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  • LAist resource for impacted homeowners
    An aerial view of rows of residential streets with burned down homes. The neighborhoods are up against a highway next to the ocean.
    Aerial view of a neighborhood destroyed by the Palisades Fire.

    Topline:

    The wildfires that ravaged L.A. County have damaged or destroyed thousands of properties, leaving many homeowners with hard questions about what’s next. LAist has put together this resource to help homeowners navigate questions about mortgages and, if they choose to sell, what rights they have.

    Do I have to pay my mortgage if my home is destroyed? Short answer, yes eventually. There are options for deferring or reduced payments.

    I am getting calls asking if I am selling, should I? State officials advise taking your time so you can make an informed decision that is in yours and your family's best interest.

    Read on... for more in depth explainers.

    The wildfires that ravaged L.A. County have damaged or destroyed thousands of properties, leaving many homeowners with hard questions about what’s next.

    LAist has put together this resource to help homeowners navigate questions about mortgages and, if they choose to sell, what rights they have.

    My house is destroyed. Do I have to pay the mortgage?

    Contact your mortgage servicer (the company listed on your mortgage statement) because you might be eligible for some relief per Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae guidelines.

    Jenise Hight, Fannie Mae’s vice president of Single-Family Credit Risk Policy, said mortgage servicers are required  to proactively identify properties that may be impacted by disaster and offer homeowners 90 days of initial forbearance without even speaking to the borrower.

    If your loan is held by Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac, you might be eligible for suspended mortgage relief of up to 12 months, during which you will not incur late fees, foreclosures or other legal consequences. Fannie Mae also offers a temporary reduction of mortgage payments.

    You can find more information on the Fannie Mae website or visiting the Freddie Mac website. Those whose loan is held by Fannie Mae can call 855 437-3243 for free assistance by U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development-approved housing counselors.

    Hight also said homeowners can work with their mortgage servicers to file insurance claims to rebuild the property.

     ”If it's determined that the property cannot be rebuilt, then the servicer would apply those insurance loss proceeds to reduce the amount of the outstanding mortgage loan balance,” she said. “Then the borrower would also be able to use the proceeds from the sale of the land in order to satisfy the rest of the mortgage debt. But that's a worst case scenario.”

    California Gov. Gavin Newsom also announced some relief for property owners whose mortgage is through Bank of America, Citi, JPMorgan Chase, U.S. Bank, and Wells Fargo. Borrowers from these institutions will be eligible for the postponement of their mortgage for 90 days without having to submit any forms. During that period, they also won’t incur late fees, and late payments won’t affect their credit score.

    For 60 days, these banks also won't evict or foreclose on homeowners unable to make their mortgage payments.

    For more details, homeowners in these ZIP codes should contact their lenders: 90019, 90041, 90049, 90066, 90265, 90272, 90290, 90402, 91001, 91104, 91106, 91107, or 93536.

    Do I still have to pay taxes on my home? 

    My colleague Cato Hernández addressed those questions in their informative story. If your home was destroyed in the wildfires, you could be eligible for property tax relief through L.A. County’s disaster relief ordinance. You have 12 months from when the disaster occurred to file an application with the county assessor’s office to get the reduction.

    My house is destroyed. I received a call from a real estate agent asking if I am selling my property. Should I?

    Newsom also announced an executive order banning unsolicited cash offers for homes in the affected areas for three months.

    Chika Sunquist, commissioner for the California Department of Real Estate, said the order  is meant “to protect the Los Angeles area fire victims from predatory buyers who are wanting to exploit them, the trauma and to exploit the disaster.”

    “ It's intended to prevent those people from making lowball offers and trying to buy out those properties from people who don't have the time to make the decision or feel like they need to make a quick decision,” she said.

    If you do receive one of these calls, you can report the caller to the California Attorney General’s Office.

    Sunquist said people who do want to sell their homes should take time to make an informed decision, thinking about what they would have done before the fires.

