Independent film Anora sweeps the Oscars, winning five awards including best picture and best actress for lead star Mikey Madison
"This is very surreal," says Madison, who plays a sex worker who has a whirlwind romance with a Russian oligarch's son
The film's director Sean Baker - the first person to win four Oscars for one film, including best director - tells the BBC: "It's crazy, I'm going to be processing it forever"
Meanwhile, Adrien Brody won his second best actor gong for The Brutalist, Zoe Saldaña was honoured with best supporting actress for Emilia Pérez, and Kieran Culkin was named best supporting actor
Ariana Grande - who wore a sculptural Schiaparelli gown that got lots of people talking - performed a duet with Wicked co-star Cynthia Erivo, while Morgan Freeman paid tribute to Gene Hackman
Wicked took out costume gongs and Brazilian historical epic I'm Still Here won the best international film- read the winners and nominees in full
Watch: Best director winner Sean Baker speaks to BBC
Best original screenplay nominees:
Noor Nanji
Reporting from the winners room
… by the number of journalists present in the press room.
When Culkin came into the room, he looked startled at the sea of reporters facing him. He then started joking when we all started waving our numbered A4 pieces of paper at him, trying to ask our questions.
“What number are you? Number 7,000?” he asks one journalist. He indicated the win hadn’t sunk in yet.
“I’m not fully inside my body right now,” he said. He also didn’t have much to say when asked what the role had taught him about himself. “That’s too heavy,” he said.
“Whenever I work on something important, I take something with me.”
Regan Morris
Reporting from the Oscars
We’ve been following the journey of Iranian filmmakers Hossein Molayemi and Shirin Sohani who say they’ve been trying for a month to get a visa from the United States to travel to LA for the Oscars.
They finally got a visa and three and a half hours after they landed at LAX – they were on stage winning an Oscar for their film In the Shadow of the Cyprus as the Best Short Animated Film.
BBC Persian’s Bahman Kalbasi interviewed them as they were stuck in Oman waiting for permission to fly to the United States. They were worried they wouldn’t be allowed to come at all. They didn’t have time to get to their hotel, so we told them they could change at the building that the BBC bureau shares with other offices.
They raced in with suitcases, changed in the public restroom and rushed out to get a waiting cab. But their driver wasn’t waiting outside and the red carpet was a 25 minute walk away – not ideal 20 minutes before the Oscars, especially for Sohani who was in high heels.
“It’s not our fault we are so late,” Sohani said. “We couldn’t get a visa. It’s a difficult relationship” (between the US and Iran). They looked quite glamourous despite the jetlag and suits packed in suitcases for days. Molayemi wished he could have had time to iron or steam his tuxedo. Their car showed up and they waved goodbye. And now we know they made it in time.
Noor Nanji
Reporting from the Oscars winners room
I’m the first black man to receive the costume design award, says Paul Tazewell, as he accepted the award for Wicked.
There are rounds of applause from journalists in the press room. “Yes he is,” said one.
Emma Saunders
Culture reporter
Image source, Getty ImagesPaul Tazewell was previously nominated for West Side Story but this is his first win, for Wicked, mirroring his success at the Baftas a couple of weeks ago.
"This is astounding," he says, calling it a "significant honour".
"I'm the first black man to receive the costume design award. I'm so proud of this," he says.
He also thanks Wicked stars Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande.
Costume designer Paul Tazewell has won the Oscar for Wicked.
The nominees were:
Helen Bushby
Culture reporter
Iranian filmmakers Hossein Molayemi and Shirin Sohani took to the stage to accept their award, passing a phone a speech written on it between them.
Their film In the Shadow of the Cypress, which won best animated short film, has no dialogue and is about a former captain who is suffering from PTSD
"We are going to dedicate our award just to the fact we managed to make this film under the extraordinary circumstances of our country; until yesterday we hadn't obtained our visa and now we are standing here with this statuette in our hands."
They added: "If you persevere and remain faithful miracles do happen," dedicating it to their fellow Iranians.
Image source, ReutersIn an incredible moment, Iranian filmmakers Hossein Molayemi and Shirin Sohani have won an Oscar. They arrived in the US mere hours ago and had to change into their outfits in the public restroom across the road.
The nominees were:
Emma Saunders
Culture reporter
Image source, ReutersThe Latvian film Flow beats off competition from the likes of favourites Wild Robot and Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
Flow follows a cat dog,capybyra, bird and lemur in a world without people, as they try to survive as the water level rises dangerously around them
The recipients explain that it's the first film from Latvia to be nominated and say they hope they will be back soon: "We must all overcome our differences and work together. "
Flow is the first film from Latvia to win an Oscar.
