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Oscars 2026: Michael Jordan Best Actor, Jessie Buckley Best Actress, One Battle After Another Best Picture
Los Angeles, March 16: The 98th Academy Awards ceremony was held at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles. The live broadcast in India began at 4.30 am IST with the red carpet event, followed by the awards presentation.
This year, the Oscars is being hosted by late-night host Conan O’Brien, who also emceed the 2025 show. Actor-producer Priyanka Chopra presented the Oscar for Best International Feature Film alongisde Oscar winner Javier Bardem.
Black Panther director Ryan Coogler’s Sinners, which was leading the awards race this season with 16 nods, could manage to win only four awards. They are Best Original Screenplay, Best Original Score, Best Cinematography, and Best Actor for Michael B Jordan.
The biggest winner of the night was One Battle After Another, which took home the top honour of Best Picture along with five more wins. The other categories in which the film won the awards are: Best Casting, Best Supporting Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Director for Paul Thomas Anderson, and Best Editing.
Jessie Buckley, the frontrunner for the Best Actress Oscar, won the award. With three awards in Best Costume, Best Hairstyling And Makeup, and Best Production Design, Frankenstein emerged as the third biggest winner at the 98th Academy Awards.
Here is the full list of Oscars 2026
Best picture
- WINNER: One Battle After Another
- Bugonia
- Frankenstein
- F1
- Hamnet
- Marty Supreme
- The Secret Agent
- Sentimental Value
- Sinners
- Train Dreams
Best actress
- 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
Best actor
- WINNER: Michael B Jordan – Sinners
- Timothée Chalamet – Marty Supreme
- Leonardo DiCaprio – One Battle After Another
- Ethan Hawke – Blue Moon
- Wagner Moura – The Secret Agent
Best supporting actress
- WINNER: Amy Madigan – Weapons
- Elle Fanning – Sentimental Value
- Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas – Sentimental Value
- Wunmi Mosaku – Sinners
- Teyana Taylor – One Battle After Another
Best supporting actor
- 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 director
- WINNER: Paul Thomas Anderson – One Battle After Another
- Ryan Coogler – Sinners
- Josh Safdie – Marty Supreme
- Joachim Trier – Sentimental Value
- Chloé Zhao – Hamnet
Best animated feature
- WINNER: KPop Demon Hunters
- Arco
- Elio
- Little Amélie or the Character of Rain
- Zootopia 2
Best international feature
- WINNER: Sentimental Value
- It Was Just an Accident
- Sirât
- The Secret Agent
- The Voice of Hind Rajab
Best documentary feature
- WINNER: Mr Nobody Against Putin
- Come See Me in the Good Light
- Cutting Through the Rocks
- The Alabama Solution
- The Perfect Neighbor
Best original screenplay
- WINNER: Sinners – Ryan Coogler
- Blue Moon – Robert Kaplow
- It Was Just an Accident – Jafar Panahi
- Marty Supreme – Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie
- Sentimental Value – Eskil Vogt and Joachim Trier
Best adapted screenplay
- WINNER: One Battle After Another – Paul Thomas Anderson
- Bugonia – Will Tracy
- Frankenstein – Guillermo del Toro
- Hamnet – Chloé Zhao and Maggie O’Farrell
- Train Dreams – Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar
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)
- Dear Me – Diane Warren: Relentless (by Diane Warren)
- I Lied to You – Sinners (by by Raphael Saadiq and Ludwig Goransson)
- Sweet Dreams of Joy – Viva Verdi! (by Nicholas Pike)
- Train Dreams – Train Dreams (by Nick Cave and Bryce Dessner)
Best original score
- WINNER: Sinners – Ludwig Goransson
- Bugonia – Jerskin Fendrix
- Frankenstein – Alexandre Desplat
- Hamnet – Max Richter
- One Battle After Another – Jonny Greenwood
Best cinematography
- WINNER: Sinners – Autumn Durald Arkapaw
- Frankenstein – Dan Laustsen
- Marty Supreme – Darius Khondji
- One Battle After Another – Michael Bauman
- Train Dreams – Adolpho Veloso