    She recommends thinking through and researching:

    • What is the process for selling a home?
    • How much do you want to sell the property at? What is a price you are willing to accept for the property?
    •  Find the right people to help you through that sale, such as a real estate agent, an attorney to help you read through contracts and agreements, a licensed contractor to fix up the property before the sale and a financial advisory team, which could be family and friends.

    And yes, homeowners have to disclose to potential buyers if a property has been damaged in a fire.

    “ Rebuilding can be an option. You have your insurance carrier that you can contact to find out how much you might be able to get to rebuild,” she said. “There are licensed contractors you can talk to about maybe building a home that you really wanted, as opposed to the one that you had at the time, that's been passed down or that you previously wanted to restore.”

    The California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation is also warning homeowners to be wary of scams and fraudulent behavior. Verify claims with government sources versus relying on information via social media and secondhand sources. Scammers often come across as urgent, so take your time when reviewing offers and claims.

  • A former undocumented immigrant sits at the helm
    A man with medium skin tone and short dark hair sits behind a wooden desk in a corner office, looking out at a distance. He is wearing a white collared shirt, a black tie, and a powder blue suit jacket.
    Dr. Alberto Román, chancellor of the L.A. Community College District, in his downtown L.A. office.

    Topline:

    Last spring, Dr. Alberto Román was appointed chancellor of the L.A. Community College District. Since then, he's had to lead LACCD's response to a federal government that's taken an aggressive stance toward undocumented immigrants, many of whom are enrolled in community colleges.

    How immigration detentions are affecting students: According to Román, some students have become the head of their households overnight, after having their parents detained and deported. Alouette Cervantes-Salazar, who runs East L.A. College’s Dream Resource Center, also said “quite a bit” of students have moved to take coursework online.

    Support for students in mixed-status families: The district’s Dream Resource Centers are hustling to provide legal support, temporary housing options, additional mental health services and food vouchers for affected students.

    When Alberto Román was a boy growing up in the Mexican state of Durango, his father was often far from home. Most times, he’d be gone for months.

    Román’s father, Javier, had a third-grade education. And when work was scarce in Mexico, he’d venture north to the United Sates and take whatever job he could find.

    Javier washed cars. He worked in factories. He picked crops. He built houses.

    “He was a guy you would find at Home Depot,” Román told LAist. “He did whatever it took to put food on the table and provide [his family] with shelter.”

    Román missed his father terribly, and he relished the time alone with him. When his father would return to Mexico, they'd hike to a majestic statue of the revolutionary Pancho Villa, where Román and his father could also look out at their city.

    Román did not know it then but, soon, that view would become a memory. When he was eight, his father returned; but, this time, Javier took his son, his daughter, and his wife with him back to the U.S. The family settled in Rialto, in California's Inland Empire. Suddenly, Román had a new home and new challenges to contend with.

    A family of four people with medium skin tone and dark hair — including a mother, a father, a small boy, and a little girl—pose for a photograph outside of a brick dwelling. The mother and daughter, both clad in long skirts, smile. The father and son are clad in pants and collared shirts.
    A young Alberto Román (right) with his sister, mother and father in Durango, Mexico.
    (
    Courtesy Alberto Román
    )

    The move to Rialto unfurled a series of labels and experiences. Román became undocumented; an “English language learner”; a teenage father; a parenting student. With time, he became a naturalized U.S. citizen and, then, a first-generation college graduate who would one day earn a doctorate.

    Today, Román serves as chancellor of the Los Angeles Community College District, which includes nine campuses and more than 200,000 students.

    A lot of these students are parents like he was, Román said, and the vast majority of them have to work to help put themselves through school.

    And many of them are also immigrants.

    Leading LACCD's response to immigration policy

    Román was appointed chancellor last May. Soon after, the Trump administration unleashed its militarized mass deportation effort, which included raids and a show of force throughout L.A. County.

    One of the chancellor’s responsibilities is managing LACCD’s response to the Trump administration.

    Undocumented college students in the U.S. are racially and ethnically diverse. California has an estimated 100,000 undocumented students, who make up a small percentage of the overall higher ed population. The majority of those undocumented students are enrolled in community colleges.

