The 94th annual Academy Awards ceremony proved to be surprising in many ways. The most talked about moment from this year’s Oscars on social media at the moment is Chris Rock’s distasteful joke about Will Smith’s wife, which resulted in Smith getting up from his seat and punching Rock in the face.
But some of the ceremony’s biggest surprises had to do with the awards themselves. CODA won Best Picture, the first film distributed on a streaming service (Apple TV+) to win this award. CODA’s Troy Kotsur won Best Supporting Actor, becoming the first ever deaf man to win an acting Oscar. CODA is also the first film featuring predominantly deaf actors to win Best Picture. Meanwhile, Dune got the most awards, winning six, including Best Visual Effects, Best Film Editing and Best Sound.
Here are all the winners of this year’s annual Academy Awards:
Best Picture
Winner: CODA
Other nominees: Don’t Look Up, Dune, Belfast, West Side Story, Licorice Pizza, King Richard, Nightmare Alley, Drive My Car
Best Actress
Winner: Jessica Chastain, The Eyes of Tammy Faye
Other Nominees: Olivia Colman, The Lost Daughter; Nicole Kidman, Being the Ricardos; Penélope Cruz, Parallel Mothers; Kristen Stewart, Spencer
Best Actor
Winner: Will Smith – King Richard
Other nominees: Benedict Cumberbatch, The Power of the Dog; Andrew Garfield, Tick, Tick ... Boom!; Denzel Washington, The Tragedy of Macbeth; Javier Bardem, Being the Ricardos
Best Director
Winner: Jane Campion, The Power of the Dog
Other Nominees: Paul Thomas Anderson, Licorice Pizza; Steven Spielberg, West Side Story; Kenneth Branagh, Belfast; Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Drive My Car
Best Original Song
Winner: Billie Eilish and Finneas, ”No Time to Die,” in No Time to Die”
Other Nominees: ”Dos Oruguitas,” Encanto; ”Be Alive,” King Richard; ”Down to Joy,” Belfast; ”Somehow You Do,” Four Good Days
Best Documentary Feature
Winner: Summer of Soul
Other Nominees: Flee, Ascension, Attica, Writing with Fire
Best Adapted Screenplay
Winner: CODA
Other Nominees: The Power of the Dog, The Lost Daughter, Dune, Drive My Car
Best Original Screenplay
Winner: Belfast
Other Nominees: Licorice Pizza, Don’t Look Up, King Richard, The Worst Person in the World
Best Costume Design
Winner: Cruella
Other Nominees: Dune, Nightmare Alley, Cyrano, West Side Story
Best International Feature Film
Winner: Drive My Car
Other Nominees: The Worst Person in the World, Flee, The Hand of God, Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom
Best Supporting Actor
Winner: Troy Kotsur, CODA
Other Nominees: Kodi Smit-Mcphee, The Power of the Dog; Ciarán Hinds, Belfast; J.K. Simmons, Being the Ricardos; Jesse Plemons, The Power of the Dog
Best Animated Feature
Winner: Encanto
Other Nominees: Luca, The Mitchells vs. The Machines, Flee, Raya and the Last Dragon
Best Visual Effects
Winner: Dune
Other Nominees: Spider Man: No Way Home, Free Guy, No Time To Die, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
Best Sound
Winner: Dune
Other Nominees: The Power of the Dog, The Tragedy of Macbeth, Nightmare Alley, West Side Story
Best Supporting Actress
Winner: Ariana DeBose, West Side Story
Other Nominees: Kirsten Dunst, The Power of the Dog; Aunjanue Ellis, King Richard; Jessie Buckley, The Lost Daughter; Judi Dench, Belfast
Best Production Design
Winner: Dune
Other Nominees: Dune, Nightmare Alley, The Power of the Dog, The Tragedy of Macbeth, West Side Story
Best Film Editing
Winner: Dune
Other Nominees: The Power of the Dog, Don’t Look Up, Tick, Tick ... Boom!, King Richard
Best Original Score
Winner: Dune
Other Nominees: The Power of the Dog, Parallel Mothers, Don’t Look Up, Encanto
Best Live Action Short Film
Winner: The Long Goodbye
Other Nominees: The Dress, On My Mind, Please Hold, Ala Kachuu – Take and Run
Best Animated Short Film
Winner: The Windshield Wiper
Other Nominees: Robin Robin, Boxballet, Affairs of the Art, Bestia
Best Documentary Short
Winner: The Queen of Basketball
Other Nominees: Audible, Lead me Home, Three Songs for Benazir, When We Were Bullies
Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Winner: The Eyes of Tammy Faye
Other Nominees: Coming 2 America, Cruella, Dune, House of Gucci
Best Sound
Winner: Dune
Other Nominees: Belfast, No Time to Die, The Power of the Dog, West Side Story
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