The 98th Academy Awards will be held on Sunday, March 15, 2026, live from the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.

The ceremony will air on ABC at 7 p.m. ET / 4 p.m. PT. Returning as host for the second year in a row is Conan O’Brien.

Sinners earned a record-breaking 16 Oscar nominations, followed by One Battle After Another which earned up 13 nominations.




Best Picture:

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








Best Actress:

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:

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







Best Supporting Actor:

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:

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









Achievement in Casting:

One Battle After Another
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
The Secret Agent
Sinners









Best Director:

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







Best Animated Film:

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






Best Short Animated Film:

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









Best Short Live Film (tie):

The Singers
Two People Exchanging Saliva
Butcher’s Stain
A Friend of Dorothy
Jane Austen’s Period Drama









Best International Feature Film:

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








Best Costume Design:

Frankenstein
Avatar: Fire and Ash
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
Sinners








Best Makeup and Hair Styling:

Frankenstein
Kokuho
Sinners
The Smashing Machine
The Ugly Stepsister








Best Cinematography:

Sinners
Frankenstein
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
Train Dreams







Best Editing:

One Battle After Another
F1
Marty Supreme
Sentimental Value
Sinners







Best Sound Editing:

F1
Frankenstein
One Battle After Another
Sinners
Sirāt










Best Production Design:

Frankenstein
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
Sinners








Best Visual Effects:

Avatar: Fire and Ash
F1
Jurassic World Rebirth
The Lost Bus
Sinners







Best Writing (Original Screenplay):

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






Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay):

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









Best Documentary (Long):

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









Best Documentary (Short):

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 Music (Original Score):

Sinners
Bugonia
Frankenstein
Hamnet
One Battle After Another







Best Music (Original Song):

Golden – EJAE
KPop Demon Hunters


Dear Me – Diane Warren
Diane Warren: Relentless


I Lied To You – Miles Caton
Sinners

Sweet Dreams of Joy – Nicholas Pike
Viva Verdi!

Train Dreams – Nick Cave
Train Dreams

I hope Kate Hudson wins. Surprising Wicked: For Good was shut out in the major categories.

Oscars bringing back all four of last year’s acting winners to present at this year’s ceremony (https://www.indiewire.com/awards/industry/2026-oscars-presenters-list-1235180548/)

Adrien Brody, Kieran Culkin, Mikey Madison and Zoe Saldaña will hand out awards during the March 15 ceremony, though which awards haven’t been revealed.

^ Winners above in bold.

Did anyone watch the Oscars?

James Van Der Beek, Eric Dane, Malcolm Jamal-Warner and Julian McMahon were among the Oscar In Memoriam snubs: Why so many omissions? (https://ew.com/james-van-der-beek-eric-dane-brigitte-bardot-left-out-2026-oscars-in-memoriam-11925241?srsltid=AfmBOopXIhWilFkPYxpqyv7kkyZTuUCd9pTqM4JfdO2cNxJgLwsVSziC)

Disney boss on Oscars cutting off speeches: “It’s obviously something we should look really, really long and hard at." (https://www.justjared.com/2026/03/16/oscars-boss-responds-golden-songwriters-cut-off-acceptance-speech/)

A Quick Review Of The 98th Oscar Ceremony (https://unobtainium13.com/2026/03/16/a-quick-review-of-the-98th-oscar-ceremony/)

Posted on March 16, 2026 by Lisa Marie Bowman

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In a word: Boring.

It wasn’t quite as dull as the COVID Oscars. The 2021 ceremony set a standard for dullness that will probably never be matched. This year, the ceremony actually took place in a theater and it actually had a host who, for the most part, knew what he was doing. That’s not to say that Conan O’Brien was a particularly exciting host but at least the opening monologue went by quickly. When Jimmy Kimmel came out to present the Best Documentary Oscar, we were reminded of just what an improvement O’Brien was on previous hosts.

