Anora won the bet, Emilia Pérez is disillusioned … which must be remembered from the ceremony

The 2025 Oscars saw this Sunday the triumph of independent cinema, with the great slam breathtakingAor Which is handling the king of the ceremony trophy and all the major awards of the list of this edition: best film, best original script, best director, best actress, best editing. Aor made the rare double palm of gold and Oscar, as before him Parasite In 2020.

Sean Baker’s black comedy ends this evening with five statuettes out of the six in which he could claim. “”This film was produced with blood, sweat and tears of all the people around me. Long live independent cinema!has enjoined the multi-casquette director, also screenwriter and editor. This comeback ofAor was accompanied by one of the greatest reversals of these 97^e Oscars. Her heroine Mikey Madison, 25, damled the pawn at the favorite of the half Moore season, who portrays the horrific fable of Coralie Fargeat, The Substance.

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This acid fairy tale, where a New York stripper fell to the offspring of a Russian oligarch before facing the class contempt of his ultra-riche, an independent film, shot for only six million dollars. Sean Baker wanted him divisive, he agreed. Aor surpasses in particular Conclave which leaves with just a trophy of the best adaptation. In a price season, which failed to dubbed a favorite from the start and who bathed in uncertainty, Anora showed her muscles in the last straight line. The feature film won the prize for the guilds of directors and producers. At the BAFTA (the English equivalent of the Oscars) in mid-February, Mikey Madison had already toasted half moore priority.

Another champion of independent cinema which was leaving with ten nominations, the monumental fresco The Brutalist De Brady Corbet wins three statuettes: best photo, music and above all best actor for Adrien Brody. The actor had received the same distinction two decades ago, for The pianist From Roman Polanski. He already played a survivor of the Shoah. His triumph deprives Timothy Chalamet with a historic victory. If the Franco-American had won for the Bob Dylan biopic A perfect strangerhe would have been the youngest winner in this category at 29 years old. His film leaves empty -handed.

Modest harvest for French cinema

Dune, Wicked et Emilia Pérez end up two technical trophies. Archi-favori party with 13 nominations at the end of January, Jacques Audiard’s musical drama on a narcotal trading in search of transition and redemption limits breakage and humiliation with the Oscar for best supporting role for Zoe Saldana and that of the best song for Evil. The film pays the controversy born from racist tweets of its main actress Karla Sofià Gàscon. Objects of a thousand and one criticism (in his way of representing Mexico to his gaze on her trans heroine), Emilia Pérez fails to win the Oscar from the best international film, overwhelmed by the Brazilian family melodrama of Walter Salles, I’m still here, On the fate of a family torn apart by the Brazilian military dictatorship.

Totaling 23 nominations, the tricolor cinema must be satisfied with a more modest harvest. In the running in five categories (including film and production), The Substance de Coralie Fargeat suggests that horror remains a delicate glass ceiling to pierce with the Oscars. The Gore fable consoles the Oscar hairstyle and makeup. The Franco-Belgo-Iton Féline Odyssey Flow experienced a better fortune, winning the statuette of the best animated film, after the César.

Oblique references

Wanting to be positive and benevolent, this Oscars ceremony, which was leaving and lacked strong moments, was animated by Conan O’Brien. She bet on excess musical numbers: reunion of stars of Wicked Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande, Medley James Bond, tribute to Quincy Jones. The firefighters, who fought the fires that failed to engulf Los Angeles, also went on stage. But four days after the altercation between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky, these Oscars surprised by their apolitical and consensual character. Daryl Hannah, a prize, exclaimed “Vive l’Ukraine” and the screenwriter of Conclave Peter Straughan wore a Ukrainian flag on his tuxedo. Otherwise, the winners abstained from all allusion to the news.

Most of them thanked their spouses. Zoe Saldana and Adrien Brody made oblique references. “My grandmother arrived in 1961. I am an immigrant girl and I am proud of it. Like this role where I speak Spanish, my grandmother would be proud. I am sure that I will not be the only woman of Dominican origin who will receive an Oscar ”, slipped the actress. “I also pray for a more inclusive world. We must not let hatred develop. You have to obstruct him. We must fight and rebuild together “., Exclaimed the show from The Brutalist. Even Walter Salles was discreet despite the subject of I’m still there.

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Only the question of the conflict between Gaza and Israel was addressed head -on with the winners of the statuette of the best documentary. Written by a Palestinian and an Israeli, No Other Landawarded the Berlinale in 2024, described the distress of the West Bank. “”Thank you for this price. I became a father two months ago, I hope that my daughter is not going to live in fear and in the violence of the boiling of our homes, forced trips that my community of the Israeli occupation undergoes. It is reality. We call on the world to stop this injustice“Said Basel Adra, Palestinian activist. “”Destructions must end. Israeli hostages must be released. I see my brother, we are unequal. I live in a free regime while he lives in a regime governed by military law. The United States’s foreign policy blocks us. It is not too late to preserve the lives of the living“Continued Yuval Abraham, Israeli journalist.