    In conversation with LAist, Román referred to the ongoing raids and immigration detentions as “inhumane.” He also described the experience of a student whose father didn’t come home one night. After being detained by immigration agents, Román said, the student’s family “didn't know where he was for two months.”

    The student was 20 years old when her father was taken. Overnight, she became the head of her household. Now, on top of fulfilling her responsibilities at school, she has to figure out how to keep herself and her younger siblings housed and fed.

    To support students in mixed-status families, the district’s Dream Resource Centers provide them with legal support, temporary housing options, additional mental health services and food vouchers.

    Alouette Cervantes-Salazar coordinates East Los Angeles College’s Dream Resource Center, which provides support and services for undocumented students; DACA and TPS recipients; and students in mixed-status families.

    According to Cervantes-Salazar, the Trump administration’s deportation effort has transformed campus life. When the raids began last summer, she said, “quite a bit” of students who used to take classes in person moved to complete the semester online.

    For some, Cervantes-Salazar added, online coursework has become preferable because it enables students to better juggle school and work. For others, the fear of getting to and from campus amid roving immigration patrols has become a decisive factor.

    Whether the Dream Resource Centers' support will be enough to meet student needs remains to be seen, but Román takes their stories to heart.

    “These are the stories of our community,” he said. “These are the stories of our students. These are the stories of their parents. And they are our stories, because they come to us for an education.”

    From 'English language learner' to college graduate  

    Román’s story in the U.S. began in the 1980s. After moving to California, it took Román about two years to learn enough English to communicate with his classmates. Until then, his time in school was lonely.

    Back then, dual language immersion programs — an educational model that teaches students in English and another language (such as Spanish or Mandarin) to achieve biliteracy — were rare in the U.S. At Román’s elementary school, he said, they were nonexistent.

    To help him learn English, Román’s educators placed him in a separate room for about three hours a day. He was given a stack of books. His job was to put on headphones, listen to audio recordings of the texts and do his best to follow along.

    When Román tried speaking English, some students made fun of his accent. A bilingual child who struggled with Spanish was tasked with serving as his interpreter.

    Román said he cried to his parents. “I'm not happy here,” he told them. "Let's go back.”

    His parents made it clear that returning to Mexico was not an option. They’d been poor and had limited schooling, and they wanted something different for their children. Though neither of Román’s parents got to finish high school, he said, they were determined to send their children to college.

    Román’s older sister graduated at the top of her class and went on to UCLA. Román aimed to follow in her footsteps.

    But, when he was a high school senior, Román learned his girlfriend was pregnant. He was 17, and he wasn’t sure how fatherhood would square with pursuing higher education.

    When Román told his parents there was a baby on the way, they remained steadfast. "Now you have all the more reason to go to college," his father told him. That fall, Román enrolled at UC Riverside.

    To help provide for his son, Román got a job at Payless ShoeSource, where he worked up to 40 hours a week. When possible, Román stacked his classes on Tuesdays and Thursdays, to keep the rest of the week open for work.

    “It was tough,” Román said. “I was getting home at 10, 10:30 at night, trying to read, trying to do essays, trying to be a father.”

    “In moments of weakness,” he added, he contemplated quitting school. But, like his parents, Román wanted a better life for his son.

    A young man with medium skin tone, short dark hair and a light mustache holds a baby over his shoulders. The father and son are in the driveway of a sun-bathed home.
    Román and his son in the 1990s, when the now-LACCD chancellor was an undergrad at UC Riverside.
    (
    Courtesy Alberto Román
    )

    Román graduated with a bachelor’s degree in political science in 1999. When he crossed the stage at his commencement ceremony, his child, his parents and his sister beamed from the audience.

    Today, Román connects his lived experience to that of students at the district, 70% of whom study part-time. “That’s because they're working, because they have families,” he said.

    Last spring, Román watched thousands of new graduates embrace their loved ones after receiving their diplomas at a commencement ceremony at the Greek Theatre.

