Will Smith has won Best Actor for King Richard after walking onto the Oscars stage and slapping Chris Rock over a joke made about Will's wife.
Jessica Chastain used her acceptance speech for Best Actress to raise awareness about suicide within the LGBTQI+ community, and coming-of-age film CODA has claimed the coveted title of Best Picture.
Look back on the ceremony as it happened with our live blog.
Live updates
By Bridget Judd
Winners of the Oscars 2022
- Best Original Song: Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell, No Time to Die
- Best Animated Feature: Encanto
- Best Actor in a Supporting Role: Troy Kotsur, CODA
- Best Actress in a Supporting Role: Ariana DeBose, West Side Story
- Best Actor in a Leading Role: Will Smith, King Richard
- Best Actress in a Leading Role: Jessica Chastain, The Eyes of Tammy Faye
- Best Picture: CODA
By Kelsie Iorio
This is where we leave our live Oscars coverage
Phew. What a wild last couple of hours that was.
There's plenty more Oscars news and updates still to come (particularly after that Will Smith incident).
You can catch up on a wrap of the key awards here, scroll through some of our favourite red carpet looks here and see the full list of winners and nominees in each category here.
Thanks for joining us here on the blog.
By Kelsie Iorio
The final Oscars 2022 awards tally
- Dune came out on top with six wins
- CODA was next with three wins, including the crown jewel of Best Picture
- In third place we had The Eyes of Tammy Faye, starring Jessica Chastain who took out the award for Best Actress
By Kelsie Iorio
There's, uh... still a lot to process here
We've spent much of today looking at this year's nominees and their wins, achievements, inspiration... but also, we're all still trying to work out what the heck happened here.
If you missed it, here's what went down (but the tl;dr is that Chris Rock made a joke about Jada Pinkett Smith, and Will Smith responded by smacking him in the face mid-presentation).
By Kelsie Iorio
Best Picture was presented by Lady Gaga and Liza Minnelli
In the hype of the actual award presentation, we didn't get to mention this but two undoubted icons from two different generations of Hollywood took the stage to present Best Picture.
Lady Gaga and Liza Minnelli teamed up to announce the biggest award of the night — Minnelli is of course one of the few performers ever to earn an EGOT (an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony — that thing Lin Manuel Miranda missed out on earlier).
In a wholesome moment, Minnelli, 76, told Gaga on stage that she's her "biggest fan".
By Kelsie Iorio
CODA is the first Best Picture winner since the 1930s with less than four nominations all up
Here's AP film writer Jake Coyle on the Best Picture winner:
After a movie year often light on crowds, the Academy Awards named an unabashed crowd-pleaser, the deaf family drama CODA, best picture, handing Hollywood’s top award to a streaming service for the first time.
Sian Heder’s CODA, which first premiered at a virtual Sundance Film Festival in winter 2021, started out as an underdog but gradually emerged as the Oscars’ feel-good favorite. It also had one very deep-pocketed backer in Apple TV+, which scored its first best picture Academy Award on Sunday, less than three years after launching the service.
It also handed another near-miss defeat to Netflix, the veteran streamer that for years has tried vainly to score Best Picture. Its best chance, Jane Campion’s The Power Of The Dog, came in with a leading 12 nominations.
But CODA rode a wave of goodwill driven by its cast including Marlee Matlin, Troy Kotsur and Daniel Durant. It’s the first film with a largely deaf cast to win best picture. CODA managed that despite being one of the least-nominated films with only three coming into Sunday. Not since 1932’s Grand Hotel has a movie won best picture with fewer than four nods.
By Kelsie Iorio
And the Oscar for Best Picture goes to... CODA
The room is full of the biggest names in Hollywood all signing applause right now.
The film, a story about a deaf family with just one hearing member, won all three categories it was nominated in.
The win means AppleTV+ becomes the first streaming service to win Best Picture.
Other nominees:
- Belfast
- Don't Look Up
- Drive My Car
- Dune
- King Richard
- Licorice Pizza
- Nightmare Alley
- The Power Of The Dog
- West Side Story
By Bridget Judd
Jessica Chastain wins the Oscar for Actress in a leading role for The Eyes of Tammy Faye
Other nominees:
- Olivia Colman — The Lost Daughter
- Penélope Cruz — Parallel Mothers
- Nicole Kidman* — Being the Ricardos
- Kristen Stewart — Spencer
By Kelsie Iorio
The Eyes of Tammy Faye took out the Oscar for Best Makeup and Hairstyling
This was another one of the awards announced before the televised portion of the ceremony.
This was Jessica Chastain's reaction to the announcement, and she gave makeup artist Linda Dowds a big hug on the way through:
By Bridget Judd
Will Smith wins Best Actor in a Leading Role, apologises to the Academy
In some pointed words, Smith opened his acceptance speech with: "Richard Williams was a fierce defender of his family".