It’s funny when you think about it. We always bemoan stuff like Will Smith slapping Chris Rock or Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway announcing that the wrong film had won Best Picture but the Oscar ceremony is pretty dull without any of that. Last night’s show ran relatively smoothly and only went over by a few minutes. It probably would have been livened up by a slap or two.

The acceptance speeches were okay. I prefer arrogant Paul Thomas Anderson to sincere Paul Thomas Anderson but at least he finally won the Oscars that he probably should have first won many years ago. Anderson is one of our best filmmakers so it’s unfortunate that he won for one of his least interesting films. But that’s the way it often goes with the Academy. Martin Scorsese didn’t win for Goodfellas or Raging Bull or even The Aviator. He won for The Departed.

What happened to all that Sinners momentum? Looking back, the majority of that momentum was a mirage of wishful thinking. A lot of people — myself included — wanted something unexpected to happen to liven up what had been a pretty boring Oscar season. In the end, Michael B. Jordan emerged as Best Actor, over the early favorites. The momentum was less for the film and more for the actor.

The In Memoriam segment was well-handled, though I would have liked to have seen Robert Duvall also get an individual segment. That said, I imagine that Duvall died after the segment had already been planned out. In the end, we all know what a great actor Robert Duvall was and that’s the important thing. Bud Cort, Joe Don Baker and Brigitte Bardot were left out of the In Memoriam montage. I can’t say why Cort and Baker were left out. Brigitte Bardot was undoubtedly left out because of her politics and shame on the Academy for that.

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Sean Penn was not at the ceremony, so we were spared a Penn speech. Fortunately, for fans of wealthy celebrities bloviating about politics, Javier Bardem showed up wearing a big ugly button that looked like it was made by an 8 year-old.

There was a lot of talk about how AI will never replace real movies and it felt a bit desperate. I don’t want AI to replace real movies but, sad to say, I think we can all see where things are heading. Perhaps if the real movies were a little bit better, AI wouldn’t be such a threat.

I haven’t seen the ratings yet. Ten years ago, the Oscars dominated social media. This year, things felt much different.

A Quick Review Of The 98th Oscar Ceremony (https://unobtainium13.com/2026/03/16/a-quick-review-of-the-98th-oscar-ceremony/)

2026 Oscars: 5 Best And 5 Worst Moments (https://www.looper.com/2125801/oscars-2026-best-worst-moments/)

As with any ceremony, the 98th Academy Awards saw its fair share of creative highs and lows. Here are the best and worst moments from this year's Oscars.

French media slam the Oscars’ In Memoriam snub of Brigitte Bardot after omitting Alain Delon last year, allegedly over their politics (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/oscars-french-media-brigitte-bardot-alain-delon-in-memoriam-1236534027/)

“In France, the glaring absence of film icon Brigitte Bardot has caused much debate in mainstream media and on social media,” says The Hollywood Reporter’s Abid Rahman. “Bardot, who died in December at 91, was undoubtedly a global star due to her appearance in classic films like And God Created Woman, The Truth and Contempt. But after her film career abruptly ended in the mid 1970s, Bardot became notorious in her home country for her extreme right-wing politics. Bardot’s absence saw many in France recall the omission of Alain Delon at the 2025 Oscars. The Leopard and Le Samouraï actor, who was often dubbed “the male Brigitte Bardot,” was also a hugely influential film and pop culture figure in the 1960s and 1970s, and also like Bardot became better known in his later years for his extremist politics. To be clear, no reasons have been given for Bardot’s absence, and she did feature on The Academy’s website, which contained a much more comprehensive In Memoriam section. Still, the majority of the French entertainment media seemed shocked by Bardot’s exclusion, given her outsized film legacy, but also reluctant to touch on Bardot’s politics as a possible reason why she didn’t make the cut for the telecast.”

Oscar Ratings Fall 9% From Last Year With 17.9 Million Viewers (https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/movies/articles/oscar-ratings-fall-9-last-225426434.html)

The 2026 Oscars saw viewership tick down 9% from last year.