Academy Awards 2026 live updates and winners list!

The 98th Academy Awards are finally here! This year's ceremony is hosted by Conan O'Brien, who also hosted last year at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Sinners leads the nominations with a record-breaking 16 nods, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay. The show can be seen live on ABC and CTV tonight, Sunday, March 15, 2026.

Some of Conan's best bits during his monologue included mocking Timothée Chalamet who earlier dissed ballet and opera, saying "no one cares about" those forms of art anymore. Conan also quipped, "In Hamnet, Shakespeare’s wife gives birth by herself in the woods. Or what we call in America: Affordable health care" and "This year we added a new category, best casting. Which means tonight, one casting director won an Oscar and for the rest of you, we decided to go in another direction."

Amy Madigan won the first award handed out -- Best Supporting Actress -- for her role in Weapons, in which she gave an incredible performance. The next award, for Animated Feature Film, went to KPop Demon Hunters, which also won for Best Song. Frankenstein won two craft awards for Makeup and Hairstyling and Costume Design. Canada made an appearance amongst the winners with the National Film Board of Canada's wonderful short film, The Girl Who Cried Pearls.

Sean Penn was absent when his name was called out as the winner of the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role in One Battle After Another, so last year's Best Supporting Actor winner, Kieran Culkin, accepted it on his behalf. Paul Thomas Anderson was awarded the Best Director Oscar for the film, which also won the big award of the night -- Best Picture.

The film Sentimental Value starring Stellan Skarsgård and Elle Fanning, which was also up for Best Picture, won in the International Feature Film category.

Jessie Buckley won Best Actress for Hamnet, while Michael B. Jordan won Best Actor for Sinners.

Touching tributes were paid to Rob Reiner, Diane Keaton, Catherine O'Hara and Robert Redford, by Billy Crystal, Rachel McAdams and Barbra Streisand. ~Alexandra Heilbron

See the full list of winners below:

Actor in a Leading Role
Timothée Chalamet, Marty Supreme 
Leonardo DiCaprio, One Battle After Another 
Ethan Hawke, Blue Moon
Michael B. Jordan, Sinners - WINNER
Wagner Moura, The Secret Agent 

Actress in a Leading Role
Jessie Buckley, Hamnet - WINNER
Rose Byrne, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You 
Kate Hudson, Song Sung Blue
Emma Stone, Bugonia 
Renate Reinsve, Sentimental Value 

Actor in a Supporting Role
Benicio Del Toro, One Battle After Another 
Jacob Elordi, Frankenstein 
Delroy Lindo, Sinners
Sean Penn, One Battle After Another - WINNER
Stellan Skarsgård, Sentimental Value

Actress in a Supporting Role
Elle Fanning, Sentimental Value 
Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Sentimental Value 
Amy Madigan, Weapons - WINNER
Teyana Taylor, One Battle After Another
Wunmi Mosaku, Sinners

Animated Feature Film
Arco
Elio
KPop Demon Hunters - WINNER
Little Amélie or the Character of Rain
Zootopia 2

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

Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
Bugonia, Will Tracy
Frankenstein, Guillermo del Toro
Hamnet, Chloé Zhao and Maggie O'Farrell
One Battle After Another, Paul Thomas Anderson - WINNER
Train Dreams, Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar

Writing (Original Screenplay)
Blue Moon, Robert Kaplow
It Was Just an Accident, Jafar Panahi & Script Collaborators
Marty Supreme, Ronald Bronstein & Josh Safdie
Sentimental Value, Joachim Trier & Eskil Vogt
Sinners, Ryan Coogler - WINNER

Cinematography
Frankenstein
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
Sinners - WINNER
Train Dreams

Costume Design
Avatar: Fire and Ash
Frankenstein - WINNER
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
Sinners

Film Editing
F1, Stephen Mirrione
Marty Supreme, Ronald Bronstein & Josh Safdie
One Battle After Another, Andy Jurgensen
Sentimental Value, Olivier Bugge Coutté
Sinners, Michael Shawver

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

Music (Original Score)
Bugonia
Frankenstein
Hamnet
One Battle After Another
Sinners - WINNER

Music (Original Song)
“Dear Me” — Avatar: Fire and Ash
“Golden”  — KPop Demon Hunters - WINNER
“I Lied To You” — Sinners
"Sweet Dreams of Joy" — Viva Verdi!
“Train Dreams”  — Train Dreams

Visual Effects
Avatar: Fire and Ash - WINNER
F1
Jurassic World Rebirth
The Lost Bus
Sinners

Sound
F1 - WINNER
Frankenstein
One Battle After Another
Sinners
Sirât

Makeup and Hairstyling
Frankenstein - WINNER
Kokuho
Sinners
The Smashing Machine
The Ugly Stepsister

Production Design
Frankenstein, Tamara Deverell - WINNER
Hamnet, Fiona Crombie
Marty Supreme, Jack Fisk
One Battle After Another, Florencia Martin
Sinners, Hannah Beachler

Documentary Feature Film
The Alabama Solution
Come See Me in the Good Light
Cutting Through Rocks
Mr. Nobody Against Putin - WINNER
The Perfect Neighbor

Documentary Short Film
All the Empty Rooms - WINNER
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

Animated Short Film
Butterfly
Forevergreen
The Girl Who Cried Pearls - WINNER
Retirement Plan
The Three Sisters

Live Action Short Film
Butcher’s Stain
A Friend of Dorothy
Jane Austen’s Period Drama
The Singers - WINNER — TIE
Two People Exchanging Saliva - WINNER — TIE

International Feature Film
It Was Just an Accident — France
The Secret Agent — Brazil
Sentimental Value — Norway - WINNER
Sirat — Spain
The Voice of Hind Rajab — Tunisia