Oscars 2026 winners announced: See the full list, including a no-show winner, historic firsts, and Michael B. Jordan

One winner didn’t show up for the 2026 Academy Awards ceremony, a woman won Best Cinematography for the first time, and a single category even ended in a two-winner tie.

Months of festival jockeying, ever-changing prognosticator predictions, and front-running contenders shading art forms like opera and ballet along the awards trail led to Hollywood’s biggest night, as the 2026 Oscars winners were announced at Sunday’s live ceremony.

Major stars converged inside Los Angeles’ Dolby Theatre across the evening, where returning host Conan O’Brien presided over the festivities that ultimately included historic firsts, emotional acting victories, a no-show winner, and even a tie.

The night’s biggest matchup included the two-movie Best Picture race between Ryan Coogler‘s Sinners and Paul Thomas Anderson‘s One Battle After Another, with the latter taking the night’s top prize after a neck-and-neck race against the blockbuster horror hit.

One Battle ended the evening not only with the Best Picture prize, but with the most wins for the entire evening. The film won six Oscars overall, followed by Sinners with four and Frankenstein with three.

The telecast also brought the long-awaited conclusion to the tense Best Actor clash that saw prior frontrunner Timothée Chalamet‘s (Marty Supreme) early lead crumble amid the rise of dual-role Sinners standout Michael B. Jordan, who took the prize at the Academy Awards in a moment that brought the room to its feet with uproarious applause.

Leading up to the Oscars, Chalamet — once thought to be a shoo-in to take Best Actor — suffered significant setbacks in his campaign, after many took issue with perceived smugness in his bid for awards glory. Speaking to Entertainment Weekly on condition of anonymity, one voting Academy member even told us that they “lost a lot of respect” for the 30-year-old over his campaign comments. Conversely, Sinners ticked up in the race. In addition to shattering the record for the most Oscar nominations for a single film, Jordan won Best Actor at SAG’s Actor Awards earlier this month.

While Best Supporting Actress went (as expected) to veteran Weapons star Amy Madigan over 40 years after her first-ever Academy Award nod, the Best Supporting Actor category saw its winner, Sean Penn, miss out on the ceremony entirely. The 65-year-old wasn’t present at the event, with a New York Times report indicating that he opted to travel to Ukraine on activist duty rather than accept the third competitive Oscar of his career.

The 2026 Oscars winners also included a pair of landmark recipients, with One Battle After Another casting director Cassandra Kulukundis taking the debut Best Casting Oscar, while Sinners‘ Autumn Durald Arkapaw became the first woman to win Best Cinematography in Academy Awards history.

Other major moments throughout the broadcast saw KPop Demon Hunters‘ songwriting team take Best Original Song, Best Live Action Short ending in a tie, and Anderson win his first-ever Oscar after 14 career nominations heading into the show.

As previously announced, the Academy bestowed special awards upon several Hollywood professionals late last year, ahead of the 2026 ceremony. Industry staple Dolly Parton received her Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award via video message at the Governors Awards event in November. The 80-year-old earned the accolade for a career dedicated to philanthropic efforts — including the Dollywood Foundation and Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, which has donated around 285 million books to kids.

Superstar actor Tom Cruise, actress and choreographer Debbie Allen, and production designer Wynn Thomas also received Academy Honorary Awards at the aforementioned event.

See the full list of winners at the 98th Academy Awards below:

Best Picture

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

Best Director

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

Best Actor

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

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 Supporting Actor

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

Best Supporting Actress

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

Best International Feature

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

Best Animated Feature

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

Best Documentary Feature

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

Best Original Screenplay

Robert Kaplow, Blue Moon
Jafar Panahi (script collaborators: Nader Saïvar, Shadmehr Rastin, Mehdi Mahmoudian), It Was Just an Accident
Ronald Bronstein, Josh Safdie, Marty Supreme
Eskil Vogt, Joachim Trier, Sentimental Value
WINNER: Ryan Coogler, Sinners

Best Adapted Screenplay

Will Tracy, Bugonia
Guillermo del Toro, Frankenstein
Chloé Zhao, Maggie O’Farrell, Hamnet
WINNER: Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another
Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar, Train Dreams

