Hollywood’s biggest night returned in full force as the 98th Academy Awards celebrated the year’s most outstanding achievements in film, with the industry’s brightest talents gathering at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles to claim cinema’s most coveted honours.
The ceremony, hosted for the second consecutive year by Conan O’Brien, recognised the finest films of the past year while delivering a night filled with historic wins, emotional moments and major milestones.
Leading the pack was One Battle After Another, which emerged as the evening’s biggest winner, taking home six Oscars including Best Picture. The film also secured Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay for Paul Thomas Anderson, marking the filmmaker’s long-awaited first Academy Award victories. The film’s dominance helped propel Warner Bros. to one of its most successful nights at the ceremony in recent years.
Elsewhere, Sinners proved another major force of the night, collecting four awards including Best Actor for Michael B. Jordan. The film also earned honours for Best Original Screenplay for Ryan Coogler, Best Original Score for Ludwig Göransson and Best Cinematography for Autumn Durald Arkapaw, who made history as the first woman to win the category.
Among the other standout victories of the night, Hamnet star Jessie Buckley claimed Best Actress, while Amy Madigan won Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Weapons. From record-breaking wins and historic firsts to the introduction of a new Best Casting category, the ceremony once again underscored the Academy’s evolving celebration of global filmmaking.
Below is the full list of winners from the Oscars 2026.
Best Picture
- WINNER: One Battle After Another
- Bugonia
- Frankenstein
- F1
- Hamnet
- Marty Supreme
- The Secret Agent
- Sentimental Value
- Sinners
- Train Dreams
Best Actress
WINNER: Jessie Buckley – Hamnet
Rose Byrne – If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
Kate Hudson – Song Sung Blue
Renate Reinsve – Sentimental Value
Emma Stone – Bugonia
Best Actor
WINNER: Michael B Jordan – Sinners
Timothée Chalamet – Marty Supreme
Leonardo DiCaprio – One Battle After Another
Ethan Hawke – Blue Moon
Wagner Moura – The Secret Agent
Best Supporting Actress
WINNER: Amy Madigan – Weapons
Elle Fanning – Sentimental Value
Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas – Sentimental Value
Wunmi Mosaku – Sinners
Teyana Taylor – One Battle After Another
Best Supporting Actor
WINNER: Sean Penn – One Battle After Another
Benicio del Toro – One Battle After Another
Jacob Elordi – Frankenstein
Delroy Lindo – Sinners
Stellan Skarsgård – Sentimental Value
Best Director
WINNER: Paul Thomas Anderson – One Battle After Another
Ryan Coogler – Sinners
Josh Safdie – Marty Supreme
Joachim Trier – Sentimental Value
Chloé Zhao – Hamnet
Best Animated Feature
WINNER: KPop Demon Hunters
Arco
Elio
Little Amélie or the Character of Rain
Zootopia 2
Best International Feature
WINNER: Sentimental Value
It Was Just an Accident
Sirât
The Secret Agent
The Voice of Hind Rajab
Best Documentary Feature
WINNER: Mr Nobody Against Putin
Come See Me in the Good Light
Cutting Through the Rocks
The Alabama Solution
The Perfect Neighbor
Best Original Screenplay
WINNER: Sinners – Ryan Coogler
Blue Moon – Robert Kaplow
It Was Just an Accident – Jafar Panahi
Marty Supreme – Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie
Sentimental Value – Eskil Vogt and Joachim Trier
Best Adapted Screenplay
- WINNER: One Battle After Another – Paul Thomas Anderson
- Bugonia – Will Tracy
- Frankenstein – Guillermo del Toro
- Hamnet – Chloé Zhao and Maggie O’Farrell
- Train Dreams – Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar
Best Original Song
- WINNER: “Golden” – KPop Demon Hunters (by EJAE, Mark Sonnenblick, Joong Gyu Kwak, Yu Han Lee, Hee Dong Nam, Jeong Hoon Seo and Teddy Park)
- “Dear Me” – Diane Warren: Relentless (by Diane Warren)
- “I Lied to You” – Sinners (by by Raphael Saadiq and Ludwig Goransson)
- “Sweet Dreams of Joy” – Viva Verdi! (by Nicholas Pike)
- “Train Dreams” – Train Dreams (by Nick Cave and Bryce Dessner)
Best Original Score
WINNER: Sinners – Ludwig Goransson
Bugonia – Jerskin Fendrix
Frankenstein – Alexandre Desplat
Hamnet – Max Richter
One Battle After Another – Jonny Greenwood
Best Cinematography
WINNER: Sinners – Autumn Durald Arkapaw
Frankenstein – Dan Laustsen
Marty Supreme – Darius Khondji
One Battle After Another – Michael Bauman
Train Dreams – Adolpho Veloso
Best Film Editing
WINNER: One Battle After Another – Andy Jurgensen
F1 – Stephen Mirrione
Marty Supreme – Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie
Sentimental Value – Olivier Bugge Coutté
Sinners – Michael P Shawver
Best Sound
WINNER: F1 – Gareth John, Al Nelson, Gwendolyn Yates Whittle, Gary A Rizzo and Juan Peralta
Frankenstein
One Battle After Another
Sinners
Sirât
Best Visual Effects
WINNER: Avatar: Fire and Ash – Joe Letteri, Richard Baneham, Eric Saindon and Daniel Barrett
F1
Jurassic World Rebirth
Sinners
The Lost Bus
Best Production Design
WINNER: Frankenstein
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
Sinners
Best Casting
WINNER: One Battle After Another – Cassandra Kulukundis
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
Sinners
The Secret Agent
Best Make-up and Hairstyling
WINNER: Frankenstein
Kokuho
Sinners
The Smashing Machine
The Ugly Stepsister
Best Costume Design
WINNER: Frankenstein – Kate Hawley
Avatar: Fire and Ash – Deborah L Scott
Hamnet – Malgosia Turzanska
Marty Supreme – Miyako Bellizz
Sinners – Ruth E Carter
Best Animated Short
WINNER: The Girl Who Cried Pearls
Butterfly
Forevergreen
Retirement Plan
The Three Sisters
Best Live Action Short
WINNER (TIED): The Singers
WINNER (TIED): Two People Exchanging Saliva
A Friend of Dorothy
Butcher’s Stain
Jane Austen’s Period Drama
Best Documentary Short
WINNER: All the Empty Rooms
Armed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud
Children No More: Were and Are Gone
The Devil Is Busy
Perfectly a Strangeness
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