Here’s the biggest winners from this year’s Academy Awards; scroll down for the full list.
Best Picture
One Battle After Another
Already considered a modern classic, PTA’s electrifying portrait of a dystopian America won six Oscars including, yes, the big one. Flicks critic Luke Buckmaster called the film “a jittery, white-knuckle ride” that ranks among the director’s best.
Best Actress in Leading Role
Jessie Buckley, for Hamnet
Jessie Buckley blew many people away with her amazingly powerful and layered portrayal of Shakespeare’s wife. Flicks critic Luke Buckmaster described it as a performance that “works in small and large registers, layering the intimate gestures of daily life with the larger ruptures that surface in moments of great stress and melancholia.”
Best Actor in a Leading Role
Michael B. Jordan, for Sinners
If you watched Sinners and thought you were seeing double, well, yeah: it stars not one but two Michael B. Jordans. Playing identical twin gangsters – the Smokestack Twins – it’s a showstopping piece of bravura acting.
Best Director
Paul Thomas Anderson, for One Battle After Another
Can you believe that until this year’s Oscars, Paul Thomas Anderson – one of the most acclaimed directors of his generation – had never won an Academy Award? A triumphant PTA took to the stage and began his speech by noting that “you make a guy work hard for one of these.”
Best International Feature Film
Sentimental Value
Joachim Trier’s dysfunctional family drama explores the difficult relationship between a father and daughter, played by Stellan Skarsgård and Renate Reinsve respectively. Flicks’ Luke Buckmaster wasn’t a huge fan, calling it “well acted but frustratingly drifty and amorphous.”
Best Cinematography
Autumn Durald Arkapaw, for Sinners
Autumn Durald Arkapaw has become the first woman to ever win a cinematography award. And it only took 97 years!
Best Editing
Andy Jurgensen, for One Battle After Another
Winning for the craft sometimes considered an “invisible art,” Jurgensen was crucial to establishing the film’s strange and intense energy, which was unpacked last year by Flicks’ Luke Buckmaster.
Best Documentary Feature
Mr Nobody Against Putin
Sitting on a perfect 100% Rotten Tomatoes score, this film follows a primary school teacher in Russia who begins documenting the creeping propaganda entering his classroom. The Guardian’s Adrian Horton called it “a must-watch, indelible document of ideological warfare that echoes far beyond Russia.”
Best Original Screenplay
Ryan Coogler, for Sinners
It takes a while to appreciate the full arc of Ryan Coogler’s genre-hopping drama, action and horror film, set in the Mississippi Delta in 1932. The script is nothing if not audacious, perhaps taking a little inspiration from 90s classic From Dusk Till Dawn.
Best Adapted Screenplay
Paul Thomas Anderson, for One Battle After Another
PTA’s highly acclaimed screenplay is considered a loose adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s novel Vineland, which is why you might have seen the words “inspired by” rather than “based on.” Despite many nominations over the years, this was the first Oscar Anderson actually won.
Best Supporting Actor
Sean Penn, for One Battle After Another
Sean Penn’s performance as Col. Steven J. Lockjaw captures One Battle After Another‘s simultaneously funny yet deadly serious tone. It’s a humorous, idiosyncratic portrayal, but you never doubt this man is capable of terrible things. Penn pulled the ultimate “too cool for school” manoeuvre and didn’t even attend the ceremony.
Best Animated Feature
KPop Demon Hunters
This was certainly the popular choice, being the most-watched animated film ever on Netflix, collecting hundreds of millions of views. In the words of Flicks critic Luke Buckmaster, “One of the obvious reasons the film has stuck to the zeitgeist like phosphorescent mud is its energy: it’s bam-bam fast, not so much unfolding as exploding, like overripe fruit stuffed with firecrackers.”
Best Supporting Actress
Amy Madigan, for Weapons
Madigan’s snagging of the Best Supporting Actress gong was the first upset of the evening. She was an outlier all awards season – but then again, anybody who’s seen Zach Cregger’s amazingly strange and surreal horror movie will recognise Madigan’s portrayal of the film’s villain as one of those “once seen, never forgotten” performances.
