“Flow” – the Lithuanian fantasy adventure film following a group of animals led by an inquisitive cat in the face of a flood in a mysterious world devoid of people – has won the Academy Award for best animated feature.

Kieran Culkin has won the Academy Award for best supporting actor in “A Real Pain.”

While accepting his award, he thanked his manager, director Jessie Eisenberg as well as his family.

Culkin previously picked up awards at the Golden Globes, BAFTAs, Critics Choice Awards and SAG Awards for his performance in the film. He portrays the free-spirited but at-times selfish Benji Kaplan, whose approach to life plays a foil to the neuroticism of his cousin David (Jesse Eisenberg) as they embark on a Jewish heritage tour through Poland in honor of their late grandmother.

A former child actor alongside his brother, Macaulay, Kieran Culkin gained wider recognition for his standout performance as Roman Roy in HBO’s hit show, “Succession.”

CNN’s Alli Rosenbloom and Matt Meyer contributed reporting.

Conan O’Brien took a moment from his Oscars opening monologue to touch on the how the “seemingly absurd ritual” of the award show actually at its best brings people together, even in the face of adversity.

“Yes, many people we celebrate tonight are not famous, they’re not wealthy, but they are devoted to a craft that can in moments bring us all a little closer together. Now for almost a century we have paused every spring to elevate and celebrate an art form that has the power at its very best to unite us. So yes, even the face of terrible wildfires and divisive politics, the work, which is what this is about, the work continues,” O’Brien said.

A website to help support those impacted by the wildfires also appeared on the screen for viewers.

If you had a dancing Deadpool joining Conan O’Brien on stage for a jaunty little number, along with a piano-playing Sandworm from “Dune,” go ahead and clock out because you probably already know who all the winners are going to be Sunday night.

After a touching part of his opening monologue in which the Oscars host explained why the show was so important in the wake of the Los Angeles wildfires, O’Brien poked fun at the Oscars’ reputation for always going long.

“I won’t waste your time,” O’Brien said as he launched into a song and dance number about not wasting time. There were backup dancers in O’Brien wigs and yes, Deadpool did come out to dance.

As far as wastes of time go, it was a pretty good one. Now on with the show.

After a magical musical performance, the 97th Academy Awards opened up with a bit paying homage to the Oscar-nominated film “The Substance.”

A short clip showed actress Demi Moore injecting a green liquid into her body and falling on the floor, where a large gash opens up on her back, just as it does in the film. O’Brien’s head then emerged from the gash, to comedic effect.

“Hi, Demi. How are you,” O’Brien asked Moore, who was sitting in the audience after the clip showed. “That was weird. Yeah, awkward.”

The comedian then went on to both roast and praise some of the night’s nominees.

“I loved ‘Anora,’” he said. “A little fact for you: ‘Anora’ uses the F-word 479 times. That’s three more than the record set by Karla Sofia Gascón’s publicist.”

Gascón is attending the Academy Awards in spite of the backlash she has faced after offensive comments she posted on social media resurfaced, effectively derailing her history-making Oscar campaign.

He continued: “Karla, if you are going to tweet about the Oscars, remember my name is Jimmy Kimmel.”

O’Brien also poked fun at the more than three-and-a-half hour run time of “The Brutalist,” saying, “I loved ‘The Brutalist.’ I really did. I didn’t want it to end — and luckily it didn’t.”

He also fit in jokes at actor Timothée Chalamet’s bright yellow outfit of the night, saying, “You will not get hit on your bike tonight.”

Ralph Fiennes — who became part of Conan O’Brien’s opening monologue on Sunday night — has yet to win an Academy Award, but a funny thing happens when he is nominated.

Sunday night marks the third time the actor is up for an acting award, this time for the film “Conclave.” The last two times he was nominated were for “Schindler’s List” and “The English Patient” both of which won for best picture.

So does a Fiennes nomination this year mean “Conclave” will take home the best picture Oscar? We shall have to wait and see, but perhaps Fiennes might want to wish for some of that luck for himself, too.

Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo are such “Wicked” good singers, and they reminded us of that Sunday night.

