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ONE OSCAR AFTER ANOTHER (OSCARS 2026: THE RESULTS)

 


OSCARS 2026: THE RESULTS

It had been billed as the tightest Oscars race in years.

In the end, the statuettes largely went to the movies tipped to win at the start of this year's race - with one or two exceptions.

2026 will be remembered, though, as a year of a straight fight in many categories between Paul Thomas Anderson's Trump era epic 'One Battle After Another' and Ryan Coogler's vampire box office sensation 'Sinners'.

Both would have been worthy winners of Best Picture and they ended up taking away a range of statuettes.

However the Academy made the decision to reward Anderson with the big prizes and you suspect that wasn't just for his dazzling film but for a career packed full of dazzling films.

An early indicator that 'One Battle After Another' was going to edge out 'Sinners' came when Cassandra Kulukundis took the first ever Oscar for Best Casting.

'One Battle After Another' would go on to land five other awards for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay for Anderson, Best Film Editing for Andy Jorgensen and Best Supporting Actor for Sean Penn for his performance as a deranged, racist military officer desperate to hide a secret.

As with other awards ceremonies, Penn chose not to be present to receive the third Oscar of his career but he joined the elite group of Walter Brennan, Ingmar Bergman, Jack Nicholson, Meryl Streep and Daniel Day Lewis as three time Academy Award acting winners.

Anderson's victories also put to rest notions that he could become "the new Martin Scorsese" - cinema's best living director constantly snubbed by the Academy.


As for Coogler, surely his night of glory as a director will come?

This was his first nomination in the directors' category but he did have the consolation of winning the Best Original Screenplay statuette.

'Sinners' also won Best Cinematography for the first woman to win in the category Autumn Dural Arkapaw, Best Original Score by Ludwig Goransson and in one of the most popular results of the night, Michael B Jordan took Best Actor.

Jordan's victory for his dual role as gangster twins setting up a juke joint in Jim Crow era Mississippi benefitted from a surge of support for Coogler's film after its record breaking haul of 16 nominations.

But that surge of goodwill was not enough to carry it to Best Picture but Jordan's win did leave early frontrunner Timothee Chalamet wondering what might have been.

Chalamet had done much of the early running in awards season for 'Marty Supreme' but there will be people wondering if he could have run a much more savvy and subtle Oscars campaign.

English actress Wunmi Mosaku was unable to convert the love for 'Sinners' into a triumph on the Best Supporting Actress category which went instead to Amy Madigan for her loopy turn in the supernatural horror hit 'Weapons'.


Jessie Buckley became the first Irishwoman to win Best Actress, completing the set of major awards for her fierce performance as a grieving mother in Chloe Zhao's 'Hamnet'.

As expected, Joachim Trier's Norwegian family drama 'Sentimental Value' deservedly won Best International Feature Film.

Although that meant renegade Iranian director Jafar Panahi's 'It Was Just An Accident' and Kleber Medonca Filho's Brazilian thriller 'The Secret Agent's went home empty handed despite figuring in other major categories.

There was a rare tie in one category, though, with Sam A Davis' 'The Singers' and Natalie Musteata and Alexandre Singh's 'Two People Exchanging Saliva' sharing the prize for Best Live Action Short.

As expected, 'Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein' won three technical awards for Production Design, Costume Design and Make Up and Hairstyling.

Netflix's 'K Pop: Demon Hunters' won Best Animated Feature and Best Original Song for Ejae, Mark Sonnenblick, 24 Ido and Teddy Park's 'Golden' which got a vibrant stage performance during the show.

Ireland celebrated another Oscar as success as animator Richard Baneham and his colleagues Joe Letteri, Daniel Barrett and Eric Swindon won Best Visual Effects for James Cameron's 'Avatar: Fire and Ash'.


Joseph Kosinski's summer blockbuster hit 'F1' deservedly took the chequered flag for Best Sound.

In a hotly contested Best Documentary Feature category, David Borenstein, Pavel Talankin, Helle Faber and Alzbeta Karaskova's 'Mr Nobody versus Putin,' a BAFTA winning tale of a school administrator's defying the Russian Government over the Ukraine invasion edged out Netflix's much fancied Florida gun tale 'The Perfect Neighbor'.

Joshua Seftel and Conall Jones' poignant 'All The Empty Rooms' about US high school shooting victims won Best Documentary Short.

Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski's Canadian stop motio 'The Girl Who Cried Pearls' defeated Florence Mihaille's fancied French animation 'Butterfly' for Best Animated Short.

As for the ceremony, there were moments of veiled political comment like guest presenter Jimmy Kimmel's dig at censorship in Iran and CBS and not so veiled, with Javier Bardem sporting an anti war badge and earning applause from some people for his call from the stage to "Free Palestine".

Host Conan O'Brien made quips at the expense of Timothee Chalamet's ill judged comments about ballet and opera and Netflix chief Ted Sandoros with a well chosen quip about AI: "I am Conan O'Brien and I am honoured to be the last human host of the Academy Awards. Next year, it's going to be Waymo in a tux."

There was also a nice jab at the expense of the American right's alternative version of the SuperBowl half time show: "Tonight could get political and if that makes you uncomfortable, there's an alternative Oscars hosted by Kid Rock. It's at Dave and Buster's, down the street."


As for the acceptance speeches, Jessie Buckley's final awards season speech was understandably emotional and typically eloquent, with the Kerry woman noting it was Mother's Day back in the UK which was apt given the subject matter of 'Hamnet'.

Michael B Jordan delivered a classy Best Actor acceptance speech too, acknowledging previous African American winners of the award like Jamie Foxx and Will Smith.

Accepting the Best Original Screenplay award, his director Ryan Coogler saluted his parents and those who had made him believe in himself.

Paul Thomas Anderson's Best Original Screenplay acceptance speech was arguably the best of the night, with the Best Director winner admitting: "I wrote this movie for my kids to say sorry for the housekeeping mess that we left in this world we’re handing off to them, but also with the encouragement that they will be the generation that hopefully brings us some common sense and decency."

It was a hopeful sentiment delivered in an angry, chaotic world.

Here's hoping enough people manifest it.

BEST PICTURE

Bugonia

F1

Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein

Hamnet

Marty Supreme 

One Battle After Another

The Secret Agent

Sentimental Value 

Sinners 

Train Dreams

Winner: One Battle After Another

BEST DIRECTOR 

Chloe Zhao (Hamnet)

Josh Safdie (Marty Supreme)

Paul Thomas Anderson (One Battle After Another)

Joachim Trier (Sentimental Value)

Ryan Coogler (Sinners)

Winner: Paul Thomas Anderson (One Battle After Another)

BEST ACTRESS

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)

Winner: Jessie Buckley (Hamnet)

BEST ACTOR

Timothee Chalamet (Marty Supreme)

Leonardo diCaprio (One Battle After Another)

Ethan Hawke (Blue Moon)

Michael B Jordan (Sinners)

Wagner Moura (The Secret Agent)

Winner: Michael B Jordan (Sinners

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Elle Fanning (Sentimental Value)

Inga Ibsdotter Lileass (Sentimental Value)

Amy Madigan (Weapons)

Wunmi Mosaku (Sinners)

Teyana Taylor (One Battle After Another)

Winner: Amy Madigan (Weapoms)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Benicio del Toro (One Battle After Another)

Jacob Elordi (Guillermo del Toro's  Frankenstein)

Delroy Lindo (Sinners)

Sean Penn (One Battle After Another)

Stellan Skarsgard (Sentimental Value)

Winner: Sean Penn (One Battle After Another)

BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE

The Secret Agent (Kleber Mendonco Filho, Brazil)

It Was Just An Accident (Jafar Panahi, France)

Sentimental Value (Joachim Trier, Norway)

Sirat (Oliver Laxe, Spain)

The Voice of Hind Rajab (Kaouther Ben Hania, Tunisia)

Winner: Sentimental Value (Joachim Trier, Norway)

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

Arco (Ugo Bienvenu)

Elio (Madeline Sharafian, Domee Shi and Adrian Molina)

K-Pop Demon Hunters (Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans)

Little Amelie or The Character of Rain (Mailys Vallade and Liane-Cho Han)

Zootopia 2/Zootropolis 2 (Jared Bush and Byron Howard)

Winner: K-Pop Demon Hunters (Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans)

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Will Tracy (Bugonia)

Guillermo del Toro (Frankenstein)

Chloe Zhao and Maggie O'Farrell (Hamnet)

Paul Thomas Anderson (One Battle After Another)

Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar (Train Dreams)

Winner: Paul Thomas Anderson (One Battle After Another)

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Robert Kaplow (Blue Moon)

Jafar Panahi (It Was Just An Accident)

Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie (Marty Supreme)

Eskil Vogt and Joachim Trier (Sentimental Value)

Ryan Coogler (Sinners)

Winner: Ryan Coogler (Sinners)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein

Marty Supreme

One Battle After Another

Sinners

Train Dreams

Winner: Sinners

BEST CASTING

Hamnet

Marty Supreme

One Battle After Another

Sinners

The Secret Agent

Winner: One Battle After Another

BEST ORIGINAL MUSICAL SCORE

Bugonia

Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein

Hamnet

One Battle After Another

Sinners

Winner: Sinners

BEST ORIGINAL SONG 

'Dear Me' ('Diane Warren: Relentless')

'Golden' (K Pop Demon Hunters)

'I Lied To You' (Sinners)

'Sweet Dreams of Joy' (Viva Verdi!)

'Train Dreams' (Train Dreams) 

Winner: 'Golden' (K Pop Demon Hunters)

BEST FILM EDITING

F1

Marty Supreme

One Battle After Another

Sentimental Value

Sinners 

Winner: One Battle After Another

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

Avatar: Fire and Ash

F1

Jurassic World: Rebirth

Sinners

The Lost Bus

Winner: Avatar: Fire and Ash

BEST SOUND

Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein

F1

One Battle After Another

Sinners

Sirat

Winner: F1

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN 

Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein

Hamnet

Marty Supreme 

One Battle After Another

Sinners

Winner: Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

Avatar: Fire and Ash

Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein

Hamnet

Marty Supreme

Sinners

Winner: Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein

BEST MAKE UP AND HAIRSTYLING

Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein

Kokuho

Sinners

The Smashing Machine

The Ugly Stepsister 

Winner: Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

Come See Me In The Good Light

Cutting Through The Rocks

Mr Nobody Against Putin

The Alabama Solution

The Perfect Neighbour

Winner: Mr Nobody Against Putin

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT

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

Winner: All The Empty Rooms

BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT

A Friend of Dorothy

Butcher's Stain

Jane Austen's Period Drama

The Singers

Two People Exchanging Saliva

Joint Winner: Two People Exchanging Saliva & The Singers

BEST ANIMATED SHORT

Butterfly

Forevergreen

Retirement Plan

The Girl Who Cried Pearls

The Three Sisters

Winner: The Girl Who Cried Pearls


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