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Anne Hathaway and Anna Wintour present the next award. Hathaway pleads for Wintour’s approval. Wintour puts on some sunglasses and moves on. Classic Oscars bit.
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Now for some smaller, but still important, awards, starting with best costume design. But first, a man in the orchestra plays the “bum drum” with some ping pong bats, and a small film shows how awful it is to watch films on your phone vertically.
Updated at 19.51 EDT
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Another standout line from the monologue: O’Brien pointed out that no British performers were nominated in the lead acting awards. “In response a British spokesperson said: ‘Well, at least we arrest our paedophiles.’”
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Immediate standing ovation as soon as it ends. It’s bizarre to enjoy the Oscars this much. Surely it has to get interminable soon, right?
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And now the much anticipated Sinners musical number. It’s an extremely audacious performance, mimicking the standout sequence from the film where the juke joint gets overwhelmed by the entire past and present of Black music. Even the cinematography is similar, sweeping and winding around the stage. There is so much happening here that it’s almost overwhelming. One for the ages.
The performance of I Lied to You from the film Sinners. Photograph: Mike Blake/ReutersShare
Updated at 19.49 EDT
WINNER! THE GIRL WHO CRIED PEARLS, BEST ANIMATED SHORTStuart Heritage
Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski accept. Perhaps spooked by what happened to KPop Demon Hunters, they are brief.
Maciek Szczerbowski, and Chris Lavis accept the award for animated short film for The Girl Who Cried Pearls. Photograph: Chris Pizzello/Invision/APShare
Updated at 19.45 EDT
WINNER! KPOP DEMON HUNTERS, BEST ANIMATED FEATUREStuart Heritage
Well well, two awards and two genuinely popular winners. This isn’t how the Oscars usually go, is it? Obviously it helps that both winners so far are completely deserving. Maggie Kang, Chris Appelhans and Michelle LM Wong tearfully accept on behalf of all Koreans, and then get played off. A sad “oh” as they’re cut off while thanking Netflix. But they soldier on and beat the play-off music, setting a dangerous precedent for later in the evening. Everyone now has permission to go as long as they like, and none of us are getting to bed any time soon.
Chris Appelhans, Maggie Kang and Michelle Wong accept the animated feature award. Photograph: Rich Polk/Penske Media/Getty ImagesShare
Updated at 19.46 EDT
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Conan is teasing how the Oscars will look when they switch to YouTube in 2029, which means he’s constantly interrupted by adverts for torches starring Jane Lynch.
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The ITV hosts didn’t enjoy the monologue. I am permanently out of step with popular opinion.
ShareWINNER! AMY MADIGAN, BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESSStuart Heritage
For Weapons. This is a hell of a turn-up. Madigan has been an outsider all season, but might well be the popular winner. And it’s a very good early start, because she’s just as visibly surprised as everyone else, cackling and blabbering in shock. What a fantastic result.
Updated at 19.28 EDT
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The first award is for best supporting actress, as presented by Zoe Saldaña reading the blandest possible introduction.
Zoe Saldaña presents the award for best performance by an actress in a supporting role. Photograph: Chris Pizzello/Invision/APShare
Updated at 19.28 EDT
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And now a dream sequence in which O’Brien imagines that he wins an Oscar and is immediately crowned and blessed by the pope. And then Josh Groban sings a song about how amazing Conan O’Brien is. And then an eagle called Cicero delivers the award to him.
The monologue is over. It might have been the best one I’ve seen in all these years of doing this. And now I actually have to cover the awards themselves, which will be an anticlimax.
Host Conan O’Brien and Josh Groban perform onstage. Photograph: Kevin Winter/Getty ImagesShare
Updated at 19.27 EDT
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A small moment of seriousness, as O’Brien lauds the international community who made the nominated films. There’s a chance that this is a way to head off any overtly political speeches, but let’s see if that works.