All 2026 Oscar-Winning Films and Recap of the Academy Awards Night

• Primary Subject: 98th Academy Awards (Oscars 2026)
• Key Update: Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another swept the ceremony with six wins, including Best Picture and Best Director, while a rare tie unfolded in the Live-Action Short category.
• Status: Confirmed
• Last Verified: March 16, 2026
• Quick Answer: The 98th Academy Award winners are led by One Battle After Another (Best Picture), Michael B. Jordan (Best Actor), and Jessie Buckley (Best Actress). See the full list of winners across all categories below.

The curtains may have closed on Hollywood's biggest night, and the 98th Academy Awards delivered a ceremony for the history books! While the competition was fierce, featuring the most nominated film in Oscar history, the evening ultimately belonged to the visionary Paul Thomas Anderson and his dystopian epic, One Battle After Another.

From a historic tie in the Best Live-Action Short category to Michael B. Jordan and Jessie Buckley cementing their legacies with powerhouse lead performances, the Academy honored a diverse spectrum of storytelling that ranged from 16th-century grief to supernatural 1930s Mississippi.

Check out the full list of winners from the 2026 Oscars below to see if your favorites took home the gold!

Best Picture

• Bugonia
• F1
• Frankenstein
• Hamnet
• One Battle After Another
• Marty Supreme
• The Secret Agent
• Sentimental Value
• Sinners
• Train Dreams

After decades of nominations for his films, Boogie Nights and There Will Be Blood, Paul Thomas Anderson finally walked away with his first Oscars, dedicating the film to his children as he expresses hope that the next generation might bring back "common sense and decency" to the world once they take over.

Best Actress

• Rose Byrne, If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
• Kate Hudson, Song Sung Blue
• Jessie Buckley, Hamnet
• Renate Reinsve, Sentimental Value
• Emma Stone, Bugonia

Jessie Buckley swept the 2026 Oscars by becoming the first Irish woman in Oscars history to be crowned best actress. She thanks her husband and eight-month-old daughter as she dedicates the win to the "chaos of a mother's heart."

"I feel like what a gift to get to explore motherhood through this incredible mother this is and was," Buckley continued, "And then to become one myself, and then to receive this recognition of the incredible role mothers play in our world on this day is something I will never, ever forget."

In Hamnet, Buckley played the role of William Shakespeare's (Paul Mescal) wife as they follow the grief of losing their 11-year-old son to a sudden death.

Best Actor

• Michael B. Jordan, Sinners
• Timothée Chalamet, Marty Supreme
• Leonardo DiCaprio, One Battle After Another
• Ethan Hawke, Blue Moon
• Wagner Moura, The Secret Agent

The Sinners star beat Marty Supreme's Timothée Chalamet and One Battle After Another's Leonardo DiCaprio, with the film marking actor Michael B. Jordan's first-ever Academy Award.

"I'm so honored to call you a collaborator and a friend, and you gave me the opportunity and space for me to be seen, and I love you, too, bro, love you to death," Jordan said to Ryan Coogler who was in the audience at the Dolby Theatre.

"I stand here because of the people who came before me," Jordan said, adding, "To be amongst those giants, amongst those greats, amongst my ancestors, amongst my guys, thank you everybody in this room and everybody at home for supporting me over my career. I feel it."

Best Director

• Ryan Coogler, Sinners
• Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another
• Josh Safdie, Marty Supreme
• Joachim Trier, Sentimental Value
• Chloé Zhao, Hamnet

Best Original Song

• Golden, KPop Demon Hunters
• Dear Me, Diane Warren: Relentless
• I Lied to You, Sinners
• Sweet Dreams of Joy, Viva Verdi!
• Train Dreams, Train Dreams

KPop Demon Hunters made Oscars history by becoming the first K-pop-focused film to win best animated feature and best original song, Golden. The song, which featured the vocals of EJAE, Rei, and Audrey, also became the first K-pop song to win an Oscar.

Best International Feature

• Sentimental Value, Norway
• The Secret Agent, Brazil
• It Was Just an Accident, France
• Sirāt, Spain
• The Voice of Hind Rajab, Tunisia

"I'm just a film nerd from Norway," Sentimental Value director Joachim Trier said in his acceptance speech, adding that while the film is about a 'very dysfunctional family', it's the 'opposite' of what he felt working with his crew.

"Because I'm in this category, I feel I present global filmmakers, and in a moment like this, I just wanna recognize the wonderful films we were nominated together with," Trier added, "Important, beautiful films that reflect our present crisis and the crisis of the past. And I want to end by paraphrasing the wonderful American writer James Baldwin, who makes us remember that all adults are responsible for all children, and let's not vote for politicians who don't take this seriously into account."

