Emma Saunders
Reporting from the winners' room

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War is Over! Inspired by the Ballad of John and Yoko was the popular choice for best animated choice, although some thought Letter to a Pig might pip it.

Filmmaker Brad Booker said backstage: “We met with Sean in June of 2021 and Peter Jackson came on board two weeks before the war in Ukraine and the film finished in October when the stuff in Gaza began. We felt the message, after 50 years (of the Ballad of John and Yoko)… it was very clear Sean wanted this message to get back out into the world.”

David Mullins added: “We’re very proud we helped deliver it. If we talk a little more and kill a little less.”

Speaking about Sean’s shout-out to his mum Yoko, Mullins joked: “We never know what Sean’s going to do, he’s very charming… we love that family.”

Helen Bushby
Culture reporter

This film set out to tackle the Holocaust from a completely new angle - its director Jonathan Glazer says it was an "honour" to win.

"All our choices were made to confront us in the present - our film shows where dehumanisation leads at its worst," he says.

He also touches on the war in the Middle East, and "all the victims of this dehumanisation."

"Whether the victims of October 7th in Israel, or the ongoing attack on Gaza, all the victims of this dehumanisation, how do we resist?"

He told me in a recent interview that his film "looks into dark corners of human capacity", and is relevant today.

"I think what's inside this film is what we do to each other as human beings," he said.

"We see others as lesser than ourselves, different from ourselves. Somehow, step by step, that leads to atrocity. It's about the inherent violence in us - and how we need to evolve out of that state."

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Tom Brook
Reporting from Los Angeles

So far a Japanese animation, screenplays for a French film, a racial satire and a black actor have won Oscar trophies.

Does this suggest that the Academy’s expanded, more international membership, is finally having an impact on Oscars night inclusivity?

Helen Bushby
Culture reporter

The Zone of Interest was expected to win this category, and it has done just that.

Director Jonathan Glazer’s film is about the family of camp commandant Rudolf Höss, who live next door to Auschwitz concentration camp during World War Two.

This is the first time the UK has won an Oscar for best international film.

We're now looking global with international feature film. Up for this award are:

• Io Capitano (Italy)
• Perfect Days (Japan)
• Society of the Snow (Spain)
• The Teachers’ Lounge (Germany)
• The Zone of Interest (United Kingdom)

Yasmin Rufo
Culture reporter

Holly Waddington has just picked up the award for best costume design.

In shock, she opens with: "I've forgotten what I was meant to say!"

She thanks fellow nominees and says it was a "privilege to be in the same room".

Waddington adds that the film was a rare opportunity that allowed her to be "free and artistic" and for that she was very grateful.

The award was presented by wrestler John Cena who walked onto the stage naked, telling the audience "costumes are very important".

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Poor Things takes the costume design award.

That's a hattrick for Poor Things, and we aren't even halfway through yet.

The costume design award is next up.

The nominees are:

• Barbie
• Killers of the Flower Moon
• Napoleon
• Oppenheimer
• Poor Things

Emma Saunders
Reporting from the winners' room

The press room – the biggest one I’ve been in – is rammed and buzzing with excitement.

We’ll be catching all the winners as they come off stage (although they often pop up in a different order!) and will bring you all the reaction as it happens.

It was a tight race between Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse and The Boy and the Heron but Hayoa Miyazaki and Toshio Suzuki of Studio Ghibli fame won out.

Sadly, the pair weren’t there to collect their prize but in a statement read out to journalists, Suzuki said they were “very honoured” and joked that “both Hayoa Miyazaki and I have aged considerably” since the project started seven years ago.

He added: “I am grateful to receive such an honour at my age…. I will devote myself to work harder in the future.”

The pair came out of retirement to make this film. Miyazaki is 83 while Suzuki is a tender 75.

Helen Bushby
Culture reporter

The winner of the production design award is Poor Things.

This film looks incredibly striking and unusual, so you can see why it did so well with Oscars voters.

James Price and Shona Heath thanked the academy for their award, with Price saying: "I feel in the mood for love and custard tarts.."

We know what he means...!

In the production design category, the nominees are:

• Barbie
• Killers of the Flower Moon
• Napoleon
• Oppenheimer
• Poor Things

Helen Bushby
Culture reporter

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Yorgos Lanthimos’s film has 11 nominations, and tells the fantastical tale of Bella Baxter, played by Emma Stone.

She takes her own life and is revived by a Victorian surgeon who replaces her brain with that of her unborn child.

The story follows her journey as she experiences the world anew and enjoys a sexual and intellectual awakening.

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Yasmin Rufo
Culture reporter

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The award for makeup and hairstyling goes to Poor Things.

The three winners, Nadia Stacey, Josh Weston and Mark Coulier thanked the cast, director and their family.

The film is also nominated for 8 other awards.

Helen Bushby
Culture reporter

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As we've just reported, American Fiction has won best adapted screenplay. This was a fantastic film, with a funny, sharp and poignant screenplay.

Cord Jefferson is getting whoops and cheers for this win.

It tells the story a writer who's disillusioned when the publishers he wants to work with only seem to be interested in stereotypical black storytelling.

"I've been talking a lot about how many people passed on this movie, it's a plea to acknolwdgbe and recognise there are so many poeple out there who want the opportunity I was given," he said.

"I understand this is a risk-avers industry, but $200m movies are also a risk. Instead of making one $200m movie - try making a 10 milion-dollar movies," he said.

He promsed the audience "the next Martin Scorsese's out there", along with the next Greta Gerwig and Christopher Nolan.

"Thank you for trusting a 40-year old black guy who never directed anything before," he said.

Yasmin Rufo
Culture reporter

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Billie Eilish and her brother Finneas O'Connell are the first performers of the night.

Eilish sang her anthem from Barbie, What Was I Made For? which is up for an award for best original song.

The emotional song also won the award for best original song at the Golden Globes and picked up two awards at the Grammys.

Yasmin Rufo
Culture reporter

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Anatomy of a Fall has won best original screenplay. The film tells the story of a successful writer trying to prove her innocence in her husband's death after his fatal fall from a window in their house.

Justine Triet, the director of the film said during her acceptance speech that her award will help her through "her mid-life crisis".

She wrote the screenplay with her husband Arthur Harari during lockdown which Harari called a "crazy time".

It is the couple's first Oscar and the film is nominated five times in total.

Sandra Huller, who stars in the film, was also in Oscar nominated film The Zone of Interest.

The winner of the adapted screenplay category is American Fiction.

Earlier tonight, we got to see an array of Hollywood stars walk the red carpet outside the Dolby Theatre for the 96th Oscars.

You can see some of the arrivals below:

The nominees for adapted screenplay are:

• American Fiction
• Barbie
• Oppenheimer
• Poor Things
• The Zone of Interest

Helen Bushby
Culture reporter

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Justine Triet’s film, with five nominations, stars Sandra Hüller as a successful writer trying to prove her innocence in her husband's death, after his fatal fall from a window in their house in the French Alps.

After being charged with murder, she protests her innocence, insisting it was suicide.

The ensuing court case puts their marriage and her relationship with her son under a legal microscope.

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