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 took home best picture at the 98th Oscars on Sunday night.

It was a big night for director Paul Thomas Anderson, who also won best director and best adapted screenplay for the film. Cassandra Kulukundis, casting director of 

 won his first Oscar for best original screenplay, and actor 

 won his first, best actor, for playing twins — Smoke and Stack — in the vampire movie. 

 won best actress for her role as Agnes Shakespeare in 

The ceremony even featured a tie between two live action short films: 

Occasionally those on stage gestured toward the world beyond Hollywood: "No to war and free Palestine," Javier Bardem said on stage, presenting the award for best international feature film.

David Borenstein, co-director of winning feature documentary 

 is about how you lose your country. And what we saw when working with this footage … it's that you lose it through countless small, little acts of complicity. When we act complicit, when a government murders people on the streets of our major cities, when we don't say anything, when oligarchs take over the media and control how we can produce it and consume it, we all face a moral choice."

Co-director Pavel "Pasha" Talankin, who shot footage for the documentary while working at a Russian school, said onstage, "In the name of our future, in the name of all of our children, stop all of these wars now."

Performance by an actress in a leading role

Performance by an actor in a leading role

Performance by an actress in a supporting role

Performance by an actor in a supporting role

Armed Only With a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud

 written by Jafar Panahi; script collaborators: Nader Saïvar, Shadmehr Rastin, Mehdi Mahmoudian

, written by Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie

, written for the screen by Guillermo del Toro

, screenplay by Chloé Zhao and Maggie O'Farrell

 screenplay by Clint Bentley & Greg Kwedar

, Mike Hill, Jordan Samuel and Cliona Furey

 Kyoko Toyokawa, Naomi Hibino and Tadashi Nishimatsu

, Ken Diaz, Mike Fontaine and Shunika Terry

, Kazu Hiro, Glen Griffin and Bjoern Rehbein

, Thomas Foldberg and Anne Cathrine Sauerberg

 music and lyric by EJAE, Mark Sonnenblick, Joong Gyu Kwak, Yu Han Lee, Hee Dong Nam, Jeong Hoon Seon and Teddy Park

; music and lyric by Raphael Saadiq and Ludwig Goransson

; music by Nick Cave and Bryce Dessner; lyric by Nick Cave

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Michael B. Jordan and Jessie Buckley won best actor and best actress

 Paul Thomas Anderson received best director

 Cassandra Kulukundis won the Academy's first ever casting award.

Michael B. Jordan and Jessie Buckley won best actor and best actress. Paul Thomas Anderson received best director. Cassandra Kulukundis won the Academy's first ever casting award.


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