«Anora» is Oscar’s great winner: these are the winners of the Hollywood Academy Awards

Anora She is the great winner of the Oscar 2025.

Nominated in six categories, the tragicomedy won the award for the best film and four more this Sunday in the 97th edition of the awards of the Academy of Arts and Film Sciences.

Its protagonist, Mikey Madison, who plays a sex worker who lives a false fairy tale, gave the surprise cracking her best main actress to her strongest competitor, the star of The SubstanceDemi Moore.

And Sean Baker climbed four times to the Dolby Theater stage to receive, in addition to the Gordo Award, the statuettes corresponding to the best direction, original script and edition.

Ainda this («I’m still here,» I’M Still Here), directed by Water Salles and starring Fernanda Torres, he gave Brazil his first Oscar for Best International Film.

Adrien Brody took the award for the best main actor for his interpretation in The Brutalist («The Brutalist») making a call to «a healthier and more inclusive world», in which «hate without control has no place,» and the cast was for Kieran Culkin, for his work in To Real Pain.

Zoe Saldaña collected the award for Best Actress of Distributed for «Emilia Pérez», with a powerful speech remembering his origins and underlining that she is a «proud daughter of immigrant parents.»

Despite being the film with more nominations (13), the narcomusical set in Mexico only managed to take two awards home. The Brutalist He got three of 10 for which he competed, and WICKED two of 10.

One of the most powerful moments of the gala arrived near his Ecuador, when Basel Adra, Rachel Szor, Hamdan Ballal and Yuval Abraham picked up the best documentary for No other Land, A film that denounces segregation in the West Bank.

«I hope that my daughter does not have to live the same life that I am living now, always with the fear of violence, the demolition of our homes, to the displacement that my community is facing,» said Palestinian journalist and activist Adra.

«The foreign policy of this country is blocking» the path to the political solution of the Israelo-Palestinian conflict, added Israeli journalist Abraham.

Next, the complete list of winners:

The winners

• Best address: Sean Baker – Anora

• Best leading actress: Mikey Madison – Anora

• Best leading actor: Adrien Brody – The Brutalist («The Brutalist»)

• Best cast actress: Zoe Saldaña – «Emilia Pérez»

• Best cast actor: Kieran Culkin – To Real Pain

• Best original script: Anora – Be Baker

• Best adapted script: Conclave («Conclave»)

• Best edition: Anora – Be Baker

• Best International Film: Ainda this («I’m still here,» I’M Still Here) – Brazil

• Best Documentary Film: Not Other Land

• Better documentary curtain: The Only Girl in the Orchestra

• Best animated film: Straume (Flow)

• Best animated short film: In the shadow of the cypress («In the shadow of the cypress»)

• Best fiction short film: I’M not a robot

• Best Photography: The Brutalist («The Brutalist»)

• Best production design: WICKED

• Best costume design: WICKED – Paul Tazewell

• Better makeup and hairdresser: The Substance («The substance»)

• Best original soundtrack: The Brutalist («The Brutalist») – Daniel Blumberg

• Best original song: «Evil» – «Emilia Pérez»

• Best sound: Dune: Part Two («Dune: part two»)

• Better visual effects: Dune: Part Two («Dune: part two»)

Tribute to Los Angeles

The ceremony began with a montage made from several scenes of films in homage to Los Angeles, a city that lives its lowest hours after the most destructive fires in its history.

And from those who during the night took the stage of the Dolby Theater, there were several who referred to the capacity of the film industry to deal with adversities.

«His magic and greatness will be with us forever,» said Conan O’Brien, the humorist who worked as a master of ceremonies.

It was not the only emotional moment of the gala.

Many of those present were excited to remember Gene Hackman, who was found dead with his wife last Wednesday.

«Last week we lost a legend, a guide,» said Morgan Freeman before giving way to the block that, as in each edition, honored the members of the industry killed during the year.

Freeman worked with Hackman twice, in Unforgiventape that gave the star now deceased his second Oscar, and in Under suspicion In 2000.

«Just as anyone who once shared a scene with him, I learned that he was a generous actor and a man whose talent improved everyone’s work,» he said in his speech.

Political references

In addition to the resounding message of the Oscar winners for the best documentary film, there were some other reference to political news and the recent measures promoted by the US government.

One of the most direct perhaps arrived from Boca from the same presenter.

«You know, Anora He is having a good night, ”O’Brien said when mentioning the film about the sex worker who lives a brief romance with the son of a Russian oligarch.

One of the most emotional scenes of the film is one in which its protagonist, a working -class young woman played by Mikey Madison, attacks against the powerful family.

«I guess Americans see with enthusiasm that at least someone faces a powerful Russian,» O’Brien added.

It was the closest that the humorist was to pronounce the name of President Donald Trump.

And he did it in reference to his relationship with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, and in reference to the tense encounter that Trump and vice president JD Vance had with the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, in the Oval Office on Friday.

During the meeting, Trump told Zelensky that he was «playing with the third world war» and accused him of being «little grateful», while Vance called him «disrespectful.»

The incident has since generated several support samples to Ukraine, and actress Daryl Hannah wanted to join them when she went up this Sunday to the Dolby Theater stage to deliver the Oscar to the best edition.

Slava Ukraine («Gloria to Ukraine»), said Hannah, known among others for his interpretation in Kill Bill.