Sean Baker gained 4 Oscars for Anora on the 2025 Academy Awards, which have been offered on Sunday (March 2) on the Dolby Theater at Ovation Hollywood. This tied Walt Disney’s 1954 file for many Oscars gained in a single evening.
Baker gained absolute best image, absolute best director, absolute best authentic screenplay and absolute best enhancing. On the Oscars in February 1954, Walt Disney gained 4 Oscars (inquisitive about other movies): absolute best documentary function (The Residing Wasteland), absolute best documentary quick matter (The Alaskan Eskimo), absolute best cool animated film quick matter (Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Increase) and absolute best two-reel quick matter (Endure Nation).
Anora gained 5 awards in all (Mikey Madison additionally gained absolute best actress), which made it the evening’s maximum awarded movie. The Brutalist used to be 2nd with 3 awards.
Adrien Brody, Kieran Culkin and Zoe Saldaña gained the opposite 3 appearing awards. However this being Billboard, let’s flip first to the winners within the track classes.
“El Mal” from Emilia Pérez gained absolute best authentic tune. It’s the second one time in 3 years that the award has long past to tune in a language rather then English. “El Mal” is sung in Spanish. “Naatu Naatu” from RRR, an Indian Telugu-language tune, gained on this class two years in the past.
4 different such songs have gained through the years – “Mona Lisa” from Captain, Carey, U.S.A. (which is carried out in Spanish via a troubadour within the 1950 movie, although it’s best recognized for Nat King Cole’s wreck quilt model in English); “By no means on Sunday” from the movie of the similar title (which is carried out in Greek within the 1960 movie); “Al Otro Lado Del Río” from The Bike Diaries (which is carried out in Spanish within the 2004 movie); and “Jai Ho” from Slumdog Millionaire 14 years in the past (which used to be carried out in Hindi).
“El Mal” used to be co-written via Clément Ducol and Camille, who’re a romantic couple, and Jacques Audiard, who directed the movie. Ducol and Camille are the 6th romantic couple to win on this class following Alan and Marilyn Bergman, Burt Bacharach and Carole Bayer Sager, Jack Nitzsche and Buffy Sainte-Marie, Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova, and Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez.
Audiard is simply the second one particular person in Oscar historical past, and the primary in just about 50 years, to win an Oscar for writing or co-writing a tune from a movie he directed. The primary used to be Joe Brooks, who wrote “You Gentle Up My Existence,” which gained in 1978.
“El Mal” beat the most recent tune via Diane Warren, who has now long past 0-16 within the class, and two-time winner Elton John, who went house from an Oscar rite the place he used to be a nominee with out an Oscar for the primary time. Along with her 0-16 monitor file, Warren ties sound and sound blending specialist Greg P. Russell for probably the most nominations with out a aggressive win (but).
Daniel Blumberg gained absolute best authentic rating for The Brutalist. This used to be one in all two awards for Brady Corbet’s movie, which stars Adrien Brody as a Hungarian Jewish architect who survives the Holocaust and builds a brand new existence in The us. Blumberg, 35, is an English artist, musician, songwriter and composer. Along with composing all of the track, Blumberg served as manufacturer and recording engineer and performed piano, harmonica, keyboards and synthesizer.
Adrien Brody gained his 2nd Oscar for absolute best actor for The Brutalist, 22 years after he gained his first for The Pianist. He’s simply the 3rd actor to win two times in that class since 2000, following Sean Penn (Mystic River and Milk) and Daniel Day-Lewis (There Will Be Blood and Lincoln).
Mikey Madison gained absolute best actress for taking part in the name position in Anora. The 25-year-old actress gained in what used to be observed as an in depth race with Demi Moore, 62, nominated for The Substance. Madison is the youngest winner on this class since Jennifer Lawrence gained at age 22 in 2013 for Silver Linings Playbook.
Kieran Culkin gained absolute best supporting actor for A Actual Ache. He’s the primary winner in that class from a film that wasn’t nominated for absolute best image since Christopher Plummer gained in 2012 for Freshmen. His co-star within the movie, Jesse Eisenberg, used to be nominated for absolute best authentic screenplay, however misplaced to Sean Baker for Anora.
Zoe Saldaña gained absolute best supporting actress for Emilia Pérez, turning into the 5th actress to win on this class for a musical efficiency since 2000. She follows Catherine Zeta-Jones for Chicago (2003), Jennifer Hudson for Dreamgirls (2007), Anne Hathaway for Les Misérables (2013) and Ariana DeBose for West Facet Tale (2022).
Saldaña carried out the most efficient authentic tune winner, “El Mal,” in Emilia Pérez. That is most effective the 5th time an actor has gained a aggressive appearing Oscar for a efficiency that integrated making a song an Oscar-winning tune.
Emilia Pérez gained simply two awards from its 13 nominations – absolute best authentic tune and absolute best supporting actress. Netflix’s crime musical holds an unwelcome Oscar file: It gained fewer Oscars than some other movie that gained 13 or extra nominations. The previous file used to be held via The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which gained 3 awards from its 13 nods in 2009.
Paul Tazewell gained absolute best gown design for Depraved. He’s simply the second one Black gown dressmaker – and the primary Black guy – to win on this class. Ruth E. Carter is the one different Black gown dressmaker to win right here. She gained for each Black Panther and its sequel, Black Panther: Wakanda Endlessly.
Glide gained the Oscar for absolute best animated function, turning into the primary indie movie to win on this class.
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