One Battle After Another takes home six wins at this year's Oscars, including best picture
Hamnet's Jessie Buckley becomes the first Irish winner of the best actress category, and Sinners' Autumn Durald Arkapaw makes history as the first woman to win the Oscar for best cinematography
Michael B Jordan says "I stand here because of the people who came before me" as he accepts the best actor award for his portrayal of twin brothers Smoke and Stack in Sinners
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Helen Bushby
Culture reporter
Grogu, fondly known to fans as Baby Yoda, made an appearance, sitting next to Kate Hudson in the audience.
Quoting a line from the Alien films, which Sigourney Weaver starred in, the actress, on-stage presenting an award, said the immortal line: "Get away from him [expletive]".
Category: Production design
Emma Saunders
Culture reporter
Image source, Getty ImagesThe film is also nominated for best picture
This Brazilian thriller is an offbeat but intriguing political drama about an academic called Marcelo – played by best actor nominee Wagner Moura – who returns to what he hopes is refuge in his home town of Recife after a fallout with the government over a patent.
And in 1970s Brazil, under military dictatorship, that spells trouble.
The tense drama is intermittently broken up with surreal humorous detours that smack of a 1950s low-budget horror, including a severed leg hopping around attacking people. Yes, you read that right.
It’s directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho, who hails from the town of Recife himself, and had a former life as a film critic before deciding to get behind the camera himself. His previous films include Cannes favourite Aquarius (2016).
His original feature film has now been rewarded with four Oscar nominations in total and is up against fellow best picture nominee, Sentimental Value, in the highly competitive international film category.
Emma Saunders
Culture reporter
Barbra Streisand has paid tribute to her fellow The Way We Were star, the late Robert Redford.
"He was thoughtful and bold, I called him an intellectual cowboy who blazed his own trail," she says.
"I miss him now more than ever even though he loved teasing me. He'd call me Babs and I'd say 'Do I look like a Babs?!'"
She adds: "In the last note I ever wrote to Bob, I ended it with: 'I love you too. Babs.'"
And then she breaks into the classic track The Way We Were. A moving moment.
Helen Bushby
Culture reporter
Hollywood director Rob Reiner, famous for films including This Is Spinal Tap, the Princess Bride, When Harry Met Sally and Stand By Me, and his wife Michele have been remembered this evening.
Their son Nick has pleaded not guilty to murdering his parents, who were found with multiple stab wounds in their home in December.
Reiner and his wife's photograph led the 'In Memorium' section, which has also paid tribute to stars including Catherine O'Hara and Diane Keaton.
Nardine Saad
Reporting from the Oscars
Image source, EPAKPop Demon Hunters film-makers Chris Appelhans, Maggie Kang and Michelle LM Wong are toting their Oscars statuettes backstage and taking questions from reporters.
Kang doubles down on her remarks during her acceptance speech at the ceremony, saying she's "just so proud of Korean film and movies about Korea".
"It just feels like we have both trophies, and I just feel immensely proud. And really, to be honest, I didn't want to disappoint Korea."
She also adds that she hopes to see more films, "especially in animation, that focus on different cultures because I think we really need that".
Emma Saunders
Culture reporter
Sinners, which just won original screenplay, received a standing ovation - it's the biggest cheer of the night so far.
It's Ryan Coogler's first Oscar win and the crowd went wild. He has to tell them to "please sit down" as he's "very nervous."
He wrote the script in just two months so no-one would begrudge him this win.
Coogler pays tribute to the cast and his family - including his wife and the film's producer, Zinzi Coogler.
He's also got a deal which means he'll get the rights back to the film after 50 years. Savvy move.
Could this be the first of many awards for the vampire movie tonight? Stay with us to find out.
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Culture reporter
Image source, Warner BrosLeonardo DiCapro and Benicio Del Toro are two of the cast of One Battle After Another to have been nominated for acting awards
The next film up for best picture is One Battle After Another, which has already won three nods this evening.
The political thriller and dark comedy stars Leonardo DiCaprio as a paranoid ex-revolutionary who is on a mission - alongside some former accomplices - to track down his kidnapped daughter (Chase Infiniti).
DiCaprio, who is nominated for best actor, told the BBC that the madcap, high intensity movie reflects what he sees as the growing fragmentation of society.
"It holds a mirror up to society and talks about the divisiveness in our culture and the fact that there's so much polarity."
The film also stars Benicio del Toro, Teyana Taylor and Sean Penn, who won best supporting actor for his role as unpredictable villain Colonel Lockjaw earlier this evening.
Nardine Saad
Reporting from the Oscars
The Academy Awards are nearly 100 years old but only six times in that storied history has there been a tie like tonight's award for best short action film, which was awarded to both The Singers and Two People Exchanging Saliva.
In the winners room here at the Oscars, the Academy brings in librarians to help fact check details from the night.
And everyone turned to those experts tonight in the Loews Hotell ballroom to confirm when the last time two films had tied for Oscars and how many times it had happened in Academy Awards history.
Here is what they told me tonight about the six times it has happened:
Ana Faguy
US Reporter
Image source, Reuters/ Kevin WurmRyan Coogler travelled to Clarksdale to present free screenings of his film
Last year, I visited Clarksdale, Mississippi, a landmark for a bygone era of American blues music that also happens to be the town that inspired the hit film Sinners.
