Almost all of the night’s winners are currently still in theaters, including “Conclave,” “Wicked,” “A Complete Unknown,” “The Brutalist,” and even Best Documentary winner “No Other Land.” Yuval Abraham,

Thank you for reading our live blog about the 2025 Academy Awards—a big night for “Anora” and “The Brutalist,” whose wins represent something of a resurgence for independent filmmaking at the Oscars.

When Sean Baker’s “Anora” swept the 97th Academy Awards, its five wins, including best picture, heralded a different kind of Oscar winner

The availability of the 97th Academy Awards on streaming platform Hulu likely added younger viewers to the telecast.

The show was broadcast on ABC, as it has been for decades, but also streamed live on Hulu, where there were glitches.

Just under 18.1 million people tuned into ABC’s telecast of the 97th Academy Awards on Sunday, marking a 7% decrease from the year before. That total, which comes from a combination of Nielsen’s measurement of linear viewers on ABC plus Disney’s own data regarding livestreams on Hulu,