Oscars 2025 live updates: Mikey Madison beats Demi Moore for Best Actress as Anora sweeps with five awards

From Ariana Grande to Timothée Chalamet, here are the best dressed stars on the 2025 Oscars red carpet:

Featuring digs at controversial ‘Emilia Perez’ star Karla Sofia Gascon and a ‘Dune’ sandworm playing the piano, the comedian’s opening run of zingers made up for years of plodding mediocrity from Jimmy Kimmel, writes Adam White.

The Oscars’ memoriam segment spawned an internet frenzy as many at-home watchers were left furious over the music choice and Michelle Trachtenberg’s apparent omission.

During the ceremony, the late actors, producers and publicists who died in the past year were honored in a poignant slideshow set to Mozart’s “Requiem.” Many viewers online were quick to criticize the somber music, arguing the sound was more daunting than needed.

“Why are they playing such scary music during the in memoriam?” one person on X wrote.

Reporting from the backstage press room at the Academy Awards, Kevin E G Perry got a close-up view of the dazzled winners.

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To recap, here is the winners list in full:

Well, well, well. A classic Oscars upset as 25-year-old Mikey Madison beats Demi Moore and Anora beats The Brutalist and Conclave.

It was a deserved win for Sean Baker’s “sad and sexy glitter bomb of a film,” writes The Independent’s Adam White.

“At the centre of it all is Mikey Madison. After small but memorable parts as an acid-soaked Charles Manson acolyte in Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood and an unassuming Ghostface in the Scream franchise, Anora arrived at an opportune moment for the actor, a star-making role if ever there was one. And as the hard-talking, fast-speaking Ani, Madison goes for broke.”

Stars are already starting to celebrate across town at Vanity Fair‘s exclusive after-party inside the Beverly Hills Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts.

While many A-listers played it safe, posing against the sunset-hued backdrop in glamorous couture garb, others turned up in questionable outfits. Olivia Wilde smiled for the cameras in a totally sheer gown with a plunging neckline that exposed her naked figure underneath.

See all the boldest looks here:

The winners of Best Documentary Feature Film used their acceptance speech to highlight the need for peace in the Middle East and called for the liberation of Palestine, as well as the safety of Israel.

Basel Adra, a Palestinian activist, and Yuval Abraham, an Israeli investigative journalist, won the Oscar for their film No Other Land, which shows the destruction of the occupied West Bank’s Masafer Yatta by Israeli soldiers and explores the alliance that develops between the two men.

Adra told crowds of A-listers, which included actress and former IDF soldier Gal Gadot, that he had recently become a father, and hoped his young daughter would not have to live in fear, as he had “under Israeli occupation.”

Adrien Brody showed his power over the Oscars producers as he demanded they stopped trying to play him off during his speech on stage. The actor became a two-time Oscar winner after taking home Best Actor for his role in The Brutalist.

“I pray for a healthier and a happier and a more inclusive world,” he said. “I believe if the past can teach us anything, it’s a reminder to not let hate go unchecked.”