Best Casting

Nina Gold, Hamnet
Jennifer Venditti, Marty Supreme
WINNER: Cassandra Kulukundis, One Battle After Another
Gabriel Domingues, The Secret Agent
Francine Maisler, Sinners

Best Film Editing

Stephen Mirrione, F1
Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie, Marty Supreme
WINNER: Andy Jurgensen, One Battle After Another
Olivier Bugge Coutté, Sentimental Value
Michael P. Shawver, Sinners

Best Cinematography

Dan Laustsen, Frankenstein
Darius Khondji, Marty Supreme
Michael Bauman, One Battle After Another
WINNER: Autumn Durald Arkapaw, Sinners
Adolpho Veloso, Train Dreams

Best Production Design

WINNER: Tamara Deverell, Shane Vieau, Frankenstein
Fiona Crombie, Alice Felton, Hamnet
Jack Fisk, Adam Willis, Marty Supreme
Florencia Martin, Anthony Carlino, One Battle After Another
Hannah Beachler, Monique Champagne, Sinners

Best Costume Design

Deborah L. Scott, Avatar: Fire and Ash
WINNER: Kate Hawley, Frankenstein
Malgosia Turzanska, Hamnet
Miyako Bellizzi, Marty Supreme
Ruth E. Carter, Sinners

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

WINNER: Mike Hill, Jordan Samuel, Cliona Furey, Frankenstein
Kyoko Toyokawa, Naomi Hibino, Tadashi Nishimatsu, Kokuho
Ken Diaz, Mike Fontaine, Shunika Terry, Sinners
Kazu Hiro, Glen Griffin, Bjoern Rehbein, The Smashing Machine
Thomas Foldberg, Anne Cathrine Sauerberg, The Ugly Stepsister

Best Original Song

“Dear Me,” Diane Warren: Relentless (music and lyrics by Diane Warren)
WINNER: “Golden,” KPop Demon Hunters (music and lyrics by EJAE, Mark Sonnenblick, Joong Gyu Kwak, Yu Han Lee, Hee Dong Nam, Jeong Hoon Seon, Teddy Park)
“I Lied to You,” Sinners (music and lyrics by Raphael Saadiq and Ludwig Goransson)
“Sweet Dreams of Joy,” Viva Verdi! (music and lyrics by Nicholas Pike)
“Train Dreams,” Train Dreams (music by Nick Cave and Bryce Dessner; lyrics by Nick Cave)

Best Original Score

Jerskin Fendrix, Bugonia
Alexandre Desplat, Frankenstein
Max Richter, Hamnet
Jonny Greenwood, One Battle After Another
WINNER: Ludwig Goransson, Sinners

Best Sound

WINNER: Gareth John, Al Nelson, Gwendolyn Yates Whittle, Gary A. Rizzo, Juan Peralta, F1
Greg Chapman, Nathan Robitaille, Nelson Ferreira, Christian Cooke, Brad Zoern, Frankenstein
José Antonio García, Christopher Scarabosio, Tony Villaflor, One Battle After Another
Chris Welcker, Benjamin A. Burtt, Felipe Pacheco, Brandon Proctor, Steve Boeddeker, Sinners
Amanda Villavieja, Laia Casanovas, Yasmina Praderas, Sirât

Best Visual Effects

WINNER: Joe Letteri, Richard Baneham, Eric Saindon, Daniel Barrett, Avatar: Fire and Ash
Ryan Tudhope, Nicolas Chevallier, Robert Harrington, Keith Dawson, F1
David Vickery, Stephen Aplin, Charmaine Chan, Neil Corbould, Jurassic World: Rebirth
Charlie Noble, David Zaretti, Russell Bowen, Brandon K. McLaughlin, The Lost Bus
Michael Ralla, Espen Nordahl, Guido Wolter, Donnie Dean, Sinners

Best Live-Action Short

Butcher’s Stain
A Friend of Dorothy
Jane Austen’s Period Drama
TIE — WINNERS: The Singers and Two People Exchanging Saliva

Best Animated Short

Butterfly
Forevergreen
WINNER: The Girl Who Cried Pearls
Retirement Plan
The Three Sisters

Best Documentary Short

WINNER: 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

Academy Honorary Awards

Tom Cruise
Debbie Allen
Wynn Thomas

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

Dolly Parton