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Winners or not, the business part of Oscars night is over and now the partying begins.

Many celebrities will be heading to the Vanity Fair after party, but before that, winners and nominees and guests will make an appearance at the Governors Ball, the official post-Oscars celebration.

They don't have far to go as it's just upstairs above the Dolby Theatre where the ceremony wrapped up earlier.

Winners get their Oscars engraved, snacks and drinks are served, and the smiles are wide and plenty.

Nardine Saad
at the Oscars

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Sinners writer and director Ryan Coogler tells us that he hasn't spoken enough tonight about his late Uncle James, who introduced him to blues music, which is at the heart of his film.

"He meant the world to me. I actually realised, that he was the closest thing I had to a grandfather," he says.

He adds: "I contemplate that man I saw. I'm so proud that he gave me the gift of his stories about Mississippi, that he played blues music for me and talked to me about it, and he continues to give me gifts from where he is now."

Nardine Saad
at the Oscars

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It was a momentous night for Hamnet star Jessie Buckley, who celebrated her Oscars win on her first Mother's Day.

"It feels like some kind of crazy alchemy that all of these things are colliding on a day like today," she tells us backstage.

She adds that her daughter also got her first tooth this week and she woke up today with the wee one snuggling, lying on her chest.

"What a gift to get to explore motherhood through this incredible mother that Agnes is and was, and then to become one myself, and then to receive this recognition?" she says.

Asked what she wants to say to those celebrating her win in Ireland, Buckley quickly responds: "Don't go to bed. Keep partying!"

Helen Bushby
Culture reporter

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More stars from the big and small screen are flocking to the Vanity Fair party, ready to enjoy some post-ceremony fun and possibly some gossip, away from the press waiting outside.

Nicole Kidman co-presented the best picture prize with her Moulin Rouge co-star Ewan McGregor earlier on.

Kim Kardashian looked like an Oscars statuette in a gold figure-hugging full-length Gucci gown.

Actress Minnie Driver is one of several stars in flowing bright red, while Drag Race host RuPaul rocked an oversized pin stripe suit jacket.

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Nardine Saad
at the Oscars

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Sinners star Michael B Jordan has just addressed the media and again praises black actors who came before him, name-checking past Oscars winners Sydney Poitier, Denzel Washington, Halle Berry and Forest Whitaker.

He says that they graced the stage and were "not looking for awards" or acknowledgement, emphasising that they're artists who are just doing the work as he hopes to be doing.

"That's something I've always focused on, was trying to do the work. My father always told me, don't expect anything to be handed to you, do the work knowing everything else is going to figure itself out," he says.

He notes that "there is a selfishness" in the craft and industry, knowing that the Oscar is "a pinnacle" and an "industry standard".

"This is what we put value on, in a big way, that competitiveness, we do want that but at the same time what's for you is for you, and you can't take anybody blessings away from anybody else," he says.

"I'm just like walking my path. Man, just trying to be locked in. I would encourage other actors and artists, no matter what their medium is, to try to keep that in mind and be honest and truthful."

Nardine Saad
Reporting from the Oscars

Sinners cinematographer Autumn Durald Arkapaw is asked about her historic win here in the interview room and tells us that there was one thing she didn't get to say onstage during the telecast.

"A lot of little girls that look like me will sleep really well tonight because they want to become cinematographers. And I know that just being on stage, getting this award or movie, that will change so many girls' lives because they'll be inspired when they weren't before."

She also says she wants to thank all the women who stood up for her because "it takes a village to make stuff like this happen".

She adds: "This isn't about me anymore. This is about so much more, and I know that. And I wanted it for all the ladies in the room, and I wanted it for all the girls."

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Emma Saunders
Culture reporter

Stars are walking the silver carpet for the famous Vanity Fair after party.

Pop star Olivia Rodrigo followed the feather trend in dusky pink.

Scottish actor, Ewan McGregor, who presented an award tonight alongside his Moulin Rouge co-star Nicole Kidman, arrived suited and booted.

And Jessica Alba wore a wet-look sequin dress, again with feather detail.

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Nardine Saad
Reporting from the Oscars

Newly-minted Oscar winner Cassandra Kulukundis, the winner of the inaugural casting Oscar, took questions from the press about her win for One Battle After Another.

