US actress Emma Stone accepts the award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for "Poor Things." Photo: PATRICK T. FALLON / AFP
It's Hollywood's biggest day, the 96th Annual Academy Awards, with the biopic of the atomic bomb creator winning the most awards.
Cillian Murphy won Best Actor, Christopher Nolan won Best Director and Robert Downey Jr won Best Supporting Actor Oscar all for Oppenheimer, which also took Best Picture and a total of seven Oscars.
Emma Stone won a close fight for Best Actress for Poor Things, which also won several other awards, while Da'Vine Joy Randolph won Best Supporting Actress for The Holdovers.
* See the best images from this year's Academy Awards in our photo gallery.
Sir Peter Jackson was thanked from stage by the winners for the Best Animated Short, War Is Over, which was produced with help from Wēta FX and Sir Peter.
"Peter Jackson - thank you so much. This film would not have happened without you," says one of the winners.
See how the awards night played out with RNZ's liveblog:
