The 2026 Oscars: Winners and Nominees

At the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, California, on March 15th of 2026, the 98th Academy Awards, most popularly known as the Oscars, occurred. Hosted by Conan O’ Brien for a second year in a row, the award ceremony covered many categories in the world of film, such as the best actresses and actors, the best animated films, the best sound, costume design, and most noticeably, the best picture of the year. Many well received films were nominated, such as “Weapons”, “Sinners”, “One Battle After Another”, “KPop Demon Hunters”, “Frankenstein”, “Avatar: Fire and Ash”, and many more. And alongside those films, many amazing actors and actresses were nominated, such as Emma Stone, Kate Hudson, Michael B. Jordan, and Timothee Chalamet. Now, with the nominations set, let’s go onto the winners of each category.

Best supporting actress

Amy Madigan, “Weapons” – WINNER

Elle Fanning, “Sentimental Value”

Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, “Sentimental Value”

Wunmi Mosaku, “Sinners”

Teyana Taylor, “One Battle After Another”

Best animated feature film

“KPop Demon Hunters” – WINNER

“Arco”

“Elio”

“Little Amélie or the Character of Rain”

“Zootopia 2”

Best animated short film

“The Girl Who Cried Pearls” – WINNER

“Butterfly”

“Forevergreen”

“Retirement Plan”

“The Three Sisters”

Best costume design

“Frankenstein” — Kate Hawley – WINNER

“Avatar: Fire and Ash” — Deborah L. Scott

“Hamnet” — Malgosia Turzanska

“Marty Supreme” — Miyako Bellizzi

“Sinners” — Ruth E. Carter

Best makeup and styling

“Frankenstein” – WINNER

“Kokuho”

“Sinners”

“The Smashing Machine”

“The Ugly Stepsister”

Best casting

“One Battle After Another” — Cassandra Kulukundis – WINNER

“Hamnet” — Nina Gold

“Marty Supreme” — Jennifer Venditti

“The Secret Agent” — Gabriel Domingues

“Sinners” — Francine Maisler

Best live action short film

“The Singers” – WINNER

“Two People Exchanging Saliva” – WINNER

“Butcher’s stain”

“Jane Austen’s Period Drama”

“A Friend of Dorothy”

Best supporting Actor

Sean Penn, “One Battle After Another” – WINNER

Benicio del Toro, “One Battle After Another”

Jacob Elordi, “Frankenstein”

Delroy Lindo, “Sinners”

Stellan Skarsgård, “Sentimental Value”

Best adapted screenplay

“One Battle After Another” — Paul Thomas Anderson – WINNER

“Bugonia” — Will Tracy

“Frankenstein” — Guillermo Del Toro

“Hamnet” — Maggie O’Farrell and Chloé Zhao

“Train Dreams” — Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar

Best original screenplay

“Sinners” – Ryan Coogler – WINNER

“Blue Moon” — Robert Kaplow

“It Was Just an Accident” — Jafar Panahi

“Marty Supreme” — Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie

“Sentimental Value” — Joachim Trier and Eskil Vogt

Best production design

“Frankenstein” – WINNER

“Hamnet”

“Marty Supreme”

“One Battle After Another”

“Sinners”

Best visual effects

“Avatar: Fire and Ash” – WINNER

“F1”

“Jurassic World Rebirth”

“The Lost Bus”

“Sinners”

Best documentary short film

“All the Empty Rooms” – WINNER

“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 documentary feature film

“The Alabama Solution”

“Come See Me in the Good Light”

“Cutting Through Rocks”

“Mr. Nobody Against Putin” – WINNER

“The Perfect Neighbor”

Best original score

“Sinners” — Ludwig Göransson – WINNER

“Bugonia” — Jerskin Fendrix

“Frankenstein” — Alexandre Desplat

“Hamnet” — Max Richter

“One Battle After Another” — Jonny Greenwood

Best sound

“F1” – WINNER

“Frankenstein”

“One Battle After Another”

“Sinners”

“Sirât”

Best film editing

“One Battle After Another” — Andy Jurgensen – WINNER

“F1” — Stephen Mirrione

“Marty Supreme” — Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie

“Sentimental Value” — Olivier Bugge Coutté

“Sinners” — Michael P. Shawver

Best cinematography

“Sinners” – WINNER

“Frankenstein”

“Marty Supreme”

“One Battle After Another”

“Train Dreams”

Best international feature film

Norway, “Sentimental Value” – WINNER

Brazil, “The Secret Agent”

France, “It Was Just an Accident”

Spain, “Sirât”

Tunisia, “The Voice of Hind Rajab”

Best original song

“Golden” from “KPop Demon Hunters” – WINNER

“Dear Me” from “Diane Warren: Relentless”

“I Lied to You” from “Sinners”

“Sweet Dreams of Joy” from “Viva Verdi!”

“Train Dreams” from “Train Dreams”

Best director

Paul Thomas Anderson, “One Battle After Another” – WINNER

Chloé Zhao, “Hamnet”

Josh Safdie, “Marty Supreme”

Joachim Trier, “Sentimental Value”

Ryan Coogler, “Sinners”

Best actor

Michael B. Jordan, “Sinners” – WINNER

Timothée Chalamet, “Marty Supreme”

Leonardo DiCaprio, “One Battle After Another”

Ethan Hawke, “Blue Moon”

Wagner Moura, “The Secret Agent”

Best actress

Jessie Buckley, “Hamnet” – WINNER

Rose Byrne, “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You”

Kate Hudson, “Song Sung Blue”

Renate Reinsve, “Sentimental Value”

Emma Stone, “Bugonia”

Best picture

“One Battle After Another” – WINNER

“Bugonia”

“F1”

“Frankenstein”

“Hamnet”

“Marty Supreme”

“The Secret Agent”

“Sentimental Value”

“Sinners”

“Train Dreams”