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

I’m Still Here has won the Oscar for best international film at the Academy Awards, which are currently taking place in Los Angeles. It is the first Brazilian film to win the award – and was also the first to be nominated.

Directed by Walter Salles and starring Fernanda Torres, I’m Still Here is a political drama based on the true story of Eunice Paiva, whose husband Rubens was “disappeared” and murdered in 1970s Brazil. The film had to overcome a lineup including Danish true-crime story The Girl With the Needle, Iran-set legal drama The Seed of the Sacred Fig and trans gangster musical Emilia Pérez, which had been the hot favourite for the award.

Anora takes home best picture Oscar

Adrien Brody and Mikey Madison win best acting prizes

Kieran Culkin and Zoe Saldaña win supporting awards

Anora’s Sean Baker wins for directing, editing and screenplay

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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

The West Bank-based film No Other Land has won this year’s best documentary feature Oscar.

The film, which is made by a Palestinian-Israeli collective, won out against competition from Black Box Diaries, Porcelain War and Sugarcane.

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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

Zoe Saldaña has won the best supporting actress Oscar at the Academy Awards in Hollywood, for her role in Emilia Pérez.

Saldaña was the frontrunner for the prize for her performance as a high-powered defence attorney in Jacques Audiard’s musical crime film. She had won a clean sweep of supporting actress awards in the run-up to the Oscars, including the Golden Globe, Bafta and Sag award.

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Halle Berry ‘pays back’ Adrien Brody for 2003 Oscars kiss – with a red-carpet kiss

Actors meet at Academy awards for first time in 22 years after notorious impromptu kiss from Brody after Oscars win

Adrien Brody and Halle Berry revisited one of the most memorable – and controversial – Oscar moments of recent times, by staging a kiss on the red carpet of this year’s ceremony. In a clip shared on the academy’s social media, with the tagline “a reunion 22 years in the making”, Berry, who was due to present an award at this year’s ceremony, greeted Brody warmly before initiating a kiss. ‘“I had to pay him back,” Berry told Variety.

The scene was a reversal of the notorious moment during the 2003 Oscars ceremony when Brody, who had just become the youngest best actor winner for his performance in The Pianist, embraced Berry, the award’s presenter, and delivered an impromptu kiss on the lips.

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