Oscars Live Blog 2025: Every Winner And Every Award, As It Happened

So there we have it — the 2025 Oscars have been and gone! And now, as the dust settles on the 2025 Academy Awards, Anora mini-sweep and all, we leave in testament to another crazy old year of golden statuette doling our live blog of the night exactly as it all played out. As has become tradition, we here at Team Empire were with you through the wee small hours of the morning for every single award, every single winner, every single live performance, and every single unmissable moment as it happened. The winners and snubs will be discussed for many a moon to come, but on one thing we can all agree: as ever, it was a hell of a night. And you can relive it all right here!

So with that being said, take a scroll down to the bottom and follow us all the way back up as Empire guides you through the madness that was the 97th Annual Academy Awards...

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4.00am And just like that, after all the predictions and debates and discourse and drama, another awards season has come to a close — and Team Empire were right here with you for every (cut-off) speech, for every (actually quite solid) awkward comedic interlude, and for every new name etched into Oscars history. It's been emotional, it's been real, and it's been quite frankly an exceptionally long night. And so, with that being said, thank you for joining us once again, and we are off to bed... with 'The Greatest Day' ringing in our ears still, even as we drift into blissful unconsciousness. 'Til the next one, folks — Empire, over and out!

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3.45am Almost as quick as it began, the time for japes are over. Billy Crystal tentatively peels open the envelope before he and Ryan announce, "And the Oscar goes to... ANORA!" Wow wow wow! This really is turning out to be the Greatest Day for Sean Baker and his team, who have rounded out a mini Oscar sweep with a massive fifth win on the night.

"Long live independent film," says director Sean Baker, who's just become the first person to win four Academy Awards on the same night for the same film, as his team of collaborators swarm the stage variously smiling, laughing, crying, and looking like all their Christmases have come at once. "We made this with very little money but all of our hearts. To all of the dreamers and the young filmmakers out there, tell the stories you want to tell. Tell the stories that move you. I promise you will never regret it.” It's a defiant, hopeful, triumphant final word from the filmmaker at the end of another twist-and-turn filled night at the Oscars. A fairytale ending for a fairytale picture — that did it all, and did it all in eight-inch stripper heels!

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3.44am Now for the grand daddy of 'em all — Best Picture! And after that Hellman's ad at the Super Bowl, we're getting another When Harry Met Sally reunion here as Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan take to the stage. "When you have the chance to be an Oscar winner for the rest of your life, you want the rest of your life to start right away," quips Crystal, riffing on his immortal line from his and Ryan's rom-com classic.

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3.38am And the winner is... now there is a surprise! Mikey Madison scoops the top honour for her portrayal of sex worker Anora in, well, Anora, and is played up to the stage to the tune of an instrumental upbeat take on Take That's 'Greatest Day'. Holy smokes!

"I grew up in Los Angeles, but Hollywood always felt so far away to me," begins a clearly shocked Madison, paying tribute to her family and collaborators before once again making a point of honouring the sex worker community. "That community has been one of the highlights of this entire, incredible experience," beams Madison, finishing on a note of gratitude to her fellow nominees and to her director Sean Baker ("I adore you!") And if that doesn't tell us who's a lock for Best Picture then we don't know what else will...

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3.37am Penultimate award of the evening, folks — and two-time Oscar winner Emma Stone, who very generously decided to take a break from dominating awards season this year, is here to present the gong for Best Actress in a Leading Role.

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3.30am After that long Brody acceptance speech, there's barely time to breathe before Quentin Tarantino arrives on stage to hand the award for Best Director to... Sean Baker!

The filmmaker leaves the quips this time up to the podium, instead taking the time to rally round the importance of supporting bricks and mortar cinema. "Here's my battle cry," begins an impassioned Baker. "Filmmakers, keep making films for the big screen. I will. Distributors, focus on the theatrical release of your film. Parents, introduce your children to movie theatres, and help foster the next generation of movie lovers and filmmakers. Let's keep the moviegoing experience alive!" And the crowd, as they say, goes wild. It's a great speech — but will he be needing to pull out another before the night's through. We're starting to wonder...

