2026 Oscar Nominees and Winners: The Full List

ByLindaMarch 16, 2026

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One Battle After Another, winner of 6 Oscars, including Best Picture.

March 16, 2026—Another year, another Oscar ceremony! In a year that’s been a distressing firehose of a news cycle, it was kind of a relief to have a relatively benign, mildly enjoyable (though of course bloated) Oscar telecast for a change. Alas, I couldn’t host an Oscar party like usual this year, so I was unable to laugh and cry in person with my pals. Still, there’s a special joy in live-texting a friend during a broadcast, anticipating the inevitable comment-worthy moments.

Keeping things interesting, Oscar love was spread across several of the big nominees. Though some of the big awards landed as predicted (with One Battle After Another taking home Best Picture and Director, and the delightful Jessie Buckley winning Best Actress for her devastating performance in Hamnet), there were a few surprises. Amy Madigan continued her late-awards-season surge by winning Supporting Actress for her creepy Aunt Gladys in the horror hit Weapons, and absent Sean Penn won his third Oscar for his scene-stealing supporting role in One Battle. But when a humble and surprised Michael B. Jordan won Best Actor for Sinners, the joy of his peers in the theater absolutely exploded like a Hollywood group hug.

Luminous Anne Hathaway was paired with a sour and distracted Anna Wintour. Chris Evans and Robert Downey Jr. struggled to make their banter land. One poor winner wasted a solid ten seconds of his colleague’s speech time fishing for his glasses in his jacket. The reunited cast of Bridesmaids was glorious and needs to make another movie together immediately. There was even a tie to mess up everyone’s Oscar pool, with two different films (The Singers and Two People Exchanging Saliva) winning Best Live Action Short. (Kudos to presenter Kumail Nanjiani for slickly handling an extremely unusual situation with flair.)

Oh, and because it’s 2026, the year that keeps on giving (and it’s still so young!), we got an In Memoriam montage that was three times as long as usual, making it three times as brutally sad. In a year that took beloved stars like Robert Redford and Diane Keaton (both honored with special tributes from Barbra Streisand and Rachel McAdams, respectively), the tribute to Rob and Michelle Reiner—murdered by their son just a few months ago—was horrifically sad. The impact of seeing over a dozen stars onstage from his most iconic films was too much in every way.

Paul Thomas Anderson finally got an Oscar (rather three!) after almost a dozen previous nominations over nearly three decades, earning a well-deserved standing ovation in the Dolby Theatre. Ryan Coogler also took home his first Oscar, winning Original Screenplay for Sinners. And Ludwig Göransson is shaping up to be the next John Williams, with his astonishingly versatile musical stylings (the live performance of the soundtrack’s literal barn-burner blues song “Lie to Me” from Sinners was fantastic).

Overall, the Oscars were pretty good this year. I mean, unless you were shut out like 9-times nominated Marty Supreme (seems like there’s always one). Sorry, Timothée Chalamet, looks like you’ll still have to wait your turn.

The winners will be marked with a ✔

BEST PICTURE

Bugonia
F1
Frankenstein
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
✔ One Battle After Another
The Secret Agent
Sentimental Value
Sinners
Train Dreams

ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE

Timothée Chalamet, Marty Supreme
Leonardo DiCaprio, One Battle After Another
Ethan Hawke, Blue Moon
✔ Michael B. Jordan, Sinners
Wagner Moura, The Secret Agent

ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

Benicio Del Toro, One Battle After Another
Jacob Elordi, Frankenstein
Delroy Lindo, Sinners
✔ Sean Penn, One Battle After Another
Stellan Skarsgård, Sentimental Value

ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE

✔ 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

ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

Elle Fanning, Sentimental Value
Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Sentimental Value
✔ Amy Madigan, Weapons
Wunmi Mosaku, Sinners
Teyana Taylor, One Battle After Another

BEST DIRECTOR

Hamnet, Chloé Zhao
Marty Supreme, Josh Safdie
✔ One Battle After Another, Paul Thomas Anderson
Sentimental Value, Joachim Trier
Sinners, Ryan Coogler

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM

Arco
Elio
✔ KPop Demon Hunters
Little Amélie or the Character of Rain
Zootopia 2

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

The Alabama Solution
Come See Me in the Good Light
Cutting Through Rocks
✔ Mr. Nobody Against Putin
The Perfect Neighbor

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

INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM

The Secret Agent (Brazil)
It Was Just an Accident (France)
✔ Sentimental Value (Norway)
Sirât (Spain)
The Voice of Hind Rajab (Tunisia)

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Bugonia
Frankenstein
Hamnet
✔ One Battle After Another
Train Dreams

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Blue Moon
It Was Just an Accident
Marty Supreme
Sentimental Value
✔ Sinners

CASTING

Hamnet
Marty Supreme
✔ One Battle After Another
The Secret Agent
Sinners

ORIGINAL SONG

“Dear Me” from Diane Warren: Relentless
✔ “Golden” from KPop Demon Hunters
“I Lied to You” from Sinners
“Sweet Dreams of Joy” from Viva Verdi!
“Train Dreams” from Train Dreams