2026 Oscars, all the winners in the various categories

The winners of the 2026 Oscars were announced yesterday. For best picture, One Battle After Another wins: Bob Ferguson (Leonardo DiCaprio) is an eccentric and disheveled revolutionary who tries to save his daughter when an enemy from his past reappears. Director Paul Thomas Anderson also wins the award for best director.

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For best actor, Michael B Jordan receives the award for Sinners: in 1930s Louisiana, we follow the story of Smoke (Michael B. Jordan) and his twin brother. The two return to their hometown hoping to start over, but here they find themselves involved in a horrific event in which corpses come back to life.

For actress, Jessie Buckley wins for Hamnet: set in 1596 in Stratford-upon-Avon in the United Kingdom, the movie tells of a young Latin teacher, William Shakespeare, penniless and mistreated by a violent father. William falls in love with an eccentric young woman, Agnes (Buckley): she is known throughout the countryside for her healing abilities, which she practices using plants and potions. Having moved with her husband to Stratford-upon-Avon, she becomes a protective mother while William’s career is taking off in London.

For foreign movie, the award goes to Sentimental Value by Joachim Trier: in Oslo, Nora is an established theater actress whose life is shaken by the unexpected return of her father, Gustav, a famous movie director. For documentary, Mr. Nobody against Putin by David Borenstein, Pavel Talankin, Helle Faber and Alžběta Karásková: the plot unfolds over two years, in which Pavel “Pasha” Talankin - videographer and event coordinator at Karabash Elementary School No. 1, a Russian city located in Chelyabinsk Oblast - begins documenting his activities after the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. The government began requiring schools to regularly hold “patriotic demonstrations” and use a state-written curriculum to justify the invasion to students.

For supporting actress, Amy Madigan triumphs for Weapons; for actor, Sean Penn again for One Battle After Another. For animated movie, KPop Demon Hunters, the story of a world-famous K-Pop girl group that balances their lives in the spotlight with their secret identities as demon hunters.

For adapted screenplay One Battle After Another, based on the novel Vineland by Thomas Pynchon; for original script, again Sinners. For casting, the award goes to Cassandra Kulukundis for One Battle After Another, for cinematography Autumn Durald Arkapaw for Sinners, for costumes Kate Hawley for Frankenstein, a movie that also receives the award for makeup (Mike Hill, Jordan Samuel and Cliona Furey) and Production Design (Tamara Deverell, Shane Vieau).

For short movie, The Singers by Sam A. Davis and Jack Piatt wins; for documentary short, All the Empty Roomsby Joshua Seftel and Conall Jones. For music, Ludwig Goransson for Sinners; for the song Golden featured in KPop Demon Hunters, with music by EJAE, Mark Sonnenblick, Joong Gyu Kwak, Yu Han Lee, Hee Dong Nam, Jeong Hoon Seo and Teddy Park.

Avatar: Fire and Ash wins the award for special effects (Joe Letteri, Richard Baneham, Eric Saindon and Daniel Barrett).