A playful headlock. Congratulations whispered over tears. A victory quietly savored in the middle of a crowd. The biggest emotions, jokes and exchanges may have happened onstage at the Academy Awards on Sunday, but the night had its intimate moments, too, many of them captured by our photographer inside the Dolby Theater.
“One Battle After Another” and “Sinners” were the Oscars’ most-awarded films, and in the room, the members of their ensemble casts reacted like family (Teyana Taylor’s sisterly nuzzle of Paul Thomas Anderson; Delroy Lindo’s fatherly grasp of Michael B. Jordan’s shoulder) to their wins. Throughout the night, an audience of dolled-up celebrities kept reaching for faces, for shoulders, for hands — levitating stars trying to ground one another.
Audience Report is a series that looks at people looking. Produced by Jolie Ruben and Amanda Webster.
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