The couple’s closing evening out marked one in every of the handful of cases the Tremendous actor no longer only attended an award present with a date, but additionally walked the red carpet in any admire.

As for other head-turning moments at the mid-aughts event? Beyoncé and Jay-Z attended the ceremony collectively—Beyoncé performed for the duration of the published—in an, even then, extremely rare red carpet 2nd. Indeed, though the couple started relationship around 2000, they’d only made their reliable record op debut months earlier at the 2004 MTV Video Music Awards.

Extra candy snippets contain Jamie Foxx, who received Simplest Actor for his efficiency in Ray, bringing his then-11-12 months-historic daughter Corinne Foxx as his plus one. Kirsten Dunst—who change into as soon as a presenter at the ceremony—additionally made it a family affair by bringing along her younger brother Christian Dunst. Meanwhile, Martin Scorsese, who change into as soon as bested by Million Dollar Baby’s Clint Eastwood within the Simplest Director category that 12 months, attended the ceremony alongside his wife Helen Morris—at the side of to the tally of extremely rare date nights at the ceremony.

And there are additionally some perfect-barely considered strings between this 12 months’s ceremony and its mid-aughts counterpart. For one, Everlasting Sunshine of the Spotless Mind earned a gain for Simplest Common Screenplay at the 2005 ceremony. Years later, Ariana Grande—nominated at the 2025 ceremony for Simplest Supporting Actress after taking part in Glinda in Corrupt—wrote an album honoring the film, which is one in every of her favorites, with 2024’s eternal sunshine.

As for the Simplest Image nominees, Timothée Chalamet change into as soon as a dinky little bit of correct when he admitted in his SAG acceptance speech for Simplest Actor in A Total Unknown that the biopic genre will be “perchance tired.” No topic the complete lot, the 2005 lineup incorporated one in their very salvage shortlist, Ray, which examined the lifetime of the ambitious soul musician Ray Charles. The gain in 2005 went to Million Dollar Miniature one, but Ray scooped up two awards for Simplest Actor and Simplest Sound Mixing.

The ball is smooth in any person’s court docket in phrases of the 97th ceremony, but two decades later, movie buffs clearly haven’t grown exclusively bored to loss of life within the biopic but—perfect scrutinize eventually 12 months’s Simplest Image winner.

In anticipation for tonight’s ceremony, retain reading for more highlights from the 2005 Academy Awards…