Noor Nanji
Reporting from the winners room

There's a huge round of applause in the press room as I'm Still Here wins International Film Feature.

The biggest round of applause of the night here, so far.

Earlier, I was speaking to a Brazilian journalist who was saying how nervous she was, and how much a win would mean to her. Her big concern was Emilia Perez, but I'm Still Here has comfortably seen off the competition.

Emma Saunders
Culture reporter

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Walter Salles’s drama is about the real life disappearance of Congressman Rubens Paiva in 1971.

Among its nominations at this year’s Academy Awards is a best actress nod for Fernanda Torres, who plays activist Eunice Paiva. It comes 26 years after Torres’s mum, Fernanda Montenegro, was nominated for the same prize for her role in Central Station.

The nominees were:

• I'm Still Here - Brazil
• The Girl with the Needle - Denmark
• Emilia Pérez - France
• The Seed of the Sacred Fig - Germany
• Flow - Latvia

Emma Saunders
Culture reporter

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The Brutalist has just got its first Oscar of the night. It tells the story of Hungarian immigrant and Holocaust survivor László Tóth, who is trying to rebuild his life in post-war America through his work as an architect.

Brady Corbet’s epic tale – it's three and a half hours long although there is a 15 minute interval – stars previous Oscar winner Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, Guy Pearce and Joe Alwyn. Brody told the BBC the film gave him the opportunity to examine his own family’s “ancestral struggles".

Helen Bushby
Culture reporter

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The UK's Lol Crawley won the best cinematography for Brady Corbet's epic, sweeping - and long - film The Brutalist.

He thanked his family and praised Corbet for "trusting me, allowing me to sail close to the edge and for offering your hand if I fell in, and for offering me the richest diamonds to mine".

The nominees were:

• The Brutalist
• Dune: Part Two
• Emilia Pérez
• Maria Nosferatu

Emma Saunders
Culture reporter

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As the night goes on we've been looking at the nominees for best picture. Next up is Conclave - a compelling and intriguing insight into the complex and secretive process to elect a new Pope.

Directed by Edward Berger, whose remake of All Quiet on the Western Front picked up two Oscars in 2023, the film stars British actor Ralph Fiennes as Cardinal Thomas Lawrence.

His challenging task is to oversee the conclave - the group of all the cardinals of the Catholic church who elect the new pope. Let’s just say they don’t all agree.

Helen Bushby
Culture reporter

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Very possibly.

The Oscars doesn’t have a stellar history of rewarding horror films, but as Time Magazine’s Megan McCluskey pointed out, external, this one’s also had “a buzzy Cannes debut, a message about ageing women that resonated widely, and a box-office haul of $76m on a $17.5m budget”.

Moore’s already notched up a Golden Globe win for the role, saying at the ceremony: "I've been doing this a long time, over 45 years, and this is the first time I've ever won anything as an actor.”

She recalled feeling “corroded over time” after a producer had called her a “popcorn actress”. But when The Substance’s “bold, courageous, absolutely bonkers script” script landed on her desk, she decided: “The universe told me that you're not done.”

Not too long to find out if this includes adding an Oscar win to her achievements.

Emma Saunders
Culture reporter

I'm Not A Robot comes from Dutch writer-director Victoria Warmerdam’s and it's set in an office, as protagonist Lara (Ellen Parren) sits at her computer. She keeps failing the "are you a robot or a human?" test. Lara starts to wonder if she might really be a bot.

"I'm not having your babies because of this statue," Warmerdam joked on stage, after Kieran Culkin said in his acceptance speech earlier that his wife promised him a fourth child if he won an Oscar.

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Acting legend Morgan Freeman has paid tribute to Gene Hackman, who he worked with on Under Suspicion and Unforgiven. Hackman won an Oscar for his role as the villainous sheriff in Unforgiven.

Freeman says that Hackman told him he hopes people will remember him as someone who tried to do good work.

"Gene, you'll be remembered for that and so much more," Freeman says.

Others remembered in the Oscars in memoriam part of the show included Maggie Smith, Kris Kristofferson and Donald Sutherland.

Noor Nanji
Reporting from the Oscars

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The news of legendary Oscar-winning actor Gene Hackman’s death, coming just days before this year’s Academy Awards, sent ripples through Hollywood.

Morgan Freeman is now speaking about Hackman, who he acted alongside in two movies.

Here in Los Angeles, Hackman's face is everywhere on television bulletins and on newspapers.

His death was all anyone was talking about as stars gathered for pre-Oscars parties.

At an event on Thursday night, the American actor John C Reilly told me that he expected the Academy to commemorate Hackman during the ceremony.

"I don't see how you could have the Oscars without mentioning a great like him who's passed."

