6 Oscars for "Dune", 3 for "Coda" - and only one for the pre-favorite "The Power of the Dog". Here are the big winners of the gala night!
Welcome back, the Oscars - everything is forgiven! After a couple of pandemic years that shook the film industry (and that viewer flop to broadcast last year), it was nice to see everything be just as usual. The stars were dressed up, the gold men polished, the red carpet rolled out in front of the Dolby Theater and hardly a single face mask in sight.
 
The cut prices
This year's gala was criticized in advance for choosing to award eight prizes before the live broadcast. The idea was to save some time and cut them into the program. It worked - like that. We do not have to spend too much time with the winners of Best Documentary Short Film who want to thank their mothers. Still, the gala dragged on for 40 minutes, thanks to tributes to the 60th anniversary of James Bond and the 50-year-old "The Godfather". Regina Hall wasted at least two minutes joking that she is single and desperate for a man.
 
This year's hosts
Amy Schumer, Wanda Sykes and Regina Hall generally behaved well as hosts. Some stiff jokes and some accurate - just as it should be. They ran with themselves, and the film industry in general, but also managed to break away with some seriousness and remind of the situation in Ukraine where support is needed. Hope the Oscars continue to recruit great hosts because it really makes a difference in such a long broadcast.
 
Music numbers
I'm also of the opinion that music numbers are needed to keep an Oscar gala alive and here we were treated to singing by both Beyoncé and Billie Eilish - but did we really need two songs from "Encanto"? Sticking to the nominated songs can be a good guideline for the future.
 
Zero Oscars to Sweden
There were no Swedish Oscars at tonight's gala where four make-up choirs hoped for a prize. Göran Lundström and Anna Carin Lock, nominated for their work on "House of Gucci", and Love Larson and Eva von Bahr, nominated for "Dune", were left without. The Oscar for Best Makeup & Hair was tricked instead by "The Eyes of Tammy Faye". Denmark ("Escape") and Norway ("The World's Worst Man") also lost money.
 
The favorites won
No major surprises otherwise among this year's winners. The golden men went exactly where they were going, at least according to all the odds. Jessica Chastain, Will Smith and Ariana DeBose received their statuettes. Jane Campion became the third woman ever to take home the Oscar for Best Director. Troy Kotsur is the first deaf male actor to win an Oscar.
 
"CODA" - best movie!
By the way, there was only one Oscar for Campion's "The Power of the Dog", the big favorite with 12 nominations. "Dune" leads with 6 Oscars. But the gala's real winner can still be considered Siân Heder and the feelgood drama "CODA", which won 3 Oscars - and was crowned Best Film!
 
This year's WTF
From a bang to a bang. The gala's biggest snack was Will Smith, and not because he won his first Oscar for "King Richard" ... but for the moment just before, which overshadowed his big victory. Smith received, to say the least, a strong reaction to an inappropriate joke from Chris Rock and went up on stage to pat him. These are the uncensored, live broadcasts we live for! Watch the clip here ...
 
Check out all of this year's winners below.

Best movie
"Belfast"
*** "CODA" - WINNER
"Don't Look Up"
"Drive My Car"
"Dune"
"King Richard"
"Licorice Pizza"
"Nightmare Alley"
"The Power of the Dog"
"West Side Story"
 
Best director
"Belfast," Kenneth Branagh
"Drive My Car", Ryusuke Hamaguchi
"Licorice Pizza", Paul Thomas Anderson
*** "The Power of the Dog", Jane Campion - WINNER
"West Side Story", Steven Spielberg
 
Best female lead
*** Jessica Chastain in "The Eyes of Tammy Faye" - WINNER
Olivia Colman in "The Lost Daughter"
Penélope Cruz in "Parallel Mothers"
Nicole Kidman in "Being the Ricardos"
Kristen Stewart in "Spencer"
 
Best Male Lead
Javier Bardem in "Being the Ricardos"
Benedict Cumberbatch in "The Power of the Dog"
Andrew Garfield in "tick, tick ... BOOM!"
*** Will Smith in "King Richard" - WINNER
Denzel Washington in "The Tragedy of Macbeth"
 
