"Dreams do come true," says Michelle Yeoh as she wins best actress - the first Asian woman to receive the award - for Everything Everywhere All at Once
The eccentric sci-fi comedy drama also wins best picture and other top awards in a triumphant night
Jamie Lee Curtis and Ke Huy Quan won for their supporting actress and actor roles in the film
The award for best actor went to an emotional Brendan Fraser for The Whale
Chandrabose and MMM Keeravaani won best song for Naatu Naatu from film RRR
Celebrities are now at the Vanity Fair after-party in Los Angeles
We're now on to the award of Achievement in Make-up and Hairstyling.
The nominees are:
Helen Bushby
Entertainment reporter
Image source, Getty ImagesYou may well ask.
In case you haven't seen Everything Everywhere All at Once, David Byrne's creepy hot dog fingers are a key element from the film.
One of the multiverses which the characters inhabit has people with long, wavy and rather useless fingers, so he was replicating this during his performance just now.
So now you know.
Helen Bushby
Entertainment reporter
Image source, NetflixThis is a very well-deserved Oscar for James Friend in the category of cinematography. This film is a visceral portrayal of the horrors of World War One, showing the bleak landscapes of the war from the perspective of young, naive German soldiers.
However, this win is yet another loss for a female cinematographer - Mandy Walker was nominated for Elvis, only the third female nominee in this category in Oscars history.
Helen Bushby
Entertainment reporter
Image source, Getty ImagesThis Oscar-nominated song, from Everything Everywhere All at Once, sees Talking Heads frontman David Byrne return to the Oscars.
He previously won in 1998 for best original score for The Last Emperor in 1988. He shared his golden statuette with Ryuichi Sakamoto and Cong Su.
This is a Life was co-written with Son Lux and Mitski.
At the ceremony, Byrne is sharing the stage with Son Lux and the film’s star Stephanie Hsu, who was up for best supporting actress.
Emma Saunders
Entertainment reporter
This black comedy about two brothers grieving the death of their mother set in Northern Ireland, starring actor James Martin as farmer Lorcan, repeats its Bafta success.
The film also examines Martin's character fight for independence - like Lorcan, Martin also has Down's syndrome.
It's more than worthy of this win tonight, and will have you laughing one minute and crying the next.
In a recent interview, Martin told me he was saving his leopard-print jacket for the ceremony - which also falls on his birthday. And he didn't disappoint!
Image source, Getty ImagesThe award goes to James Friend for All Quiet on the Western Front.
Image source, ReutersThe winners of the best Live Action Short just used the last few seconds of their allocated speech time for an Oscar night sing-a-long.
Film-makers Tom Berkeley and Ross White had the whole room singing Happy Birthday to celebrate James Martin, who plays Lorcan in the film An Irish Goodbye.
In the category for Cinematography, the Academy's 2023 shortlisted selection is:
Helen Bushby
Entertainment reporter
This win sends out a strong global political message.
This documentary is about Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, who survived poisoning with a nerve agent and is now behind bars.
He remains in solitary confinement, but he continues to oppose Russia's President Vladimir Putin.
His wife, who was there on his behalf, told him to "stay strong, my love".
Image source, ReutersThe award goes to An Irish Goodbye.
We’re now on to the award of Live Action Short Film.
The nominees are:
Image source, ReutersNavalny director Daniel Roher dedicated his Oscar to jailed Alexei Navalny
The award goes to Navalny.
Image source, ReutersMoments ago, Jamie Lee Curtis - a first time Academy Award nominee and now winner at age 64 - thanked the "hundreds" of people behind the film that won her this award.
"The entire group of artists who made this movie – we just won an Oscar!," she exclaimed.
"To all of the people who have supported the genre movies that I have made for all of these years. The thousands and hundreds and thousands of people, we just won an Oscar, together! "
She also gave nods to her husband and daughters in her acceptance speech.
In the category for Documentary Feature Film the nominees are:
Sophie Long
Reporting from Los Angeles
There are several ways in which it might be. If Michelle Yeoh manages to see off double Academy Award winner Cate Blanchett and take home the Oscar for Best Actress she would be the first Asian woman to win in that category.
She would also be only the second non-white woman to be crowned Best Actress in the awards 95 year history.
If Mandy Walker wins Best Cinematographer for her work on Elvis she would be the first woman ever to take home that Oscar, she’s only the third woman ever to be nominated for cinematography.
But the Academy had the opportunity to break the glass ceiling that’s been firmly in place over that category last year with Ari Wegner for The Power of the Dog, and they didn’t take it.
Mandy Walker has solid competition from Brit James Friend for All Quiet on the Western Front, Darius Khondji for Bardo, Florian Hoffmeister for Tar and Roger Deakins for Empire of Light.
Emma Saunders
Entertainment reporter
We have more striking pictures from the red carpet earlier. These two A-listers have both won Oscars previously and have rocked up oozing old-school Hollywood glamour.
Nicole has opted for a black full-length black sequin gown split to the thigh on one side with huge floral detail on the shoulder and hip.
Image source, Getty ImagesChastain is wearing a sliver structured number with a black train accompanied by stunning emerald and diamond jewellery. Classy!
Image source, GettyEmma Saunders
Entertainment reporter
Image source, ReutersThis was considered a three-horse race between Kerry Condon (Banshees of Inisherin), Angela Bassett (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever) and Jamie Lee Curtis.
This was Curtis's first Oscar nomination at the age of 64, and she's now taking home the coveted prize for her performance in Everything Everywhere All at Once.
Curtis plays hard-nosed inspector Deirdre Beaubeirdra in the absurdist comedy drama set across various multiverses.
Could this be the first of many wins tonight for the popular madcap film?
Helen Bushby
Entertainment reporter
Image source, Getty ImagesThis number is nominated for best song for the film Tell It Like a Woman, an American-Italian anthology of short stories directed by women, about women.
Prolific songwriter Diane Warren has received a whopping 14 Oscar nominations since 1988, and won an honorary Oscar last year, presented by Cher.
In 2015, Warren shared a nomination with current nominee Lady Gaga, for the song Til It Happens to You, for the film The Hunting Ground.
And back in 1999, Warren was nominated for I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing, from the disaster film Armageddon.
She’s performing alongside US singer and actress Sofia Carson, who’s started out playing Evie, the daughter of the Evil Queen in Disney’s TV movie Descendants. She later returned to the role in Descendants 2 and Descendants 3.
Image source, EPA-EFE/REX/ShutterstockThe award goes to Jamie Lee Curtis for Everything Everywhere All at Once.
Image source, EPA-EFE/REX/ShutterstockKe Huy Quan gave a triumphant and emotional speech just now for his win for best supporting actor.
"Mom, I just won an Oscar!" he says as he starts.
"My journey started on a boat, I spent a year at a refugee camp...They say stories like this only happen in the movies.
"This is the American dream," he continues to rousing applause, thanking his mother for his sacrifice and for his wife, "the love of my life".