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3.22am And the Oscar goes to Adrien Brody for The Brutalist! Brody is now a two-time Oscar winner (his first being for The Pianist in 2002), and also now holds the rare honour of 'longest Oscar winning performance', with his towering performance as architect László Tóth clocking in at a monolithic 128 minutes and 30 seconds. There's no questioning the fact that the man's earned his honours this season!

Brody, who has been the epitome of class throughout this awards race, is on typically composed and graceful form with his speech tonight, thanking everyone from God to his cast mates to his family to the studios who backed The Brutalist, and taking a moment to get introspective about what his journey with the film has meant to him. It's a long old speech, fitting the movie it honours (one for the YouTube in the morning!), but it ends with a brilliant flourish from Brody, who says "Popsy's coming home a winner" before cutting off the play-you-off music with a "Turn the music off. Thank you. It's not my first rodeo. I will be brief." Reader, he was not brief... but his message of unity and love was powerful and oh so very — and it's that word again — timely. "I pray for a healthier and a happier and a more inclusive world," said the star before signing off. "And I believe if the past can teach us anything, it’s a reminder to not let hate go unchecked. I love you and I appreciate you all. Let’s fight for what’s right.”

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3.21am Big one up next — Best Actor! Last year's winner Cillian Murphy is here to present, but who will win? Is it Brody's time again? Will Chalamet win it? Could Colman snatch it? Or is it Ralph Fiennes' moment at last? A Sebastian Stan win would be pretty YUGE!

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3.20am Honours even as we head into the last few awards of the night. For those keeping a tally, Anora, The Brutalist, Dune: Part Two, Emilia Pérez, and Wicked all sit pretty on two wins so far. We told you it was gonna be close!

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3.11am Next up — Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah Winfrey introduce Queen Latifah for a lively tribute to legendary music mogul Quincy Jones, who passed away at the age of 91 on 3 November last year.

'Ease On Down The Road' remains an unimpeachable banger, fifty whole years on from its Broadway debut in The Wiz. A fact attested to by Colman Domingo and Ariana Grande shaking a tail feather in the Dolby Theatre — and by the toe-tapping happening here at Empire Mission Control at *checks time* 3:15 am in the morning. Hoo boy, anyone else tempted to phone in sick this morning? [Editor's note: No, no you are not.]

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3.06am Mark Hamill is here to present the Oscar for Original Score next. He would've been on stage with Harrison Ford tonight, but his Star Wars co-star is sadly out of action and battling shingles. Our best wishes are with Harrison Ford as we wait to see who scoops the fifth-to-last award of the evening.

And this one goes to... Daniel Blumberg, for The Brutalist! It's the brutalist blockbuster's second win of the night, and a nervous Blumberg rushes through his thank-yous before shouting out, in sing-song fashion (twice that's happened tonight — if only we had a nickel for every time that happened, eh?), "Café Alto!" Anybody fancy a trip to the 'Dam?

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3.03am "Anora is having a good night. Two wins already. I guess Americans are excited to see somebody finally stand up to a powerful Russian," jokes Conan O'Brien as we head into the final five awards of the evening. There's an almighty "Ooh..." in response to that one. [Not wrong though, is he?]

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2.56am This thing is definitely going to run over at this rate, and we're rattling through the awards a little now. The award for International Feature Film goes to Brazil's I'm Still Here, a win that director Walter Salles touchingly dedicates to the movie's subject Eunice Paiva, and to his star Fernanda Torres as well as her mother, feted actress, former Oscar nominee, and Salles' former muse Fernanda Montenegro. No complaints here for that one — a poetically apt win on the night.

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2.51am The Fab Five treatment is being deployed again for the announcement of the winner of the hotly contested Best Cinematography category, and just hearing the stars of the likes of Dune: Part Two, Maria, The Brutalist, Emilia Pérez, and Nosferatu speak about their DPs' work is a sage reminder of the embarrassment of visual riches we've been treated to over the past twelve months. And the Oscar goes to... The Brutalist, and first-time nominee Lol Crawley!

"My time's started already," says Lol Crawley as he reaches for his pre-prepared speech, conscious of the dreaded play-off music. "Thanks for allowing me to sail close to the edge, and for catching me whenever I came close to falling in," Crawley says in tribute to director Brady Corbet, "Thank you to Brady for realising that the richest diamonds are the hardest to mine."

