Going into Oscar night, throughout the whole of this award season, the race has been extremely close between Ryan Coogler’s Sinners and Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another. Both films are extremely highly regarded by fans and critics alike. It always felt very unlikely that there would be any huge surprises there, but the acting categories were extremely close and could’ve gone in any direction (apart from Best Actress).

One Award After Another

Momentum might’ve looked like it was swinging in Sinners favour, but Paul Thomas Anderson finally managed to break his curse and end the night with 3 Oscars in total including the big award, Best Picture (as well as Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Director). The film also picked up the first ever Oscar for Best Casting (which was the point of the night where it felt like momentum had swung in OBAA’s favour) and Best Editing. Sean Penn also picked up the Best Supporting Actor award, his 3rd Oscar, but wasn’t in attendance.

Sinners, more like Winners, am I right?

Sinners might not have ended the night with the big award, but it still took home multiple awards. One of the biggest names through this whole season has been director Ryan Coogler, who picked up his first Oscar for the screenplay for Sinners. Coogler is still very young in the industry, and now has the respect of the industry (if he didn’t already), and will have them all fighting over for his next release, and it will only be a matter of time before he picks up multiple more Oscars.

The race for Best Leading Actor has been another close contest, Timothee Chalamet was the favourite to win most of the award season, but throughout the season, both Wagner Moura and Michael B Jordan picked up awards. After Jordan won at the Actor Awards a couple of weeks ago and the huge reaction to his win, it was clear he had picked up enough steam along the way, (and Timothee’s Campaign had started to fall apart) and it was going to be his time.

Sinners also picked up wins in Best Score (Ludwig Goransson’s 3rd Win) and won Best Cinematography, meaning Autumn Durald Arkapaw became the first woman to win that award.

Buckley Reigns

The biggest guarentee of the night was that Jessie Buckley was going to go home with her first Oscar win as Best Leading Actress in Hamnet. Buckley delivered a fantastic performance, which has seen her pick up every award all season long.

Weapon of Choice

It’s rare that horror is recognised by The Academy, and something special has stand clear in the genre to have any hope of getting attention. Amy Madigan’s performance in Weapons, received critical praise at the time, and once she was nominated it felt like she was one of the favourites. A first Oscar win for her, after her first and only other nomination 40 years ago.

Frankenshine

Another area that always felt like it was going to be easy to predict was that Frankenstein was going to walk home with all of the craft categories. Guilermo del Toro’s films are always strong in this area, thanks to his attention to detail that he requires to build up his gothic worlds. Frankenstein picked up 3 Oscars for Best Production Design, Best Costume Design and Best Makeup and Hairstyling.

The Winners List

Best Picture – One Battle After Another

Best Director – Paul Thomas Anderson (One Battle After Another)

Best Actress – Jessie Buckley (Hamnet)

Best Actor – Michael B Jordan (Sinners)

Best Supporting Actress – Amy Madigan (Weapons)

Best Supporting Actor – Sean Penn (One Battle After Another)

Best Original Screenplay – Ryan Coogler (Sinners)

Best Adapted Screenplay – Paul Thomas Anderson (One Battle After Another)

Best Casting – One Battle After Another

Best International Feature – Sentimental Value

Best Documentary Feature – Mr Nobody vs Putin

Best Animated Feature – KPop Demon Hunters

Best Cinematography – Sinners

Best Editing – One Battle After Another

Best Production Design – Frankenstein

Best Costume Design – Frankenstein

Best Makeup and Hairstyling – Frankenstein

Best Visual Effects – Avatar: Fire and Ash

Best Sound – F1

Best Score – Sinners

Best Original Song – Golden from KPop Demon Hunters

Best Documentary Short – All The Empty Rooms

Best Animated Short – The Girl Who Cries Pearls

Best Live Action Short – The Singers and Two People Exchanging Saliva

And that’s it for this years award season, we can now start looking forward to next year. Films from Steven Spielberg, Christopher Nolan, Denis Villeneuve, Greta Gerwig, Robert Eggers and Ridley Scott could all big contenders if they live up to the hype, as well as any surprise hits along the way.

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