Helen Bushby
Culture reporter

Paul Thomas Anderson’s film has won six Oscars tonight including the night’s biggest prize, having looked like the frontrunner in this category for a while.

The dark comedy action thriller stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Benicio del Toro, Regina Hall, Teyana Taylor and Chase Infiniti.

It had the second-largest haul of nominations this year with 13, while Sinners got a record-breaking 16.

DiCaprio plays a revolutionary battling an authoritarian US regime, whose past comes back to haunt him when his daughter goes missing, in this twisty, cinematically-beautiful film.

Anderson has hit the jackpot after 14 Oscar nominations, and this year marked his fourth best picture nod. Time to get the champagne out!

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Category: Best picture

• Bugonia
• Frankenstein
• F1
• Hamnet
• Marty Supreme
• ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER
• The Secret Agent
• Sentimental Value
• Sinners
• Train Dreams

Helen Bushby
Culture reporter

She’s done it! Jessie Buckley is the first Irish actress to win this category, having been a strong frontrunner for quite some time.

She gives a powerful, heart-wrenching portrayal of William Shakespeare’s wife Agnes in the film, based on the novel by Maggie O’Farrell. It explores the family’s grief when one of their three children, Hamnet, dies aged 11, and how this could be the tragic origins for one of the writer’s greatest plays - Hamlet.

Buckley got her big break in 2008 after she came second in BBC One talent show I’d Do Anything, in the search to find an actress to play Nancy in a West End adaptation of Oliver Twist.

I remember interviewing her just before the show’s final, when she was just 17 - even back then, her drive and talent burned bright, and she was obviously destined for bigger things.

”I want this so much I literally would do anything to win,” she told me. “When something feels so right you just have to go in fighting for it.”

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Category: Best actress

• Emma Stone, Bugonia
• Rose Byrne, If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
• Renate Reinsve, Sentimental Value
• Kate Hudson, Song Sung Blue
• JESSIE BUCKLEY, HAMNET

Emma Saunders
Culture reporter

"My dad came in from Ghana to be here... my family are here," Jordan says, clearly feeling a little overwhelmed after winning best actor.

He runs through a list of everyone he wants to thank (we don't think he can have missed anyone out!)

"I stand here because of the people who came before me," he says, listing off names including Sidney Poitier, Halle Berry and Will Smith among others.

"Thank you for keeping betting on me and I'll keep stepping up. Everyone at home who went to see the movie... you guys made this movie what it is."

Emma Saunders
Culture reporter

He’s only gone and done it!

The coveted best actor race was one of the strongest and tightest in recent memory. This win makes him the second person in Oscars history to have won for playing twins (Lee Marvin was the first for his role in 1965 comedy western Cat Ballou).

Jordan portrays twin brothers Smoke and Stack in Ryan Coogler’s Sinners, his third collaboration with the director.

The pair return home to Mississippi having worked for Al Capone in Chicago, and have big plans to open a juke joint in their home town but soon find themselves battling against an evil force.

Jordan imbues each brother with individual personalities that play off each other, also subtly changing his movements and voice to make the distinction.

The Black Panther star has been getting a lot of love on the awards circuit, most notably at the recent Actor Awards where he won the same prize but tonight was never a given. Which makes this seismic win all the more satisfying.

The other contenders in this category were:

• Timothée Chalamet - Marty Supreme
• Leonardo DiCaprio - One Battle After Another
• Ethan Hawke - Blue Moon
• Michael B Jordan - Sinners
• Wagner Moura - The Secret Agent

Helen Bushby
Culture reporter

A clearly emotional Paul Thomas Anderson has collected his Oscar for One Battle After Another, referencing his 14 nominations before finally getting on the winners' podium.

"You make a guy work hard for one of these, I really appreciate it," he says.

He says it was an honour to be nominated among his classmates - the other nominees in his category.

The director jokingly adds: "There will always be some doubt in your heart that you deserve it, but there is no question at the pleasure of having it for myself!"

He says he is there because "of people's faith and time for me".

Helen Bushby
Culture reporter

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We are into the biggest awards of the evening now, with best picture coming up shortly.

It's always interesting to have a look at how this year's nominees for the coveted best picture Oscar have fared with the cinema-going public.

Here's the lowdown from Box Office Mojo, looking at worldwide takings:

1. F1 - $633,442,436
2. Sinners - $369,289,632
3. Marty Supreme - $274,459,312
4. One Battle After Another - $209,377,100
5. Hamnet - $96,287,445
6. Bugonia - $42,963,300
7. Sentimental Value - $22,016,769
8. The Secret Agent - $17,665,774
9. Frankenstein - $144,496
10. Train Dreams - figures not available

It's worth noting that Frankenstein had a limited theatrical release, external before streaming on Netflix, as did Train Dreams, external.

As for the most popular films last year, the worldwide box office includes two Oscar-nominated movies - Zootopia 2 and Avatar: Fire and Ash:

1. Ne Zha 2 -$2,260,034,046
2. Zootopia 2 - $1,864,169,753
3. Avatar: Fire and Ash -$1,483,666,248

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Category: Best actor

• Leonardo DiCaprio, One Battle After Another
• Wagner Moura, The Secret Agent
• Timothée Chalamet, Marty Supreme
• Ethan Hawke, Blue Moon
• MICHAEL B JORDAN, SINNERS

Paul Thomas Anderson has been working in film since the 90s - and 14 Oscar nominations later he has finally won for directing, having won best adapted screenplay earlier tonight.

