The Oscars has wrapped for an additional yr, with Anora taking dwelling Finest Image and 4 different Academy Awards, together with a shock Finest Actress win for Mikey Madison.
However apart from the winners and losers, which moments stood out on the 97th Academy Awards? What had been a few of the highlights and lowlights?
From Conan O’Brien’s hilarious internet hosting to livestream technical points, we have rounded up one of the best and worst Oscars 2025 moments under.
The most effective
Conan O’Brien as Oscars host
An important host!
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A shock music, a Substance-skit, and back-and-forths with each Adam Sandler and Nick Offerman had been simply a few of the components that made Conan O’Brien’s internet hosting a lot enjoyable to observe. You possibly can atone for his full opening monologue, which included jabs at AI and Netflix and loads of O’Brien’s trademark self-deprecation.
A Depraved opening quantity
Depraved stars and Oscar nominees Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo kicked off the Oscars in monumental trend, with an homage to The Wizard of Oz, The Wiz, and Depraved, ending with a duet of “Defying Gravity” and Erivo’s main be aware second.
John Lithgow’s upset face
This isn’t John Lithgow’s upset face. You may understand it once you see it.
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“If your acceptance speech goes too long, instead of playing you off with music, we have something much more powerful,” O’Brien stated throughout his monologue. “We’ll cut to John Lithgow in the audience looking not angry, but slightly disappointed.”
Conclave star Lithgow’s ensuing expression was frankly award-worthy in and of itself.
Colman Domingo hyping up the gang
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The Oscars is an extended ceremony, so what higher approach to inject a little bit of life into the viewers than with an impromptu dance occasion? That is precisely what Sing Sing star and Finest Actor nominee Colman Domingo did throughout an advert break, taking to the stage and getting the room up and dancing whereas swigging Champagne.
Basel Adra and Yuval Abraham’s No Different Land speech
When No Different Land took dwelling Finest Documentary, the movie’s administrators Basel Adra and Yuval Abraham (a Palestinian and Israeli journalist, respectively) made probably the greatest and most political acceptance speeches of the evening.
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“About two months ago, I became a father, and my hope to my daughter that she will not have to live the same life I am living now, always fearing settlers, violence, home demolitions and forcible displacements that my community Masafer Yatta is living and tasting every day under Israeli occupation,” stated Adra.
“We made this film, Palestinians and Israelis, because together we are stronger,” stated Abraham. “When I look at Basel, I see my brother, but we are unequal.”
Kieran Culkin shouting out Jeremy Sturdy
They could have been at one another’s throats in Succession, however onscreen brothers Kieran Culkin and Jeremy Sturdy had loads of love for one another on the Oscars. The celebs of A Actual Ache and The Apprentice shared a candy second on the purple carpet, after which Culkin shouted out his former co-star and fellow Oscar nominee after he picked up the award for Finest Supporting Actor.
The musical sandworm
Go sandworm!
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Sandworms have been catapulted to deserving ranges of fame due to the Dune films and that ensuing popcorn bucket. Through the Oscars, the colossal creatures of Denis Villeneuve’s nominated movie received their second within the solar. Stated second? Somebody in a sandworm costume taking part in piano, after which later taking part in the harp.
“When you spend that much money on a bit,” stated O’Brien. “You have to do it twice.”
The worst
Some evident In Memoriam omissions
There have been some massive names on this yr’s In Memoriam phase, together with Dame Maggie Smith, David Lynch, James Earl Jones, and Gene Hackman. However as many individuals identified on-line, there have been additionally some unusual omissions, similar to Candyman actor Tony Todd and Gossip Woman star Michelle Trachtenberg.
The Hulu livestream slicing off
Technical points are the bane of any stay occasion, and Sunday evening’s awards proved a nightmare for anybody watching the Hulu livestream — which reduce off earlier than Finest Actress and Finest Image had been introduced. Folks had been John Lithgow ranges of upset, though the mishap did serve to underline Sean Baker’s Finest Director speech concerning the significance of the massive display.
The failed Emilia Perez sing-a-long
It is pretty simple for an awards present speech to be remembered for the mistaken causes, and trying to guide a non-committal viewers in a sing-a-long is one surefire approach to do it. Sadly that was the marginally uncomfortable final result when Emilia Pérez‘s “El Mal” songwriters Clement Ducol, Camille and Jacques Audiard took to the stage to select up the award for Finest Track. Ouch.
Adrien Brody’s prolonged speech
Speaking of acceptance speeches, The Brutalist star Adrien Brody took a strong six minutes — full of pauses aplenty and one tried music play-off — when accumulating his Finest Actor award, and social media was having none of it.
The place’s John Lithgow once you want him?
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