Overview
- Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another won Best Picture and six Oscars overall, including Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor for Sean Penn, who did not attend.
- Michael B. Jordan earned Best Actor for Sinners, while writer-director Ryan Coogler won Best Original Screenplay as the film added multiple craft wins.
- Jessie Buckley took Best Actress for Hamnet, becoming the first Irish woman to win the category.
- Autumn Durald Arkapaw won Best Cinematography for Sinners, the first woman and first person of color to receive the honor, and Cassandra Kulukundis claimed the inaugural Best Casting Oscar for One Battle After Another.
- The show featured a Bridesmaids reunion and an In Memoriam with tributes from Billy Crystal, Rachel McAdams and Barbra Streisand, while Kumail Nanjiani announced a rare tie for Live Action Short between The Singers and Two People Exchanging Saliva.