In pictures: All the glamour of the 97th Academy Awards

Some of the key looks from the award ceremony

Mikey Madison accepts the award for best performance by an actress in a leading role for Anora, which won best picture (Chris Pizzello/AP)

The 97th Academy Awards were taking place on Sunday night at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.

Conan O’Brien is hosting the 2025 Oscars (Chris Pizzello/AP)

Cynthia Erivo, left, and Ariana Grande performed Defying Gravity at the start of the Oscars ceremony (Chris Pizzello/AP)

Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo launched into a duet of Defying Gravity from their film Wicked at the start of the ceremony.

Adrien Brody accepts the award for best performance by an actor in a leading role for The Brutalist (Chris Pizzello/AP)

Zoe Saldana accepts the award for best performance by an actress in a supporting role for Emilia Perez (Chris Pizzello/AP)

Kieran Culkin accepts the award for best performance by an actor in a supporting role for A Real Pain (Chris Pizzello/AP)

Ralph Fiennes arrives at the Oscars at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles (Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

Colman Domingo arrives for the ceremony (Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Timothee Chalamet stars as a young Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown (Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

Lupita Nyong’o arrives at the Oscars (Jae C Hong/AP)

Oscars host Conan O’Brien started the 2025 ceremony with a recreation of a gruesome scene from body horror The Substance.

Jeremy Strong stars in The Apprentice (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

Jazz Charton and Kieran Culkin (Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

Cynthia Erivo wore a bottle-green gown (Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Ariana Grande arrives at the Oscars (Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

Demi Moore (Jae C Hong/AP)

British singer Raye on the red carpet (Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

Sarah Paulson attending the Vanity Fair Oscar Party held at the Wallis Annenberg Centre for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, California (Doug Peters/PA)

Zoey Deutch attending the Vanity Fair Oscar Party (Doug Peters/PA)