Best Cinematography

• Sinners, Autumn Durald Arkapaw
• Frankenstein, Dan Laustsen
• Marty Supreme, Darius Khondji
• One Battle After Another, Michael Bauman
• Train Dreams, Adolpho Veloso

Best Editing

• 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

• F1
• Frankenstein
• One Battle After Another
• Sinners
• Sirāt

Lewis Hamilton's successful weekend included an Oscar and the Chinese Grand Prix, where his F1 film won best sound, and he secured his first podium for Ferrari on his 26th attempt earlier on Sunday (which is why he couldn't attend the Academy).

"I'm incredibly proud, and I never ever thought in a million years that that would be the outcome of the work that we're doing over the past years," Hamilton added, "It's amazing to see. I don't know if it's the sport, but to see how much promotion there is around the world, to see the buzz, to see new people getting excited for the sport, in the way that so many of us were growing up. It's really great to see that that is expanding. And on top of that, I'm still here, still to be a part of it and witness it."

Best Original Score

• Sinners, Ludwig Göransson
• Bugonia, Jerskin Fendrix
• Frankenstein, Alexandre Desplat
• Hamnet, Max Richter
• One Battle After Another, Jonny Greenwood

Best Documentary Feature

• The Alabama Solution
• Mr. Nobody Against Putin
• Come See Me in the Good Light
• Cutting Through Rocks
• The Perfect Neighbor

David Borenstein, who co-directed the film, said in his speech that Mr. Nobody Against Putin is about "how you lose your country." The film centered on a Russian teacher who secretly documents his small town school's transformation into a war recruitment center during the Ukraine invasion, revealing ethical dilemmas educators face amid propaganda and militarization.

"We all face a moral choice, but luckily, even a nobody is more powerful than you think," Borenstein added.

Best Documentary Short

• 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
• All the Empty Rooms

Upon All the Empty Rooms winning the Oscar for best documentary short, director Joshua Seftel dedicated the space to remember the four children who were killed in school shootings, whose empty rooms were featured in the documentary: Hallie, Gracie, Dominic, and Jackie.

Seftel added that school shootings have become "so common, there's more than 100 per year," explaining that he focused on the children who are gone, who are most likely "fading so quickly from our minds" if they hadn't been documented in the story.

Best Visual Effects

• F1
• Jurassic World Rebirth
• Avatar: Fire and Ash
• The Lost Bus
• Sinners

With this, all three of James Cameron's Avatar franchise have officially won the Oscar for Best Visual Effects, beating the likes of F1, Jurassic World Rebirth, The Lost Bus, and Sinners.

Best Production Design

• Hamnet
• Marty Supreme
• One Battle After Another
• Frankenstein
• Sinners

Best Original Screenplay

• Blue Moon, written by Robert Kaplow
• It Was Just an Accident, written by Jafar Panahi; script collaborators: Nader Saïvar, Shadmehr Rastin, and Mehdi Mahmoudian
• Sinners, written by Ryan Coogler
• Marty Supreme, written by Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie
• Sentimental Value, written by Eskil Vogt and Joachim Trier

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Bugonia, screenplay by Will Tracy
• One Battle After Another, written by Paul
• Frankenstein, written for the screen by Guillermo del Toro
• Hamnet, screenplay by Chloé Zhao and Maggie O’Farrell
• Train Dreams, screenplay by Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar

Best Supporting Actor

• Sean Penn, One Battle After Another
• Benicio Del Toro, One Battle After Another
• Jacob Elordi, Frankenstein
• Delroy Lindo, Sinners
• Stellan Skarsgård, Sentimental Value

Best Live-Action Short

• The Singers - TIE
• Two People Exchanging Saliva - TIE
• Butcher’s Stain
• A Friend of Dorothy
• Jane Austen’s Period Drama

Best Casting

• Hamnet, Nina Gold
• Marty Supreme, Jennifer Venditti
• The Secret Agent, Gabriel Domingues
• Sinners, Francine Maisler
• One Battle After Another, Cassandra Kulukundis

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

• Frankenstein
• Kokuho
• Sinners
• The Smashing Machine
• The Ugly Stepsister

Best Costume Design

• Frankenstein, Kate Hawley
• Avatar: Fire and Ash, Deborah L. Scott
• Hamnet, Malgosia Turzanska
• Marty Supreme, Miyako Bellizzi
• Sinners, Ruth E. Carter

Best Animated Short

• Butterfly
• Forevergreen
• The Girl Who Cried Pearls
• Retirement Plan
• The Three Sisters

Best Animated Feature

• KPop Demon Hunters
• Arco
• Elio
• Little Amélie or the Character of Rain
• Zootopia 2

Best Supporting Actress

• Amy Madigan, Weapons
• Elle Fanning, Sentimental Value
• Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Sentimental Value
• Wunmi Mosaku, Sinners
• Teyana Taylor, One Battle After Another

Weapons marks as Amy Madigan's official Oscar win for best supporting actress for her role in the horror thriller.

The 75-year-old actor's win came 40 years after her first Oscar nomination in 1986 for her performance in Twice in a Lifetime. Other nominees in the category were Elle Fanning and Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas for Sentimental Value, Wunmi Mosaku in Sinners, and Teyana Taylor from One Battle After Another.

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