Oscars winners 2023: Full list

LOS ANGELES — Between Hollywood comebacks and historic firsts, 95th annual Academy Awards tugged at the heartstrings of many.  

The telecast, airing live on ABC, opened traditionally: with a montage of the year’s films (with Kimmel edited into a cockpit in “Top Gun: Maverick”) and a lengthy monologue. Kimmel, hosting for the third time, didn’t dive right into revisiting Will Smith’s slap of Chris Rock at last year’s ceremony.

Blockbuster films stacked the best picture field, and sci-fi indie hit “Everything Everywhere All…