    “When I see my students on stage waving their degrees — despite all the challenges they face — that award is so much more meaningful,” he said. “I know what they went through.”

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  • St. Patrick’s Day, a punk novel reading and more
    A mural of two large eyes with a person walking on the sidewalk in front of it.
    "JR: Horizons" is on view at Perrotin.

    In this edition:

    Plus, see world-famous actors perform stories about the ocean, listen to French synth-pop, check out photos from the border and more of the best things to do this week.

    Highlights:

    • Show Timothée Chalamet who’s boss and go to the ballet. We have a great dance community in L.A., and this special performance from American Contemporary Ballet of two classic George Balanchine pieces displays the extraordinary talent required for ballet and the art form's lasting impact. 
    • Actors and musicians take to the Saban stage to present stories and songs from the sea in The Ocean: Our Liquid Universe. This one kicks off with Sharon Stone and Lily Tomlin, and features performances from Dave Bayley of Glass Animals, Bruce Vilanch, Bellamy Young (Scandal) and many more sharing moving works about the importance of our oceans, just ahead of L.A. Climate Week. Plus, LAist readers can use the code OCEANLOVER for 10% off VIP tickets.
    • Did you know there’s donation-based yoga, outside among the friendly spirits of Hollywood Forever Cemetery, several times a week? Start your day off with Kundalini, Vinyasa flow or meditation with some of L.A.’s top teachers. Check the schedule and bring your mat, towel, water and, of course, sunscreen. 
    • Back in 2017, I took a road trip to Tecate, Mexico to see JR’s enormous installation of a towering image of a child peering over the Mexican border across to the same, dusty southern California landscape on the other side. It was a powerful message about humanity, immigration, and social justice. He brings that photo and many more to a new solo show, JR: Horizons, on view now at Perrotin.

    Eid Mubarak to all those celebrating the end of Ramadan this week! If doughnuts are part of your tradition, find out why, as LAist’s Yusra Farzan digs into the history of this Eid specialty.

    Licorice Pizza has your music picks; on Monday, you can celebrate the best in pop at the 2026 iHeartRadio Music Awards at the Dolby Theatre, while on Tuesday, R&B singer Son Little plays the Troubadour. Tuesday and Wednesday, New Orleans songstress Madeleine Peyroux presents WE ARE AMERICA: Songs That Give Us Hope at the Blue Note. Also on Wednesday, shoegaze stars Nothing are at the Belasco, and a whole bunch of bold-faced names will be at “Toby Gad & Friends” at the Hotel Café. On Thursday, hip-hop legend Talib Kweli plays the Blue Note, Australian dance artist 1tbsp plays the Fonda, Irish indie-pop duo 49th & Main play the El Rey Theatre and Canadian folksters The Barr Brothers play their first of two nights at the Troubadour with support from Benjamin Lazar Davis.

    Elsewhere on LAist, you can check out the history of restaurant menus in Koreatown, meet the local veterans performing Shakespeare or grab a ticket for our dance class with Alvin Ailey Dance Theater on March 24 — no experience required!

    Events

    JR: Horizons

    Through Saturday, April 25
    Perrotin
    5040 W. Pico Blvd., Mid-City
    COST: FREE; MORE INFO 

    An aerial shot of an art piece depicting a large image of a child looking over a border fence.
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    JR
    /
    Courtesy Galerie Perrotin
    )

    Back in 2017, I took a road trip to Tecate, Mexico to see French photo artist JR’s enormous installation — a towering image of a child peering over the Mexican border across to the same, dusty Southern California landscape on the other side. It was a powerful message about humanity, immigration and social justice. He brings that photo and many more to a new solo show, Horizons, on view now at Perrotin.


