“Wings” (1927), a silent war film directed by William A. Wellman, won the Best Picture award—along with the Oscar for Best Engineering Effects—at the inaugural Academy Awards ceremony in 1929. It remains the only silent film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.

"Anora" has been the talk of the film world for nearly a year, and now it's on the cusp of Oscar glory. The film follows a sex worker who falls in love with the son of a Russian oligarch whose father shows up and tries to get the two to break up.

As we’ve progressed through the various ceremonies already held, Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist, Sean Baker’s Anora and Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance have been among the buzziest films – starting way back from their premieres at Venice and Cannes film festivals,

It’s been a long time since the Oscars have truly been much fun, but at the 97th Academy Awards, which will be held on Sunday night in Los Angeles, there will be some suspense. The ceremony will be broadcast on Yes Movies Drama with red-carpet coverage starting at 2 a.