2026 Academy Awards: Complete List of Oscar Winners

The 98th Academy Awards took place earlier this evening. This year’s nominees included major studio releases, streaming contenders, and international favorites across the biggest categories.

The awards took place at the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood and was hosted by television host and comedian Conan O’Brien. The ceremony aired live on ABC at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT, and streamed live on Hulu.

Miles Caton along with other performers including ballerina Misty Copeland and artist Shaboozey gave us a beautiful musical tribute to Sinners.

Billy Crystal spoke about his friendship with the late Rob Reiner and his wife Michele. He also talked about Steiner’s work and the lasting impact he had on the industry. “My friend Rob’s movies will last a lifetime,” he said.

Barbra Streisand also honored Robert Redford with a touching tribute and performed the song The Way We Were.

The awards ceremony also paid tribute to members of the academy who passed away over the past year, including Val Kilmer, Catherine O’Hara, Diane Keaton, and Robert Duvall, among many others. May they all continue to rest in peace.

Michael B. Jordan won the award for best actor in a leading role for his roles in Sinners, while Jessie Buckley won for best actress in a leading role. One Battle After Another took the lead in terms of the number of awards with six awards including best picture, best director, best actor in a supporting role, best adapted screenplay, best casting, and best film editing.

Ryan Coogler’s film, Sinners won several categories including best original screenplay, achievement in cinematography, best original score, and best actor. Netflix’s Frankenstein and F1 also took home several awards.

Here’s the complete list of all oscar nominees, with the winners proudly highlighte din each category.

Below is the complete list of 2026 Oscar Winners, organized by category.

Best Picture

Bugonia (Focus Features); Ed Guiney & Andrew Lowe, Yorgos Lanthimos, Emma Stone and Lars Knudsen, Producers
F1 (Apple); Chad Oman, Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Joseph Kosinski and Jerry Bruckheimer, Producers
Frankenstein (Netflix); Guillermo del Toro, J. Miles Dale and Scott Stuber, Producers
Hamnet (Focus Features); Liza Marshall, Pippa Harris, Nicolas Gonda, Steven Spielberg and Sam Mendes, Producers
Marty Supreme (A24); Eli Bush, Ronald Bronstein, Josh Safdie, Anthony Katagas and Timothée Chalamet, Producers
One Battle After Another (Warner Bros.); Adam Somner, Sara Murphy and Paul Thomas Anderson, Producers, (WINNER)
The Secret Agent (Neon); Emilie Lesclaux, Producer
Sentimental Value (Neon); Maria Ekerhovd and Andrea Berentsen Ottmar, Producers
Sinners (Warner Bros.); Zinzi Coogler, Sev Ohanian and Ryan Coogler, Producers
Train Dreams (Netflix); Marissa McMahon, Teddy Schwarzman, Will Janowitz, Ashley Schlaifer and Michael Heimler, Producers

Best Director

Chloé Zhao — Hamnet (Focus Features)
Josh Safdie — Marty Supreme (A24)
Paul Thomas Anderson — One Battle After Another (Warner Bros.), (WINNER)
Joachim Trier — Sentimental Value (Neon)
Ryan Coogler — Sinners (Warner Bros.)

Best Actor in a Leading Role

Timothée Chalamet — Marty Supreme (A24)
Leonardo DiCaprio — One Battle After Another (Warner Bros.)
Ethan Hawke — Blue Moon (Sony Pictures Classics)
Michael B. Jordan — Sinners (Warner Bros.), (WINNER)
Wagner Moura — The Secret Agent (Neon)

Best Actress in a Leading Role

Jessie Buckley — Hamnet (Focus Features), (WINNER)
Rose Byrne — If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (A24)
Kate Hudson — Song Sung Blue (Focus Features)
Renate Reinsve — Sentimental Value (Neon)
Emma Stone — Bugonia (Focus Features)

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

Benicio Del Toro — One Battle After Another (Warner Bros.)
Jacob Elordi — Frankenstein (Netflix)
Delroy Lindo — Sinners (Warner Bros.)
Sean Penn — One Battle After Another (Warner Bros.), WINNER
Stellan Skarsgård — Sentimental Value (Neon)

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

Elle Fanning — Sentimental Value (Neon)
Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas — Sentimental Value (Neon)
Amy Madigan — Weapons (Warner Bros.), (WINNER)
Wunmi Mosaku — Sinners (Warner Bros.)
Teyana Taylor — One Battle After Another (Warner Bros.)