The complete list of this year’s winners (and nominees)
Best Picture
Bugonia
F1
Frankenstein
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another – WINNER
The Secret Agent
Sentimental Value
Sinners
Train Dreams
Best supporting actress
Elle Fanning, Sentimental Value
Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Sentimental Value
Amy Madigan, Weapons – WINNER
Wunmi Mosaku, Sinners
Teyana Taylor, One Battle After Another
Best animated feature film
Arco
Elio
KPop Demon Hunters – WINNER
Little Amélie or The Character of Rain
Zootopia 2
Best animated short film
Butterfly
Forevergreen
The Girl Who Cried Pearls – WINNER
Retirement Plan
The Three Sisters
Best costume design
Avatar: Fire and Ash
Frankenstein (Kate Hawley) – WINNER
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
Sinners
Best makeup and hairstyling
Frankenstein – WINNER
Kokuho
Sinners
The Smashing Machine
The Ugly Stepsister
Best casting
Hamnet (Nina Gold)
Marty Supreme (Jennifer Venditti)
One Battle After Another (Cassandra Kulukundis) – WINNER
The Secret Agent (Gabriel Domingues)
Sinners (Francine Maisler)
Best live action short film
Butcher’s Stain
A Friend of Dorothy
Jane Austen’s Period Drama
The Singers – JOINT WINNER
Two People Exchanging Saliva – JOINT WINNER
Best supporting actor
Benicio del Toro, One Battle After Another
Jacob Elordi, Frankenstein
Delroy Lindo, Sinners
Sean Penn, One Battle After Another – WINNER
Stellan Skarsgård, Sentimental Value
Best adapted screenplay
Bugonia
Frankenstein
Hamnet
One Battle After Another (Paul Thomas Anderson) – WINNER
Train Dreams
Best original screenplay
Blue Moon
It Was Just an Accident
Marty Supreme
Sentimental Value
Sinners (Ryan Coogler) – WINNER
Best production design
Frankenstein – WINNER
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
Sinners
Best visual effects
Avatar: Fire and Ash – WINNER
F1
Jurassic World Rebirth
The Lost Bus
Sinners
Best documentary short film
All the Empty Rooms – WINNER
Armed Only With a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud
Children No More: Were and Are Gone
The Devil Is Busy
Perfectly a Strangeness
Best documentary feature film
The Alabama Solution
Come See Me in the Good Light
Cutting Through Rocks
Mr Nobody Against Putin – WINNER
The Perfect Neighbor
Best original score
Bugonia
Frankenstein
Hamnet
One Battle After Another
Sinners (Ludwig Göransson – WINNER)
Best sound
F1 – WINNER
Frankenstein
One Battle After Another
Sinners
Sirât
Best film editing
F1
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another – WINNER
Sentimental Value
Sinners
Best cinematography
Frankenstein
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
Sinners – WINNER
Train Dreams
Best international feature film
The Secret Agent
It Was Just an Accident
Sentimental Value – WINNER
Sirât
The Voice of Hind Rajab
Best original song
Dear Me, Diane Warren: Relentless
Golden, KPop Demon Hunters – WINNER
I Lied To You, Sinners
Sweet Dreams of Joy, Viva Verdi!
Train Dreams, Train Dreams
Best directing
Chloé Zhao, Hamnet
Josh Safdie, Marty Supreme
Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another – WINNER
Joachim Trier, Sentimental Value
Ryan Coogler, Sinners
Best actor
Timothée Chalamet, Marty Supreme
Leonardo DiCaprio, One Battle After Another
Ethan Hawke, Blue Moon
Michael B Jordan, Sinners – WINNER
Wagner Moura, The Secret Agent
Best actress
Jessie Buckley, Hamnet – WINNER
Rose Byrne, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
Kate Hudson, Song Sung Blue
Renate Reinsve, Sentimental Value
Emma Stone, Bugonia
Best picture
Bugonia
F1
Frankenstein
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another – WINNER
The Secret Agent
Sentimental Value
Sinners
Train Dreams