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2.40am Morgan Freeman is now on stage paying tribute to "a giant, a friend," Gene Hackman. The duo worked together on both Unforgiven and Under Suspicion, and while Freeman mentions how he won two Oscars, he rightly remarks how he also won the world's hearts. "Rest in peace, my friend," he says, faltering a little as he leaves the stage and the In Memoriam segment begins.

This year, the Academy remembers the likes of Dame Maggie Smith, Donald Sutherland, Richard M. Sherman, Kris Kristofferson, Jon Landau, Shelley Duvall, David Lynch, James Earl Jones, the aforementioned Hackman, and many, many more besides. Mozart's 'Lacrimosa' is certainly a dirgeful choice of music for the reflective segment of the show, but there's no denying the emotional impact of the piece in the room and in our homes.

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2.37am The next presenting duo to hit the stage are Sterling K. Brown and Ana De Armas, here to hand out the gong for Live-Action Short. Which goes to... 'I'm Not A Robot', directed by partners Victoria Warmerdam and Trent, who share a tender "I love you" on stage. Big "Aww!" from the crowd.

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2.30am Gal Gadot and Rachel Zegler, stars of the upcoming Snow White live-action remake, are here to present the award for Visual Effects, which immediately doubles Dune's tally. Yes, Dune: Wins Two!

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2.27am Miles Teller and Miley Cyrus are here to present the award for Best Sound, which goes to... DUNEEE! Somewhere, in the dead of night, a sleeping James Dyer is dreaming of the Lisan al'Gaib and smiling as his beloved Arrakisian epic finally gets some Oscar loving. We don't think anyone would argue it isn't a worthy winner!

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2.23am The firefighters who helped put out the Californian wildfires are being saluted now — and amid the ovations and applause, Conan is taking the time to use the goodwill towards the Greater Los Angeles Fire Department to try out some edgier material. "“Our hearts go out to those who have lost their homes. And I’m talking about the producers of Joker 2" gives you a sample of the roasting O'Brien had the LAFD commit. This combo of good taste and low-stakes banter is proving a winning combo with the crowd — Chalamet has been grinning every time the camera cuts to the A Complete Unknown star.

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2:11am Selena Gomez and Samuel L. Jackson are here to present the awards for Documentary Short and Feature. The Oscar for Documentary Short goes to Netflix's 'The Only Girl In The Orchestra', whose makers Molly O'Brien and Lisa Remington are, somewhat darkly ironically, given the dreaded musical play-off mid-speech. No sign of disappointed looking Lithgow or high school mugshots though — Conan O'Brien, you lie!

And the Oscar for Documentary Feature goes to No Other Land, an incredibly timely documentary about the ongoing conflict in Gaza, made by Palestinian and Israeli filmmakers in collaboration. "I hope my daughter won't have to live the same life I have to live right now, always in fear [...] No Other Land reflects the harsh reality we have been enduring for decades," says co-director Basel Adra, "We call on the world to stop the injustice & stop the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people." "There is a different path," adds collaborator Yuval Abraham, pulling no punches as he talks on the ongoing conflict: "The foreign policy in this country is helping to block this path. Why? Can't you see that we are intertwined? There is another way. It's not too late for life, for the living." The duo combined offer easily the most powerful speech of the night so far bar none, for an incredibly powerful film (that it's worth noting is available to watch on Channel 4 this week coming.)

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2.08am "We're halfway through the show," says host Conan O'Brien as he returns to the stage, "It's almost time for Kendrick Lamar to come out and call Drake a paedophile!" There's a big "Ooh!" from the crowd for that bit of Super Bowl referencing edgy banter. Moving on however, and — could it be? — the musically gifted Shai Hulud is back! "When you spend that much on a bit, you have to use it twice"

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2.02am And the winner is... 'El Mal', from Emilia Pérez. Sadly, 'La Vaginoplastia' was never in the running — alas! Songwriter Camille is currently singing "Emilia" on stage, for just ever so slightly longer than anybody looks comfortable with. Still, second win of the night for Emilia Pérez, and another win for musicals at the Oscars overall. [Fun Fact: This year's Oscars has seen the most musical movie nominations since way back in 1969!]

