Oscars 2025 live: Anora sweeps awards with best picture, best director and best actress

At the 97th Academy Awards in Los Angeles, Adrien Brody wins best actor for The Brutalist, while Zoe Saldaña and Kieran Culkin take prizes. Join us for full coverage
• The complete list of winners
• The red carpet – in pictures

And now a special live update from the Guardian’s Xan Brooks at the Dolby theatre in Hollywood …

First trip to the Oscars. Impossibly glamorous arrival. Non-celebrity guests, I discover, access the Dolby theatre by walking around the police cordons, across a filling station forecourt and past a shuttered bowling alley to the theatre doors. This is perhaps what’s known unofficially as the Karla Sofía Gascón Entrance. But I’m now safely inside and have been handed a spring roll to eat.

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