‘One Battle After Another’ takes best picture at the Oscars
The darkly comic thriller “One Battle After Another” won best picture at the Academy Awards, leading a haul of six trophies on a Sunday night when Hollywood handed its top movie honors to unconventional stories.
The offbeat tale of political resistance traded wins with the vampire story “Sinners,” setting up a fight to the end at the Dolby Theatre.
“Let’s have a martini! This is pretty amazing,” director Paul Thomas Anderson said on stage after his “One Battle” was announced the recipient of the top award.
Oscars 2026 winners list
BEST PICTURE
WINNER: “One Battle After Another”
“Bugonia”
“F1”
“Frankenstein”
“Hamnet”
“Marty Supreme”
“The Secret Agent”
“Sentimental Value”
“Sinners”
“Train Dreams”
BEST ACTOR
WINNER: Michael B. Jordan, “Sinners”
Timothée Chalamet, “Marty Supreme”
Leonardo DiCaprio, “One Battle After Another”
Ethan Hawke, “Blue Moon”
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 DIRECTOR
WINNER: Paul Thomas Anderson, “One Battle After Another”
Chloé Zhao, “Hamnet”
Josh Safdie, “Marty Supreme”
Joachim Trier, “Sentimental Value”
Ryan Coogler, “Sinners”
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
WINNER: Sean Penn, “One Battle After Another”
Benicio del Toro, “One Battle After Another”
Jacob Elordi, “Frankenstein”
Delroy Lindo, “Sinners”
Stellan Skarsgård, “Sentimental Value”
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
WINNER: Amy Madigan, “Weapons”
Elle Fanning, “Sentimental Value”
Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, “Sentimental Value”
Wunmi Mosaku, “Sinners”
Teyana Taylor, “One Battle After Another”
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
WINNER: Ryan Coogler, “Sinners”
Robert Kaplow, “Blue Moon”
Jafar Panahi, “It Was Just an Accident”
Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie, “Marty Supreme”
Eskil Vogt and Joachim Trier, “Sentimental Value”
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
WINNER: Paul Thomas Anderson, “One Battle After Another”
Will Tracy, “Bugonia”
Guillermo del Toro, “Frankenstein”
Maggie O’Farrell and Chloé Zhao, “Hamnet”
Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar, “Train Dreams”
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
WINNER: “KPop Demon Hunters”
“Arco”
“Elio”
“Little Amélie or the Character of Rain”
“Zootopia 2”
BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM
WINNER: “The Girl Who Cried Pearls”
“Butterfly”
“Forevergreen”
“Retirement Plan”
“The Three Sisters”
BEST CASTING
WINNER: Cassandra Kulukundis, “One Battle after Another”
“Hamnet”
“Marty Supreme”
“The Secret Agent”
“Sinners”
BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE
WINNER: “Sentimental Value”
“It Was Just an Accident”
“The Secret Agent”
“Sirāt”
“The Voice of Hind Rajab”
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
WINNER: “Mr. Nobody Against Putin”
“The Alabama Solution”
“Come See Me in the Good Light”
“Cutting through Rocks”
“The Perfect Neighbor”
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT
WINNER: Joshua Seftel and Conall Jones, “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 ORIGINAL SCORE
WINNER: Ludwig Göransson, “Sinners”
Jerskin Fendrix for “Bugonia”
Alexandre Desplat for “Frankenstein”
Max Richter for “Hamnet”
Jonny Greenwood for “One Battle After Another”
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
WINNER: “Golden” from “KPop Demon Hunters”
“Train Dreams” from “Train Dreams”
“Dear Me” from “Diane Warren: Relentless”
“I Lied To You” from “Sinners”
“Sweet Dreams Of Joy” from “Viva Verdi!”
BEST SOUND
WINNER: “F1”
“Frankenstein”
“One Battle After Another”
“Sinners”
“Sirāt”
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
WINNER: Tamara Deverell and Shane Vieau, “Frankenstein”
“Hamnet”
“Marty Supreme”
“One Battle After Another”
“Sinners”
BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM
WINNERS (TIE): “The Singers” and “Two People Exchanging Saliva”
“Butcher’s Stain”
“A Friend of Dorothy”
“Jane Austen’s Period Drama”
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
WINNER: Autumn Durald Arkapaw, “Sinners”
“Frankenstein”
“Marty Supreme”
“One Battle after Another”
“Train Dreams”
BEST MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
WINNER: “Frankenstein”
“Kokuho”
“Sinners”
“The Smashing Machine”
“The Ugly Stepsister”
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
WINNER: “Frankenstein”
“Avatar: Fire and Ash”
“Hamnet”
“Marty Supreme”
“Sinners”
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
WINNER: “Avatar: Fire and Ash”
“F1”
“Jurassic World Rebirth”
“The Lost Bus”
“Sinners”
BEST FILM EDITING
WINNER: Andy Jurgensen, “One Battle After Another”
“F1”
“Marty Supreme”
“Sentimental Value”
“Sinners”
The Warner Bros WBD.O movie stars Leonardo DiCaprio as a one-time revolutionary who becomes a weed-smoking single father of a teenager.