Best Adapted Screenplay

Bugonia (Focus Features) — Screenplay by Will Tracy
Frankenstein (Netflix) — Written for the Screen by Guillermo del Toro
Hamnet (Focus Features) — Screenplay by Chloé Zhao & Maggie O’Farrell
One Battle After Another (Warner Bros.) — Written by Paul Thomas Anderson, (WINNER)
Train Dreams (Netflix) — Screenplay by Clint Bentley & Greg Kwedar

Best Original Screenplay

Blue Moon (Sony Pictures Classics) — Written by Robert Kaplow
It Was Just an Accident (Neon) — Written by Jafar Panahi; Script collaborators Nader Saïvar, Shadmehr Rastin, Mehdi Mahmoudian
Marty Supreme (A24) — Written by Ronald Bronstein & Josh Safdie
Sentimental Value (Neon) — Written by Eskil Vogt, Joachim Trier
Sinners (Warner Bros.) — Written by Ryan Coogler, (WINNER)

Best Animated Feature

Arco (Neon) — Ugo Bienvenu, Félix de Givry, Sophie Mas and Natalie Portman
Elio (Walt Disney) — Madeline Sharafian, Domee Shi, Adrian Molina and Mary Alice Drumm
KPop Demon Hunters (Netflix) — Maggie Kang, Chris Appelhans and Michelle L.M. Wong, (WINNER)
Little Amélie or the Character of Rain (GKIDS) — Maïlys Vallade, Liane-Cho Han, Nidia Santiago and Henri Magalon
Zootopia 2 (Walt Disney) — Jared Bush, Byron Howard and Yvett Merino

Best International Feature

Brazil — The Secret Agent
France — It Was Just an Accident
Norway — Sentimental Value, (WINNER)
Spain — Sirat
Tunisia — The Voice of Hind Rajab

Best Documentary Feature

The Alabama Solution (HBO Documentary Films) — Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman
Come See Me in the Good Light (Apple) — Ryan White, Jessica Hargrave, Tig Notaro and Stef Willen
Cutting Through Rocks — Sara Khaki and Mohammadreza Eyni
Mr. Nobody Against Putin (PINK) — David Barenstin and Pavel Talankin (WINNER)
The Perfect Neighbor (Netflix) — Geeta Gandbhir, Alisa Payne, Nikon Kwantu and Sam Bisbee

Best Animated Short

Butterfly (Sacrebleu Productions) — Florence Miailhe and Ron Dyens
Forevergreen — Nathan Engelhardt and Jeremy Spears
The Girl Who Cried Pearls (National Film Board of Canada) — Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski, WINNER
Retirement Plan — John Kelly and Andrew Freedman
The Three Sisters (Polydont Films/Rymanco Ventures) — Konstantin Bronzit

Best Casting

Hamnet (Focus Features) — Nina Gold
Marty Supreme (A24) — Jennifer Venditti
One Battle After Another (Warner Bros.) — Cassandra Kulukundis, (WINNER)
The Secret Agent (Neon) — Gabriel Domingues
Sinners (Warner Bros.) — Francine Maisler

Achievement in Cinematography

Dan Laustsen — Frankenstein (Netflix)
Darius Khondji — Marty Supreme (A24)
Michael Bauman — One Battle After Another (Warner Bros.)
Autumn Durald Arkapaw — Sinners (Warner Bros.), (WINNER)
Adolpho Veloso — Train Dreams (Netflix)

Best Costume Design

Deborah L. Scott — Avatar: Fire and Ash (Walt Disney)
Kate Hawley — Frankenstein (Netflix), WINNER
Malgosia Turzanska — Hamnet (Focus Features)
Miyako Bellizzi — Marty Supreme (A24)
Ruth E. Carter — Sinners (Warner Bros.)