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1.59am Mick Jagger is in the building! And he's here to present the award for Original Song — because, he jests, Bob Dylan didn't fancy it. We think that this is a bit, but when it comes to Bobby D, you can never be too sure. Still, from 'Like A Rolling Stone' to, like, a Rolling Stone — what a dream for rock'n'roll lovers. (Still miffed we didn't get live performances of the Best Original Song nominees though... c'mon, Oscar!)

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1.54am Next up, Production Design — and Ben Stiller is here to present. The gag here is that Stiller's presenting podium has failed to rise, and is gradually descending as he tries to get through the nomination shpiel. "Here! Are the nominees! For Production Design!" He shouts as he disappears from view. We guess you could say that he presented this one from *chuckles* the Severed Floor. [Insert Fozzie Bear, "Waka-Waka!" GIF]

And the Oscar goes to... Wicked! It's seven-time Academy Award nominated Production Designer Nathan Crowley's first win, and he shares it with Set Designer Lee Sandales. "Jon, you took us over the rainbow, thank you so much," gush the duo, paying tribute to director Jon M. Chu.

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1.45am And the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress goes to... Zoe Saldaña, for Emilia Pérez! Saldaña, who has enjoyed an incredible run this awards season, is taking this moment to pay tribute to the women in her life — her castmates, her friends, her family ("Mami!" is the first thing she shouts as she makes her way on stage) — and, bursting into tears, makes a powerful comment on her migrant heritage. "My grandmother came to this country in 1961, and I am the proud child of immigrant parents. I am the first American of Dominican origin to accept an Academy Award, and I know I will not be the last! I hope the fact that I'm getting an award for a role where I got to sing and speak in Spanish— my grandmother, if she were here, she would be so delighted." It's powerful, personal, timely, and comes from an actor who's really been through it this season, surpassing controversies swirling around her movie to be a beacon of light and embody some of the film's strongest messages — of love, acceptance, and the inalienable right we all have to exist freely as our truest selves. A richly deserved win that no number of castmates' dodgy tweets can take the shine off of.

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1.43am Da'Vine Joy Randolph, last year's Supporting Actress winner, is here to present this year's award, and... man, don't you all just wish someone could praise you the way Randolph is praising this year's nominees? All the nominees are being left in bits by her beautiful words and dulcet tones... we feel like we could win this one at this point, honestly!

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1.41am And the Editing Oscar goes to... Sean Baker! That man's having a hell of a night — and it's not over yet, not a long shot. "I saved that movie in the edit," jokes Baker, who served as writer, director, and editor on Anora. "That director should never work again!" Anora sweep is... on!

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1.37am Darryl Hannah is here to present the award for Editing, and enters the stage shouting 'Slava Ukraine!" The response? A hearty round of applause, just in case you wanted a political temperature check alongside your evening's escapist entertainment.

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1.37am In these streaming times, as bricks and mortar cinema faces an existential crisis, Conan has come up with a solution — Cinemastreams! And yes, it is just cinema. God we love cinema! And streaming... but mostly cinema! Long may it continue.

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1.25am The Academy may have opted out of having all of this year’s Original Song nominees perform tonight, but that doesn’t mean there’s no music, no sirree. In honour of longtime James Bond producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson, who both received Honorary Oscars this past weekend (and recently announced their departures from guiding the good ship 007), we're being treated to a very special tribute to the franchise and its iconic songs. A slick-as-you-like reel of unforgettable Bond moments leads to a beguiling performance, with Margaret Qualley taking to the stage in blood-red, dancing with a fleet of suited and booted chaps to the immortal strains of the Bond Theme.

K-Pop megastar Lisa (of Blackpink) is here next, launching into a rousing rendition of 'Live And Let Die'. Now we're cooking!

And for the Oscars' next trick, multi-hyphenate rapper and singer Doja Cat is letting rip, draped in diamonds, singing — what else could it be? — 'Diamonds Are Forever'.

