Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer, about the man who played a leading role in the creation of the atomic bomb, triumphed at the Oscars.
The Grand Prize for Best Picture was presented by Al Pacino. He squinted at the envelope for a few seconds and muttered, "Do my eyes see Oppenheimer?"—a masterclass in "Veteran actor doesn't really care about your shiny awards."
The production had 13 nominations and won 7 (seven) awards. Among them are also the statuettes for best director and best actors in a leading and supporting role.
Next up was Yorgos Lathimos' Despicable Me, which took home four awards, including Best Actress for Emma Stone for her risqué, no-holds-barred female take on the Frankenstein myth. She won her second such honor after "La La Land".
The biggest hit at the box office, Barbie, which had eight nominations, did not win a single statuette.
Audiences around the world saw Cillian Murphy in the title role of the enigmatic scientist who said in 1945: "I have now become Death, the destroyer of worlds."
The Irish actor won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal, and Christopher Nolan took home the Best Director statuette for the production.
Supporting actors were Robert Downey Jr. ("Oppenheimer") and Da'Vine Joy Randolph for their poignant performances in Alexander Payne's "Stuck" as a boardinghouse cafeteria manager grieving the loss of her son in the war in vietnam.
The Japanese fantasy film "The Boy and the Heron" won the Oscar for best animated film, beating "Spider-Man: Through the Spidey Universe."
Animation master Hayao Miyazaki's film - a meditation on love, loss and the horrors of World War II and potentially his final film - won the prize race against Disney's Elements, Netflix's Nimona and Robot Dreams.
Dave Mullins' The War Is Over! Inspired by the Music of John and Yoko was awarded Best Animated Short.
The powerful psychological film set in Auschwitz, Zone of Interest, won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.
For the first time a production from Great Britain won the award.
The film "20 days in Mariupol", directed by Ukrainian journalist Mstislav Chernov, won the Oscar for best documentary film at the 96th awards.
The documentary follows the Russian siege of Mariupol in the Donetsk region from the perspective of Chernov and his team during the first weeks of the full-scale invasion. It is the first Ukrainian film made by a Ukrainian director to ever win an Oscar.
Chernov acknowledged this landmark moment in Ukrainian cinema, but said he wished he never had to document the fighting in Mariupol.
Billie Eilish, along with her brother Phineas O'Connell, won the Oscar for Best Song with What Was I Made For? ("What was I made for?"), which the two created for the soundtrack of the movie "Barbie".
"Anatomy of a Fall" took off with the "Oscar" for the best original screenplay, and the prize for the best adapted screenplay went to "American Reading"./BGNES
