HOLLYWOOD, CA–Surprising no one in attendance at last night’s 97th Academy Awards, Madame Web won the award for Best Picture along with numerous other accolades. The film, which premiered last February, quickly became the highest-grossing film of the decade and a universally acknowledged critical masterpiece.

Madame Web made history as, for the first time ever, it was the sole Best Picture nominee from every voter in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). The film quickly emerged as the uncontested winner, also winning the awards for Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Original Musical, Best International Feature Film, Best Documentary Feature Film, Best Animated Feature Film, Best Comic Book Movie, and more.

For her role as lead heroine Cassandra Webb, Dakota Johnson earned the award for Best Actress. Isabela Merced won the award for Best Supporting Actress, and Sydney Sweeney won Breast Supporting Actress.

Johnson also won in a new category specially created for her, the We’re-Just-Glad-There-Are-No-More-Fifty-Shades-Movies award. Additionally, Adam Scott won the award for First Uncle Ben Actor To Survive.

The film accrued 20 Oscars in total, a record-breaking number for any film in history except for 2022’s Morbius, also from Sony Pictures. At publishing time, AMPAS members had proposed a new category, Best Picture of All Time, in order to fully give Madame Web its due recognition.

During Johnson’s acceptance speech, she along with co-stars Sweeney, Merced, and Celeste O’Connor climbed up onto a table and danced wildly to celebrate their victory. Due to the film’s overwhelmingly positive reception, Sony has announced plans to re-release it in theaters this year, a strategy which has never backfired on them before in the history of movies.