Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic Stay informed with free updatesSimply sign up to the Film myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox.Anora, an independent film about a brief, ill-fated romance between a sex worker and the son of a Russian oligarch, took home the Best Picture prize along with four others at the 97th Academy Awards on Sunday.The film\u2019s director, Sean Baker, also took home the Best Director award, ahead of Brady Corbet for The Brutalist and James Mangold for the Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown, which starred Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet.Anora\u2019s lead Mikey Madison won Best Actress, while the film also earned editing and original screenplay awards. \u201cI thank the academy for recognising a truly independent film,\u201d Baker said in his acceptance speech. He also thanked \u201cthe sex worker community\u201d and offered his \u201cdeepest respect\u201d as he received the screenplay award.The win for Madison, 25, was something of an upset. Demi Moore, 62, had been favoured for her role in The Substance, an edgy body horror parable in which she plays an ageing actress who takes a serum in hopes of reclaiming her youth and career.Kieran Culkin won Best Supporting Actor for his performance in A Real Pain, in which he plays the gregarious but troubled cousin of writer\/director Jesse Eisenberg on an odd-couple tour of their family\u2019s Holocaust history in Poland.The ceremony took place less than two months after catastrophic fires displaced nearly 13,000 households in Los Angeles and affecting many in the industry.The event\u2019s opening montage featured clips from films in which the city was as much a character as the setting, including Chinatown, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and The Big Lebowski.\u201cThe people of LA have been through a devastating ordeal,\u201d said Conan O\u2019Brien, who hosted this year\u2019s awards. Later in the show, 12 members of the Los Angeles Fire Department were honoured onstage.Hollywood also has been shaken by US President Donald Trump\u2019s assault on diversity polices and immigration crackdown, but the ceremony was light on politics. Before handing out the award for film editing, Daryl Hannah flashed a peace sign and offered a \u201cmessage of support for Ukraine: \u2018Slava Ukraini.\u2019\u201dThere were scattered jeers after No Other Land, a collaboration between Israeli and Palestinian filmmakers about the destruction of West Bank villages, won in the Best Documentary category. The film does not have a US distributor.Speaking about Anora\u2019s success, O\u2019Brien joked: \u201cAmericans are finally excited to see someone stand up to a powerful Russian.\u201dNetflix\u2019s musical Emilia P\u00e9rez, which was the early frontrunner with 13 nominations including Best Picture, in the end took home just two awards: Best Supporting Actress for Zoe Salda\u00f1a and Best Original Song.The streaming company had hoped Emilia P\u00e9rez would bring home its first Best Picture statue, but the film became engulfed in controversy after historical social media posts by lead Karla Sof\u00eda Gasc\u00f3n resurfaced in which she made controversial comments about George Floyd\u2019s murder, Muslims and other topics. Gasc\u00f3n, the first openly trans person to be nominated for an Oscar, was subsequently scrubbed from Netflix\u2019s promotions for the film. A24\u2019s The Brutalist, a three-and-a-half-hour epic about a Hungarian-Jewish \u00e9migr\u00e9 architect in postwar America, had received 10 nominations, including for Corbet\u2019s direction. In addition to Brody\u2019s acting Oscar, it also won for cinematography and original score.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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