    WORDTheatre's The Ocean: Our Liquid Universe

    Thursday, March 19, 7:30 p.m.
    Saban Theatre
    8440 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills
    COST: FROM $30; MORE INFO

    A poster that reads "The Ocean Our Liquid Universe" above an assortment of actors.
    (
    Courtesy WORDTheatre
    )

    If you haven’t been to a WORDTheatre event, you’re in for a treat, as actors and musicians take to the Saban stage to present stories and songs from the sea. Producer Cedering Fox pairs performers with stories that speak to them, and brings short pieces to life in unique ways. This one kicks off with Sharon Stone and Lily Tomlin, and features performances from Dave Bayley of Glass Animals, Bruce Vilanch, Bellamy Young (Scandal) and many more who will share moving works about the importance of our oceans ahead of L.A. Climate Week. Plus, Best Things to Do readers can use the code LAist for 15% off all tickets.


    Yoga at Hollywood Forever Cemetery

    Ongoing
    6000 Santa Monica Blvd., Hollywood
    COST: DONATION; MORE INFO 

    Did you know there’s donation-based yoga, outside among the friendly spirits of Hollywood Forever Cemetery, several times a week? Start your day off with Kundalini, Vinyasa flow, or meditation with some of L.A.’s top teachers. Check the schedule and bring your mat, towel, water and, of course, sunscreen.


    Richard Hell 

    Thursday, March 19, 7 p.m.
    Beyond Baroque 
    681 Venice Blvd., Venice
    COST: FREE, SOLD OUT BUT MAY BE AVAILABLE ONSITE DAY-OF; MORE INFO

    A book cover in black and white of an old fence and parking meter, with the title reading "Godlike Richard Hell" and "Afterword by Raymond Foye."
    (
    Courtesy NYRB Classics
    )

    Punk icon Richard Hell heads to (where else) Venice to read from his novel, Godlike. A story about love between two young poets — a 27-year-old man and a teenage boy — is “based on Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine’s notorious affair, but set in the epochal downtown poetry scene of filthy 1970s New York.” Take yourself back to a grittier (and simpler) time. The event is sold out, but tickets may be available in person on the day of the reading.


    Vendredi Sur Mer

    Wednesday, March 18, 8 p.m. 
    The Roxy 
    9009 W. Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood 
    COST: $35.25; MORE INFO 

    I’ve been using French music and ChatGPT to practice my French language skills lately, so I’m pretty into Swiss songstress Vendredi Sur Mer. She brings her dreamy French synth-pop that evokes time in the Swiss Alps to the Roxy; her latest album, Malabar Princess, is out now.


    St. Patrick’s Day Parking Lot Party 

    Tuesday, March 17, 12 p.m. to 10 p.m. 
    Cat & Fiddle
    742 Highland Ave., West Hollywood
    COST: FREE, DRINK AND FOOD SPECIALS; MORE INFO 

    Corned beef and cabbage, Guinness, whiskey specials and a burlesque show are all on tap at the annual St. Patrick’s Day party at the Cat & Fiddle pub. Raise a glass and say sláinte to another year of Irish luck.


    ACB presents Blanchine: Twin Masterpieces

    Through Friday, March 27
    Bank of America Plaza
    333 S. Hope Street, Downtown L.A.
    COST: STARTING AT $65; MORE INFO

    Show Timothée Chalamet who’s boss and go to the ballet. We have a great dance community in L.A., and this special performance from American Contemporary Ballet of two classic George Balanchine pieces — La Source (presented for the first time in Los Angeles in more than 40 years) and Concerto Barocco — displays the extraordinary talent required for ballet and the art form's lasting impact.

  • How LA is preparing to host in the summer weather
    Two boys are passing a soccer ball to each other on a green grass field. An orange net stands in the distance.
    Officials are making plans for locals and visitors who are attending the World Cup matches in Los Angeles in the heat of summer.

    Topline:

    As L.A. prepares to host the global soccer tournament – and the Olympics in 2028 – organizers and local officials say that making sure fans and city infrastructure are ready to endure the heat is critical. That's especially true as the region gets warmer due to climate change.

    Why it matters: Keeping cool is no easy feat in Los Angeles, a city overflowing with practically shade-less palm trees, exposed bus stops and miles of asphalt.