And to bring us home, British jazz sensation Raye, backed by a full-on orchestra, leaves us shaken and stirred with a belting rendition of 'Skyfall'. Raye Bond theme when? The crowd are on their feet at the Dolby Theatre, and we are on our feet in our lounges, which is saying something — it's nearly 2am in the morning here. (No, we don't really get why we got this particular performance. Also, when it's as good as this, we don't really care either. Get that Bezos buck Barb!)

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1.23am And the Oscar goes to... Pierre-Olivier Persin, Stéphanie Guillon and Marilyne Scarselli for The Substance! Why of course, the style is The Substance's — naturally.

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1.21am After a brief break, June Squibb and Scarlett Johannson are here to present the award for Makeup and Hair Styling. "I'm being played by Bill Skarsgard," quips Squibb. "I'm being played by Andy Serkis," zips back ScarJo. And just like that, a new Hollywood power duo has been born!

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1.08am Amy Poehler is here to announce the winners for Original and Adapted Screenplay!

And the Oscar for Original Screenplay goes to... Sean Baker, for Anora! This is Baker's first Oscar win, and the room is very much here for it. "I want to thank the sex worker community, they have shared their story, they have shared their life experiences, and my deepest respect is with you," says Baker, paying tribute to those who inspired his film and its layered, nuanced, deeply human exploration of the sex worker experience.

The Adapted Screenplay statue goes to Peter Straughan for Conclave, the eight-time nominated movie's first win of the night. Of note is Straughan's blue and yellow ribbon on his suit, a clear mark of solidarity with the Ukraine after a turbulent week in the world of geopolitics. Respect.

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1.04am Clack! Clack! Clack! What's that sound? Why, it's the sound of the awards for Best Original and Adapted Screenplay coming up, of course! But not before another bit from host Conan O'Brien, which sees Oscar announcer Nick Offerman narrating Conan's inner monologue to tee up the category.

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12:59am And the winner for Best Costume Design is... Wicked, for Paul Tazwell. He is, as he notes, the first Black man to win the Costume Design award, which has brought the Dolby Theatre to a standing ovation — led by none other than Cynthia Erivo, whose cheeks are tear soaked as she whoops and cheers for her cherished collaborator. With 10 nominations in all, this likely won't be Wicked and its team's last trip to the stage tonight!

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12:55am Next up is the award for Costume Design, which is receiving the Fab Five treatment as the stars of the nominated movies are all here to present this one — including Bowen Yang, who is dressed in full Wicked regalia. Holy Shiz!

Having Lily-Rose Depp (Nosferatu), Elle Fanning (A Complete Unknown), John Lithgow (Conclave), Connie Nielsen (Gladiator II), and Yang (Wicked) each in turn pay tribute to the nominees is a beautiful touch. (Also, Lithgow's Roomy Cossack is totally the name of our new punk band!)

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12:41am And the winner for Animated Feature is... Flow! Director Gints Zilbalodis thanks his friends, family, and his pets (of course!), noting his hope that his movie's wild success can open doors for more independent animated features to break through in the future. He also points out that this is Latvia's first ever Oscar win, emotionally calling for unity before leaving the stage, Oscar in hand. (Feathers McGraw is somewhere, out there, biding his time though... we just know it!)

Zilbalodis' momentous win is immediately followed by a win in Animated Short Film for Iranian duo Shirin Sohani and Hossein Molayemi, first-time Oscar winners for their short In The Shadow Of The Cypress. The filmmakers arrived in LA just three hours ago, and now here they are, at the Dolby Theatre, accepting an Academy Award. The duo are visibly flustered as they try to read their translated speech (they aren't native English speakers), but they power through and dedicate their win to "all those who are fighting their own inner and outer battles" in their homeland of Iran.

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12.39am Here to present the awards for Animated Short and Animated feature are Andrew Garfield and Goldie Hawn. "Goldie, Goldie, Goldie, can I tell you something? There is a person who, in my mother's life, gave her so much joy, and I get to thank that person tonight," says a characteristically emotionally open Garfield to Hawn. It's a sincere if somewhat strange opening gambit to present for the Animation categories, but Garfield's so charming and Hawn is so warm and receptive that we can't really complain — power of the movies, eh?

