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‘Don’t worry, I’m lawyered up!’: the best quotes of the 2025 Oscars

From Conan O’Brien’s half-time line that ‘it’s time for Kendrick Lamar to come out’ to June Squibb saying Bill Skarsgård is playing her, here are the best quotes of the night

‘Cocaine is classless … everyone’s at it’: Danny Dyer on fame, aliens, love and male violence

He went from Harold Pinter’s protege to barely scraping a living to roaring success in Jilly Cooper’s Rivals. With the release of his new film Marching Powder, he talks about his journey from national joke to national treasure

Conan’s Karla cracks and Timothée’s beaut zoot suit: Oscars 2025 viral moments

It was a deeply unpredictable year – and Conan O’Brien, Adrien Brody and Timothée Chalamet all pulled out the antics

Sean Baker matches 70-year-old Oscars record held by Walt Disney

Baker becomes only second person to claim four individual Oscars in one night, feat last completed by Disney in 1954

Anora dominates the Oscars as Mikey Madison named best actress and Adrien Brody wins for The Brutalist

Sean Baker’s film picks up five awards including best picture while Israel-Palestine documentary No Other Land also gets major win

Oprah Winfrey, Whoopi Goldberg and Queen Latifah honor Quincy Jones at Oscars

Prolific musician, producer and film score composer died in November at age of 91

Mikey Madison wins best actress Oscar for Anora

The California native had the eponymous role written especially for her by director Sean Baker

Sean Baker wins best director Oscar for Anora

Director who made his name with microbudget indie films wins with his self-penned drama about a lapdancer who falls for one of her clients

Adrien Brody wins best actor Oscar for The Brutalist

Former youngest-ever winner of best actor Oscar wins award again for his portrayal of fictional architect in Brady Corbet’s epic drama

British composer Daniel Blumberg wins best original score Oscar for The Brutalist

Sole previous scoring credit on a full-length film for the singer, guitar player and visual artist is The World to Come

I’m Still Here wins Oscar for best international film, becoming first Brazilian film to do so

Brazil’s official entry beats beleaguered French favourite Emilia Pérez to the podium

Gene Hackman, David Lynch and Maggie Smith honoured at 2025 Oscars ceremony

Traditional in memoriam segment at Academy Awards also remembers Donald Sutherland, Shelley Duvall and James Earl Jones

Oscars 2025: Halle Berry and Margaret Qualley lead star-studded James Bond tribute

Lengthy segment on the heels of $1bn Amazon deal over creative control also features Lisa, Doja Cat and Raye

No Other Land directors criticise US as they accept documentary Oscar: ‘US foreign policy is helping block the path’ to peace

Self-distributed film about Israeli displacement of a Palestinian community beat out Porcelain War and Sugarcane

Zoe Saldaña wins best supporting actress Oscar for Emilia Pérez

The actor – who has starred in four of the six highest-grossing films of all time – plays a high-powered defence attorney in the musical crime film

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