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Sinners’ Autumn Durald Arkapaw becomes first woman – and first black person – to win best cinematography Oscar

Cinematographer asks all the women in the room to rise as she thanks cast, crew and her family

Mr Nobody Against Putin wins the best documentary Oscar

Primary school teacher Pavel Talankin’s record of the indoctrination of his pupils to support Russia’s invasion of Ukraine beats contenders

Barbra Streisand pays tribute to Robert Redford at the Oscars: ‘He blazed his own trail’

The actor and singer remembered her co-star in 1973’s The Way We Were, who died in September

‘What fun we had storming the castle’: Billy Crystal pays tribute to Rob Reiner at the Oscars

The star of When Harry Met Sally, one of Reiner’s most enduring movies, honoured the director and his wife

Rachel McAdams pays tribute to late Diane Keaton at the Oscars: ‘A legend with no end’

Much-loved actor, who died in October aged 79, remembered in emotional segment at the 98th Academy Awards

Ryan Coogler wins best original screenplay Oscar for Sinners

Coogler, who also directed the film, becomes only the second black writer to win this award, after Jordan Peele

Paul Thomas Anderson wins first ever Oscar as One Battle After Another takes best adapted screenplay

Director won the Oscar for his critically acclaimed film based loosely on Thomas Pynchon’s novel Vineland

Cassandra Kulukundis wins inaugural casting Oscar for One Battle After Another

Film’s star Chase Infiniti pays tribute to Kulukundis, who has cast nearly all of Paul Anderson’s films since Magnolia

Sean Penn wins best supporting actor Oscar for One Battle After Another

With this, his third Oscar – he won best actor for Mystic River in 2004 and Milk in 2009 – Penn joins an elite band of triple winners, including Daniel Day-Lewis and Jack Nicholson

Conan O’Brien jokes about Ted Sarandos, Timothée Chalamet and ‘frightening times’ in Oscars monologue

Host bobs and weaves through a number of third-rail topics in Academy Awards speech that’s at turns silly and sincere

Amy Madigan wins best supporting actress Oscar for Weapons

Having been nominated in 1986, the actor sets a new record for the longest gap between nominations before a win

Readers reply: which are more like life, novels or films?

The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions considers what’s ‘realistic’ in what we read v what we watch …

Peter Bradshaw’s Oscars 2026 predictions: who will win, who should win, who should’ve been in the running?

Will Sinners and One Battle After Another sweep the board as expected, or are there surprises on the way? Our critic shares his predictions for the big-screen triumphs and disasters

The Oscars feel silly in an era of endless crisis. But film still matters

It’s hard to be transported by the glitz and glamour when it’s constantly overshadowed by some white-hot new horror

Put your phone down and focus: the four best ways to watch movies

An expert shares advice for tuning out distractions when screening films at home – plus our favorite movie snacks

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