Oscar winners

The 94th Academy Awards are set for Sunday night, with the main ceremony slated to begin at 8 p.m. EST at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood. (Eight categories will ...

Will Smith ( “King Richard”) won the best actor category; Jessica Chastain ( “The Eyes of Tammy Faye”) won for best actress. The best director honor went to Jane Campion, whose subversive western, “The Power of the Dog,” was the most nominated movie of the night. The 94th Academy Awards were held on Sunday night at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood. “CODA,” a relatively small-scale drama once considered an underdog, won the award for best picture, becoming the first film distributed by a streaming service to win Hollywood’s top honor.

The win for deaf family drama 'CODA' marks the first time a streaming service took Hollywood's biggest prize.

It is also the first time the directing award has ever gone to women in back-to-back years after “Nomadland” filmmaker Chloe Zhao won last year. Troy Kotsur made history as the first deaf man to win an Oscar, earning best supporting actor for his role in “CODA”. “Art imitates life. Campion, who had been the first woman ever twice nominated in the category (previously for 1993’s “The Piano”), is just the third woman to win best director. Smith later apologised to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and to his fellow nominees as he tearfully accepted the Oscar for best actor for playing the father of Venus and Serena Williams in “King Richard”. “CODA”, the heartwarming movie about a deaf family with a hearing daughter, has won the prestigious best picture prize at the Oscars.

CODA wins best picture, Jessica Chastain takes best actress, and Will Smith nabs best actor at a thoroughly unpredictable Oscars.

Look below for a complete list of Oscar winners, from shorts to best picture. And the joys of the red carpet were seemingly endless, from Timothee Chalamet’s head-turning blazer-only look to the arrival of two Anitas, Oscar winners Rita Moreno and Ariana Debose. Jessica Chastain triumphed in an especially surprising best-actress race, winning out for her warm and winning performance as the title character in The Eyes of Tammy Faye. And after three acting nominations, Will Smith finally became a best-actor winner for playing another real-life character, Richard Williams, in King Richard—though his Oscar victory came after that contentious encounter with Oscar presenter Chris Rock, who was slapped onstage by Smith after Rock made a joke about Smith’s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith.