Ryan Lott

Rihanna posed for portraits with partner A$AP Rocky after a triumphant live performance at the 95th annual Academy Awards. When joining the rapper for a series of snaps at the star-studded occasion, the pregnant singer and actress displayed her growing baby bump in a green silk skirt and shawl. Rihanna, 35, completed her glamorous look with a pair of matching gloves, while statement heels and strappy heels rounded off the ensemble.

Rihanna has just reminded followers that she clearly commands the stage. During the 12 March performance, the 35-year-old singer performed her Oscar-nominated single "Lift Me Up" from the "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" soundtrack. The performer slowly climbed up, as the song says, on a platform in the heart of the Dolby Theatre stage, backed by gospel singers and a live orchestra. The cameras cut to A$AP Rocky, who poured his champagne glass in a toast, as the pregnant singer finished the show.

For many years, there had been a certain belief about the Academy Awards, that the nimble ones would always honor the safest films and let the best pictures (read: the more prestigious, more emotionally resonant ones) go unrecognized save for their nominations. But no more! A slew of really good Oscars winners in the night's top category of Best Picture has emerged over the past half-decade or so. Moonlight, Parasite, and Nomadland?All great films! And so we arrived at 2023, where an incredibly inventive and dazzling film like Everything Everywhere at All Once is not just nominated, but also selected to win the largest Oscar of the night as a result of a lot of chatter and other major awards awards. That's pretty cool, dude. It's also cool that no one knows if it'll happen. Another snapshot, perhaps a thief underdog, could swoop in and nab Best Picture, which may have been something that EEAAO may not have even considered just a few years ago.