Anora Wins Best Picture, Actress, Director, Screenplay, And Editing At Dreadfully Dull Oscars

Posted March 2, 2025 by with 10 comments

The good news: Anora, the best movie of 2024, swept the Oscars with five wins out of six nominations. Too bad Best Supporting nom Yura Borisov didn’t pull off an upset and make it a clean sweep.

The bad news: It was the worst Oscar telecast in recent memory, maybe even more boring and lifeless than the 2021 COVID ceremony, which felt like a funeral. No memorable presenters with hilarious banter (although, June Squibb was cute, and it was great to see Daryl Hannah), no shocking political speeches, a noticeable lack of real A-list movie stars, an unmemorable Conan O’Brien (he had a handful of zingers in his monologue, but that was it), no funny bits or montages, and nearly 30 minutes of wasted time with stupid musical numbers. Did we really need to see someone (I guess that was the skeletal Ariana Grande, who always looks like she’s about to collapse) singing “Somewhere Over The Rainbow” for the 899838974th time at the Oscars? And what in god’s name was the James Bond dance number with Margaret Qualley? Snow White and Rob Lowe are rolling over in their graves.

The worst acceptance speech of the night, and truly the worst Best Actor speech I’ve ever seen in my life, was of course from Adrien Brody:

Why did it feel like he was delivering a eulogy, for himself? That was so pointless and dull, it almost makes The Brutalist feel exciting. It would be one thing if he had something important to say and was building up to a Big Moment, but instead it was a bunch of cliches and empty platitudes. “Let’s fight for what’s right!” Uhhh, OK!

I was disappointed that Demi Moore didn’t win, but at the same time, I was happy to see a very deserving Mikey Madison win. She thanked the sex worker community in her speech:

And the Best Picture win for Anora:

Full list of winners:

Best Picture

  • Anora

Best Actor

  • Adrien Brody – The Brutalist

Best Actress

  • Mikey Madison – Anora

Best Supporting Actress

  • Zoe Saldaña – Emilia Pérez

Best Supporting Actor

  • Kieran Culkin – A Real Pain

Best Director

  • Sean Baker – Anora

Best Adapted Screenplay

  • Conclave – Peter Straughan

Best Original Screenplay

  • Anora – Sean Baker

Best Film Editing

  • Anora

Best Cinematography

  • The Brutalist

Best Original Song

  • El Mal – Emilia Pérez

Best Original Score

  • The Brutalist

Best International Feature

  • I’m Still Here – Brazil

Best Animated Feature

  • Flow

Best Documentary Feature

  • No Other Land

Best Costume Design

  • Wicked

Best Make-up and Hairstyling

  • The Substance

Best Production Design

  • Wicked

Best Sound

  • Dune: Part Two

Best Visual Effects

  • Dune: Part Two

Best Live Action Short

  • I’m Not a Robot

Best Animated Short

  • In the Shadow of the Cypress

Best Documentary Short

  • The Only Girl in the Orchestra

And while they could’ve given us a nice montage of David Lynch films (instead of that two-second blip in the In Memoriam package), they chose to give us this:

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