LOS ANGELES: The full list of Oscar winners at Sunday’s 97th Academy Awards.

LOS ANGELES: “Anora,” the story of a New York sex worker who gets a chance at a new life when she marries a wealthy Russian client on a whim, won five Academy Awards on Sunday, including the coveted best picture Oscar.

JERUSALEM: Israeli Culture Minister Miki Zohar on Monday decried a “sad moment for cinema” after an Oscar win for “No Other Land“, a documentary about Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank.

LOS ANGELES: “No Other Land,” a film about Israeli displacement of a Palestinian community, won the documentary feature film Oscar on Sunday, and its directors appealed to the world to help end the conflict and accused the United States of blocking a solution.

SEOUL: Lisa of Blackpink has become the first K-pop artist to perform at the Oscars, delivering a medley from the James Bond film series at the prestigious Hollywood awards ceremony, Yonhap News Agency reported.

HOLLYWOOD: Independent film “Anora” – the tale of a sex worker whose marriage to the son of a Russian oligarch quickly unravels – was the big winner at the Oscars on Sunday, scooping five awards including best picture.

HOLLYWOOD: Here are the winners in key categories for the 97th Academy Awards, which were handed out in Hollywood on Sunday.

LOS ANGELES: Filmmaker Sean Baker won the Academy Award for best director for “Anora,” a film about an exotic dancer and sex worker who has the chance of a Cinderella story when she marries the son of a Russian oligarch.

HOLLYWOOD: Adrien Brody on Sunday completed his return to the top of Hollywood’s A list, winning the second best actor Oscar of his career for his searing portrayal of a Hungarian architect who emigrates to America after World War II in “The Brutalist.”

HOLLYWOOD: Zoe Saldana was nearly unrecognisable as a blue Na'vi princess in the "Avatar" franchise, and wore green makeup to play the reformed assassin Gamora in the "Guardians of the Galaxy" films.

RIGA: "Flow", a dialogue-free tale of animals surviving disaster, scored Sunday's Oscar for best animated feature, capping a remarkable awards season for the Latvian film made on a minuscule budget.

HOLLYWOOD: Kieran Culkin on Sunday capped a remarkable year by winning the Oscar for best supporting actor for his work in "A Real Pain," a bittersweet look at family, friendships and Jewish loss stemming from the Holocaust.

HOLLYWOOD: The Oscars, Hollywood's glitziest night of the year, got under way Sunday, with joint favourites "Anora" and "Conclave" seemingly poised for a showdown for the best picture prize.

KUALA LUMPUR: Influencer and actress Wee Yu Nee, better known as Mek Yun, expressed disappointment when her TikTok account, which already had 1.4 million followers, was banned and disappeared.

KUALA LUMPUR: Popular actress Anna Jobling is using the holy month of Ramadan to take a well-deserved break from acting after finishing a film project in Indonesia.

MUHAMMAD Nazmi “Little Chuckee” Rosli never had a single, defining moment that made him want to be a teacher. Sometimes, a calling doesn’t strike like lightning — it unfolds quietly, in the small moments that shape who you are.

BASED in Los Angeles, the United States, Joyie Lai Xinyuer is a producer, mix engineer and guitarist, and has performed around the world.

KUALA LUMPUR: Deeply immersed in playing her role as a deviant religious cult follower, actress Fazlina Ahmad Daud did not even wince when she had to drink the water in which actor Faizal Hussein had dipped both his feet.

LONDON: US pop star Katy Perry will be transported to space in a rocket operated by Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin, the aerospace company has announced.

GENE Hackman, who has been found dead in his home in New Mexico at the age of 95, was once voted as likely to flop in showbiz but instead went on to enjoy a storied, Oscar-winning career as an everyman actor who mined personal pain to give intense, edgy performances.