Best Supporting Actress
Jessie Buckley in "The Lost Daughter"
*** Ariana DeBose in "West Side Story" - WINNER
Judi Dench in "Belfast"
Kirsten Dunst in "The Power of the Dog"
Aunjanue Ellis and "King Richard"
 
Best Supporting Actor
Ciarán Hinds in "Belfast"
*** Troy Kotsur in "CODA" - WINNER
Jesse Plemons in "The Power of the Dog"
J.K. Simmons in "Being the Ricardos"
Kodi Smit-McPhee in "The Power of the Dog"
 
Best photo
*** "Dune" - WINNER
"Nightmare Alley"
"The Power of the Dog"
"The Tragedy of Macbeth"
"West Side Story"
 
Best movie editing
"Don't Look Up"
*** "Dune" - WINNER
"King Richard"
"The Power of the Dog"
"tick, tick ... BOOM!"
 
Best sound
"Belfast"
*** "Dune" - WINNER
"No Time to Die"
"The Power of the Dog"
"West Side Story"
 
Best original music
"Don't Look Up"
*** "Dune" - WINNER
"Encanto"
"Parallel mothers"
"The Power of the Dog"
 
Best original song
"Be Alive" from "King Richard "
 
Best Supporting Actor
Ciarán Hinds in "Belfast"
*** Troy Kotsur in "CODA" - WINNER
Jesse Plemons in "The Power of the Dog"
J.K. Simmons in "Being the Ricardos"
Kodi Smit-McPhee in "The Power of the Dog"
 
Best photo
*** "Dune" - WINNER
"Nightmare Alley"
"The Power of the Dog"
"The Tragedy of Macbeth"
"West Side Story"
 
Best movie editing
"Don't Look Up"
*** "Dune" - WINNER
"King Richard"
"The Power of the Dog"
"tick, tick ... BOOM!"
 
Best sound
"Belfast"
*** "Dune" - WINNER
"No Time to Die"
"The Power of the Dog"
"West Side Story"
 
Best original music
"Don't Look Up"
*** "Dune" - WINNER
"Encanto"
"Parallel mothers"
"The Power of the Dog"
 
Best original song
"Be Alive" from "King Richard"
"Dos Oruguitas" from "Encanto"
"Down To Joy" from "Belfast"
*** "No Time To Die" from "No Time to Die" - WINNER
"Somehow You Do" from "Four Good Days"
 
Best suit
*** "Cruella" - WINNER
"Cyrano"
"Dune"
"Nightmare Alley"
"West Side Story"
 
Best makeup & hair
"Cruella"
"Dune"
"A Prince in New York 2"
*** "The Eyes of Tammy Faye" - WINNER
"House of Gucci"
 
Best production design
*** "Dune" - WINNER
"Nightmare Alley"
"The Power of the Dog"
"The Tragedy of Macbeth"
"West Side Story"
 
Best international film
*** "Drive My Car" (Japan) - WINNER
"Escape" (Denmark)
"The Hand of God" (Italy)
"Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom" (Bhutan)
"The World's Worst Man" (Norway)
 
Best animated feature film
*** "Encanto" - WINNER
"Escape"
"Luca"
"The Mitchell family against the machines"
"Raya and the last dragon"
 
Best animated short film
"Affairs of the Art"
"Bestia"
"Boxballet"
"Robin Robin"
*** "The Windshield Wiper" - WINNER
 
Best Documentary (feature film)
"Ascension"
"Attica"
"Escape"
*** "Summer of Soul" - WINNER
"Writing with Fire"
 
Best Documentary (short film)
"Audible"
"Lead Me Home"
*** "The Queen of Basketball" - WINNER
"Three Songs for Benazir"
"When We Were Bullies"
 
Best short film
"Ala Kachuu - Take and Run"
"The Dress"
*** "The Long Goodbye" - WINNER
"On My Mind"
"Please Hold"
 
Best visual effects
*** "Dune" - WINNER
"Free Guy"
"No Time to Die"
"Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings"
"Spider-Man: No Way Home"
 
Best script for another model
*** "CODA" - WINNER
"Drive My Car"
"Dune"
"The Lost Daughter"
"The Power of the Dog"
 
Best original script
*** "Belfast" - WINNER
"Don't Look Up"
"King Richard"
"Licorice Pizza"
"The World's Worst Man"

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