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12.30am First award of the evening is Best Supporting Actor, and Robert Downey Jr. is here to present. He's working the crowd and bigging up the impressive array of nominees. And the Oscar goes to.... well, it had to be, didn't it? It's Kieran Culkin for A Real Pain!

In typical Culkin fashion, this isn't a polished speech, but the visibly emotional actor powers through his thank yous ("Jesse Eisenberg, thank you for this movie. You're a genius... I'll never say that to your face again."), drops an F-bomb, and says "Please don't play the music, I really want to tell this story," before revealing how his wife Chazz promised him a fourth child if he ever won an Oscar. "Let's get cracking on those kids," zings Culkin before leaving the stage. New baby Culkster incoming folks — you heard it here first!

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12.27am And after that moment of reflection, a brief musical number called 'I Won't Waste Time' featuring the Shai Hulud from Dune on piano and... err... dancing Deadpool. Okay then!

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12.23am "The magic, the madness, the grandeur, and the joy of film will be with us forever," says Conan in a more sombre moment, reflecting on the Californian wildfires and the way that cinema offers us respite and reprieve during moments of political, social, environmental, and global crisis.

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12.19am — House rules, time! "If your speeches run too long, we won't play you off, we'll cut to John Lithgow looking at you — not angry, but slightly disappointed," says Conan. And if the talent still don't leave the stage, "I'll whack out your old headshots!"

And we even get an Adam Sandler in the opening monologue, who offers an almighty "Chalametttttt!", mispronounces Nosferatu, and then promptly leaves. The Sandman, undefeated!

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12.15am "Anora uses the f-word 479 times. That's more than the record set by Karla Sofía Gascón's publicist… Karla if you are going to tweet about the Oscars tonight, my name is Jimmy Kimmel," jokes O'Brien. Oh yeah, Conan's going straight there, and Gascón is in the room for it, seeming to take it all in good spirit. "We're just getting warmed up," promises/threatens O'Brien, before rifling through bits on AI, Bob Dylan, and Babygirl. The laughs are flowing in the room, and in Empire Mission Control's lounge. So far, so good!

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12.09am This year's host is Conan O'Brien, who makes his Oscar debut by... crawling out of Demi Moore's back in a bit revolving around Coralie Fargeat's The Substance. Remarkable!

"Wicked! A Real Pain! Nosferatu! These are just some of the names I was called on the red carpet," quips Conan, who's getting off to a flying start. The man's a natural — who'd've thunk getting someone who loves movies and writes comedy could work so well, eh?

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12.01am "There's no place like home... there's no place like home" says Judy Garland's Dorothy over a montage of LA-based movie moments from the last century of cinema to kick off the 97th Academy Awards, paying tribute to the city of Los Angeles in the aftermath of the California wildfires that tore through the city earlier this year. And now Ariana Grande is launching into a gorgeous rendition of 'Somewhere Over The Rainbow'

Following directly after comes Cynthia Erivo, singing Diana Ross' 'Home' to rapturous applause before the moment we've all really been waiting for. Yes, this year's Oscars is off to a flying start, a Wicked start, with a showstopping (but also actually show starting) duet of Defying Gravity from Grande and Erivo combined. That high note alone deserves its own Oscar — Holy Shiz!

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11.59pm As the great Cliff Booth once said, "And awayyyy we gooooo..."

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11.50pm 10 minutes to go! Time for a tactical wee break — and is it just us or does that tube of Pringles in the kitchen seem like a good idea right about now? Mmm...

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11.44pm Listen, we're a film publication and not a fashion outlet, but even us schmoes know that nobody's doing it quite like Sing Sing's sultan of sartorial styling Colman Domingo. And for the grand finale of an epic run of looks, the second-year-in-a-row Leading Actor nominee does not disappoint. The red and black fit, the Oscar gold accessories, the watch, the... the everything. Colman Domingo? More like Colman DominLETSFRIGGINGO! [T-16 minutes til takeoff people...]

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11.32pm Cynthia Erivo's stunning, Emerald City inspired red carpet look has us over here in our PJs positively green with envy. Could the Leading Actress nominated Wicked star leave the Dolby Theatre tonight an EGOT? We think it could be Moore's this year, but only time will tell...

