After decades of waiting, it was finally Paul Thomas Anderson's night: the director of Boogie Nights, There Will Be Blood, Phantom Thread, and Magnolia, who had never managed to win a statuette in his career despite being considered one of the most important and influential living filmmakers, took home the three coveted statuettes in just over three hours: Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay, as well as the statuette for Best Supporting Actor for Sean Penn.

In the end, however, there was a duel with "Sinners" and, for once, the Academy's choices showed great balance: Ryan Coogler's film won for Best Original Screenplay, Best Actor for Michael B. Jordan (leaving Timothée Chalamet empty-handed for the third time), and awards for score, editing, and especially cinematography: Autumn Durald Arkapaw becomes the first woman to win in the category ever. Netflix also emerged as a surprise winner of the evening, taking home five significant Oscars with films that never threatened the main contenders: Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein garnered acclaim on the technical side (costumes, makeup, production design) while the animated phenomenon Kpop Demon Hunter brought two historic Oscars to Korean music, winning for Best Song and Best Animated Feature Film.

The big loser of the evening is Chalamet's "Marty Supreme" which not only, as mentioned, missed out on the Oscar for Best Actor, but despite many nominations, went home without even one statuette. Chloé Zhao's "Hamnet" avoided going home empty-handed thanks to its protagonist Jessie Buckley, one of the few locked-in wins of a ceremony that saw an Oscar go to another horror film besides "Sinners": Amy Madigan won Best Supporting Actress for her unsettling role in "Weapons." On the international front, in a challenge open until the very end, Norway prevailed: in the end, Joachim Trier's "Sentimental Value" took home the Oscar for Best International Feature Film.

The first, historic Oscar for Best Casting – which was awarded for the first time in this edition – is among the technical statuettes that allowed "Sinners" to trail "One Battle After Another" in the ranking of most awarded films, just one length behind.

Oscars 2026: All the Winners

Oscars 2026: Most Awarded Films

• One Battle After Another - 6 statuettes
• Sinners - 5 statuettes
• Frankenstein - 3 statuettes
• KPop Demon Hunters - 2 statuettes

Best Picture

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

Best Director

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

Best Actor in a Leading Role

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

Best Actress in a Leading Role

• 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 in a Supporting Role

• Benicio Del Toro – One Battle After Another
• Jacob Elordi – Frankenstein
• Delroy Lindo – Sinners
• Sean Penn – One Battle After Another
• Stellan Skarsgård – Sentimental Value

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

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

Best Original Screenplay

• Robert Kaplow – Blue Moon
• Jafar Panahi – A Simple Accident
• Ronald Bronstein, Josh Safdie – Marty Supreme
• Joachim Trier, Eskil Vogt – Sentimental Value
• Ryan Coogler – Sinners

Best Adapted Screenplay

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

Best Casting

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

Best Animated Feature Film

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

Best Production Design

• Frankenstein – Tamara Deverell, Shane Vieau
• Hamnet – Fiona Crombie, Alice Felton
• Marty Supreme – Jack Fisk, Adam Willis
• One Battle After Another – James Price, Prue Howard, Sarah Carter
• Sinners – Hannah Bleachler, Monique Champagne

Best Cinematography

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

Best Costume Design

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

Best Film Editing

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

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

• Frankenstein
• Kokuho
• Sinners
• The Smashing Machine
• The Ugly Stepsister

Best Sound

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

Best Visual Effects

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

Best Original Score

• Bugonia
• Frankenstein – Alexandre Desplat
• Hamnet – Max Richter
• One Battle After Another – Jonny Greenwood
• Sinners – Ludwig Göransson

Best Original Song

• "Dear Me" – Diane Warren: Relentless
• "Golden" – KPop Demon Hunters
• "I Lied to You" – Sinners
• "Sweet Dreams of Joy" – Viva Verdi!
• "Train Dreams" – Train Dreams

Best Documentary Feature

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

Best International Feature Film

• A Simple Accident - France
• The Secret Agent - Brazil
• Sentimental Value - Norway
• Sirât - Spain
• The Voice of Hind Rajab - Tunisia

Best Animated Short Film

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

Best Documentary Short Film

• All the Empty Rooms
• Armed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud
• Children No More
• Perfectly a Strangeness

Best Live Action Short Film

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