In a startling turn of affairs, Will Smith appeared to slap Chris Rock after a joke about Smith’s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith. This event overshadowed all the winners and is now the topic of this year’s event – even dwarfing the fact that Will Smith took home the Best Actor award for his role in King Richard.
The Best Picture award went to Coda, as well as Best Supporting Actor which was a historic win for Troy Kotsur as the first Deaf man to win an Award for acting, following in his co-star Marlee Matlin’s footsteps who won an Oscar in 1987 for her role in Children of a Lesser God. The film also won the prize for Best Adapted Screenplay.
Denis Villeneuve's adaptation of Frank Herbert's sci-fi epic Dune took home six wins including Cinematography, Production Design, Visual Effects, Original Score, Sound and Film Editing.
Best Director went to Jane Campion for The Power of the Dog, Best Actress to Jessica Chastain for her role in The Eyes of Tammy Faye and Best Supporting Actress to Ariana DeBose for West Side Story.
Best Picture: Coda
Actor in a Leading Role: Will Smith, King Richard
Actress in a Leading Role: Jessica Chastain, The Eyes of Tammy Faye
Animated Feature Film: Encanto
Cinematography: Dune, Greig Fraser
Director: Jane Campion, The Power of the Dog
Documentary Feature: Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Documentary Short Subject: The Queen of Basketball
International Feature Film: Drive My Car (Japan)
Original Song: No Time to Die from No Time to Die, Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell.
Production Design: Dune,Production Design: Patrice Vermette, Set Decoration: Zsuzsanna Sipos
Visual Effects: Dune Paul Lambert, Tristan Myles, Brian Connor and Gerd Nefzer
Makeup and Hairstyling: The Eyes of Tammy Faye, Linda Dowds, Stephanie Ingram and Justin Raleigh
Film Editing: Dune, Joe Walker
Actor in a Supporting Role: Troy Kotsur, Coda
Actress in a Supporting Role: Ariana DeBose, West Side Story
Live-Action Short Film: The Long Goodbye
Animated Short Film: The Windshield Wiper
Original Screenplay: Belfast, Kenneth Branagh
Adapted Screenplay: Siân Heder, Coda
Original Score: Dune, Hans Zimmer
Sound: Dune, Mac Ruth, Mark Mangini, Theo Green, Doug Hemphill and Ron Bartlett
Costume Design: Cruella, Jenny Beavan