The costars kicked off tonight’s Oscars ceremony with Grande singing “Over the Rainbow” from “The Wizard of Oz” and Erivo crooning “Home” from “The Wiz,” before they came together for “Defying Gravity” from “Wicked.”

We knew they would be performing, but we didn’t know it would be this special – or the first thing on our screens tonight.

Both nominated tonight, the two women may not have been the darlings of awards season in terms of wins, but it’s been “Wicked” mania for the past few months, and rightfully so.

The film scored 10 nominations at this year’s Academy Awards including best actress for Erivo and supporting actress for Grande.

No matter how tonight’s ceremony goes, they won the hearts of the audience, which awarded them with a standing ovation for their spectacular performances.

Hollywood’s biggest night is officially underway at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.

The show is starting with a performance of “Over the Rainbow” by “Wicked” star Ariana Grande.

Need a crash course? Here are the nominees in this year’s top categories.

Fresh off starring in two blockbusters and a press run that has won him new fans across various sections of pop culture, Timothée Chalamet is sure to set social media ablaze with this bold look on the Oscars red carpet.

Chalamet is wearing Givenchy, with a cropped jacket, shirt and pants all in butter yellow. He paired the look with black shoes.

About Chalamet’s movies: “A Complete Unknown” is nominated in several categories at tonight’s Academy Awards, including best picture and acting nods for Chalamet and Edward Norton.

Chalamet embodies the enigmatic rock star Bob Dylan in the film.

Driven in part by Chalamet’s years-long preparations to channel the bard, the film called on actors to perform live with period instruments, sometimes with as many as 30 microphones trained on them.

The 29-year-old actor also stars as Paul Atreides in “Dune: Part Two,” which is nominated for best picture, cinematography and several technical categories tonight.

Robert Harris may have penned the 2016 book which led to a potential Oscar-winning film, but don’t expect him to stay awake to watch the Academy Awards.

The “Conclave” author told the Associated Press that being in a different time zone means he’s not planning on watching the awards show, despite the film based on his book being up for a whopping ten trophies.

“These things are a bit of a strain anyway, and I don’t want to sit up all night and hear them say and the winner is… ‘Anora’ at four in the morning,” he laughingly said. “I hope that ‘Conclave’ wins and it’s certainly in with a chance. It’s not the favorite, but it’s probably started to creep up to become a second favorite. So who knows.”

Harris has been enjoying some of the benefits of the interest in his papal thriller now that it’s made it to the big screen as a film starring Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci and Isabella Rossellini, including increased sales of his book. But he said he wasn’t invited to the Oscars.

Still, Harris said he is “absolutely delighted” by all the attention the BAFTA-winning film has received.

“I think that they did a brilliant job, in every department. The direction, the production, the acting, the whole thing and music. The screenplay is very, very fine,” Harris said. “Very closely follows the book, which of course makes me pleased. But I think that’s a sign of (screenwriter) Peter Straughan’s talent. It makes a bit of a change of the quiet life of the novelist.”

Demi Moore has arrived at the Oscars in a stunning silver gown.

Moore, 62, is nominated for best actress for her lead role in “The Substance,” a body horror film about an aging actress who takes a substance to give her a “younger, better version of herself,” played in the film by Margaret Qualley, 30.

CNN’s Dan Heching and Lisa Respers France contributed reporting to this post.

Actress Zoe Saldaña has arrived at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, walking the red carpet before heading in for a show where she’s featured as a nominee in the best supporting actress category.

Saldaña remains a bright spot for Netflix’s “Emilia Pérez,” which despite leading this year’s awards with 13 nominations, has been dragged down by recent controversies surrounding Saldaña’s co-star, Karla Sofía Gascón. “El Mal,” a song performed by Saldaña and Gascón in the drug cartel musical, is also nominated for best original song.

Those two categories are now widely viewed as the film’s best shot at taking home hardware tonight.

The ceremony is less than an hour away, so it’s time for your final crash course on the night’s big titles.

“Emilia Pérez” leads the way with 13 nominations at the 97th Academy Awards, but controversy surrounding the film has only deepened the feeling that we enter the night with few sure things in the top categories.

