Updated March 15, 2026 at 11:38 PM CDT
One Battle After Another took home best picture at the 98th Oscars on Sunday night.
It was a big night for director Paul Thomas Anderson, who also won best director and best adapted screenplay for the film. Cassandra Kulukundis, casting director of One Battle After Another, won the Academy's first-ever award for achievement in casting. But the wins were spread out:
- Sinners writer and director Ryan Coogler won his first Oscar for best original screenplay.
- Actor Michael B. Jordan won his first, best actor, for playing twins — Smoke and Stack — in the vampire movie.
- Jessie Buckley won best actress for her role as Agnes Shakespeare in Hamnet.
The ceremony even featured a tie between two live action short films: The Singers and Two People Exchanging Saliva. The last Oscar tie was in 2013, when Zero Dark Thirty and Skyfall tied in the sound editing category.
Occasionally those on stage gestured toward the world beyond Hollywood: "No to war and free Palestine," Javier Bardem said on stage, presenting the award for best international feature film.
David Borenstein, co-director of winning feature documentary Mr. Nobody Against Putin, said in his acceptance speech:
"Mr. Nobody Against Putin is about how you lose your country. And what we saw when working with this footage … it's that you lose it through countless small, little acts of complicity. When we act complicit, when a government murders people on the streets of our major cities, when we don't say anything, when oligarchs take over the media and control how we can produce it and consume it, we all face a moral choice."
Co-director Pavel "Pasha" Talankin, who shot footage for the documentary while working at a Russian school, said onstage, "In the name of our future, in the name of all of our children, stop all of these wars now."
All of the winners are below, in bold.
Oscars 2026: Winners list
Best picture
- WINNER: One Battle After Another
- Bugonia
- F1
- Frankenstein
- Hamnet
- Marty Supreme
- The Secret Agent
- Sentimental Value
- Sinners
- Train Dreams
Performance by an actress in a leading role
- 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
Performance by an actor in a leading role
- WINNER: Michael B. Jordan, Sinners
- Timothée Chalamet, Marty Supreme
- Leonardo DiCaprio, One Battle After Another
- Ethan Hawke, Blue Moon
- Wagner Moura, The Secret Agent
Achievement in directing
- WINNER: Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another
- Chloé Zhao, Hamnet
- Josh Safdie, Marty Supreme
- Joachim Trier, Sentimental Value
- Ryan Coogler, Sinners
Performance by an actress in a supporting role
- WINNER: Amy Madigan, Weapons
- Elle Fanning, Sentimental Value
- Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Sentimental Value
- Wunmi Mosaku, Sinners
- Teyana Taylor, One Battle After Another
Performance by an actor in a supporting role
- 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 animated feature film
- WINNER: KPop Demon Hunters
- Arco
- Elio
- Little Amélie or the Character of Rain
- Zootopia 2
Best international feature film
- WINNER: Sentimental Value, Norway
- The Secret Agent, Brazil
- It Was Just an Accident, France
- Sirāt, Spain
- The Voice of Hind Rajab, Tunisia
Achievement in cinematography
- WINNER: Sinners
- Frankenstein
- Marty Supreme
- One Battle After Another
- Train Dreams
Achievement in film editing
- WINNER: One Battle After Another
- F1
- Marty Supreme
- Sentimental Value
- Sinners
Achievement in sound
- WINNER: F1
- Frankenstein
- One Battle After Another
- Sinners
- Sirāt
Original score
- WINNER: Sinners, Ludwig Goransson
- Bugonia, Jerskin Fendrix
- Frankenstein, Alexandre Desplat
- Hamnet, Max Richter
- One Battle after Another, Jonny Greenwood
Best documentary feature film
- WINNER: Mr. Nobody Against Putin
- The Alabama Solution
- Come See Me in the Good Light
- Cutting Through Rocks
- The Perfect Neighbor
Best documentary short film
- 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
Best animated short film
- WINNER: The Girl Who Cried Pearls
- Butterfly
- Forevergreen
- Retirement Plan
- The Three Sisters
Best live action short film
- WINNER: The Singers
- WINNER: Two People Exchanging Saliva
- Butcher's Stain
- A Friend of Dorothy
- Jane Austen's Period Drama
- WINNER: One Battle after Another, Cassandra Kulukundis
- Hamnet, Nina Gold
- Marty Supreme, Jennifer Venditti
- The Secret Agent, Gabriel Domingues
- Sinners, Francine Maisler
Achievement in visual effects
- WINNER: Avatar: Fire and Ash
- F1
- Jurassic World Rebirth
- The Lost Bus
- Sinners
Achievement in production design
- WINNER: Frankenstein
- Hamnet
- Marty Supreme
- One Battle After Another
- Sinners
Writing (original screenplay)
- WINNER: Sinners, written by Ryan Coogler
- Blue Moon, written by Robert Kaplow
- It Was Just an Accident, written by Jafar Panahi; script collaborators: Nader Saïvar, Shadmehr Rastin, Mehdi Mahmoudian
- Marty Supreme, written by Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie
- Sentimental Value, written by Eskil Vogt, Joachim Trier
Writing (adapted screenplay)
- WINNER: One Battle after Another, written by Paul Thomas Anderson
- Bugonia, screenplay by Will Tracy
- Frankenstein, written for the screen by Guillermo del Toro
- Hamnet, screenplay by Chloé Zhao and Maggie O'Farrell
- Train Dreams, screenplay by Clint Bentley & Greg Kwedar
Achievement in makeup and hairstyling
- WINNER: Frankenstein, Mike Hill, Jordan Samuel and Cliona Furey
- Kokuho, Kyoko Toyokawa, Naomi Hibino and Tadashi Nishimatsu
- Sinners, Ken Diaz, Mike Fontaine and Shunika Terry
- The Smashing Machine, Kazu Hiro, Glen Griffin and Bjoern Rehbein
- The Ugly Stepsister, Thomas Foldberg and Anne Cathrine Sauerberg
Achievement in costume design
- WINNER: Frankenstein
- Avatar: Fire and Ash
- Hamnet
- Marty Supreme
- Sinners
Original song
- WINNER: "Golden" from KPop Demon Hunters; music and lyric by EJAE, Mark Sonnenblick, Joong Gyu Kwak, Yu Han Lee, Hee Dong Nam, Jeong Hoon Seon and Teddy Park
- "Dear Me" from Diane Warren: Relentless; music and lyric by Diane Warren
- "I Lied to You" from Sinners; music and lyric by Raphael Saadiq and Ludwig Goransson
- "Sweet Dreams of Joy" from Viva Verdi!; music and lyric by Nicholas Pike
- "Train Dreams" from Train Dreams; music by Nick Cave and Bryce Dessner; lyric by Nick Cave
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