    What's LA doing? L.A.'s making plans for locals and visitors who will be at SoFi Stadium, fan events, and watch parties. Those changes, though, will be temporary: pop-up hydration stations, shade structures and a public messaging campaign on how to stay safe in the heat.

    Read on... for more on how advocates are hoping for more permanent changes ahead of the 2028 Olympics.

    If 90 degree days in March are any indication, by the time the World Cup arrives in Los Angeles this summer, it could be really hot.

    As L.A. prepares to host the global soccer tournament – and the Olympics in 2028 – organizers and local officials say that making sure fans and city infrastructure are ready to endure the heat is critical. That's especially true as the region gets warmer due to climate change.

    That's no easy feat in Los Angeles, a city overflowing with practically shade-less palm trees, exposed bus stops and miles of asphalt.

    " We're living in a new reality where heat is no longer a background condition – it's an operational threat, a public health emergency,"  Susana Reyes, Metro's head of sustainability policy, said at a recent county meeting on Olympics preparations. "[It] shows up first where people are most exposed: on the sidewalks, at bus stops, at stadium queuing lines and on long walks to and from transit."

    L.A.'s making plans for locals and visitors who will be at SoFi Stadium, fan events, and watch parties. Those changes, though, will be temporary: pop-up hydration stations, shade structures and a public messaging campaign on how to stay safe in the heat.

    Some say they hope the tournament can lead to more permanent investments in Los Angeles.

    "The World Cup provides an opportunity… to test things out during the World Cup and then scale them up in advance of 2028," said Edith de Guzman with ShadeLA, a collaboration between USC and UCLA working with local governments to bring more permanent shade to the Los Angeles area.

    What's LA's plan?

    Los Angeles is counting on its public transit system to carry a lot of the burden when an influx of fans come to town this summer and again for the Olympic Games. That means many fans, local and visiting, will be on foot, the bus or train in a city that is famously car-centric.

    " For major events like the World Cup and the Olympics, millions of visitors will rely on transit often during the hottest parts of the day," said Reyes, with Metro. " We are concerned about seniors, children, people with disabilities as they take public transit and are exposed under the heat of the sun."

    Metro will deploy temporary pop-up shade structures and hydration stations at the bus stops it's setting up specifically to shuttle people to and from SoFi Stadium.

    It will also launch a public messaging campaign starting next month, putting up signage on buses and at bus stops with tips on staying cool and avoiding heat illness.

    A spokesperson with the mayor's office said the city will use similar tactics at its fan watch parties that are slated to take place across the city, and is collaborating with council districts and the Department of Parks and Recreation on shade structures and hydration stations.

    Olympic deadlines for more shade, bus shelters, hydration stations

    There are bigger expectations for L.A.'s plans to address the heat come 2028. The last two times the Olympics came to Los Angeles, the city launched major tree planting programs. L.A. planted tens of thousands of palm trees in the run up to 1932. An L.A. non-profit led the charge to plant one million trees ahead of the 1984 Games.

    Planners are taking a different approach ahead of this Olympics, focusing on shade structures more broadly rather than specifically on planting trees.

    Edith de Guzman with ShadeLA said that's because planting trees is resource intensive, requiring funds to plant and maintain the trees, especially in the first years after they've been planted. Planting trees also requires community buy-in.

    " [Research] really points to shade as being the ingredient that is kind of a slam dunk way to create that safety that we seek," she said. " Trees are still our favorite type of cooling, but we're broadening it to also include more flexibility."

    That means canopies, pop-up structures and infrastructure to create shade, with or without tree cover.

    ShadeLA is working with the city, county and Olympics committee LA28 on a regional plan to bring more shade to communities ahead of 2028. It's created a map of communities lacking tree cover that are expected to see an influx of activity from the World Cup, Super Bowl and Olympics.

    But many of the specifics are still to come. That's also true of LA28, which has promised to create a "Heat Mitigation Plan." A spokesperson told LAist that it was expected to be finished by mid-2027.

