LOS ANGELES – Greek filmmaker Yiorgos Lanthimos’ ‘Poor Things’ won four Oscars, including Best Actress for Emma Stone, at the 96th Academy Awards on March 10. It was Stone’s second Best Actress win. She had previously one for ‘La La Land’ in 2016.

‘Poor Things’ received 11 Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director for Lanthimos, and Best Film Editing for Yorgos Mavropsaridis, winning four out of the 11 – Best Actress for Stone, Best Production Design, Best Makeup and Hairstyling, and Best Costume Design.

In his opening monologue, host Jimmy Kimmel referred to the two Greeks, both named Yorgos, who were nominated. “The second most nominated movie of the year is ‘Poor Things,’ directed by Yorgos Lanthimos,” Kimmel said. “Not only is Yorgos nominated for best director, his editor, whose name is also Yorgos, Yorgos Mavropsaridis, is nominated, too. We have two Yorgoses in the house tonight. Will they both win? Yorgos is as good as mine.”

The most nominated film of the year, Christopher Nolan’s ‘Oppenheimer’ was the big winner of the night, with 13 nominations and seven wins, including Best Picture, Best Director for Nolan, Best Actor for longtime Nolan collaborator Cillian Murphy, and Best Supporting Actor for Robert Downey, Jr.

The Oscars telecast featured talk of war – past conflicts, and current ones – and pleas for peace. There was a painful reminder of the recent death of Alexei Navalny. There were protests outside the Dolby Theatre, calling for a cease-fire in Gaza. And there was a bit of election-year politics, too, from host Jimmy Kimmel.

The ceremony can be a chaotic mix of moods and tones, and so even on a night ruled by somber themes, where the Academy crowned a film about the atomic bomb, there were joyful giggles when naked – well, almost – John Cena came out to present (naturally) the Best Costume award, a nod to the famous 1974 streaker incident, 50 years later. The crowd was united in joyful silliness when Ryan Gosling took the stage (with a slew of fellow Kens) to sing ‘I’m Just Ken’ from ‘Barbie,’ causing what could only be called ‘Ken-demonium’.

In her Oscar acceptance speech for her hugely inventive performance in ‘Poor Things’, Emma Stone thanked her director Lanthimos, noting that “Yorgos said to me: ‘Please take yourself out of it,’ and he was right, because it’s not about me.”

She continued: “It’s about a team that came together to make something greater than the sum of its parts. And that is the best part about making movies, [it] is all of us together. And I am so deeply honored to share this with every cast member, with every crew member, with every single person who poured their love and their care and their brilliance into the making of this film.”

“And Yorgos, thank you for the gift of a lifetime in Bella Baxter,” Stone said. “I am forever thankful for you. Thank you for inviting all of us to be members of this team. Thank you.”

Greek-American filmmaker Alexander Payne’s ‘The Holdovers’ was nominated for five Oscars – Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Original Screenplay and Best Film Editing – but only Da’Vine Joy Randolph took home the coveted golden statuette for Best Supporting Actress. Her moving speech had many in tears.

“God is so good,” she said. “You know I didn’t think I was supposed to be doing this as a career. I started off as a singer and my mother said to me, ‘go across that street to that Theater Department there’s something for you there,’ and I thank my mother for doing that.”

“Thank you to all the people who have stepped in my path and have been there for me, who have ushered me and guided me,” Randolph continued. “I am so grateful to all you beautiful people out here. For so long, I’ve always wanted to be different and now I realize I just need to be myself and I thank you, I thank you for seeing me.”

The Best Documentary Feature winner, ‘20 Days in Mariupol’, offered a grim reminder of the toll on Ukraine and its civilians.

The blockbuster ‘Barbie’ was nominated for eight Oscars, winning only one for Best Original Song ‘What Was I Made For?’ by Billie Eilish and her brother Finneas O’Connell.

Kimmel, late in the show, could not resist reading out a critical social media post from one Donald Trump and responding. “Thank you for watching,” Kimmel said. “Isn’t it past your jail time?”

The list of winners at the 96th Academy Awards:

BEST PICTURE

‘Oppenheimer’

BEST ACTRESS

Emma Stone, ‘Poor Things’

BEST ACTOR

Cillian Murphy, ‘Oppenheimer’

SUPPORTING ACTOR

Robert Downey Jr., ‘Oppenheimer’

SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Da’Vine Joy Randolph, ‘The Holdovers’

DIRECTOR

Christopher Nolan, ‘Oppenheimer’

LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM

‘The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar’

SOUND

‘The Zone of Interest’, Tarn Willers and Johnnie Burn

ORIGINAL SCORE

‘Oppenheimer’, Ludwig Göransson

ORIGINAL SONG

‘What Was I Made For?’ from ‘Barbie’

VISUAL EFFECTS

‘Godzilla Minus One’

FILM EDITING

‘Oppenheimer’, Jennifer Lame

DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM

‘The Last Repair Shop’

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

‘20 Days in Mariupol’

CINEMATOGRAPHY

‘Oppenheimer’, Hoyte Van Hoytema

ANIMATED SHORT FILM

‘WAR IS OVER!, Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko’

ANIMATED FILM

‘The Boy and the Heron’

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

‘Anatomy of a Fall’, Justine Triet and Arthur Harari

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

‘American Fiction’, Cord Jefferson

MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING

‘Poor Things’, Nadia Stacey, Mark Coulier and Josh Weston

PRODUCTION DESIGN

‘Poor Things,, James Price, Shona Heath and Zsuzsa Mihalek

COSTUME DESIGN

‘Poor Things’, Holly Waddington

INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM

‘The Zone of Interest’ (United Kingdom)

Material from the Associated Press was used in this report.