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Adrien Brody and Halle Berry’s kiss, Mikey Madison’s victory and evil stars challenging gravity: the best moments of the Oscars

Noor Nanji

Culture reporter at the Academy Awards, Los Angeles@Noornjanji

Clock: Oscar 2025 Moments

This year’s Oscar had everything: glamor, tears and evil stars challenging gravity. These are some of the best moments of the largest in Hollywood.

Mikey Madison steals the show

Getty Images American actress Mikey Madison accepts the award for best actress in a main role for "Aor" On stage during the 97th Annual Awards of the Academy at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood, California, on March 2, 2025.Getty images

There was an audible gasoline of journalists in the winner’s room when Mikey Madison was announced as the winner of the best actress.

Demi Moore was the favorite for much of this campaign. Things changed after the victory of Madison’s Bafta, but the race remained incredibly tight.

In the end, it was Madison’s night. He marked an incredible moment for a 25 -year -old actress who was relatively unknown before his role in Anora.

This is exactly the type of history of rags to wealth that the awards ceremonies love, and the film itself celebrates.

The film tells the story of the sex worker Anora, who has a romantic whirlwind with the spoiled son of a Russian oligarch.

Edie Turquet, one of the young dancers and strippers in the movieHe sent me a text message to say that it was “crazy” that a movie about sex workers could win the best image in the Oscars.

He added that he hoped that he “changed or at least challenged” people’s perspectives towards his community.

Cynthia and Ariana challenge gravity

Getty Images Hollywood, California - March 2: (LR) Cynthia Erito and Ariana Grande act on stage during the 97th annual Oscar at the Dolby Theater on March 2, 2025 in Hollywood, California. (Photo of Kevin Winter/Getty Images)Getty images

We all knew that it came, but Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande threw Wicked’s anthem that challenges gravity was even better than we could have expected.

When Ento, with a white dress, hit that final iconic note, the audience stopped.

The co -star made a mixture of songs, which include somewhere on the rainbow, which Grande sang to open the show with a beautiful red sequin dress.

Getty Images Ariana Grande attends the 97th annual Oscar at the Dolby Theater on March 2, 2025 in Hollywood, California.Getty images

Earlier at night, Grande was surprised on the red carpet with a Schiaparelli champagne dress, which leaned down in his role as glind the good witch in the movie.

“A spider lamp is being given,” a journalist behind the stage told me.

In social networks, the big question was: “How are you going to sit down with that dress?”

A recovery kiss … 22 years later

Shuttersock A photo of Adrien Brody and Halle Berry BessingShuttersock

On the red carpet, there was a quite a time when Falle Berry ran to Adrien Brody and gave him a big kiss.

He recreated a moment at the 2003 Academy Awards, when Brody has just won the best actor for his performance in the pianist, he turned and kissed Berry, who had given him the award.

She He told Variety: “I had to return the money.”

Talking to ExtraHe added that the only reason he did was because Brody’s girlfriend, Georgina Chapman, “was fine” with that.

The Oscars wrote in x With a kiss clip: “A 22 -year meeting in Creation.”

A kiss from Timothée and Kylie

Getty Images Timothée Chalamet and Kylie Jenner attend the 97th annual Oscar at the Dolby Theater on March 2, 2025 in Hollywood, California.Getty images

Berry and Brody were not the only two views of lip block.

Within the ceremony at the Dolby Theater, the Kylie Jenner and Timothée Chalamet tortolites were photographed sharing a kiss and laughing together.

The star of reality and the Jenner makeup magnate were there to support her boyfriend who was prepared for the best actor, but ended up losing before … Brody.

Adam Sandler is assaulting?

Getty Images Adam Sandler, Timothée Chalamet in the 97th Oscar held at the Dolby Theater on March 2, 2025 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Rich Polk/Penske Media through Getty Images)Getty images

There are many things in this photo …

Actor Adam Sandler was on the ongoing jokes about his typically casual outfit.

Early at night, host Conan O’Brien called him, saying he was “dressed as a guy playing poker video at 2 am.”

(As a reference, Sandler was at the audience with a blue hoodie and shorts, a set that looked more at home on the basketball court).

After one playful from one place to another between the two, the actor entered the theater’s hall and said he “left” before going to Timothée Chalamet and shouting his last name, as he did previously in Saturday Night Live.

