The 98th Academy Awards, hosted by Conan O'Brien, unfolded at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood on Sunday, March 15, delivering a night of historic firsts, emotional speeches, and a fierce showdown between two cinematic powerhouses .
When the final envelope was opened, Paul Thomas Anderson's sprawling drama "One Battle After Another" emerged as the night's biggest winner, taking home six Oscars including the coveted Best Picture trophy . Ryan Coogler's record-breaking vampire epic "Sinners" followed closely with four wins, including Best Actor for Michael B. Jordan .
Here is the complete list of winners from the 2026 Oscars.

The Major Categories: Acting, Directing, and Best Picture

Best Picture
WINNER: One Battle After Another
Nominees: Bugonia, Frankenstein, F1, Hamnet, Marty Supreme, The Secret Agent, Sentimental Value, Sinners, Train Dreams
Paul Thomas Anderson's epic completed a dominant awards-season run, winning the top prize after sweeping the Golden Globes, BAFTAs, and major guild awards . The film, a primal scream about authoritarianism and citizen resistance starring Leonardo DiCaprio, has grossed over $209 million worldwide .

Best Director
WINNER: Paul Thomas Anderson – One Battle After Another
Nominees: Ryan Coogler (Sinners), Josh Safdie (Marty Supreme), Joachim Trier (Sentimental Value), Chloé Zhao (Hamnet)
After 11 career Oscar nominations and three previous Best Director nods, Anderson finally secured his first win in the category . "You make a guy work hard for one of these," he joked in his acceptance speech, before paying tribute to his late collaborator Adam Somner .

Best Actor
WINNER: Michael B. Jordan – Sinners
Nominees: Timothée Chalamet (Marty Supreme), Leonardo DiCaprio (One Battle After Another), Ethan Hawke (Blue Moon), Wagner Moura (The Secret Agent)
Jordan won his first Oscar for his dual role as twins Smoke and Stack in Ryan Coogler's horror fantasia . In an emotional speech, he thanked his mother ("for driving me back and forth to New York when we didn't have money for the Holland Tunnel") and the actors who came before him: "Sidney Poitier, Denzel Washington, Halle Berry, Jamie Foxx, Forest Whitaker, Will Smith" . He becomes the sixth Black man to win Best Actor in Oscar history .

Best Actress
WINNER: Jessie Buckley – Hamnet
Nominees: Rose Byrne (If I Had Legs I'd Kick You), Kate Hudson (Song Sung Blue), Renate Reinsve (Sentimental Value), Emma Stone (Bugonia)
Buckley capped off a dominant season with her first Oscar win for her visceral portrayal of Agnes, wife of William Shakespeare, in Chloé Zhao's historical drama . Noting that it was Mother's Day in the U.K., she dedicated her award to "the beautiful chaos of a mother's heart" and told her partner she wanted "20,000 more babies" with him .

Best Supporting Actor
WINNER: Sean Penn – One Battle After Another
Nominees: Benicio del Toro (One Battle After Another), Jacob Elordi (Frankenstein), Delroy Lindo (Sinners), Stellan Skarsgård (Sentimental Value)
Penn won for his role as an obsessively vindictive military officer, though he was not present at the ceremony to accept the award .

Best Supporting Actress
WINNER: Amy Madigan – Weapons
Nominees: Elle Fanning (Sentimental Value), Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas (Sentimental Value), Wunmi Mosaku (Sinners), Teyana Taylor (One Battle After Another)
In a late-career triumph, the 75-year-old character actress won her first Oscar, 40 years after her previous nomination . She thanked director Zach Cregger for writing "a dream part and let me just grab it by the throat" .
Screenplay and International Honors

Best Original Screenplay
WINNER: Sinners – Ryan Coogler
Nominees: Blue Moon, It Was Just an Accident, Marty Supreme, Sentimental Value
Coogler thanked his parents "for making me believe in myself" and Warner Bros. for "betting on original ideas and original artistry" .