“The Brutalist” and “Wicked” boast 10 nominations each, while “Anora,” “Conclave” and “A Complete Unknown” are also viewed as strong contenders in key award races.

Best picture

• “Anora”
• “The Brutalist”
• “A Complete Unknown”
• “Conclave”
• “Dune: Part Two”
• “Emilia Pérez”
• “I’m Still Here”
• “Nickel Boys”
• “The Substance”
• “Wicked”

Best actor in a leading role

• Adrien Brody, “The Brutalist”
• Timothée Chalamet, “A Complete Unknown”
• Colman Domingo, “Sing Sing”
• Ralph Fiennes, “Conclave”
• Sebastian Stan, “The Apprentice”

Best actress in a leading role

• Cynthia Erivo, “Wicked”
• Karla Sofía Gascón, “Emilia Pérez”
• Mikey Madison, “Anora”
• Demi Moore, “The Substance”
• Fernanda Torres, “I’m Still Here”

Best actor in a supporting role

• Yura Borisov, “Anora”
• Kieran Culkin, “A Real Pain”
• Edward Norton, “A Complete Unknown”
• Guy Pearce, “The Brutalist”
• Jeremy Strong, “The Apprentice”

Best actress in a supporting role

• Monica Barbaro, “A Complete Unknown”
• Ariana Grande, “Wicked”
• Felicity Jones, “The Brutalist”
• Isabella Rossellini, “Conclave”
• Zoe Saldaña, “Emilia Pérez”

Check out our list with more of the top nominees here.

Cynthia Erivo is the gift that keeps on giving.

Following her “Wicked” co-star Ariana Grande, Erivo appeared on the Oscars red carpet in a voluminous, very dark green velvet gown with sleeves in the style of a ribbon.

Erivo discussed her show-stopping nails on the red carpet, which she said take hours to perfect.

Today’s nails were an ode to Oz, she explained to E! “You know, the Emerald City and all the green and the gold, and the gild,” she said, adding that her nail artist hand-sculpts the designs.

“Wicked” earned 10 Oscar nominations this year, including best picture, original score and several nods in the technical categories.

If Erivo scores an Oscar win tonight, she will achieve EGOT status, joining fewer than 30 artists who have won Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony awards. She and Grande are set to perform during tonight’s show.

CNN’s Alli Rosenbloom and Maureen Chowdhury contributed reporting.

Brazilian actress Fernanda Torres, who is nominated for best lead actress tonight, has arrived on the Oscars red carpet.

Torres co-stars in “I’m Still Here” alongside her mother Fernanda Montenegro, who herself was an Oscar nominee for best lead actress in 1999 for “Central Station.” They are only the second mother-daughter duo to be nominated for best actress, after Liza Minelli and Judy Garland.

“It’s unbelievable to have nominated DNA,” Torres told E! on the red carpet, when asked about the historic moment. She also said she is thankful for the fact that a Portuguese-language film made on a low budget was nominated.

“I’m Still Here” follows a mother of five who is forced to reinvent herself amid escalating violence under Brazilian dictatorship in the early 1970s.

The film is also nominated for best international feature and best picture of the year at Sunday’s ceremony.

CNN’s Dan Heching contributed to this report.

Actress and singer Ariana Grande turned heads on the Oscars red carpet in a dramatic satin and tulle Schiaparelli gown.

With her hair pulled back and simple accessories, all eyes are on the dress, which was inspired by an archive lamp made by the Swiss sculptor and painter Alberto Giacometti, according to Schiaparelli. Grande’s dress appears to have been customized with a bluish-pink shade and glitter — reminiscent of her character in “Wicked.”

Both Grande and co-star Cynthia Erivo are up for individual honors tonight for their roles in the box office smash.

In the cinematic adaptation of the beloved Broadway musical, which recounts events in the magical land of Oz that occurred before Dorothy’s arrival, Grande plays Glinda and Erivo portrays Elphaba, the future Wicked Witch of the West.

