Oscars winners list as they are announced

After a topsy-turvy Oscar season in which frontrunners were constantly shuffled, today's Academy Awards, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, is finally underway.

And Kieran Culkin picked up the first award of the night for A Real Pain, pipping Australian Guy Pearce.

The lead nominee is Netflix's Emilia Pérez with 13 nominations, but that film has seen its chances crater following uproar over years-old offensive tweets by its star, Karla Sofía Gascón, the first openly trans actor nominated for best actress.

The favourite for best picture is Sean Baker's Anora, about a sex worker who weds the son of a Russian oligarch. The Neon release, the Cannes Palme d'Or winner, won with the producers, directors and writers guild. The only movie with the same resume to not win best picture is Brokeback Mountain.

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Its closest competition is Conclave, the papal thriller starring Ralph Fiennes. It won at the BAFTAs and the SAG Awards, wins that came just as Pope Francis was hospitalised for double pneumonia. Oscar voting concluded before the pope fell ill.

Follow all the winners below as they are announced.

Best picture

• Anora
• The Brutalist
• A Complete Unknown
• Conclave
• Dune: Part Two
• Emilia Pérez
• I'm Still Here
• Nickel Boys
• The Substance
• Wicked

Best actor

• Adrien Brody - The Brutalist
• Timothée Chalamet - A Complete Unknown
• Colman Domingo - Sing Sing
• Ralph Fiennes - Conclave
• Sebastian Stan - The Apprentice

Best actress

• Cynthia Erivo - Wicked
• Karla Sofía Gascón - Emilia Pérez
• Mikey Madison - Anora
• Demi Moore - The Substance
• Fernanda Torres - I'm Still Here

Best supporting actress

• Monica Barbaro - A Complete Unknown
• Ariana Grande - Wicked
• Felicity Jones - The Brutalist
• Isabella Rossellini - Conclave
• Zoe Saldaña - Emilia Pérez

Best supporting actor

• Yura Borisov - Anora
• Kieran Culkin - A Real Pain - WINNER
• Edward Norton - A Complete Unknown
• Guy Pearce - The Brutalist
• Jeremy Strong - The Apprentice

Best director

• Jacques Audiard - Emilia Pérez
• Sean Baker - Anora
• Brady Corbet - The Brutalist
• Coralie Fargeat - The Substance
• James Mangold - A Complete Unknown

Best adapted screenplay

• A Complete Unknown - Jay Cocks and James Mangold
• Conclave - Peter Straughan
• Emilia Pérez - Jacques Audiard
• Nickel Boys - RaMell Ross and Joslyn Barnes
• Sing Sing - Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar

Best original screenplay

• Anora - Sean Baker
• The Brutalist - Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold
• A Real Pain - Jesse Eisenberg
• September 5 - Moritz Binder, Tim Fehlbaum, Alex David
• The Substance - Coralie Fargeat

Best original song

• Never Too Late - Elton John: Never Too Late
• El Mal - Emilia Pérez
• Mi Camino - Emilia Pérez
• Like A Bird - Sing Sing
• The Journey - The Six Triple Eight

Best original score

• The Brutalist
• Conclave
• Emilia Pérez
• Wicked
• The Wild Robot

Best international feature

• I'm Still Here - Brazil
• The Girl with the Needle - Denmark
• Emilia Pérez - France
• The Seed of the Sacred Fig - Germany
• Flow - Latvia

Best animated feature

• Flow
• Inside Out 2
• Memoir of a Snail
• Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
• The Wild Robot

Best documentary feature

• Black Box Diaries
• No Other Land
• Porcelain War
• Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
• Sugarcane

Best costume design

• Wicked
• Nosferatu
• A Complete Unknown
• Conclave
• Gladiator II

Best make-up and hairstyling

• A Different Man
• Emilia Pérez
• Nosferatu
• The Substance
• Wicked

Best production design

• Wicked
• The Brutalist
• Dune: Part Two
• Nosferatu
• Conclave

Best sound

• A Complete Unknown
• Dune: Part Two
• Emilia Pérez
• Wicked
• The Wild Robot

Best film editing

• Anora
• The Brutalist
• Conclave
• Emilia Pérez
• Wicked

Best cinematography

• The Brutalist
• Dune: Part Two
• Emilia Pérez
• Maria
• Nosferatu

Best visual effects

• Alien: Romulus
• Better Man
• Dune: Part Two
• Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
• Wicked

Best live action short

• Anuja
• I'm Not a Robot
• The Last Ranger
• A Lien
• The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent

Best animated short

• Beautiful Men
• In the Shadow of the Cypress
• Magic Candies
• Wander to Wonder
• Yuck!

Best documentary short

• Death by Numbers
• I Am Ready, Warden
• Incident
• Instruments of a Beating Heart
• The Only Girl in the Orchestra

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