Sunday
Mar022025
And the winner is... ANORA
Sunday, March 2, 2025 at 11:20PM 
We'll talk about this year's Oscar ceremony over the next couple of days but tonight, sleep! You can see the complete list of winners on the Oscar Chart Index. Sean Baker's sex worker comedy Anora was the atypical Oscar favourite, winning five Oscars (four of them for Sean Baker himself who wrote, directed, edited, and produced) and losing only only one of its categories: Best Supporting Actor.
The only shock amongst the acting awards was Anora herself, Mikey Madison, who took Best Actress over the long-time frontrunner Demi Moore (The Substance) and the rising Fernanda Torres (I'm Still Here).
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Reader Comments (11)
It became apparent the Academy loved Anora when it took screenplay and especially editing. I was leaning towards Mikey winning even before the ceremony, but that sealed it for me. When Brody won, it was a lock (when both actor and actress split between BAFTA and SAG, Oscars choose both from one or the other).
I’m so beyond disappointed for Demi. It’s truly baffling to me for Anora to win this many awards, but even with something as egregious as Best Editing, the only one that truly upsets me is Best Actress. That makes absolutely no sense to my mind.
I literally watched the entire ceremony just to see Demi win and give an eloquent, gracious speech, a beautiful celebration of her career and a moment she never thought she’d get, honoring a film that speaks to the struggle of actresses aging in Hollywood… I was also excited for her to win for such an out-there movie and something that typically does not get recognized. I really had faith because not only was the film recognized in top categories, in my eyes, that’s the moment people wanted to see. You could visualize Demi up there on stage.
Instead, they gave it to a prostitute role for the second year in a row, an alright performance from a newcomer who will inevitably give way more interesting performances in the future, and I had to listen to her boring ass anti-climactic speech while being so bummed. She’s sweet and I don’t want to hate on her for being chosen but I really cannot understand why or how. A nomination makes sense—welcome to the club. But winning?? For THAT? Like, no one even knows who this actress is. They went bonkers for Anora and it’s insane.
Zola is a way better movie and no one made a peep for that.
I hate that I’m really upset but I am. They’ve got Demi so fucked up. This is way worse than Glenn Close losing to Olivia Colman imo. Olivia deserved it, for starters. And she’d paid her dues already. And Glenn was the sole nominee in a stuffy drama. Demi was in one of the boldest films of the year that was nominated for Best Picture and Director and Screenplay and won Makeup.
I hate that now all the people who said the movie was too weird or they wouldn’t give her a win for horror can say they were right. The Academy sucks.
I would've loved for Demi to win but I have no problem with Mikey winning. I am fucking ELATED for Anora. Honestly, Sean Baker. His cast and crew. They earned this.
I felt bad for Demi but if I’m being honest, I thought she gave the worst performance of the best actress nominees. The makeup/hair and costuming did a lot of the work for her. But I’m hoping this does revive her career and she gets some good roles going forward. I think it would have been weird five or ten years from now to look back on this ceremony if Mikey didn’t win. It was just an instantly iconic performance that was the centerpiece of the year’s awards darling. And every director will be lining up to work with her after it. One of those “star is born” performances, which is interesting because Mikey herself seems quite reserved and not in love with the spotlight.
As usual, despite the race being super fun and exciting, the actual Oscars were underwhelming.
Is Anora a bad winner? No. Is it a great winner? No.
It's certainly not a 5 Oscars worthy kind of winner.
Feel really sad for Demi.
Happy Brutalist got 3 good ones at least.
8 out of the 10 best picture nominees went home with at least one award. Only A Complete Unknown (yay!) and Nickel Boys (Boo!) went home empty-handed.
I would have voted for any of the other three nominees over both Demi and Mikey, but I bought into Demi's narrative and was looking forward to her acceptance speech. At least this way no one will be hating on Karla, Fernanda or Cynthia for stealing Demi's Oscar.
I really liked Anora but I think they made a mistake.
Today is the day when people will (finally) watch it and say: This won best picture?!!
Well that wasn't worth staying up till 4 am here in the UK.
The host who i'm unfamiliar with was fine,sporadically amusing but not movie centric enough if that makes sense,he was no Billy or Whoopi both still the benchmark.
A severe lack of stars,one of two older ones Goldie,Daryl and Sam Jackson.
The b/f inbetween periodically nodding off said Culkin was annoying and self indulgent,he sort of did play a version of his persona,any of the other 4 would have been better
If you were chanel surfing and saw Amy Poeler you'd be forgiven for thinking it was a Globes repeat,funny as she can be.
June Squibb provided the biggest laugh of the evening,let her co host.
Great gowns beautiful gowns,no real faux pas.
The Bond karaoke musical number was pointless and weak vocalists trying to out Bassey Dame Shirley was not the way to go,why not fly Adele over to do a turn.
Nice to see Whoopi,Queen and Oprah but what was that the way to honour Quincy Jones
In Memoriam was better this year because the legend Freeman gave a touching speech about another legend who really deserved it but again so do greats like Rowlands and Dame Maggie.
Demi Demi Demi will she ever return,I watched Anora again before the show and warmed to Mikey more but that constant screaming scene and the endless swearing still grated on me.
Mikey's win was equivalent to 98's Paltrow win,Best Picture backed,I turned the TV off as soon as Demi lost cos I knew what was winning Best Pic.
Demi looked disappointed but I always thought she'd struggle to win and too a younger actress is a stinger,what The Substance was all about right there in that Mikey win.
Firefighters bit les tacky than I imagined.
Anora won 5 when it deserved about 2.
Poor Fiennes is he ever going to get his due.
Baftas not SAG showed us the way in acting but not in the other Top 2 categories.
Why no clips for the supporting winners,that gushing over each nominee is cringey.
Timothee is I feel a threat next year with Gwynnie back as his Mum in Marty Supreme.
Wonderful to see Meg Ryan,someone give her a Demi style comeback
The costume design presentation was flawless,keep this as the way to do it from now on.
Pleased we weren't given too many political speeches.
@PhilipH
I feel your pain too but in regards to Demi,
The Academy can be a bit snobby and Demi as great as she was in the 90's and made money in box office terms overseas and at home not a feat any of todays crop of actresses could do on their name alone
She was never seen as a serious actress hence the popcorn quote,I do think if her film hadn't been a horror gorefest she could have won but they did just love Anora more,I cant see why they gave it the top prizes,it's an ok hooker with a gold heart fantasy with bad language and sex scenes.
It's really dirty Pretty Woman which id watch in a heartbeat over this overpraised movie.
I have to say Mikey seems like a sweetheart and must have shook lots of hands and been so far removed from the Anora character that voters were swayed.
We will see now if she is a flash in the pan and it'll be Mikey who or if she's a Jennifer Lawrence or Emma Stone able to choose great projects and be a repeat nominee.
Where does this loss leave Demi,well rumour has it she's going to be the villain in a new Disney film but if she does get a great role again tough I know she would win easily.
In case I forget or I don't even care in two days:
Kieran and the 'lets make another kid' bit.
Adrien literally throwing his gum to the wife.
YIKES
I'm devastated for Demi as well.
I'm a little baffled by those who claim that Mikey Madison gave an Oscar-worthy performance. There wasn't much to it at all, and it's easy to imagine an actress who could've made more out of that role (10 years ago, Jennifer Lawrence or Emma Stone would have killed it - and even when I was watching it, I kept wondering what a Keke Palmer or Sydney Sweeney would do with it).
But then again, perhaps as an '80s kid who grew up with the likes of Meryl and Glenn, I just can't take anyone named Mikey seriously.