Reflecting on the 10 movies she has made with Paul Thomas Anderson, Kulukundis says: "We grew up watching movies and we grew up making movies together, and that's why this thing is insane.

"It's our 10th movie, and the collaboration changes on every movie, because it depends on what we're doing. Phantom Thread cannot be remotely compared to, like Magnolia and Boogie Nights.

"And it's, just wild, and I feel like One Battle in a lot of ways, combined all that, everything that we've ever thought, said, seen together, and it's number 10, and it kind of all makes sense. I guess we're full circle here."

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Helen Bushby
Culture reporter

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Veteran actress, double Oscar winner and campaigner Jane Fonda has praised the "great films" in tonight's ceremony, calling it "very exciting".

"I'm so glad that Jessie won, I loved Hamnet," she told the BBC, calling her win the "highlight" of the ceremony.

She called Buckley's performance "feral", saying it came from deep within her - "the depth of her soul... you can see it in her fingernails, her mouth, her eyes".

Calling it the "best movie about the power of art", she praised the last scene in the film, set in a theatre performance of Shakespeare's Hamlet.

She added she was delighted that the first female cinematographer winner was awarded during the ceremony - Sinners' Autumn Durald Arkapaw.

Fonda added she was wearing a protest badge because "we have to stop media mergers - you lose thousands of jobs, content, depth, nuance", she said, adding: "They're going to control what we say, we have to control the mergers."

Sakshi Venkatraman
US reporter

There were plenty of memorable moments in that three-and-a half hour long show.

Here were some of the standouts:

1. Some major cast reunions. Cast members from the movie Bridesmaids and the Avengers movie series got together on stage as presenters, feeding into our nostalgia for those beloved classics.

2. A rare Oscar's tie. Two films, The Singers and Two People Exchanging Saliva, won in the live action short film category. A tie at the Oscars hasn't happened since 2013.

3. A long and poignant In Memorium. We heard some touching tributes to actors Rob Reiner, Catherine O'Hara and Robert Redford, who all passed away in the last year. Redford was commemorated with a song by Barbara Streisand.

4. Michael B Jordan's unexpected win. The Sinners star was not favoured to win the coveted best actor prize, and you could tell from his expression he wasn't expecting it either. He says his dad came in from Ghana to see the show tonight.

5. Javier Bardem's "Free Palestine". In a show that was largely apolitical tonight, actor Javier Bardem shouted "No to war" and "Free Palestine" while presenting an award alongside Priyanka Chopra.

Christal Hayes
Reporting from Los Angeles

The actors and creators of Sinners found themselves at the centre of attention tonight, as the film is the most nominated in the Academy Awards' nearly 100-year history - though it didn't end up winning the most awards of the night.

I sat down with Michael B Jordan, who stars in the film playing twin brothers Smoke and Stack, Wunmi Mosaku, who plays Annie, and Delroy Lindo, who plays Delta Slim, ahead of tonight's show.

We chatted at the Oscars' annual luncheon last month, before they won several awards at the Bafta Film Awards. At that ceremony, Jordan and Lindo were interrupted on stage by someone with Tourette's shouting a racial slur. The BBC, which was broadcasting the ceremony, has apologised for not editing out the slur from its coverage.

The trio told me about feeling humbled, blessed and thankful over the film's 16 nominations tonight.

"[I'm feeling] beyond blessed and humbled by the opportunities that I've been given," Jordan told me. "Just trying to take advantage of all of them."

Mosaku says she is still in "disbelief" over the film's success and the achievements and honours she and her co-stars have been winning.

"I just can't believe it," she told me. "It's crazy."

Cai Pigliucci
Reporting from the Vanity Fair after party

We’re at the Vanity Fair after party on the red carpet - which is actually silver this year - as the stars have begun to arrive.

One of the first in the door is Mick Jagger, though he didn’t stop to chat with us.

We’ll bring you more from Hollywood’s biggest party throughout the night.

Emma Saunders
Culture reporter

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This year's Oscars were more unpredictable than usual in some categories, for example best actor and best supporting actress, which added a touch of excitement.

But while there was more uncertainty all around earlier in awards season, in the last few weeks - as if often the case - positions solidified.

