Oscars 2026 Recap: ‘One Battle After Another’ Wins 6 Awards, Including Best Picture

The 2026 Oscars has come and gone, and One Battle After Another emerged the biggest winner of the evening (or day, depending on time zone). The black comedy action-thriller film notched six awards in total, including a first Best Picture win for director Paul Thomas Anderson, who had been nominated 14 times across different categories prior.

It wasn’t the only first-time victory – this year’s event added a new category recognising best casting, which was won by Cassandra Kulukundis for One Battle After Another. Sinners, with a record-breaking 16 nods, saw helmer Ryan Coogler taking home Best Original Screenplay, alongside the Best Actor accolade for Michael B. Jordan, Best Original Score for Ludwig Goransson, and Best Cinematographer for Autumn Durald Arkapaw. Goransson scored his third win in the category, while Coogler, Jordan, and Arkapaw are all first-time Oscar victors; individually, Coogler and Arkapaw become the second Black writer and the first woman to win in their respective categories.

Additionally, “Golden” from KPop Demon Hunters earned the first win for the K-pop genre at the Oscars (Best Original Song), with the live-action short category ending in the first tie in 14 years, shared betweenThe Singers andTwo People Exchanging Saliva. The event, hosted by Conan O’ Brien for a second year in a row, also featured tributes to several stars who passed away within the past year, and live performances of “Golden” and “I Lied to You” from Sinners.

The complete list of winners for the 98th Oscars is as follows.

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Best Picture

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

Best Director

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

Best Actor

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

Best Actress

• Jessie Buckley, Hamnet – WINNER
• 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
• Sean Penn, One Battle After Another – WINNER
• Stellan Skarsgård, Sentimental Value

Best Supporting Actress

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

Best 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

Best Original Screenplay

• Blue Moon, Robert Kaplow
• It Was Just an Accident, Jafar Panahi
• Marty Supreme, Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie
• Sentimental Value, Eskil Vogt and Joachim Trier
• Sinners, Ryan Coogler – WINNER

Best Animated Feature

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

Best Animated Short

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

Best International Feature

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

Best Documentary Feature

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

Best Cinematography

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

Best Casting

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

Best Costume Design

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

Best Documentary Short

• 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

Best Film Editing

• F1
• Marty Supreme
• One Battle After Another – WINNER
• Sentimental Value
• Sinners

Best Live-Action Short

• A Friend of Dorothy
• Butcher’s Stain
• Jane Austen’s Period Drama
• The Singers – WINNER (TIED)
• Two People Exchanging Saliva – WINNER (TIED)

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

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

Best Original Score

• Bugonia
• Frankenstein
• Hamnet
• One Battle After Another
• Sinners – WINNER

Best Original Song

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

Best Production Design

• Hamnet
• Frankenstein – WINNER
• Marty Supreme
• One Battle After Another
• Sinners

Best Sound

• F1 – WINNER
• Frankenstein
• One Battle After Another
• Sinners
• Sirât

Best Visual Effects

• Avatar: Fire and Ash – WINNER
• F1
• Jurassic Park Rebirth
• The Lost Bus
• Sinners