Before this year Anderson had 11 career Oscar nominations and no wins. In addition to best picture, he won best director and best adapted screenplay on Sunday.
“I wrote this movie for my kids to say sorry for the housekeeping mess that we left in this world,” Anderson said while accepting the screenplay honor. “But also with the encouragement that they will be the generation that hopefully brings us some common sense and decency.”
SEAN PENN A WINNER BUT A NO-SHOW”One Battle” star Sean Penn, who plays an obsessed military officer in “One Battle,” was named best supporting actor. It was the third Oscar for Penn, who frequently skips movie industry awards shows and was not in the Dolby Theatre audience.
“Sean Penn couldn’t be here, or didn’t want to, so I’ll accept the award on his behalf,” said presenter Kieran Culkin, last year’s supporting actor winner.
“Sinners” had entered the ceremony with 16 nominations, more than any other film in the nearly 100-year-old history of the Oscars. The movie finished with four awards including a best actor trophy for Michael B. Jordan, who played the dual roles of twin brothers Smoke and Stack. Set in the Segregation-era U.S. South, the movie was a celebration of blues and Black culture told with a supernatural twist.
“I stand here because of the people that came before me,” Jordan said as he named previous Black Oscar winners including Sidney Poitier, Denzel Washington and Halle Berry. “I’m going to keep stepping up and I’m going to keep being the best version of myself.”
Autumn Durald Arkapaw became the first woman and first Black cinematographer to win the cinematography honor for “Sinners.”
Irish actor Jessie Buckley landed the best actress accolade for playing William Shakespeare’s wife, Agnes Hathaway, in “Hamnet.” The movie explores how the couple navigates the death of their 11-year-old son “Hamnet.”
“I would like to dedicate this to the beautiful chaos of a mother’s heart,” Buckley said.
The 75-year-old Amy Madigan was named best supporting actress for her role as the wacky Aunt Gladys in horror film “Weapons.” She earned her first Oscar 40 years after her first nomination.
‘KPOP DEMON HUNTERS’ TAKES BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
“KPop Demon Hunters,” a Netflix NFLX.O movie that became a global phenomenon, was named best animated feature. Its catchy song, “Golden,” won the award for best original song.
Amid the celebration, the Oscars took on a serious tone to honor two major losses in the film world – the deaths of directors Robert Redford and Rob Reiner.
Billy Crystal, star of “When Harry Met Sally,” said Reiner’s films including “A Few Good Men” and “This Is Spinal Tap” would “last for lifetimes.” He was joined on stage by Demi Moore, Meg Ryan and other cast members from Reiner classics.
Barbra Streisand, who played opposite Redford in “The Way We Were,” called Redford a “brilliant, subtle actor” and an “intellectual cowboy.” She finished her remarks by singing a few lines from the movie’s well-known title song.
“Sentimental Value,” directed by Joachim Trier, won for best international feature film on Sunday, the first Norwegian film to win in this category after six previous nominations.
Host Conan O’Brien opened the festivities by joking that he was honored to be “the last human host” of the awards at a time when Hollywood is worried about artificial intelligence taking over jobs.
The glitzy celebration, Hollywood’s most over-the-top gala of the year, took place as the U.S. wages war on Iran.
Security was tight in and around the ceremony after a federal warning of a possible Iranian threat against California.
The festivities masked the unease in the film business over where movies are being made as studios chase tax incentives and lower costs elsewhere in the U.S. and overseas, weakening Hollywood’s grip on production.
Warner Bros. WBD.O, the biggest winner of the night with 11 Oscars, is in the process of being sold to Paramount Skydance PSKY.O in a deal that will narrow the ranks of major film distributors. A media watchdog group, Free Press, circulated a roving billboard around Hollywood over the weekend airing its opposition to the merger.
Winners of the gold Oscar statuettes are chosen by the roughly 10,000 actors, producers, directors and film craftspeople who make up the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.