Oscars 2025: Camille and Zoe Saldana rewarded, the triumph of “anora” … which must be remembered from the ceremony

As at the last Cannes Film Festival, Sean Baker’s smile served as a credits at the end of the 97th Oscar ceremony that was held in the night from Sunday to Monday, in Los Angeles. This film, Anora, which tells the strange and tumultuous “love story” between an escort girl and the son of a wealthy Russian, won five statuettes, all among the most prestigious of the competition: best film, production, actress (Mikey Madison, a revelation at 25 years old), mounting and original script, these last two functions being also ensured by Sean Baker himself, Toute.

The director, winner of the Palme d’Or 2024, pushed a “battle cry”. “Filmmakers, continue making movies for big screen”. A clear allusion to directors who are increasingly giving in to the sirens of the small screen by working for streaming platforms, type Netflix. Film in three parts that oscillates between comedy and drama, “Anora” was almost a full cardboard by gleaning five trophies on his six nominations, damaging the pawn to the favorites that were “The Brutalist” (who consoles himself with the price of the best actor for Adrien Brody, as a Jewish architect surviving concentration camps) and “Emilia Perez”.

“Emilia Perez”, mixed assessment

Sacred Friday at the César with seven statuettes, the extraordinary musical and out of the genre of French Jacques Audiard cultivated a strange paradox before the Oscars. The film, on the change of life and sex of a drug trafficker, could – on the pile side – pride itself on being in pole position of the number of appointments with thirteen chances of brandishing a statuette – never -in for a French film, and even simply non -English speaker. And – on the face side – he swam against the tide because of nauseating controversies, in particular that aiming at his main actress, Karla Sofia Gascon, caught up in old racist tweets.

The director Jacques Audiard had the opportunity to go on stage, but “simply” to accompany his musicians Camille and Clément Ducol, the winning couple of the Oscar for the best song (“El Mal”). Camille received the trophy from the hands of a very special guest: the leader of the Rolling Stones, Mick Jagger! The singer first pushed the recognizable notes of “Sympathy for the Devil”, the tube of the Stones, before recalling that the song “El Mal” had been written to “denounce corruption”. Disappointment, on the other hand, when the Oscar for best music escaped them, in favor of “brutalist”. And nothing on the scenario side, foreign film or production either. In short, mixed assessment.

The other award -winning French

With a historic total of 23 nominations, the French were expected, more generally, at the turn during this ceremony. If the director and screenwriter Coralie Fargeat did not obtain an individual award and did not allow half Moore to get his hands, at 62 years old, on her first Oscar, her feminist thriller Gore “The substance” allowed three French people to set up looking for their trophy, in the make-up and hairstyle category: Pierre-Olivier Persin, Stéphanie Guillon and Marilyne Scarselli.

The other French victories are the result of co -productions. Clearly, tricolor companies that have invested in the work of foreign filmmakers. Co -financed with Latvia, Belgium and therefore France, the animated film “Flow” continues its impressive harvest of awards. After gleaning the César on Friday, this jewel of the Latvian prodigy Gints Zilbalodis, barely 30 years old, has ahead of Anglo-Saxon juggernauts like “Vice Versa 2”, “Le Robot Sauvage” or the suite of the adventures of “Wallace and Gromit”. Cat… Low skin! Especially for a film without dialogues and without humans.

Another success by proxy: the trophy granted to “I am still there”, the poignant drama of the French -speaking Brazilian Walter Salles, in the best foreign film category. A quarter of a century after “Central do Brasil”, the director doubles the bet with this sensitive film on the disappearances of intellectuals under the Brazilian dictatorship in the 1960s and 70s.

Little policy

In the middle of international turbulence, and while Hollywood is shaken by the first steps of the Trump presidency, the winners or a presenting were very little coincidenceed on the geopolitical field. Just we heard a “lively Ukraine”, pronounced by the actress of “Kill Bill”, Daryl Hannah. Before the intervention of Adrien Brody, powerful and uncompromising on the scourge of anti-Semitism and racism, the most committed moment took place when the Oscar was handed over to the best documentary to the film “No Other Land”, of a Palestino-Israeli collective.

One of the Palestinian directors, who has just been a father, explained: “My hope for my daughter is that she does not have to live the same life as me, always in fear, violence, the destruction of our houses, due to the Israeli occupation. We call on the world to take measures to put an end to this injustice. And his Israeli colleague to continue: “The atrocious destruction of Gaza and his people must end, the Israeli hostages must be released. Don’t you see that we are nested? That my people cannot be safe if that of (their Palestinian colleague) is not? »»

Other highlights

The evening was enamelled with several tribute sequences: to the actor Gene Hackman, who died this week at 95, to the composer Quincy Jones, who died last November at 91, as well as to the firefighters who struggled against the murderous fires this winter in Los Angeles.

More happy, the most elegant picture of the evening was the one dedicated to James Bond with in particular a surprising choreography of the actress Margaret Qualley. The funniest passages of the evening hosted by humorist Conan O’Brien? Ben Stiller demonstrating by the absurd the interest of having a beautiful decorator in his team. Or the lettingage of Adam Sandler, who invited himself indoors in … basketball player. But also the “running gag” of the “Sands Ver”, a creature released from the film “Dune”, which has invited itself several times on stage, playing in particular music!

LE PALMARES

Best movie : “Anora”

Director : Sean Baker for “Anora”

Actress : Mikey Madison for “Anora”

Actor : Adrien Brody pour « The Brutalist »

Second female role : Zoe Saldana for “Emilia Perez”

Second male role : Kieran Culkin pour « A real pain »

Scénario original : Sean Baker for “Anora”

Adapted scenario : Peter Straughan for “conclave”

Foreign film : “I’m still there”, by Walter Salles

Montage : Sean Baker for “Anora”

Musique : Daniel Blumberg pour « the Brutalist »

The song : “El Mal” by Camille and Clément Ducol, for “Emilia Perez”

Animated feature film : “Flow, the cat who was no longer afraid of water”, of Gins Zilbalodis

Animated short film : « In the Shadow of the Cypress », de Shirin Sohani et Hossein et al.

Costumes : « Wicked »

Makeup and hairstyle : Pierre-Olivier Persin, Stéphanie Guillon and Marilyne Scarslli for “The substance”

Sets : « Wicked »

Son : “Dune, second part”

Photography : « The Brutalist »

Visual effects : “Dune, second part”

Documentary : «No other land» de basel adra, hamdan ballel et yuval abraham

Shortfall : « I’m not a robot »