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Can Roma or Black Panther make history by winning best picture? Join us for all the action from the 91st Academy Awards.

The Oscar goes to ...

Original Screenplay

The Favourite - Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara
First Reformed - Paul Schrader
Green Book - Nick Vallelonga, Brian Currie, Peter Farrelly
Roma - Alfonso Cuaron
Vice - Adam McKay

Winner: Green Book - Nick Vallelonga, Brian Currie, Peter Farrelly

The Oscar goes to ...

Original Screenplay

The Favourite - Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara
First Reformed - Paul Schrader
Green Book - Nick Vallelonga, Brian Currie, Peter Farrelly
Roma - Alfonso Cuaron
Vice - Adam McKay

Winner: Green Book - Nick Vallelonga, Brian Currie, Peter Farrelly

A shining example

By Karl Quinn

Well, here's a couple of marvellous characters to present the best screenplay award: Samuel L. Jackson and, in the role of this evening's Margot Robbie, it's Brie Larson.

You may know them from the upcoming Marvel movie Captain Marvel, but if it doesn't do well at the box office she can always find work as a Glomesh bag.

Spiderman producers and director talk sequels

By Michael Idato

Speaking backstage, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse producers Phil Lord and Christopher Miller were coy about whether there would be a sequel to what has become one of the most successful animated films of all time.

"We don't want to get ahead of ourselves, there's a lot of great ideas for another one," Lord said.

The film's director Peter Ramsey acknowledged he felt the weight of the task of bringing an Afro-Latino teen-aged superhero to the screen. "It's a huge responsibility," he said. "Our whole team deeply felt the importance of that idea and that mission, so Miles [Morales] had a lot of backup. He had a lot of people who loved him as a character and believes in his story."

Two of the best lines at the Oscars so far …

By Garry Maddox

"I can't believe a film about menstruation has won an Oscar" - director Rayka Zehtabchi when Period: End Of Sentence claimed best documentary short.

And introducing Roma as a best picture nominee, Spanish-American chef Jose Andres paid tribute to "the invisible people in our lives, immigrants and women, who move humanity forward."

Gaga and Cooper sing, at last

By Karl Quinn

One of the most-anticipated moments of the night as Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper take the stage to sing their nominated song Shallow from A Star is Born.

In a novel touch, they take the stage from their seats. It's a cool spin on audience participation, but let's hope the rest of the audience doesn't take it a san invitation to join them up there or this could get messy. She's rocking it out, by the way.

And now he's snuggled up next to her on the piano seat. Good lord, it looks like they're about to snog. But they don't. Scandal narrowly averted. Damn.

Gaga changes but the necklace stays

By Melissa Singer

If I was wearing the Tiffany Diamond I wouldn't take it off either.

Ground control to Damien Chazelle

By Karl Quinn

First Man is arguably one of the most overlooked movies in this Oscar season, so it’s nice to see it win the award for best visual effects before it passes entirely out of orbit.

Nice intro to this award too, with Sarah Paulson saying it's visual effects that make people believe she was obliterated by a bus in Bird Box. "And make people believe I am an actor," adds Paul Rudd. Cute.

The Oscar goes to ...

Visual Effects

Avengers: Infinity War - Dan DeLeeuw, Kelly Port, Russell Earl and Dan Sudick
Christopher Robin - Christopher Lawrence, Michael Eames, Theo Jones and Chris Corbould
First Man - Paul Lambert, Ian Hunter, Tristan Myles and J.D. Schwalm
Ready Player One - Roger Guyett, Grady Cofer, Matthew E. Butler and David Shirk
Solo: A Star Wars Story - Rob Bredow, Patrick Tubach, Neal Scanlan and Dominic Tuohy

Winner: First Man - Paul Lambert, Ian Hunter, Tristan Myles and J.D. Schwalm

At last, a statement

By Karl Quinn

Rayka Zehtabchi, one of the directors of Period. End of Sentence – a short documentary about a campaign to destigmatise menstruation in India – wins the award for best acceptance speech of the night.

She's almost sobbing – whether hamming it up or for real it's impossible to say – as she clutches her statuette. "I'm not crying because I'm on my period or anything," she says. "I can't believe that a film about menstruation just won an Oscar."

Co-director Melissa Berton has her moment too. "A period should end a sentence," she says, "not a girl's education." Normal service has been resumed. Phew.