Overview
- Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another won Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay.
- Michael B. Jordan won Best Actor for Sinners, Ryan Coogler earned Best Original Screenplay, and Autumn Durald Arkapaw became the first woman and first person of color to win Best Cinematography.
- Jessie Buckley won Best Actress for Hamnet, marking the first time an Irish woman has taken the award.
- The Academy awarded its inaugural Best Casting prize to Cassandra Kulukundis for One Battle After Another.
- A rare tie split Best Live Action Short between The Singers and Two People Exchanging Saliva, with Conan O’Brien hosting a show noted for moving tributes and several cut-off acceptance speeches.