Properly, that was dramatic. If the entire La La Land and Moonlight debacle delivered an Oscars ceremony that will go down in historical past again in 2017, the 2022 Academy Awards simply delivered one other doozy: an evening full of stunning moments, stunning wins, and weird developments. Most notably, that Will Smith appeared to hit Chris Rock within the face dwell on stage, moments earlier than occurring to win Finest Actor and ship a prolonged tear-strewn acceptance speech. However extra on that later.

First up, the largest award of the evening: the Finest Image win that the Producers Guild and Writers Guild Awards appeared to foretell earlier within the week got here to fruition, and CODA walked away with the little gold statue – overtaking former favorite The Energy Of The Canine, Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast, and Steven Spielberg’s West Aspect Story. Elsewhere, Sian Heder’s movie additionally received Finest Tailored Screenplay (it’s tailored from a 2014 French movie), and Finest Supporting Actor for Troy Kotsur – victorious in all three classes for which it was nominated. Although Jane Campion’s movie misplaced Finest Image, she did win the Director award – the second time she’s been nominated in that class, following The Piano in 1994.

The most important winner of the evening, although, was Dune. Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi epic received 5 trophies by the evening, principally in technical classes – bagging Cinematography, Sound, Enhancing, Authentic Rating, and Manufacturing Design. Nevertheless, most of these awards had been handed out, controversially, earlier than the principle present started – with extracted footage spliced into the dwell broadcast. Elsewhere, there was a reasonably even unfold of wins – together with Jessica Chastain for Finest Actress in The Eyes Of Tammy Faye, Ariana DeBose for Finest Supporting Actress in West Aspect Story, Kenneth Branagh for Authentic Screenplay for Belfast, and Worldwide Function Movie for Drive My Automotive.

However the largest speaking level of the evening, and the bit positive to go down in Oscars historical past, was an on-stage confrontation between Chris Rock and Will Smith. Earlier than he launched the Documentary nominees, Rock cracked a couple of gags which, for essentially the most half, went down nicely. However upon making a joke about Jada Pinkett Smith’s shaved head (she’s beforehand spoken about coping with alopecia), the temper soured considerably. After Pinkett Smith appeared disapproving of the joke, her husband strode on stage and appeared to strike Rock within the face (“Will Smith simply smacked the shit out of me,” he mentioned afterwards), earlier than repeatedly shouting from the viewers: “Maintain my spouse’s identify out of your fucking mouth.”

Shortly after, Smith received Finest Actor for his position in King Richard, giving an prolonged speech that appeared to reference the incident not directly. “Richard Williams was a fierce defender of his household,” he mentioned, referencing his position within the movie. “Making this movie, I received to guard Aunjanue Ellis, who is among the most strongest, most delicate individuals I’ve ever met. I received to guard Saniyya and Demi, the 2 actresses who performed Venus and Serena. I’m being known as on in my life to like individuals and to guard individuals.”

It wasn’t the one shock second of the present – with Liza Minnelli by chance freely giving the Finest Image winner by holding her envelope the fallacious means round on digital camera, a dwell efficiency of ‘We Don’t Speak About Bruno’ proving a disappointment (by largely not being a efficiency of ‘We Don’t Speak About Bruno’), and the fan-voted Most Cheer-Worthy Second going to a Flash scene in Zack Snyder’s Justice League. You by no means fairly know what’s going to occur on the Oscars – however this 12 months, that was extra true than ever.

Get the, er, blow-by-blow account of every thing that occurred over on our Stay Weblog, and browse the complete record of winners right here.

Finest Image

Belfast

CODA

Don’t Look Up

Drive My Automotive

Dune

King Richard

Licorice Pizza

Nightmare Alley

The Energy Of The Canine

West Aspect Story

Finest Director

Kenneth Branagh – Belfast

Paul Thomas Anderson – Licorice Pizza

Jane Campion – The Energy Of The Canine

Ryûsuke Hamaguchi – Drive My Automotive

Steven Spielberg – West Aspect Story

Finest Actress

Jessica Chastain – The Eyes Of Tammy Faye

Olivia Colman – The Misplaced Daughter

Penélope Cruz – Parallel Moms

Nicole Kidman – Being the Ricardos

Kristen Stewart – Spencer

Finest Actor

Javier Bardem – Being The Ricardos

Benedict Cumberbatch – The Energy Of The Canine

Andrew Garfield – Tick, Tick… BOOM!

