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- Top takeaways: standout winners and evening highlights
- Major categories: Best Picture, Director and acting winners
- Writing awards and screenplays you should know
- Technical and craft winners: cinematography, editing and design
- Music and song: scores and original songs honored
- Animation and international films: winners and nominees
- Documentaries and shorts: the night’s smaller-format winners
- Complete category breakdown: nominees and winners for reference
The 2026 Academy Awards closed another chapter of Hollywood’s race, delivering surprise triumphs, long-awaited wins and a few headline-making snubs. Audiences watched Paul Thomas Anderson’s film dominate the podium, Ryan Coogler’s Sinners score multiple honors, and Timothée Chalamet’s Marty Supreme leave the night without a statue once again.
Top takeaways: standout winners and evening highlights
The ceremony crowned One Battle After Another as the night’s big winner. It collected several top prizes and cemented Paul Thomas Anderson’s place among Oscar winners.
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Sinners arrived with record nominations and still walked away with important awards. Michael B. Jordan earned his first Oscar for Best Actor.
Despite nine nods, Marty Supreme failed to win any awards. Timothée Chalamet remains without an Oscar after another high-profile campaign.
Major categories: Best Picture, Director and acting winners
Best Picture race — the trophy and contenders
- One Battle After Another (dir. Paul Thomas Anderson)
- Bugonia (dir. Yorgos Lanthimos)
- F1 (dir. Joseph Kosinski)
- Frankenstein (dir. Guillermo del Toro)
- Hamnet (dir. Chloé Zhao)
- Marty Supreme (dir. Josh Safdie)
- The Secret Agent (dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho)
- Sentimental Value (dir. Joachim Trier)
- Sinners (dir. Ryan Coogler)
- Train Dreams (dir. Clint Bentley)
Director and acting honors
- Best Director: Paul Thomas Anderson — One Battle After Another
- Best Actor: Michael B. Jordan — Sinners
- Best Actress: Jessie Buckley — Hamnet
- Best Supporting Actor: Sean Penn — One Battle After Another
- Best Supporting Actress: Amy Madigan — Weapons
Writing awards and screenplays you should know
- Best Original Screenplay: Sinners — Ryan Coogler
- Best Adapted Screenplay: One Battle After Another — Paul Thomas Anderson
- Other nominees included films such as Blue Moon, Marty Supreme, Sentimental Value, Bugonia and Frankenstein.
Technical and craft winners: cinematography, editing and design
Key craft categories
- Best Cinematography: Sinners — Autumn Durald Arkapaw
- Best Film Editing: One Battle After Another — Andy Jurgensen
- Best Production Design: Frankenstein — Tamara Deverell (production design); Shane Vieau (set decoration)
- Best Costume Design: Frankenstein — Kate Hawley
- Best Makeup and Hairstyling: Frankenstein — Mike Hill, Jordan Samuel, Cliona Furey
Sound, visual effects and casting
- Best Sound: F1
- Best Visual Effects: Avatar: Fire and Ash
- Best Casting: One Battle After Another — Cassandra Kuulukundis
Music and song: scores and original songs honored
- Best Original Score: Ludwig Göransson — Sinners
- Best Original Song: “Golden” — KPop Demon Hunters
- Other nominees included tracks from Sinners, Diane Warren: Relentless, Viva Verdi! and Train Dreams.
Animation and international films: winners and nominees
Animated features and shorts
- Best Animated Feature: KPop Demon Hunters (dir. Maggie Kang & Chris Appelhans)
- Arco; Elio; Little Amélie or the Character of Rain; Zootopia 2 were also nominated.
- Animated short contenders included The Girl Who Cried Pearls and Butterfly among others.
International Feature Film
- Best International Feature Film: Sentimental Value (Norway)
- The Secret Agent (Brazil); It Was Just an Accident (France); Sirât (Spain); The Voice of Hind Rajab (Tunisia) rounded out the category.
Documentaries and shorts: the night’s smaller-format winners
Feature-length documentary honors
- Best Feature Documentary: Mr. Nobody Against Putin — dir. David Borenstein & Paul Talankin
- The Alabama Solution; Come See Me in the Good Light; Cutting Through Rocks; The Perfect Neighbor were also nominated.