The nominees were:
Image source, gettRobert Downey Jr and Kieran Culkin
Rushing his lengthy speech, Kieran Culkin, thanked Robert Downey Jr for handing over his award, saying "this means a lot to me coming from you".
He then accidentally dropped a swearword and apologised, as he said how "great" his Succession co-star and fellow nominee Jeremy Strong was in The Apprentice.
Next on his list was A Real Pain's writer and director Jesse Eisenberg, who also co-starred in the film.
"I thank you for this movie. you're a genius - I'll never say it to your face, I'll never say it again so soak it up," he added.
Noor Nanji
Reporting from the Oscars
In his acceptance speech, Kieran Culkin said his wife promised him a fourth child if he wins an Oscar.
Addressing Jazz Charton in the audience as “oh ye of little faith”, Culkin held up his Oscar and said: “Let’s get cracking on those kids”.
Helen Bushby
Culture reporter
Image source, EPA-EFE/REX/ShutterstockKieran Culkin was a firm favourite to win the Oscar for his role in A Real Pain.
He plays one of two cousins, opposite the film’s writer and director Jesse Eisenberg, who travel across Poland in remembrance of their grandmother, exploring their Jewish family heritage along the way.
Culkin plays the unpredictable Benji, who often injects humour and creates some of the film’s most poignant moments. Eisenberg called him “brilliant” in the role, telling Esquire, external: “I’m a basketball fan, so it felt like I was playing basketball with my favourite player.”
The other nominees were:
Host Conan O'Brien changed the tone for a moment, after a segment of jokes and digs.
He gives a shout-out to the the fire relief efforts, acknolwedging Los Angeles has been through a rough time and extravagant award shows can feel "superfluous".
But, he tells the star-studded crowd, film has the power to unite - "even if the face of terrible wildfires and divisive politics".
Helen Bushby
Culture reporter
He sings a traditional number with the inner workings of a clock in the background, surrounded by male dancers in dress coats.
Then it gets surreal, as a Dune sandworm comes on stage playing a grand piano.
Deadpool dances in the background, as O'Brien repeatedly sings "I won't waste time", while the dancers in gold plastic wigs dance and twirl in the background.
Having watched quite a few ceremonies over the years, let's hope he's right!
The somewhat savage jokes by Conan O'Brien have begun.
He says the word [expletive] was used in Anora 479 times, which was not as many times as it was used on the phone by Karla Sofía Gascón's publicist - a nod to the controversy surrounding her during the Oscar's race.
The camera pans to Gascón, who appears to laugh it off.
Image source, ReutersKarla Sofía Gascón before the Oscars show started
Helen Bushby
Culture reporter
The host set out some rules, to keep things short and speedy... here they are.
"If your acceptance speech goes on too long, we'll cut to John Lithgow loking slightly disappointed," he said - and the actor obliged with a long face.
"If you still don't get off stage, we'll show one of your old head shots," he added, targeting nominees Guy Pearce and Zoe Saldaña, showing shots of them as early actors.
"That also means you, Timothée Chalamet," he added, before an ultrasound photo of a foetus was shown.
He then turned on himself, showed an unflattering shot of himself as a toothy schoolboy, proving he can take a joke as well.
Colin Paterson
Reporting from Los Angeles
Debbie Harry from Blondie and the film director John Waters have just arrived at the Vanity Fair Oscar viewing party.
They worked together on Hairspray and Polyester.
I was chatting to them about A Complete Unknown - the Bob Dylan biopic - and asked Debbie Harry who she would like to play her in a film.
“Florence Pugh” she answered immediately. “And I would be played by Steve Buscemi” laughed John Waters.
Helen Bushby
Culture reporter
Image source, Getty ImagesMirroring the opening of body horror film The Substance, the host injects himself with a drug and then a new version of him appears from his old body, not one for the squeamish!
Less glamorous - and also a bit less gory - than the new version of Demi Moore in The Substance, he then arrived on stage, cracking jokes about him "having work done".
Probably quite appropriate in a room full of stars.
Noor Nanji
Reporting from the Oscars
A rousing round of applause in the audience and even in the press room for that performance of Defying Gravity.
We knew it would be a moment, but that was even better than we could’ve hoped for.