The genre-defying film, that just won the Oscar for original screenplay, earned more than $300m (£220m) globally, against a $90m (£67m) budget, and attracted the world's attention to a historic small town.
Ryan Coogler, who created the movie, said it was his Uncle James, a Mississippi native who loved Delta blues, who helped inspire the film.
And in May he and other creators from the film went to Clarksdale for a screening.
That’s where I met some locals who were elated with their town’s representation.
"It was time traveling back to 1930's in Clarksdale, in our town, so this is the lives of my great grandma," Tyler Yarbrough, a Clarksdale native, said of the movie.
"The history from the farms to the juke joints was on full display."
Edna Luckett, a blues singer, watched the movie listening closely to the characters' dialect. She watched to see if the land in the backdrop of the film was as flat and green as it is in real life.
"It was," she said with a smile.
Image source, Getty ImagesThe screenplay categories were presented by actors Chris Evans and Robert Downey Jr.
Besides the Oscars stage, they share something else in common: they're both Avengers.
Evans played Captain America and Downey played Iron man.
The two actors shared a few quips about the fourteenth anniversary of the first Avengers film, including that Downey forgot to get Evans an anniversary gift.
Helen Bushby
Culture reporter
One Battle After Another's director Paul Thomas Anderson has FINALLY won his first Oscar, for adapting the screenplay of Thomas Pynchon's novel Vineland, which inspired his film One Battle After Another
He has been nominated a whopping 14 times.
Anderson simply thanked his family members as he collected his Oscar, along with author Thomas Pynchon, whose novel inspired his film.
Marvel stars Chris Evans and Robert Downey Jr presented the award, calling the script "the driving force of a film".
Category: original screenplay
Category: Adapted screenplay
Helen Bushby
Culture reporter
Image source, A24Chalamet plays a fictionalised version of post-war table tennis star Marty Reisman
Our next best picture nominee is Marty Supreme.
This comedy drama stars Timothée Chalamet as real-life post-war table tennis star Marty Reisman, in a semi-fictionalised film version of his life, as Marty Mauser.
This film is up for nine Oscars tonight, including best film and best actor.
Desperate to become world champion, Mauser's attempt to scramble to the top includes getting involved in a heist and trying to destroy the marriage of his biggest sponsor, who he resents.
Chalamet took nearly seven years to get his table tennis up to championship level for the film, and he told the BBC in December he felt it was his "responsibility in this movie" to make it look as real as possible.
Chalamet had a wide-ranging promotional campaign for the film, including wearing matching orange outfits at premieres with both his girlfriend Kylie Jenner and his mum.
But in the last week he has hit global headlines and a barrage of criticism from the arts world on social media, after he said "no-one cares" about ballet or opera any more.
The BBC's Ian Youngs explored whether this may have dented his image. You can read more here.
Laura Blasey
US reporter
Earlier this evening, we saw Frankenstein take the award for best costume.
Best costume design can sometimes feel like a consolation prize for films that don’t muster enough support for higher profile awards.
See: Wes Anderson’s Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), Paul Thomas Anderson’s Phantom Thread (2017) and George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road (2015).
But it’s also true that costumes are an art - a key part of the world-building of a film. And they can communicate so much history, context and feeling without words. There’s one from this year’s slate of nominees that lives in my brain.
It’s the red chevron dress from Guillermo Del Toro’s Frankenstein, worn by Mia Goth. Red draws the eye to her on screen and the chiffon gives the scene a nice ethereal quality that fits with the atmosphere of the film.
More importantly, it was a visual plot cue. I'm almost certain it's a reference to this 1803 painting by Russian artist Nikolai Argunov.
The painting happens to be one of my favourites. It’s one of few examples of pregnant women depicted in art during that era, particularly in portraiture. And stop reading if film spoilers bother you - the subject, Praskovia Kovalyova-Zhemchugova, died in childbirth.
Image source, Nikolay ArgunovPortrait of Praskovia Kovalyova-Zhemchugova
Emma Saunders
Culture reporter
This is a third win for Penn and a first for best supporting actor – he’s picked up best actor twice (for Mystic River in 2003 and Milk in 2008).
He's not been attending many ceremonies this year - he wasn't at the Baftas either where he also won.
The veteran actor, who came up against fellow One Battle After Another actor Benicio del Toro in this category, played unpredictable and unhinged villain Colonel Lockjaw.
His powerful and terrifying performance in Paul Thomas Anderson’s film was also recently rewarded at the Baftas.
Penn has already given one of his Oscars away to Ukraine’s President Zelensky so it’s anyone’s guess what he’ll do with tonight’s prize!
Other contenders in this category were:
Image source, Getty ImagesBefore all of the drama of the tied winner, presenting the award for Live Action Short Film, Kumail Nanjiani had rattled off a list of shortened movie titles that would fit the bill.
A few examples:
One Battle
No Country for Old Man
Some of that Jazz
Helen Bushby
Culture reporter
Alexandre Singh and Natalie Musteata claimed the second Oscar in this category, for their film Two People Exchanging Saliva.
"Thank you to the Academy for supporting a film that is weird and queer and made by a majority of women," Musteata said.
Conan O'Brien congratulated them for "ruining" millions of Oscars betting pools with their joint win with The Singers.
Category: Best supporting actor