    One permanent program already in the works will bring more shade to L.A.'s transit riders. The Bureau of Street Services is building 3,000 new bus shelters around the city to replace L.A.'s many exposed transit stops. According to Dan Halden with StreetsLA, the department has installed 300 shelters since 2024, and expects to add 200 more by 2028.

    Still, L.A. has a long way to go. In L.A. County, urban areas have just 21% shade cover at noon on average, according to data from the UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation – less than the national average of 27%. And it's only getting hotter. By 2050, average temperatures in the county are expected to rise by almost four degrees.

  • Here's who won the golden statute

    Topline:

    Conan O'Brien hosted the 98th Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood. This year, Sinners received a record 16 nominations, followed by One Battle After Another with 13 nominations.

    Read on... for the full list of 2026 Academy Award winners.

    One Battle After Another took home best picture at the 98th Oscars on Sunday night.

    It was a big night for director Paul Thomas Anderson, who also won best director and best adapted screenplay for the film. Cassandra Kulukundis, casting director of One Battle After Another, won the Academy's first-ever award for achievement in casting.

    But the wins were spread out: Sinners writer and director Ryan Coogler won his first Oscar for best original screenplay, and actor Michael B. Jordan won his first, best actor, for playing twins — Smoke and Stack — in the vampire movie. Jessie Buckley won best actress for her role as Agnes Shakespeare in Hamnet.

    The ceremony even featured a tie between two live action short films: The Singers and Two People Exchanging Saliva. The last Oscar tie was in 2013, when Zero Dark Thirty and Skyfall tied in the sound editing category.

    Occasionally those on stage gestured toward the world beyond Hollywood: "No to war and free Palestine," Javier Bardem said on stage, presenting the award for best international feature film.

    David Borenstein, co-director of winning feature documentary Mr. Nobody Against Putin, said in his acceptance speech, "Mr. Nobody Against Putin is about how you lose your country. And what we saw when working with this footage … it's that you lose it through countless small, little acts of complicity. When we act complicit, when a government murders people on the streets of our major cities, when we don't say anything, when oligarchs take over the media and control how we can produce it and consume it, we all face a moral choice."

    Co-director Pavel "Pasha" Talankin, who shot footage for the documentary while working at a Russian school, said onstage, "In the name of our future, in the name of all of our children, stop all of these wars now."

    All of the winners are below, in bold.

    Best picture

    WINNER: One Battle After Another
    Bugonia
    F1
    Frankenstein
    Hamnet
    Marty Supreme
    The Secret Agent
    Sentimental Value
    Sinners
    Train Dreams

    Performance by an actress in a leading role

    WINNER: Jessie Buckley, Hamnet
    Rose Byrne, If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
    Kate Hudson, Song Sung Blue
    Renate Reinsve, Sentimental Value
    Emma Stone, Bugonia
    Performance by an actor in a leading role

    WINNER: Michael B. Jordan, Sinners
    Timothée Chalamet, Marty Supreme
    Leonardo DiCaprio, One Battle After Another
    Ethan Hawke, Blue Moon
    Wagner Moura, The Secret Agent

    Achievement in directing

    WINNER: Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another
    Chloé Zhao, Hamnet
    Josh Safdie, Marty Supreme
    Joachim Trier, Sentimental Value
    Ryan Coogler, Sinners

    Performance by an actress in a supporting role

    WINNER: Amy Madigan, Weapons
    Elle Fanning, Sentimental Value
    Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Sentimental Value
    Wunmi Mosaku, Sinners
    Teyana Taylor, One Battle After Another

    Performance by an actor in a supporting role

    WINNER: Sean Penn, One Battle After Another
    Benicio del Toro, One Battle After Another
    Jacob Elordi, Frankenstein
    Delroy Lindo, Sinners
    Stellan Skarsgård, Sentimental Value

    Best animated feature film

    WINNER: KPop Demon Hunters
    Arco
    Elio
    Little Amélie or the Character of Rain
    Zootopia 2

    Best international feature film

    WINNER: Sentimental ValueNorway
    The Secret Agent, Brazil
    It Was Just an AccidentFrance
    SirātSpain
    The Voice of Hind Rajab, Tunisia