Many were predicting the big wins would be split between Sinners and One Battle After Another, which proved true.

Jessie Buckley was also a shoo-in for best actress - I would have bet my house on her winning.

That doesn't mean we weren't left with some lovely moments and heartfelt speeches - Michael B Jordan, Buckley and Autumn Durald Arkapaw spring to mind.

Alex Foster
US journalist

For all the epics and biopics we usually see at the Oscars, it’s nice to see a classic genre get more recognition from the Academy in recent years - horror movies.

Though they often get nods in smaller categories like best makeup or special effects, it’s historically rare for the characters at the heart of the scares to be similarly appreciated.

Not this year, where there were five actors nominated for their performances: Jacob Elordi in Frankenstein, Amy Madigan in Weapons, and Michael B Jordan, Wunmi Mosaku, and Delroy Lindo for Sinners, with Madigan and Jordan both taking home gongs.

That’s the all-time record; you’d have to go way back to 1974 for the last time more than two horror roles were nominated, with three for The Exorcist.

And with Daniel Kaluuya nominated for Get Out in 2018, and Demi Moore nominated for best actress for body horror The Substance just last year, it appears that the Academy is becoming as willing to scream at their movies as often as they sob.

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Katie Razzall
Culture editor

For days here in LA I’ve picked up the sense that Timothée Chalamet was not going to get his Oscar this year.

He was fabulous in Marty Supreme. But then he was fabulous in A Complete Unknown as well, and he didn’t win best actor last year either. Or in 2018 for Call Me By Your Name.

What people are saying is that Academy voters have a history of making young male actors wait for their big moment.

They point to the fact that Dustin Hoffman only won on his 4th nomination (for Kramer vs Kramer in 1979). He was first nominated in 1968 for The Graduate.

Al Pacino was first nominated in 1972 for The Godfather but won his Oscar on his 8th nomination for Scent of a Woman in 1993.

And Leonardo Dicaprio was nominated as a child in 1994 for What’s Eating Gilbert Grape and only won in 2016 on his 5th nomination for The Revenant.

Academy voters still skew male and white. Perhaps they don’t want hotshot young male actors to get too far too fast...

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It was not a clean sweep for any of the nominees, with One Battle After Another and Sinners taking out 10 categories between them.

One Battle After Another – 6

Sinners – 4

Frankenstein – 3

KPop Demon Hunters – 2

Hamnet, F1, Avatar: Fire and Ash, Weapons, The Girl Who Cried Pearls, The Singers, Two People Exchanging Saliva, All Empty Rooms, Sentimental Value and Mr Nobody Against Putin – 1

The 98th Academy Awards has now ended.

But don't leave us just yet, we're going to continue bringing you coverage of Hollywood's biggest night, including the exclusive Vanity Fair after party.

Stick with us!

Helen Bushby
Culture reporter

Jessie Buckley won for her role in Hamnet, playing Agnes, the wife of William Shakespeare, and she laughed and cried as she collected her award.

Thanking the "incredible women I stand beside" - her fellow nominees - she said: "I am inspired by your heart and I want to work with every single one of you."

She went on to thank her parents for "teaching us to dream and to carve from your own passion," before thanking her husband Freddie Sorensen, saying he is her best friend, an "incredible Dad" and "I want to have 20,000 more babies with you".

She added that their eight-month-old daughter Isla was probably unaware, asleep and "dreaming of milk".

Buckley thanked director Chloé Zhao and writer Maggie O'Farrell, thanking them for "letting me know this incandescent woman and journey to understand the capacity of a mother's love".

"It's Mother's Day in the UK today, so I would like to dedicate this to the beautiful chaos of a mother's heart."

"We all come from a lineage of women who continue to create against all odds - thank you for recognising me in this role," she added.

Emma Saunders
Culture reporter

There's a lot of dancing around the stage, two of the film's stars, Teyana Taylor and Chase Infiniti, are jumping up and down!

He says: "In 1975 the Oscar nominees were Barry Lyndon, Dog Day Afternoon, Jaws, Nashville and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest... there is no best among them, there's just a mood that day.

"We're just happy to be part of this. So many great films this year."

He adds: "When I won best director, I forgot to thank my cast! What a night, let's have a martini. Cheers!"

Well, if you insist...