Alex: Honestly, a pretty great Oscars! Some good surprises, good speeches, funny bits. Musical performances hit just right, and the In Memoriam was handled so well. This will go down as one of the good ones, guys.
Graeme: Well, almost four hours later and we’ve reached the end. It’s been a pleasure to write about this year’s ceremony, where it feels like every key film got recognized in some way. Didn’t think they’d end the ceremony by killing off Conan O’Brien, though…
Jordan: VERY DESERVED!!! Everyone deserves a few small beers for that incredible win and movie!
10:35PM: One Battle After Another wins Best Picture!
Jordan: One of the most beautiful and heartbreaking performances this year – another movie that had me sobbing in theaters!
Alex: The most predictable win of the night. Jessie Buckley’s name has been carved on that Oscar since Hamnet’s premiere.
10:29PM: Jessie Buckley wins Best Actress for Hamnet!
Jordan: Michael B. Jordan is now the second actor to win for playing twins. (Should it have been Lindsay Lohan for The Parent Trap first?)
Alex: This is why all those Oscar pundits say the precursors matter – Michael B. Jordan’s Actor Awards moment really created this opportunity for him at just the right time
10:20PM: Michael B. Jordan wins Best Actor for Sinners!
Alex: Wow, you can really see how much it means to PTA to win for Directing. A great moment.
Jordan: Paul Thomas Anderson FINALLY getting his flowers tonight after so many years and so many great movies! It’s really been a close race between Sinners and One Battle After Another all throughout the night, and both keep locking in huge categories at the end.
10:16PM: Paul Thomas Anderson wins Best Director for One Battle After Another!
Jordan: That might have been one of the most brutal play-offs I’ve ever seen…
Jordan: Nick Cave has been having a crazy recent movie renaissance with Train Dreams, Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man, and Scream 7!
Graeme: Another history-making win! And very much deserved!
10:09PM: Golden from KPop Demon Hunters wins Best Original Song!
Jordan: YESSS! Sentimental Value made me cry like a baby in theaters, I’m so glad it took home the Oscar!
Graeme: As Charli xcx said, JOACHIM TRIER SUMMER!
10:03PM: Sentimental Value wins Best International Feature!
Graeme: The team here is split between The Secret Agent and Sentimental Value, two films very deserving in their own right. It feels like Sentimental Value has the upper hand thanks to its total nomination haul.
Graeme: Capping off a historic win with what might be the most-anticipated performance of the night as the cast of KPop Demon Hunters takes the stage.
Jordan: I honestly thought One Battle was going to take the Cinematography win, but very well-deserved for Sinners! That last act is absolutely stunning, in particular. Love to see a woman win this category, as well!!
Graeme: The response to Arkapaw’s win is rapturous. She’s the first woman EVER to win Best Cinematopgraphy! Arkapaw shouts out Rachel Morrison, the first woman to be nominated in the category for her work on Dee Rees’s 2017 movie Mudbound.
9:49PM: Sinners’ Autumn Durald Arkapaw wins Best Cinematopgraphy!
Alex: One Battle After Another is a very worthy editing winner. I don’t know if I’ve ever watched a three-hour movie that felt shorter. Just so propulsive.
9:46PM: One Battle After Another’s Andy Jurgensen wins Best Editing!
Graeme: Editing up next could really give us an idea of where the rest of the night’s going to go…
Jordan: A little teaser for these two in Spaceballs 2! Very excited to see the Pullmans back on-screen together.
Graeme: F1 now joins the prestigious list of one-time Oscar winners like Avatar: Fire & Ash and 2016’s Suicide Squad. Next up: Best Picture? In all seriousness, F1 was a real bonding moment for me and my father and sometimes that’s what the movies are all about!
9:35PM: F1 wins Best Sound!
Graeme: This makes Göransson a three-time winner. He previously won for Oppenheimer and Black Panther.
9:30PM: Ludwig Göransson wins Best Original Score for Sinners!
Graeme: Best Score is up next but, unfortunately, Danel Lopatin isn’t nominated for Marty Supreme so…
9:19PM: Mr. Nobody Against Putin wins Best Documentary Feature Film!
9:16PM: All The Empty Rooms wins Best Documentary Short Film!
Alex: Frankenstein entered tonight as the heavy favorite for Production Design, but even so, I’m disappointed this wasn’t finally Jack Fisk’s year. A legendary designer, and his work in Marty Supreme was truly excellent.
Graeme: That’s Academy Award Winning Picture Avatar: Fire & Ash to YOU!
Jordan: Big news for the Avatar diehard fans, aka Graeme!
9:08PM: Avatar: Fire & Ash wins for Best Visual Effects!
Graeme: Visual Effects up next. As SR’s resident Pandora supporter, it’s time for Avatar: Fire and Ash redemption!
9:05PM: Frankenstein wins for Best Production Design!
Alex: Disney’s been laying the cross-promotion on a little thick this year…
Jordan: Truly didn’t expect to see Sigourney Weaver call Kate Hudson a b**** over Grogu!
Jordan: Barbra Streisand was also among one of the Oscars’ rare ties for a winner. She tied with Katharine Hepburn in 1969 for Best Actress. Barbra won for Funny Girl while Hepburn won for The Lion in Winter.
Jordan: Diane Keaton and Rachel McAdams as mother and daughter in The Family Stone is still one of the greatest family castings of all time!
Alex: I have to say, scoring the In Memoriam to the score for The Princess Bride is a truly touching choice
Graeme: This In Memoriam segment feels especially poignant considering the sheer amount of monumental loss that has hit the industry over the last twelve months. It’s difficult to single one person out, but having people like Billy Crystal and Rachel McAdams speak about their personal experiences with those they worked with, like Rob Reiner and Diane Keaton, is especially touching. You’d be hard-pressed not to shed a tear (like I currently am).
8:49PM – Jordan: Rob Reiner directed my favorite movie of all time, and the news of his passing hit incredibly hard. A truly generational director who was consistent across his entire career.
Alex: Still, a real gift that Sinners and One Battle After Another were competing in separate screenplay categories. Whatever happens, both PTA and Ryan Coogler got their moments on that Oscars stage.
Graeme: This has long felt like where the screenplay categories would end up so it tells us little of what’s to come for the rest of the evening. Big question marks remain over the major categories (except for Best Actress, really), though Sinners doesn’t seem to have the power many thought it did as voting concluded a few weeks ago.
8:35PM: Ryan Coogler wins Best Original Screenplay for Sinners!
Jordan: What’s bigger than this in the Anderson-Rudolph household this week – Paul’s Oscar win or Maya confirmed to star in Oh Mary?
Graeme: Paul Thomas Anderson is OFFICIALLY an Oscar Winner! It’s about damn time. And it seems the audience agrees as they stand up to applaud. Prior to this year, the writer-director had been nominated 11 times.
8:30PM: Paul Thomas Anderson wins Best Adapted Screenplay for One Battle After Another!
Alex: Sean Penn joins a very elite club of actors with three or more performance Oscars. The other men in that group? Walter Brennan, Daniel Day-Lewis, and Jack Nicholson.
Jordan: We might as well start keeping a running tally of ballet and opera snubs at Timmy…
Alex: It must sting just a little bit more when the nominee who wins didn’t even attend
8:20PM: Sean Penn wins Best Supporting Actor for One Battle After Another. Kieran Culkin accepts the award on his behalf.
Graeme: Kumail Najiani with the perfect quip —