Chalamet, always of good character, laughed.

Los Angeles forest fires

Getty Images presenter, Conan O'Brien, speaks on stage during the 97th annual Oscar at the Dolby Theater on March 2, 2025 in Hollywood, California. (Photo of Kevin Winter/Getty Images)Getty images

This year’s Oscar career has developed in the gloomy backdrop of devastating forest fires in Los Angelesthat killed 29 people.

The Grammys and the Golden Globes made the fires a central theme of the show.

The academy awards mentioned only a handful of times, indicating that Hollywood is following.

There was, however, a powerful moment, when O’Brien welcomed some of the firefighters who fought against the fires on stage. He called them “heroes”, with the audience applauding and giving emergency workers a standing ovation.

O’Brien then said that there are some jokes that even he is not brave enough to tell, and asked some of the firefighters to read them in their place.

Los Angeles Fire Department, Erik Scott, read a joke from a teleprompter that said their hearts are with all those who lost their homes, including Joker 2 manufacturers.

He laughed a lot and O’Brien called him the best delivery of jokes of the night.

Zoe Saldaña thanks his mother

Getty Images Zoë Saldaña, winner of the best actress in a secondary role for Getty images

It was the first Oscar of Zoe Saldaña, winning the best cast actress for Emilia Pérez, a musical about a Mexican transgender drug trafficker, and marked one of the most powerful and emotional speeches at night.

He broke in tears immediately, shouting “Mom”, to his mother at the audience.

“They attack this honor,” he cried, paying tribute to his companions nominated for his “loving and community”, saying “I will pay him forward.”

Praising the cast and team of the film, he got excited as he talked about his family.

“Everything brave, scandalous and good that I have done in my life is for you,” she said, praising her husband, her “beautiful hair” and her three children.

“My grandmother came to this country in 1961: I am a proud child of immigrant parents with dreams, dignity and working hands.

“I am the first American of Dominican origin to accept an academy award and I know I will not be the last.

“Get an award where I could sing and talk in Spanish, this is for my grandmother.”

‘We couldn’t get a visa’

Getty Images Topshot - Iranian animator and film director Shirin Sohani (L) and Iranian animator Hossein Molayemi accept the award for the best animated short filmGetty images

The one -month saga to obtain an American visa of two Iranian filmmakers ended up in the couple winning the best animated short film Academy award, with them hurrying to even make the ceremony in Hollywood.

Hossein Molayemi and Shirin Sohani arrived at Los Angeles airport a few hours before the Oscar’s awards ceremony began.

After his plane landed, the outfits quickly changed in a public bath and did so with just times to go before winning the prize for his film, in the shadow of the Cypress.

“It’s not our fault that we get so late,” Sohani told BBC News before show. “We couldn’t get a visa. It is a difficult relationship” between the United States and Iran, he explained.

“Until yesterday we had not obtained our visa and now we are here with this statuette in our hands,” Molayemi said in his acceptance speech.

“Talking to this expectant audience is very difficult for us,” he added. “Yes, if we keep and continue faithful, miracles will happen.”

‘Defend a powerful Russian’

Getty Images Daryl Hannah in the 97th Oscar held at the Dolby Theater on March 2, 2025 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Rich Polk/Penske Media through Getty Images)Getty images

Kill Bill Star, Daryl Hannah, became politics while on stage

As always, politics lifted his head during Sunday night’s ceremony.

The host O’Brien made a joke on how Anora was “having a good night”, before saying: “I think Americans are excited to see someone who finally faces a powerful Russian.”

O’Brien must have been writing his monologue until the last minute, because the joke seemed to be a wink to The White House Scale Among the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky and the president of the United States, Donald Trump.

Meanwhile, The documentary team of any other land He descended on the red carpet with Palestinian scarves and Kufiya. His film is set in the occupied West Bank. After winning for the film, the team took the stage and called American politics in the region.

Kill Bill Star, Daryl Hannah, also got into politics while on stage. She referred to the war in Ukraine, saying “Slava Ukraini”, the country’s greeting, while presenting an award.

But a person was not mentioned.

Here in Liberal Hollywood, you may have waited jokes and spikes towards Donald Trump, but his name did not appear once.



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