead, it's cartoon."