    Achievement in cinematography

    WINNER: Sinners
    Frankenstein
    Marty Supreme
    One Battle After Another
    Train Dreams

    Achievement in film editing

    WINNER: One Battle After Another
    F1
    Marty Supreme
    Sentimental Value
    Sinners

    Achievement in sound

    WINNER: F1
    Frankenstein
    One Battle After Another
    Sinners
    Sirāt

    Original score

    WINNER: Sinners, Ludwig Goransson
    Bugonia, Jerskin Fendrix
    Frankenstein, Alexandre Desplat
    Hamnet, Max Richter
    One Battle after Another, Jonny Greenwood

    Best documentary feature film

    WINNER: Mr. Nobody Against Putin
    The Alabama Solution
    Come See Me in the Good Light
    Cutting Through Rocks
    The Perfect Neighbor

    Best documentary short film

    WINNER: All the Empty Rooms
    Armed Only With a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud
    Children No More: Were and Are Gone
    The Devil Is Busy
    Perfectly a Strangeness

    Best animated short film

    WINNER: The Girl Who Cried Pearls
    Butterfly
    Forevergreen
    Retirement Plan
    The Three Sisters

    Best live action short film

    WINNER: The Singers
    WINNER: Two People Exchanging Saliva
    Butcher's Stain
    A Friend of Dorothy
    Jane Austen's Period Drama

    Achievement in casting

    WINNER: One Battle after Another, Cassandra Kulukundis
    Hamnet, Nina Gold
    Marty Supreme, Jennifer Venditti
    The Secret Agent, Gabriel Domingues
    Sinners, Francine Maisler

    Achievement in visual effects

    WINNER: Avatar: Fire and Ash
    F1
    Jurassic World Rebirth
    The Lost Bus
    Sinners

    Achievement in production design

    WINNER: Frankenstein
    Hamnet
    Marty Supreme
    One Battle After Another
    Sinners

    Writing (original screenplay)

    WINNER: Sinners, written by Ryan Coogler
    Blue Moon, written by Robert Kaplow
    It Was Just an Accident, written by Jafar Panahi; script collaborators: Nader Saïvar, Shadmehr Rastin, Mehdi Mahmoudian
    Marty Supreme, written by Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie
    Sentimental Value, written by Eskil Vogt, Joachim Trier

    Writing (adapted screenplay)

    WINNER: One Battle after Another, written by Paul Thomas Anderson
    Bugonia, screenplay by Will Tracy
    Frankenstein, written for the screen by Guillermo del Toro
    Hamnet, screenplay by Chloé Zhao and Maggie O'Farrell
    Train Dreams, screenplay by Clint Bentley & Greg Kwedar

    Achievement in makeup and hairstyling

    WINNER: Frankenstein, Mike Hill, Jordan Samuel and Cliona Furey
    Kokuho, Kyoko Toyokawa, Naomi Hibino and Tadashi Nishimatsu
    Sinners, Ken Diaz, Mike Fontaine and Shunika Terry
    The Smashing Machine, Kazu Hiro, Glen Griffin and Bjoern Rehbein
    The Ugly Stepsister, Thomas Foldberg and Anne Cathrine Sauerberg

    Achievement in costume design

    WINNER: Frankenstein
    Avatar: Fire and Ash
    Hamnet
    Marty Supreme
    Sinners

    Original song

    WINNER: "Golden" from KPop Demon Hunters; music and lyric by EJAE, Mark Sonnenblick, Joong Gyu Kwak, Yu Han Lee, Hee Dong Nam, Jeong Hoon Seon and Teddy Park
    "Dear Me" from Diane Warren: Relentless; music and lyric by Diane Warren
    "I Lied to You" from Sinners; music and lyric by Raphael Saadiq and Ludwig Goransson
    "Sweet Dreams of Joy" from Viva Verdi!; music and lyric by Nicholas Pike
    "Train Dreams" from Train Dreams; music by Nick Cave and Bryce Dessner; lyric by Nick Cave