The two begin the tale as enemies but are drawn to each other anyway, amplifying each other’s strengths until Oz tries to force them apart. Their witchy friendship is chronicled throughout the story, by turns hilarious and heartbreaking, and has given way to a real-life friendship between the actresses that has been the stuff of press tour gold.

CNN’s Scottie Andrew and Alli Rosenbloom contributed to this report.

For more than 90 years, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has been designating one film as the best motion picture of the year.

See all the previous winners here.

Mobilizing against President Donald Trump seemed en vogue during Hollywood’s first award season after the 2016 election, as many artists vocalized their opposition to White House policies at the time.

In just one prominent example, Meryl Streep’s speech at the 2017 Golden Globes prompted Trump to call the silver screen legend “one of the most overrated actresses” in Hollywood.

Tonight’s Academy Awards, arriving five weeks after the start of Trump’s second term, are poised to be less political. Make no mistake, the president likely has few fans in the room of A-listers who will gather in the Dolby Theatre. But talk of Trump has waned at recent entertainment events.

Focus on fire relief: With the backdrop of devastating fires that ravaged Los Angeles, award season this year has been centered around coming together. The Grammys set the tone as the first show to air after the wildfires, the SAG Awards followed with a focus on first responders and the Oscars are also set to raise funds towards fire relief efforts.

Tonight’s host: This year’s host, Conan O’Brien, may be the most obvious deviation from a Trump-infused ceremony that was all but guaranteed with multi-time host Jimmy Kimmel, one of Trump’s biggest Hollywood antagonists. Kimmel regularly condemns the president on his late night show and poked fun at Trump’s legal woes and social media posts at the last Oscars.

O’Brien’s comedy typically does not delve into politics. In fact, that was partly why O’Brien was selected as host this year, according to Academy’s CEO Bill Kramer, who recently sat down with CNN for an interview you can read here.

A caveat: Of course, what a winner or presenter decides to say on stage is ultimately up the them. Throughout Hollywood history, acceptance speeches at the Academy Awards have been known as a platform for entertainers to make unexpected political or social statements — from Marlon Brando to Patricia Arquette and Michelle Williams.

Follow our live updates to find out how the night unfolds.

Photographer Dafydd Jones’ Hollywood party pictures are littered with Oscars. They sit casually on star-studded dinner tables and are wielded by celebrities before the press. In some cases, the golden statuettes are even being used like tickets to enter Vanity Fair’s exclusive after-party.

“I think Vanity Fair had a (policy that) anyone who had an Oscar could come in,” said Jones, who worked for the magazine from the 1980s, in a video interview. “They had a guestlist as well. But if you had an Oscar, you could demand entry or just be let in.”

“I’ve also been at parties where people have left them behind absentmindedly and wanted to get them back,” he added.

Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, Jones was flown to Los Angeles from New York or London to shoot major award ceremonies — and the many parties held before and after. The British photographer’s new book, “Hollywood: Confidential,” features almost 80 of his candid shots, showing high-profile guests dancing, smoking, gossiping or even (in the case of 1993 Oscar-winner Marisa Tomei) in the middle of eating an hors d’oeuvre.

Given Jones’ employer at the time, many of the photos were shot at Vanity Fair’s Oscars party.

“It felt more like the end of the whole evening. A lot of the people who came to that party had started off attending the awards, then they’d gone to the Governors Ball dinner and, after that, it was the Vanity Fair party,” Jones said, adding: “People were just enjoying themselves, relaxing and celebrating achievements.”

Read more about Jones’ inside access here.

Stars are starting to make their grand entrances at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood ahead of tonight’s 97th Academy Awards ceremony.

Jeff Goldblum, comedian Bowen Yang and other cast members from “Wicked” are among those on the red carpet now.

“I’m feeling very wicked,” Goldblum quipped, when asked about the last time he felt wicked on the red carpet with E!.

Where the film stands tonight: “Wicked” is tied for the second-most nominations at this year’s awards with 10, though it’s had a hard time turning its major box office success and audience popularity into awards recognition.

Stars Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo are up for individual honors tonight, with the latter set to achieve EGOT status if she wins in the best actress category. She would, however, have a difficult time stoping the awards season momentum gained by “The Substance” star Demi Moore.