&imwidth=800&imheight=600&format=webp&quality=medium "Oscars 2026 as it happened: Michael B Jordan, Jessie Buckley win acting honours, One Battle After Another gets Best Picture")
The Oscar Awards 2026 are here! Hollywood's biggest night, honouring the best of cinema from 2025, is finally here. One Battle After Another took home six Oscars on Sunday night while Sinners took home four including Best Original Screenplay and Best Actor for Michael B Jordan.
Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another emerged as the big winner of the night, winning six Oscars, including Best Picture, Direction and Adapted Screenplay. Meanwhile, Sinners won 4 Oscars, including the Best Actor award for Michael B Jordan. Hamnet scored one Oscar, the Best Actress award for Jessie Buckley.
One award after another! Paul Thomas Anderson's political drama film One Battle After Another takes home the Best Picture award. The film won six awards on Sunday night of the 13 nominations it had earned. It won the first Oscar for casting- a category introduced this year. The film also fetched legendary filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson his first Best Director Oscar.
Actress Jessie Buckley continues her winning streak and picks up the Best Actress award for Hamnet. She dedicates her award to mothers all over the world.
Michael B Jordan wins the Best Actor Oscar for Sinners. Jordan, in his winning speech, honoured the past Black actors who had won in the category, including Sidney Poitier, Halle Berry and Denzel Washington.
Paul Thomas Anderson finally won an Oscar for direction. ‘You make a guy work hard for one of these,’ he quipped as he took home the Best Director Oscar for One Battle After Another.
K-Pop Demon Hunters won the Best Original Song for Golden and etched its name in the history of Oscars as it became the first Korean song to win in this category at Oscars.
Priyanka Chopra Jonas, looking gorgeous in a white gown, is on stage with Javier Bardem to present the Best International Feature Film. The award went to Norway's film Sentimental Value.
A historic win behind the lens. Autumn Durald Arkapaw becomes the first woman of color to win the Oscar for Best Cinematography for Sinners! Autumn honoured all the women in the room who, she said, have been inspiration to many women.
Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another continues its dream run at Oscars. The film fetches best editing Oscar.
Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Rose Byrne and Ellie Kemper reunited on stage to mark 15 years anniversary of their film Bridesmaids as they gave away best original score Oscar to Sinners.
Mr Nobody against Putin won the Best Documentary Feature Film Oscar while Best Documentary Short Film went to All The Empty Rooms.
Frankestien won the Best Production Design Oscar, while the Best Visual Effects Oscar went to Avatar: Fire and Ice.
The Academy paid warm tributes to those who passed away from the world of cinema in 2025. Billy Crystal, Rachel McAdams and Barbara Steinstrand paid special tributes to Rob Reiner, Diane Keaton and Robert Redford.
Sinners director Ryan Coogler took home the best original screenplay Oscar for his film Sinners.
Multiple nominations and multiple blockbusters later, filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson finally won his first Oscar. Anderson picked the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar for One Battle After Another.
Veteran actor Sean Penn won his third Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for One Battle After Another at the 98th Academy Awards in 2026, joining an elite group of triple-winning actors.
The actor decided to skip the event, just like he had skipped the Golden Globes and the BAFTAs earlier this year. Penn had famously told Variety in 2023 that he considered melting down the two Oscars he had previously won to provide Ukraine with ammunition in its war against Russia.
Presenter Kumail Nanjiani announced that The Best Live Action Short Oscars had two winners. Quite the unusual situation. The Singers and Two People Exchanging Saliva won the Oscars.
Oscar-nominated actor Timothée Chalamet's controversial comments on ballet and opera also drew attention during the ceremony, thanks to Conan O’Brien. He joked about the actor’s ordeal during his opening monologue.
"Security is extremely tight tonight. Just gotta mention that," O'Brien said as he talked about safety measures, but finished off, saying “I'm told there's concerns about attacks from both the opera and ballet communities.”
For her haunting performance in Zach Cregger's Weapons, Amy Madigan won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
Host Conan O’Brien started the ceremony with a monologue, and he didn't forget to take a jab at US President Donald Trump.
With political tensions running high and war raging in the Middle East, Los Angeles police have tightened security on the streets of Hollywood.
After months of expensive campaigns, the stage is set for the Oscars on Sunday, with all eyes on the race between "One Battle After Another" and "Sinners" for best picture, Hollywood's most coveted prize.
Ahead of the star-packed gala, pundits say the Leonardo DiCaprio-starring political thriller "One Battle" is neck-and-neck with Michael B. Jordan's bluesy vampire horror "Sinners," while several acting prizes are similarly impossible to call.
Jafar Panahi's It Was Just an Accident (2025) is a major contender at the 2026 Oscars, nominated for Best International Feature Film and Best Original Screenplay. Shot secretly in Iran, the film won the 2025 Cannes Palme d'Or and was submitted by France, representing a landmark nomination for the dissident filmmaker.
The filmmaker arrived early on the Oscars red carpet on Sunday night.
Conan O'Brien returns for the second consecutive year to host the Oscar Awards ceremony 2026. The cost looked sharp in a black tuxedo as he arrived early on the red carpet and posed for the media. O'Brien had hosted the 97th Academy Awards last year as well.