Will Smith – King Richard

Denzel Washington – The Tragedy Of Macbeth

Finest Supporting Actress

Jessie Buckley – The Misplaced Daughter

Ariana DeBose – West Aspect Story

Judi Dench – Belfast

Kirsten Dunst – The Energy Of The Canine

Aunjanue Ellis – King Richard

Finest Supporting Actor

Ciarán Hinds – Belfast

Troy Kotsur – CODA

Jesse Plemons – The Energy Of The Canine

Kodi Smit-McPhee – The Energy Of The Canine

JK Simmons – Being The Ricardos

Finest Authentic Screenplay

Belfast – Kenneth Branagh

Don’t Look Up – Adam McKay & David Sirota

Licorice Pizza – Paul Thomas Anderson

King Richard – Zach Baylin

The Worst Particular person In The World – Joachim Trier & Eskil Vogt

Finest Tailored Screenplay

CODA – Siân Heder

Drive My Automotive – Ryusuke Hamaguchi & Takamasa Oe

Dune – Eric Roth, Jon Spaihts & Denis Villeneuve

The Misplaced Daughter – Maggie Gyllenhaal

The Energy Of The Canine – Jane Campion

Finest Documentary Function

Ascension

Attica

Flee

Summer season Of Soul (…Or, When The Revolution Might Not Be Televised)

Writing With Hearth

Finest Animated Function Movie

Encanto

Flee

Luca

The Mitchells Vs. The Machines

Raya And The Final Dragon

Finest Cinematography

Dune – Greig Fraser

Nightmare Alley – Dan Lausten

The Energy Of The Canine – Ari Wegner

The Tragedy Of Macbeth – Bruno Delbonnel

West Aspect Story – Janusz Kaminski

Finest Worldwide Function Movie

Drive My Automotive (Japan)

Flee (Denmark)

The Hand Of God (Italy)

Lunana: A Yak within the Classroom (Bhutan)

The Worst Particular person In The World (Norway)

Finest Costume Design

Cruella – Jenny Beavan

Cyrano – Massimo Cantini Parrini

Dune – Robert Morgan & Jacqueline West

Nightmare Alley – Luis Sequeira

West Aspect Story – Paul Tazewell

Finest Sound

Belfast

Dune

No Time To Die

The Energy Of The Canine

West Aspect Story

Finest Movie Enhancing

Don’t Look Up – Hank Corwin

Dune – Joe Walker

King Richard – Pamela Martin

The Energy Of The Canine – Peter Sciberras

Tick, Tick… Growth! – Myron Kerstein & Andrew Weisblum

Finest Authentic Rating

Don’t Look Up – Nicholas Britell

Dune – Hans Zimmer

Encanto – Germaine Franco

Parallel Moms – Alberto Iglesias

The Energy of the Canine – Jonny Greenwood

Finest Manufacturing Design

Dune – Zsuzsanna Sipos & Patrice Vermette

Nightmare Alley – Tamara Deverell & Shane Vieau

The Energy Of The Canine – Grant Main & Amber Richards

The Tragedy Of Macbeth – Stefan Dechant & Nancy Haigh

West Aspect Story – Rena DeAngelo & Adam Stockhausen

Finest Stay Motion Brief Movie

Ala Kachuu — Take And Run

The Gown

The Lengthy Goodbye

On My Thoughts

Please Maintain

Finest Documentary Brief Topic

Audible

Lead Me Dwelling

The Queen Of Basketball

Three Songs For Benazir

When We Had been Bullies

Finest Animated Brief Movie

Affairs Of The Artwork

Bestia

Boxballet

Robin Robin

The Windshield Wiper

Finest Make-up and Hairstyling

Cruella

Dune

The Eyes Of Tammy Faye

Home Of Gucci

Coming 2 America

Finest Authentic Track

“Be Alive” – Beyoncé Knowles-Carter & Darius Scott (King Richard)

“Dos Oruguitas” – Lin-Manuel Miranda (Encanto)

“Right down to Pleasure” – Van Morrison (Belfast)

“No Time to Die” – Billie Eilish & Finneas O’Connell (No Time To Die)

“In some way You Do” – Diane Warren (4 Good Days)