• ‘Anora’ was crowned the Best Picture at the 97th Academy Awards on March 3.
• Directed by Sean Baker, ‘Anora’ is the tale of an erotic dancer who elopes with the son of a Russian oligarch and was made for just $6 million.
• Sean Baker, the filmmaker of ‘Anora’, won Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best Editing awards.
• Adrien Brody claimed his second Best Actor Oscar for his role as a Jewish immigrant and architect who chases the American dream in ‘The Brutalist’. The 51-year-old New York City native had previously won for ‘The Pianist’, when he became the youngest best actor winner at age 29.
• Mikey Madison won Best Actress for her breakthrough performance in ‘Anora’.
• Zoe Saldana was named Best Supporting Actress for her role as the fixer for a Mexican drug lord in ‘Emilia Perez’, a Spanish-language musical.
• Kieran Culkin received the Best Supporting Actor award for playing one of two cousins who travel to Poland to study their family's roots in ‘A Real Pain’.
• ‘Flow’, the wordless Latvian film, won the award for Best Animated Film. The win for ‘Flow’, an ecological parable about a cat in a flooded world, was the first Oscar ever for a Latvian film.
The complete list of winners:
• Best Picture: Anora
• Best Actor: Adrien Brody (The Brutalist)
• Best Actress: Mikey Madison (Anora)
• Best Director: Sean Baker (Anora)
• Best Supporting Actress: Zoe Saldana (Emilia Prez)
• Best Supporting Actor: Kieran Culkin (A Real Pain)
• Best International Film: I'm Still Here (Brazil)
• Best Documentary Feature: No Other Land
• Best Original Screenplay: Anora (Sean Baker)
• Best Adapted Screenplay: Conclave (Peter Straughan)
• Best Original Score: Daniel Blumberg (The Brutalist)
• Best Original Song: El Mal from Emilia Prez
• Best Animated Film: Flow
• Visual Effects: Dune: Part Two
• Best Costume Design: Paul Tazewell (Wicked)
• Best Cinematography: Lol Crawley (The Brutalist)
• Best Documentary Short Film: The Only Girl in the Orchestra
• Best Sound: Dune: Part Two (Gareth John, Richard King, Ron Bartlett and Doug Hemphill)
• Best Production Design: Wicked
• Best Makeup and Hairstyling: The Substance (Pierre-Olivier Persin, Stephanie Guillon and Marilyne Scarselli)
• Best Film Editing: Sean Baker (Anora)
• Best Live Action Short Film: I’m Not a Robot
• Best Animated Short Film: In the Shadow of the Cypress.
Manorama Yearbook app is now available on Google Play Store and iOS App Store