Noor Nanji
Reporting from the winners room

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There’s a moment of giddiness in the press room, as Wicked’s Nathan Crowley and Lee Sandales drop hints about what we can expect from the next Wicked film.

“I don’t know, there’s a yellow brick road, right?” they respond, to laughs.

“Is it yellow? I don’t know. Maybe it’s blue.”

The pair, who have just won the Oscar for best production design, say they did everything in their power to convince audiences they were really in Oz.

“The challenge of designing the emerald city was vast,” they note. “It took every film we’ve done before to do this film.”

The nominees were:

• Anuja
• I'm Not a Robot
• The Last Ranger
• A Lien
• The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent

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Host Conan O'Brien welcomes on stage a group of Los Angeles firefighters.

"On behalf of everyone... thank you for all that you do," he says.

O'Brien says there are some jokes that even he isn't brave enough to tell - and asks some of the firefighters to read them out instead.

LAFD Captain Eric Scott reads the teleprompter which says, their hearts go out to everyone who lost their homes - including the makers of Joker 2.

It gets a big laugh and O'Brien calls it the best joke delivery of the night.

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Away from the awards ceremony for a moment, cast your mind back to 22 years ago - when Adrien Brody won his best actor Oscar for his role in The Pianist.

He had just become the youngest best actor, and while accepting the award planted a kiss on its presenter, actress Halle Berry.

More than two decades later, Berry got her revenge - planting a kiss on Brody at the Oscars red carpet. She told Variety: "I had to pay him back".

The Oscars wrote on X with a clip of tonight's kiss:, external "A reunion 22 years in the making".

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Helen Bushby
Culture reporter

Dune: Part Two's Paul Lambert, Stephen James, Rhys Salcombe and Gerd Nefzer have won best visual effects. This follows the first film winning an Oscar in the same category three years ago.

They dedicated their awards to their families and the film's director Denis Villeneuve, and were played off by the orchestra after three of them spoke, in contrast to some of the longer speeches we have heard tonight.

Helen Bushby
Culture reporter

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As we get deeper into the Oscars, clips of the best picture nominees are being shown to the audience.

So we're also going to be looking at the nominees, starting with a film that just picked up an Oscar for best sound - Dune: Part Two.

Starring Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya and Rebecca Ferguson, Denis Villeneuve’s epic sci-fi film is based on the novel Dune by Frank Herbert, and has won numerous accolades including the Hugo Award., external

It follows the journey of Paul Atreides (Chalamet) as he unites with his love interest, Chani (Zendaya), and the Fremen desert people - as they take on a huge enemy army. In the sequel, Chalamet's character learns their special way of surviving on the barren desert planet while seeking revenge against the conspirators who destroyed his family.

The nominees were:

• A Complete Unknown
• Dune: Part Two
• Emilia Pérez
• Wicked
• The Wild Robot

Helen Bushby
Culture reporter

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No Other Land's Basel Adra, Rachel Szor, Hamdan Ballal and Yuval Abraham have won their first Oscar.

Palestinian journalist and activist Basel Adra thanked the Academy, saying he had become a father two months ago.

"I hope to my daughter she will not have to live the same life I am living now, always fearing violence, home demolitions, displacements that my community is facing."

He said the film reflects "the harsh reality we have been enduring for decades".

Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham added they made the film because "together our voices are stronger".

"I am free under law, he is not," he added, saying US foreign policy was "helping to block this path" to a "political solution".

Calling for freedom, he added: "Why can't you see we are intertwined... there is another way for life, for living there is no other way."

You can read more about their documentary here.

Helen Bushby
Culture reporter

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No Other Land, set in the occupied West Bank, was expected to win this category.

The film follows the fight over Masafer Yatta, a community of around 20 villages, and the friendship between Palestinian activist and journalist Basel Adra and Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham.

For years, the friends have been filming the destruction of houses, a well and a school by the Israeli army, after a court order declared Basel's community illegal.

Their film, created over five years, explores their friendship and the differences in their lives. It also includes intimate human moments, like when the mother, who moves into a cave, kisses her daughter and tells her: "You're my love... Tomorrow will be a new day."

Emma Saunders
Culture reporter

The Only Girl in the Orchestra is about Orin O’Brien, the first woman hired to play for the New York Philharmonic.

"Music helps us organise her emotions and there's a lot of emotions need organising these days," filmmaker Molly O'Brien says, quoting the star of the film, O'Brien.

She added that "art is giving order to the chaos of the world right now".

The nominees were:

• Death by Numbers
• I Am Ready, Warden
• Incident
• Instruments of a Beating Heart
• The Only Girl in the Orchestra