"I'm being called on in my life to love people and to protect people, and to be a river to my people. I know to do what we do, you gotta' be able to take abuse and you gotta' be able to have people talk crazy about you.
"In this business, you've gotta' have people disrespecting you, and you've got to smile and pretend that's okay.
"I want to be a vessel for love. I want to say thank you to Venus and Serena and the entire Williams family for entrusting me with your story. That's what I want to do, I want to be an ambassador for that kind of love, and care and concern.
"I want to apologise to the Academy, I want to apologise to all my fellow nominees."
He continued that "I look like the crazy father, just like they said about Richard Williams".
"But love will make you do crazy things," he said.
Other nominees:
- Javier Bardem — Being the Ricardos
- Benedict Cumberbatch — The Power of the Dog
- Andrew Garfield — Tick, Tick…BOOM!
- Denzel Washington — The Tragedy of Macbeth
By Kelsie Iorio
The Oscar for Best Directing goes to Jane Campion for The Power Of The Dog
The New Zealander is the first woman to be nominated twice for this award.
"Big love to my fellow nominees," she says. "It could have been any of you."
Campion also won the BAFTA and Critic's Choice Award for Best Director this year (as well as a long, long list of other awards for the film).
Other nominees:
- Kenneth Branagh — Belfast
- Ryusuke Hamaguchi — Drive My Car
- Paul Thomas Anderson — Licorice Pizza
- Steven Spielberg — West Side Story
By Bridget Judd
No Time to Die by Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell wins Best Original Song
That means there won't be an EGOT for Lin-Manuel Miranda this year.
This is Billie's first Oscar, which she wins with her brother and collaborator Finneas.
The siblings performed their now-Oscar-winning song earlier in the ceremony.
- Be Alive — from King Richard; Music and Lyrics by DIXSON and Beyoncé Knowles-Carter
- Dos Oruguitas — from Encanto; Music and Lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda
- Down To Joy — from Belfast; Music and Lyrics by Van Morrison
- Somehow You Do — from Four Good Days; Music and Lyrics by Diane Warren
By Kelsie Iorio
Dune wins the Oscar for Production Design
Patrice Vermette was the production designer for Dune, and he's accompanied by set decorator Zsuzsanna Sipos to accept the award.
Other nominees:
- Nightmare Alley (production design by Tamara Deverell, set decoration by Shane Vieau)
- The Power Of The Dog (production design by Grant Major, set decoration by Amber Richards)
- The Tragedy Of Macbeth (production design by Stefan Dechant, set decoration by Nancy Haigh)
- West Side Story (production design by Adam Stockhausen, set decoration by Rena DeAngelo)
By Bridget Judd
What happened after that moment?
At the commercial break, presenter Daniel Kaluuya came up to to hug Will Smith, and Denzel Washington escorted him to the side of the stage.
The two talked and hugged and Tyler Perry came over to talk as well.
By Kelsie Iorio
Remembering those we've lost
The Academy has gone with an emotive yet energetic In Memoriam segment this year.
We're remembering the likes of Sidney Poitier, Halyna Hutchins, Michael K Williams, Betty White, Sally Kellerman, Ivan Reitman, Bob Saget and many more.
Jamie Lee Curtis has made an appearance with a precious puppy, encouraging people to adopt rescue dogs in honour of Betty White's incredible legacy (the Golden Girls star was deeply passionate about animal welfare).
Here's the full list of everyone The Academy paid tribute to at this year's ceremony.
By Kelsie Iorio
Did that actually just happen?
This post is rated M for mature audiences (mild coarse language, some violence).
By Bridget Judd
Summer of Soul wins Best Documentary (feature)
Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson, Joseph Patel, Robert Fyvolent and David Dinerstein's Summer Of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) takes out this award.
Other nominees:
- Ascension — Jessica Kingdon, Kira Simon-Kennedy and Nathan Truesdell
- Attica — Stanley Nelson and Traci A. Curry
- Flee — Jonas Poher Rasmussen, Monica Hellström, Signe Byrge Sørensen and Charlotte De La Gournerie
- Writing With Fire — Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghos
By Bridget Judd
Will Smith takes aim at Chris Rock, leaving audience in shock
After Chris Rock, who is presenting the next category, made a joke at Jada Pinkett-Smith's expense, her husband Will Smith approached the stage and appeared to hit him.
After returning to his seat, Smith then yelled: "Keep my wife's name out of your f****** mouth."
By Kelsie Iorio
The Oscar for Best Film Editing goes to Joe Walker for Dune
Add it to the list.
Other nominees:
- Don't Look Up (Hank Corwin)
- King Richard (Pamela Martin)
- The Power Of The Dog (Peter Sciberras)
- Tick, Tick... BOOM! (Myron Kerstein and Andrew Weisblum)
