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In a rather tense moment, the cards ended up falling the way we predicted. It's the fifth win for One Battle After Another tonight, and Paul Thomas Anderson's second gold of the night. 

It marks the beginning of the tough section of these awards — this trophy, and many of the categories coming up, are tightly contested. And in most of those categories, the challenger is Sinners. Ryan Coogler was a dark-horse candidate for this category, but Anderson instead took it home. 

"You make a guy work hard for one of these things," Anderson joked, referencing the fact that he's been up for (and lost) the category four times in his career.

As many expected, Golden, the hit song from KPop Demon Hunters, won the Oscar for best original song. This also marks the second Oscar win for the film, which includes best animated feature. This is a history-making run for K-pop at the show.

"This award is not about success; it's about resilience," said EJAE, one of the song's writers and performers. She also squeezed in a shoutout to Canadian Maggie Kang, the movie's writer and co-director, before the rest of the team was played out. 

The Voice of Hind Rajab was one of five films nominated for best international feature film. 

It's a Tunisian film that tells the true story of Hind Rajab. The Palestinian girl and her family were in their vehicle when Israeli forces fired on them. The six-year-old was on the phone with dispatchers, begging to be rescued but help didn’t arrive in time. 

"She made this choice to feed the real audio of the little girl into their ear only after action was said."  

Ahead of announcing the international feature film nominees alongside Priyanka Chopra, presenter Javier Bardem said “no to war” and “free Palestine," in the first mention of the war since the show began. 

Norway’s Sentimental Value won the Academy Award for best international feature film. 

The movie was nominated for nine Oscars tonight, including several acting awards and best picture. 

"All adults are responsible for all children," director Joachim Trier said in his acceptance speech.

In the Oscars press room, I was picked to ask a question to our newest Canadian Oscar winners — Tamara Deverell and Shane Vieau for best production design — about making Frankenstein in Toronto. 

“You know, I will say that while building this show, there's no better artisans than in Toronto,” Vieau said. 

“I mean, we are definitely on the world market. That's continually why we're there and we've proven that over the years.”

It’s already been a golden night for KPop Demon Hunters, which won best animated feature earlier in the evening, but it’s an extra special night for the real-life voices behind the animated music group HUNTR/X: Ejae, Rei Ami and Audrey Nuna. The singers are performing the mega-hit Golden on the Academy Awards stage, one of the two songs nominated for best original song being performed at the ceremony.

Golden is easily the biggest hit of any of the best original song nominees, with the film’s soundtrack certified platinum last fall after selling more than one million units, while the song itself reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and stayed there for eight weeks.

The audience joined in the illuminating performance, waving lights, while our team in Toronto sang their golden hearts out!

Autumn Durald Arkapaw of Sinners has made history twice. She is the only woman to have won best cinematography, and the first racialized woman to be nominated and win in this category.

Only three women have been nominated before her, and no woman has ever won the category in the history of the Oscars … until now.

Durald Arkapaw's journey to her historic win began with a recommendation from her friend, Rachel Morrison (the first woman ever nominated in this category, in 2018), the cinematographer on Ryan Coogler's Black Panther. When Morrison was unavailable for the sequel, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, she suggested Durald Arkapaw, who got the job. She then returned to work on Sinners. 

In her acceptance speech, Durald Arkapaw asked all the women to stand up, saying "I didn't get here without you, guys."

There have been three standing ovations so far, and they've all been for Sinners.

"A lot of little girls who look like me will sleep really well because they want to become cinematographers," she said backstage at the press room.

It’s another win for One Battle After Another — that makes four — this time taking the Oscar for best editing. 

The two previous best picture winners, Anora and Oppenheimer, also won best editing before claiming the night’s top prize. 

Did you hear that? The Oscar for best achievement in sound went to F1, the film starring Brad Pitt. Helping bring the auto-racing sounds to the screen is the winning team of Gareth John, Al Nelson, Gwendolyn Yates Whittle, Gary A. Rizzo and Juan Peralta.

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