His previous nominations have been for writing and directing for an eclectic collection of films - Boogie Nights, Magnolia, There Will Be Blood, Inherent Vice, Phantom Thread and Licorice Pizza.

One Battle After Another makes him a worthy winner tonight - it’s full of suspense and dark humour, showcasing his abilities as a director, along with some amazing cinematography, not least in the incredible car chase towards the end of the film.

This is a very well deserved win for the revered film maker, who has long been regarded as overdue for an Oscar win.

The audience at the Oscars was quite literally lit up during the performance of Golden from KPop Demon Hunters.

It's because everyone was holding a lightbulb. The lightbulb on a stick is a signature of Kpop concerts across the world.

The track has just gone on to win best original song.

Take a look:

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Category: Best director

• Joachim Trier, Sentimental Value
• Josh Safdie, Marty Supreme
• Ryan Coogler, Sinners
• Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another
• Chloé Zhao, Hamnet

Emma Saunders
Culture reporter

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Train Dreams is the tenth and final nominee for best picture.

The film is set in the Pacific North West in the early 20th Century, at a time of huge change industrially and socially.

An American railroad worker and logger lives an itinerant existence before marrying and having a daughter but returns home from a work trip only to be confronted by tragedy.

Based on the novella of the same name by Denis Johnson, Train Dreams a quiet and contemplative journey through one unassuming man’s life, starring Joel Edgerton as leading man Robert Grainger.

Directed by Clint Bentley, it also stars Felicity Jones and Kerry Condon. Condon, best known for The Banshees of Inisherin, also stars in another of this year's best picture nominee, F1.

Many critics have highlighted the influence of enigmatic US filmmaker Terrence Malick on Train Dreams, with its huge painterly American landscapes, narrative voiceover and poetic style.

Helen Bushby
Culture reporter

This is Norway's first Oscar win after seven nominations. Its director Joachim Trier says his film, Sentimental Value, is about "a very dysfunctional family".

"I make films to feel at home," he says, adding this is exactly how he felt with the crew, and how proud he was of the cast as well.

He goes on to quote American writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin, saying he "makes us remember all adults are responsible for all children - let's not vote for politicians who don't take this seriously into account".

In a political moment in a ceremony which was relatively light on political comments, Javier Bardem presented the award and shouted: "No to war" and "Free Palestine."

Aside from the odd joke from Conan O'Brien, the focus has mostly been on the films tonight.

Category: original song

• Dear Me from Diane Warren: Relentless
• Golden from Kpop Demon Hunters
• Sweet Dreams Of Joy from Viva Verdi!
• I Lied To You from Sinners
• Train Dreams from Train Dreams

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Culture reporter

Sentimental Value, the Norwegian family drama directed by Joachim Trier has triumphed against some other strong contenders including Brazil’s The Secret Agent.

It had nine nominations and won the equivalent category at last month’s Baftas, which has been a good indicator of late - five of the past six Bafta winners have gone on to win the Academy Award for best international feature.

This quiet and intelligent film stars Stellan Skarsgård as a veteran egotistical film director (Gustav), the father of two grown-up daughters, played by Renate Reinsve (Nora) and Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas (Agnes).

He struggles to connect with them due to latent family trauma which plays out as he tries to make his comeback movie.

Category: International film

• The Secret Agent, Brazil
• Sentimental Value, Norway
• It Was Just an Accident, France
• The Voice of Hind Rajab, Tunisia
• Sirât, Spain

Emma Saunders
Culture reporter

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We have just heard Golden from Netflix's animation K-Pop Demon Hunters.

In a break from tradition, only two of the nominees in the best original song category have been performed live on stage at this year's Oscars: hot favourite Golden, and I Lied to You from Sinners.

Diane Warren, who is up for a record 17th nod in this category without a win has been critical of the decision, telling Deadline: “It is unfair to me and my fellow nominees because you just excluded three songs and chose two.

"It is my fellow artists who deserve the respect which comes from a nomination… Put all the songs on. It is all of us or none of us, and that is what it should be."

The Academy has cited time constraints for the decision, saying that each nominated song will be introduced in a segment with footage of the film it was made for, and will feature behind-the-scenes footage of the song-writing process.

Emma Saunders
Culture reporter

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Sinners' Autumn Durald Arkapaw is the first woman to win this category. It wasn't until 2018 that a woman was even nominated.

There is so much excitement here, the crowd is buzzing.

"I really want all the women in the room to stand up because I feel like I don't get here without you guys," she says.

So of course, they all do.

"I have felt so much love from all the women on this campaign."

Helen Bushby
Culture reporter

One Battle after Another's Andy Jurgensen won his first Oscar, after his first nomination, for film editing.

He thanks his crew, who "worked their butts off behind the scenes", along with his family and his aunt, who "loved showing me old movies and taught me about film history".