Oscars 2026 winners list updates as two films tie and Sean Penn skips awards
The 2026 Oscars is already a great night for several films, as the winners are announced. In a rare moment, two films took home the Oscar for best live action short. This has only happened six times before.
Kicking off the show, Amy Madigan won the Best Supporting Actress Award for her role in Weapons. This was the first Oscar for the star, who is aged 75. The actress played Aunt Gladys in the horror film.
Meanwhile Sean Penn won Best Supporting Actor, but chose not to show up to the awards. This was his third Oscar, and last year's winner, Kieran Culkin, accepted the award on his behalf.
The first ever Oscar for Best Casting was awarded as well. Casting directors had not been recognised at the awards before, despite the Oscars being in it's 98th edition. However, this year, the category was introduced and the first award went to Cassandra Kulukundis for One Battle After Another.
Elswhere Autumn Duralde Arkapaw became the first woman to win the Cinematography award. She told all the women in the audience to stand up, as she felt that without the women that paved the way in the film industry, she would not have won her award.
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The big winner of the night is already Sinners. The horror film follows 1930s twins Smoke and Stack, both played by Michael B. Jordan, as they are confronted with a supernatural evil as they return their home town in the USA South. It was nominated in 16 categories this year, breaking the record for the most nominations taken by a film. The record had previously been held by La La Land, Titanic and All About Eve, which all held 14 nominations.
It was a good night for One Battle After Another too. The film is not only a favourite for Best Picture, but its director, Paul Thomas Anderson, is a favourite to take home the Best Director Award. It has already taken four awards, the most any film has taken tonight so far.
Jessie Buckley is also thought to be in for a good night, as she has swept the awards leading up to the Oscars. Jessie is nominated for Best Actress for her role as Agnes in Hamnet.
While Timothee Chalamet was a favourite to take home the Best Actor win for his role as Marty Mauser in Marty Supreme, his odds have been slashed. The actor gave a town hall before the Oscars voting closed where he said "no one cares" about opera and ballet. His words became a huge controversy online, which many believe may have tanked his chances of taking home the award.
Best supporting actress
- Teyana Taylor - One Battle After Another
- WINNER: Amy Madigan - Weapons
- IngaIbsdotter Lilleaas - Sentimental Value
- Wunmi Mosaku - Sinners
- Elle Fanning - Sentimental Value
Best supporting actor
- Stellan Skarsgard - Sentimental Value
- Benicio del Toro - One Battle After Another
- WINNER: Sean Penn - One Battle After Another
- Jacob Elordi - Frankenstein
- Delroy Lindo - Sinners
Best live action short film
- Butcher's Stain
- A Friend of Dorothy
- Jane Austen's Period Drama
- WINNER: The Singers
- WINNER: Two People Exchanging Saliva
Best casting
- Hamnet
- Marty Supreme
- WINNER: One Battle after Another
- The Secret Agent
- Sinners
Best original screenplay
- WINNER: Sinners
- Marty Supreme
- Sentimental Value
- It Was Just an Accident
- Blue Moon
Best adapted screenplay
- WINNER: One Battle After Another
- Hamnet
- Train Dreams
- Bugonia
- Frankenstein
Best animated feature film
- WINNER: KPop Demon Hunters
- Zootopia 2
- Arco
- Elio
- Little Amelie or the Character of Rain
Best animated short film
- Butterfly
- Forevergreen
- WINNER: The Girl Who Cried Pearls
- Retirement Plan
- The Three Sisters
Best costume design
- Hamnet
- Marty Supreme
- Avatar: Fire and Ash
- WINNER: Frankenstein
- Sinners
Best make up and hairstyling
- Kokuho
- WINNER: Frankeinstein
- Sinners
- The Smashing Machine
- The Ugly Stepsister
Best production design
- WINNER: Frankenstein
- Hamnet
- Marty Supreme
- One Battle After Another
- Sinners
Best short film
- 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
Best documentary feature film
- The Alabama Solution
- Come See Me in the Good Light
- Cutting through Rocks
- WINNER: Mr Nobody against Putin
- The Perfect Neighbor
Best original score
- Bugonia
- Frankenstein
- Hamnet
- One Battle after Another
- WINNER: Sinners
Best original sound
- WINNER: F1
- Frankenstein
- One Battle after Another
- Sinners
- Sirat
Best film editing
- WINNER: One Battle After Another
- Sinners
- Marty Supreme
- F1: The Movie
- Sentimental Value
Best cinematography
- Frankenstein
- Marty Supreme
- One Battle after Another
- WINNER: Sinners
- Train Dreams
Best picture
- One Battle After Another
- Sinners
- Hamnet
- Marty Supreme
- Frankenstein
- Sentimental Value
- Train Dreams
- Bugonia
- The Secret Agent
- F1
Best director
- Paul Thomas Anderson - One Battle After Another
- Ryan Coogler - Sinners
- Chloe Zhao - Hamnet
- Josh Safdie - Marty Supreme
- Joachim Trier - Sentimental Value
Best 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
Best actor in a leading role
- Michael B Jordan - Sinners
- Leonardo DiCaprio - One Battle After Another
- Timothee Chalamet - Marty Supreme
- Wagner Moura - The Secret Agent
- Ethan Hawke - Blue Moon
Best international feature film
- Brazil, The Secret Agent
- France, It Was Just an Accident
- Norway, Sentimental Value
- Spain, Sirat
- Tunisia, The Voice of Hind Rajab
Best original song
- Dear M 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
Best visual effects
- Avatar: Fire and Ash
- F1
- Jurassic World Rebirth
- The Lost Bus
- Sinners