Best Adapted Screenplay
WINNER: One Battle After Another – Paul Thomas Anderson
Nominees: Bugonia, Frankenstein, Hamnet, Train Dreams
Anderson struck a political tone, saying he wrote the film "for my kids to say sorry for the housekeeping mess that we left in this world" .

Best International Feature Film
WINNER: Sentimental Value (Norway)
Nominees: It Was Just an Accident (France), Sirât (Spain), The Secret Agent (Brazil), The Voice of Hind Rajab (Tunisia)
This marks the first time a Norwegian film has won the International Feature category . Director Joachim Trier paraphrased James Baldwin in his speech, reminding that "all adults are responsible for all children" .

Best Animated Feature
WINNER: KPop Demon Hunters
Nominees: Arco, Elio, Little Amélie or the Character of Rain, Zootopia 2
Director Maggie Kang used her speech to encourage diversity: "This is for Korea, and for Koreans everywhere" .

Best Documentary Feature
WINNER: Mr. Nobody Against Putin
Nominees: Come See Me in the Good Light, Cutting Through the Rocks, The Alabama Solution, The Perfect Neighbor
Technical and Craft Categories

Best Cinematography
WINNER: Sinners – Autumn Durald Arkapaw
HISTORIC MOMENT: Arkapaw became the first woman ever to win the Best Cinematography Oscar . During her acceptance, she asked all the women in the room to stand, saying, "I feel like I don't get here without you" .

Best Film Editing
WINNER: One Battle After Another – Andy Jurgensen

Best Original Score
WINNER: Sinners – Ludwig Goransson

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)
This marks the first K-pop song to win both a Grammy and an Oscar . Ejae noted in her speech, "Growing up everyone made fun of me for liking K-pop. And now everyone is singing our song" .

Best Sound
WINNER: F1
Nominees: Frankenstein, One Battle After Another, Sinners, Sirât

Best Visual Effects
WINNER: Avatar: Fire and Ash
Nominees: F1, Jurassic World Rebirth, Sinners, The Lost Bus

Best Production Design
WINNER: Frankenstein – Tamara Deverell and Shane Vieau

Best Costume Design
WINNER: Frankenstein – Kate Hawley

Best Makeup and Hairstyling
WINNER: Frankenstein – Mike Hill, Jordan Samuel and Cliona Furey

Best Casting
WINNER: One Battle After Another – Cassandra Kulukundis
For the first time in Oscar history, a casting director received a gold statuette in this newly competitive category . Kulukundis' win was considered an upset over frontrunner Francine Maisler (Sinners) .

Short Film Categories

Best Animated Short
WINNER: The Girl Who Cried Pearls

Best Live Action Short
WINNER (TIE): The Singers
WINNER (TIE): Two People Exchanging Saliva
This tie marks only the seventh tie in the history of the Academy Awards, creating an awkward moment when producers tried to move the ceremony along by dimming the lights and retracting the microphone .

Best Documentary Short
WINNER: All the Empty Rooms
Jimmy Kimmel presented the award, taking a swipe at recent vanity documentaries before honoring the film about children killed in school shootings .

The Night's Biggest Snubs
While "Sinners" entered the ceremony as the most nominated film in Oscar history with 16 nods, it walked away with only four wins—a respectable haul, but far from the sweep some predicted .

"Marty Supreme," which had 9 nominations including Best Picture, Best Director for Josh Safdie, and Best Actor for Timothée Chalamet, went home empty-handed . Chalamet, who had won at the Golden Globes and Critics Choice Awards, lost to Michael B. Jordan in a major upset .

"Train Dreams" and "Bugonia" also failed to secure any wins despite multiple nominations, while Cannes winner "The Secret Agent" was shut out entirely .

The Host and The Show
Conan O'Brien returned for his second consecutive year as host, opening with a pre-taped parody of "Weapons" in which he appeared in drag as Aunt Gladys, earning a standing ovation .

The ceremony featured memorable moments including Anne Hathaway and Anna Wintour presenting together to promote the upcoming "The Devil Wears Prada 2," and Billy Crystal honoring the late Rob Reiner in the In Memoriam segment, with Barbra Streisand singing in tribute to Robert Redford .