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Roisin O'Connor, Clémence Michallon, Louis Chilton

Oscars 2020 – LIVE: Bong Joon-ho's Parasite makes history as first non-English film to win Best Picture

The 92nd Academy Awards have finished at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, California. 

Parasite stunned the crowd to take home the Best Picture and Best Director awards, beating out the bookies’ favourite 1917.

Brad Pitt took the first prize of the night by being crowned Best Supporting Actor for Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood.

Joaquin Phoenix also delivered a moving speech after he won Best Actor, for his performance in the dark supervillain story Joker.

Follow all the action in our liveblog: 

ICYMI: Before Parasite snatched the top honours, Bong Joon-ho sparked an upset in the Best Director category when he pipped Sam Mendes to the prize. 

Parasite's Bong Joon-ho beats favourite Sam Mendes to win Oscar for Best Director

He becomes first South Korean filmmaker to win the award
ICYMI: Joaquin Phoenix covered a lot of ground in his emotional, politically-charged Best Actor speech... 

Joaquin Phoenix attacks inequality during intense Oscars speech

‘At times I’ve been hard to work with, but so many people in this room have given me a second chance’
ICYMI: The best-dressed from the red carpet... 

All the best-dressed stars on the red carpet at the Oscars

Members of Hollywood's elite stunned as they arrived at the Academy Awards
ICYMI: Olivia Colman was only on stage for a couple of minutes, but her appearance was a highlight of the evening:

'Olivia Colman is EVERYTHING': The Favourite actress shines in Oscars 2020 cameo

The actress reminded everyone why she's Oscar royalty on her return to the Academy stage
ICYMI: The night's winners in full 

The 2020 Oscar winners in full

The IndependentUpdated as the ceremony takes place
The Safdie brothers show there's no hard feelings after Uncut Gems' nomination snub:
People are pointing out that the In Memoriam section didn't include Luke Perry or Cameron Boyce.
It may be a decade and a half late, but it looks like David Lynch's surreal Laura Dern Oscar campaign has finally paid off...

Remembering David Lynch's very David Lynch 'For Your Consideration' Oscar ad

t's 2006 and David Lynch is convinced Laura Dern's performance in his latest, Inland Empire, is deserving of an Oscar. Tradition says you should put up billboards around Hollywood touting her "for consideration" or take out banner ads in Deadline but, being David Lynch, the auteur instead set up a chair by the side the road on the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and La Brea.
Green Book is now trending on Twitter... with many people calling this year's win an "apology" for last year's.
Two legends met up after the show.
Backstage, Bong gives a shoutout to Lulu Wang for The Farewell's win at yesterday's Independent Spirit Awards.
A curious piece of trivia about Martin Scorsese, who received a heartwarming standing ovation earlier in the evening.
The Parasite team are having a great time after their surprise win
Did you hear the emotional tribute in Joaquin Phoenix's speech?
 
In case you missed Joaquin Phoenix's intense acceptance speech:
Bong Joon-ho's South Korean class satire took three other big awards: best director, best original screenplay and best international film. All were the first Oscars for a Korean film. (AP)
Parasite is making history as the first foreign language film to win Best Picture.
Wait a minute, did the lights go off? It looked like it, but the crowd apparently successfully cheered to get the Parasite team more time.
The movie's team takes the stage to accept the award.
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