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11.16pm He's not A Complete Unknown — he's two-time Leading Actor Oscar nominee Timothée Chalamet! Should Timmy C land the coveted Oscar for his chameleonic transformation into Bob Dylan in James Mangold's electric biopic, he'll usurp fellow nominee Adrien Brody as the youngest Best Actor winner in Academy Awards history by a whole eight months. And following that SAG Awards win last weekend, Chalamet's awards season momentum has been building like, well, like a rolling stone actually...

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11.00pm Demi Moore, Leading Actress nominee for her phenomenal performance in Coralie Fargeat's body-horror The Substance, is here. No sign of Margaret Qualley, however... or Monstro Elisasue. But there is still time. Whose week is it, again?

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10.55pm — "Take the piss out of the people in front of you — they can take it!" Jason Isaacs, who is on fine contrarian form already this evening, doesn't go in for the pomp and ceremony of the Oscars it would seem. Just you wait until Mikey Madison/Timothée Chalamet's father hears about this!

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10.39pm Snack update from Empire Mission Control: The Randoms are gone and the popcorn is dwindling! It's still over an hour yet til the show starts... welp!

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10.35pm We're an hour into our live Oscars blog coverage here, and the UK telecast for the night is officially underway. Jonathan Ross is hosting this year on the box, and among his guests is none other than Jason Isaacs — a hearty hello to you, Mr Isaacs!

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10.27pm Find some space folks and hold it close — somebody very Pop-u-lar just arrived on the red carpet! Ariana Grande, who's up for Supporting Actress for her turn as Galinda/Glinda in Wicked, is a vision in pink as she makes her way into the Dolby Theatre. She and co-star/co-nominee Cynthia Erivo are expected to open tonight's Oscars with a medley from their musical movie blockbuster, so expect to see plenty more from Ari as the evening goes on!

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10.18pm She may be nominated for I'm Still Here, but Brazillian Leading Actress hopeful Fernanda Torres (not to be confused with Liverpool Football Club's legendary No. 9!) is well on her way there — to the Dolby Theatre, that is — with this elegant Oscars look, previewed on the star's Insta just ahead of her red carpet arrival. If Torres takes home the gold statue tonight, she will become her country's first Leading Actress winner, avenging her mother Fernanda Montenegro's loss to Shakespeare In Love's Gwyneth Paltrow back in 1999.

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10.01pm With just under two hours to go until the 97th Academy Awards officially gets underway, here's what some of the team at Empire HQ are hoping to see at this year's ceremony. If you too feel like Denis Villeneuve and A Different Man star Adam Pearson were done royally dirty by this year's Oscar noms, then please find solace in the below:

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9.49pm And while we're talking Animated Feature hopefuls, check out the incredible cufflinks Flow filmmaker Gints Zilbalodis is rocking this evening. How much do they cost? And where are they from? Asking for an us... (Also, Fun Fact: The cat from Flow didn't have a name when Zilbalodis was making the movie, but so many people are now calling the feline kitty Flow that it is now, officially, called Flow! The more you know, eh?)

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9.46pm This year's red carpet is already off to a cracking start as the makers and stars of Best Animated Feature hopeful Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl have arrived. Wallace, Gromit, and Norbot have all dickied up for the occasion, and— WAIT! NOBODY MOVE! IT'S THAT FELONIOUS FAKE FOWL FEATHERS MCGRAW! He'll be hoping to steal Oscar gold later this evening... keep an eye out for that one.

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9.38pm Here we go again! The Oscars are here and the red carpet is well underway outside the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles. But while the stars are shining out in LA, your friendly neighbourhood Team Empire back here in Blighty are loading up on Lucozade, Randoms, and that fancy chocolate-dipped popcorn from Joe & Seph's as we await the ceremony proper's kick-off at approximately midnight. Once it begins, we'll be bringing you the winners, the special guest presenters, the awkward/hilarious comedy bits, and everything in between — including, if reports prove true, a special musical tribute to James Bond with a license to thrill! More updates back here shortly, we're off to fill a thermos with coffee for those wee small hours...