Succession star Kieran Culkin continues award season sweep
Succession star Kieran Culkin has continued his award season success streak as he was named the winner of the best supporting actor category at the Oscars.
Culkin, 42, beat Edward Norton, Guy Pearce and his Succession co-star Jeremy Strong in the category as the 97th awards show got under way in Los Angeles.
Culkin, who has also won a Bafta and a Golden Globe for the role, started his speech by hailing his fellow nominee Strong, saying: “I loved your work in The Apprentice.”
Paying tribute to Eisenberg, he said: “Thank you for this movie, you are a genius, I will never say this again, so soak it up.”
Culkin also said that his wife, Jazz Charton, promised him a fourth child if he won an Oscar he said.
He added: “I held my hand and you shook it … I brought it up now – I owe you, no pressure, I love you, I am sorry I did this again, let’s get cracking on those kids.”
The event opened with a video showing well-known places in California and the Hollywood Hills sign in what appeared to be a tribute to the Los Angeles wildfires.
It ended saying: “We love LA.”
Wicked star Ariana Grande then launched into The Wizard Of Oz song Somewhere Over The Rainbow, wearing a red dress and ruby slippers.
Her Wicked co-star star Cynthia Erivo then took to the stage to perform Home from The Wiz, a spin-off film of The Wizard Of Oz.
British star Erivo and US pop star Grande are nominated for best actress, and best supporting actress respectively, for their roles in the prequel to The Wizard Of Oz.
US comedian Conan O’Brien, who is hosting this year, kicked off the ceremony with a recreation of a gruesome scene from body horror The Substance, which stars Demi Moore.
During his opening monologue he referenced the controversy surrounding Netflix musical Emilia Perez and actress Karla Sofia Gascon.
O’Brien said if Gascon wanted to tweet about the awards on Sunday, she should “remember my name is Jimmy Kimmel”.
The Spanish language movie, which also stars US actresses Zoe Saldana and Selena Gomez, is directed by Jacques Audiard and tells the story of a Mexican cartel boss who enlists the help of a lawyer to assume a new identity as a woman.
Wicked picked up its first win of the night as American costume designer Paul Tazewell won the costume design Oscar.
Tazewell made Oscars history by becoming the first black man to win the prize and during his speech thanked “everyone in the UK” who helped on the musical production as he received a standing ovation from the attendees.
The Oscar for animated short film went to the Iranian film In The Shadow Of The Cypress, after the team behind it almost missed the ceremony because of visa issues, which they referenced in their speech.
British writer Peter Straughan won the Oscar for adapted screenplay for papal drama Conclave, while the award for original screenplay went to Anora, a film about a stripper who falls in love with the son of a Russian oligarch.
This year’s ceremony takes place following the wildfires which ravaged parts of Los Angeles in January.