Best Documentary Short

All the Empty Rooms (Netflix) — Joshua Seftel and Conall Jones, (WINNER)
Armed Only With a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud (HBO) — Craig Renaud and Juan Arredondo
Children No More: “Were and Are Gone” (Sky) — Hilla Medalia and Sheila Nevins
The Devil Is Busy (HBO) — Christalyn Hampton and Geeta Gandbhir
Perfectly a Strangeness (Second Sight Pictures) — Alison McAlpine

Best Film Editing

F1 (Apple) — Stephen Mirrione
Marty Supreme (A24) — Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie
One Battle After Another (Warner Bros.) — Andy Jurgensen, (WINNER)
Sentimental Value (Neon) — Olivier Bugge Coutté
Sinners (Warner Bros.) — Michael P. Shawver

Best Live-Action Short

Butcher’s Stain (Tel Aviv University Steve Tisch School of Film and Television) — Meyer Levinson-Blount and Oron Caspi
A Friend of Dorothy — Lee Knight and James Dean
Jane Austen’s Period Drama — Julia Aks and Steve Pinder
The Singers (Netflix) — Sam A. Davis and Jack Piatt, (WINNER)
Two People Exchanging Saliva (Canal+/The New Yorker) — Alexandre Singh and Natalie Musteata, (WINNER)

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

Frankenstein (Netflix) — Mike Hill, Jordan Samuel and Cliona Furey, (WINNER)
Kokuho (GKIDS) — Kyoko Toyokawa, Naomi Hibino and Tadashi Nishimatsu
Sinners (Warner Bros.) — Ken Diaz, Mike Fontaine and Shunika Terry
The Smashing Machine (A24) — Kazu Hiro, Glen Griffin and Bjoern Rehbein
The Ugly Stepsister (Independent Film Company/Shudder) — Thomas Foldberg and Anne Cathrine Sauerberg

Best Original Score

Jerskin Fendrix — Bugonia (Focus Features)
Alexandre Desplat — Frankenstein (Netflix)
Max Richter — Hamnet (Focus Features)
Jonny Greenwood — One Battle After Another (Warner Bros.)
Ludwig Göransson — Sinners (Warner Bros.), (WINNER)

Best Original Song

“Dear Me” from Diane Warren: Relentless (MasterClass/Greenwich Entertainment) — Music and Lyric by Diane Warren
“Golden” from KPop Demon Hunters (Netflix) — Music and Lyric by EJAE, Mark Sonnenblick, Joong Gyu Kwak, Yu Han Lee, Hee Dong Nam, Jeong Hoon Seon and Teddy Park, WINNER
“I Lied to You” from Sinners (Warner Bros.) — Music and Lyric by Raphael Saadiq and Ludwig Göransson
“Sweet Dreams of Joy” from Viva Verdi! — Music and Lyric by Nicholas Pike
“Train Dreams” from Train Dreams (Netflix) — Music by Nick Cave and Bryce Dessner, Lyric by Nick Cave

Best Production Design

Frankenstein (Netflix) — Production Design: Tamara Deverell; Set Decoration: Shane Vieau, (WINNER)
Hamnet (Focus Features) — Production Design: Fiona Crombie; Set Decoration: Alice Felton
Marty Supreme (A24) — Production Design: Jack Fisk; Set Decoration: Adam Willis
One Battle After Another (Warner Bros.) — Production Design: Florencia Martin; Set Decoration: Anthony Carlino
Sinners (Warner Bros.) — Production Design: Hannah Beachler; Set Decoration: Monique Champagne

Best Sound

F1 (Apple) — Gareth John, Al Nelson, Gwendolyn Yates Whittle, Gary A. Rizzo and Juan Peralta, (WINNER)
Frankenstein (Netflix) — Greg Chapman, Nathan Robitaille, Nelson Ferreira, Christian Cooke and Brad Zoern
One Battle After Another (Warner Bros.) — José Antonio García, Christopher Scarabosio and Tony Villaflor
Sinners (Warner Bros.) — Chris Welcker, Benjamin A. Burtt, Felipe Pacheco, Brandon Proctor and Steve Boeddeker
Sirat (Neon) — Amanda Vil

Best Visual Effects

Avatar: Fire and Ash (Walt Disney)— Joe Letteri, Richard Baneham, Eric Saindon and Daniel Barrett, (WINNER)
F1 (Apple) — Ryan Tudhope, Nicolas Chevallier, Robert Harrington and Keith Dawson
Jurassic World Rebirth (Universal) — David Vickery, Stephen Aplin, Charmaine Chan and Neil Corbould
The Lost Bus (Apple) — Charlie Noble, David Zaretti, Russell Bowen and Brandon K. McLaughlin
Sinners (Warner Bros.) — Michael Ralla, Espen Nordahl, Guido Wolter and Donnie Dean

Congratulations to all the nominees and the winners. What a great achievement.

What are your thoughts on the 2026 Academy Awards? Which movies did you root for? Were there any surprises that caught your attention?

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