Some films win Oscars, as if that’s what people are talking about

by Simon Brew |
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Coda takes home the Best Picture Oscar, but it feels after this year’s Academy Awards, that ain’t the headline: here’s the full list of winners anyway. The underdog of movie awards season pulled off quite the result, as Coda took the Best Picture Oscar at the end of an evening where, well, you know. It ended with the Academy issuing the following statement on its Twitter feed… Let’s do the films. Aside from Coda, which also won gold for best supporting actor Troy Kotsur and for Sian Heder’s screenplay, Sir Kenneth Branagh finally won an Academy Award after many, many nominations, his screenplay for Belfast landing him the prize. The best actress gong went to Jessica Chastain, Will Smith won best actor (coming back to him), whilst the mighty Jane Campion took home the only prize of the night for hot favourite The Power Of The Dog. She won for best director, the third woman to ever win that award, and the second on the trot after Chloe Zhao last year. But the talking point wasn’t the list of winners – which you can find at the bottom – it was the moment when Will Smith strode onto the stage, punched Chris Rock, and then picked up an Oscar 20 minutes later to warm applause. I’m writing this as coldly as I can, as I’ve only had one cup of coffee and still trying to work out just what happened. The first thing I saw when I woke up to write all this up was a report saying the Los Angeles police wasn’t pressing charges, a bit of a WTF moment. With fruity language, this is what happened, a moment that was censored on American television (which also didn’t show all of the awards being given out over the weekend as they happened either, but y’know)… And that’s going to be what this year’s Oscars are remembered for. Dune, in the midst of all of this, was the biggest winner of the night, with six gongs to its name. And here’s the full list of winners… Best picture Coda Best actress Jessica Chastain – The Eyes of Tammy Faye Best actor Will Smith – King Richard Best supporting actress Ariana DeBose – West Side Story Best supporting actor Troy Kotsur – Coda Best director Jane Campion – The Power of the Dog Best original screenplay Belfast – Kenneth Branagh Best adapted screenplay Coda – Sian Heder Best animated feature Encanto Best documentary feature Summer of Soul Best international feature Drive My Car (Japan) Best original song No Time to Die – No Time to Die (Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell) Best original score Dune – Hans Zimmer Best cinematography Dune – Greig Fraser Best visual effects Dune – Paul Lambert, Tristan Myles, Brian Connor, Gerd Nefzer Best film editing Dune – Joe Walker Best costume design Cruella – Jenny Beavan Best sound Dune – Mac Ruth, Mark Mangini, Theo Green, Doug Hemphill and Ron Bartlett Best production design Dune – Patrice Vermette and Zsuzsanna Sipos Best make-up and hairstyling The Eyes of Tammy Faye – Linda Dowds, Stephanie Ingram and Justin Raleigh Best live action short The Long Goodbye Best animated short The Windshield Wiper Best documentary short The Queen of Basketball — Thank you for visiting! If you’d like to support our attempts to make a non-clickbaity movie website: Follow Film Stories on Twitter here, and on Facebook here. Buy our Film Stories and Film Stories Junior print magazines here. Become a Patron here.
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