Shorts and documentary shorts
- Best Live-Action Short Film: The Singers — dir. Sam A. Davis
- Best Documentary Short Film: All the Empty Rooms — dir. Joshua Seftel
- Animated and live-action shorts featured films such as Retirement Plan, The Three Sisters, Two People Exchanging Saliva and more.
Complete category breakdown: nominees and winners for reference
The lists below give a full look at nominees and winners across all Academy Award categories for 2026. Winners are shown in bold.
Performance categories — full nominee lists
- Best Actor: Michael B. Jordan — Sinners
- Timothée Chalamet — Marty Supreme
- Leonardo DiCaprio — One Battle After Another
- Ethan Hawke — Blue Moon
- Wagner Moura — The Secret Agent
- Best Actress: Jessie Buckley — Hamnet
- Rosy Byrne — If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
- Kate Hudson — Song Sung Blue
- Renate Reinsve — Sentimental Value
- Emma Stone — Bugonia
- Best Supporting Actor: Sean Penn — One Battle After Another
- Benicio Del Toro — One Battle After Another
- Jacob Elordi — Frankenstein
- Delroy Lindo — Sinners
- Stellan Skarsgård — Sentimental Value
- Best Supporting Actress: Amy Madigan — Weapons
- Elle Fanning — Sentimental Value
- Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas — Sentimental Value
- Wunmi Mosaku — Sinners
- Teyana Taylor — One Battle After Another
Screenplay and directing nominees — complete list
- Best Original Screenplay: Sinners — Ryan Coogler
- Blue Moon — Robert Kaplow
- It Was Just an Accident — Jafar Panahi (with collaborators)
- Marty Supreme — Ronald Bronstein & Josh Safdie
- Sentimental Value — Eskil Vogt & Joachim Trier
- Best Adapted Screenplay: One Battle After Another — Paul Thomas Anderson
- Bugonia — Will Tracy
- Frankenstein — Guillermo del Toro
- Hamnet — Chloé Zhao & Maggie O’Farrell
- Train Dreams — Clint Bentley & Greg Kwedar
Technical and design nominees — full lists
- Best Cinematography: Sinners — Autumn Durald Arkapaw
- Frankenstein — Dan Laustsen
- Marty Supreme — Darius Khondji
- One Battle After Another — Michael Bauman
- Train Dreams — Adolpho Veloso
- Best Production Design: Frankenstein — Tamara Deverell; Shane Vieau
- Hamnet — Fiona Crombie; Alice Felton
- Marty Supreme — Jack Fisk; Adam Willis
- One Battle After Another — Florencia Martin; Anthony Carlino
- Sinners — Hannah Beachler; Monique Champagne
- Best Costume Design: Frankenstein — Kate Hawley
- Avatar: Fire and Ash — Deborah L. Scott
- Hamnet — Malgosia Turnzanska
- Marty Supreme — Miyako Bellizzi
- Sinners — Ruth E. Carter
Editing, sound and visual effects nominees
- Best Film Editing: One Battle After Another — Andy Jurgensen
- F1 — Stephen Mirrione
- Marty Supreme — Ronald Bronstein & Josh Safdie
- Sentimental Value — Olivier Bugge Coutté
- Sinners — Michael P. Shawver
- Best Sound: F1
- Frankenstein
- One Battle After Another
- Sinners
- Sirât
- Best Visual Effects: Avatar: Fire and Ash
- F1
- Jurassic World Rebirth
- The Lost Bus
- Sinners
Makeup, hairstyling and casting nominees
- Best Makeup & Hairstyling: Frankenstein — Mike Hill, Jordan Samuel, Cliona Furey
- Kokuho — Kyoko Toyokawa, Naomi Hibino, Tadashi Nishimatsu
- Sinners — Ken Diaz, Mike Fontaine, Shunika Terry
- The Smashing Machine — Kazu Hiro, Glen Griffin, Bjoern Rehbein
- The Ugly Stepsister — Thomas Foldberg, Anne Catherine Sauerberg
- Best Casting: One Battle After Another — Cassandra Kuulukundis
- Hamnet — Nina Gold
- Marty Supreme — Jennifer Venditti
- The Secret Agent — Gabriel Domingues
- Sinners — Francine Maisler
