Oscars 2026 as it happened: One Battle After Another dominates, Anne Hathaway teases Devil Wears Prada sequel

Here you’ll find all the nominees and winners in key categories.

Believe it or not, that’s a wrap on the 98th annual Academy Awards!

It always feels a bit strange bidding adieu to awards season after months of anticipation and movie binge-watching. But alas, the trophies have been handed out and the tears have been shed. Now all that’s left to do for the stars of Tinseltown is party down.

Though relatively light on the politics, this Oscars ceremony still managed to keep us on our toes. The Sinners v One Battle After Another brawl was feisty to say the least, and the best actor race between Michael B. Jordan and Timothée Chalamet was spicy until the very end.

As much as I would have loved to see a few more performances (you could never go wrong with more of KPop Demon Hunters), Conan O’Brien’s opening montage skit in which he played a version of the witch from Weapons travelling through scenes from each of the nominated films will stay with me for a long time coming. Please, Academy, bring O’Brien back next year.

So, thank you for joining us on cinema’s night of nights – we’ll see you at the next one. Now, excuse me as I go swoon over Jordan in Sinners for the umpteenth time.

Speaking backstage, One Battle After Another director Paul Thomas Anderson, winner of both the best director and best picture Oscars, said the success of the film would not have been possible without the many collaborations that brought it to life.

“I have been doing this long enough to tell you that the reason I continue to do it is the people I collaborate with,” he said. “Honest to God, the thing that really gets me excited about making films is collaborating with people. It’s number one on my list. As you get older, and you do it, the only reason you do it is to be with people.”

Anderson also addressed some of the online conversations about the portrayal of black female characters in the film.

“I know a little bit about that critique, I know Teyana [Taylor, who stars in the film] has talked about it a lot,” he said. “We knew we were making something that was complicated, we knew we were making something that was heroic, and we needed to lean into that. That this woman was suffering not only from postpartum depression, but that she had issues of her own that she really hadn’t reconciled with.”

In the best director category, Anderson was up against a formidable lineup: Chloe Zhao (Hamnet), Josh Safdie (Marty Supreme), Joachim Trier (Sentimental Value) and Ryan Coogler (Sinners).

And in the best picture category, One Battle After Another knocked out Bugonia, F1, Frankenstein, Hamnet, Marty Supreme, The Secret Agent, Sentimental Value, Sinners and Train Dreams.

Best actress Oscar winner Jessie Buckley said backstage it was a perfect storm that delivered her a win on Mother’s Day weekend, as a new mother to a baby daughter. (Mother’s Day is celebrated in Ireland in March.)

“It feels like some kind of crazy alchemy that all of these things are colliding on a day like today,” she said. “My daughter got her first tooth, I woke up with her laying on my chest snuggling me.

“What a gift to get to explore motherhood, through this mother that Agnes is and was, and to become one myself, and to receive this incredible recognition of the role mothers play in this world, on this day.”

Buckley, who played Agnes Shakespeare in Hamnet, beat out a field including Australia’s Rose Byrne (If I Had Legs I’d Kick You), Kate Hudson (Song Sung Blue), Renate Reinsve (Sentimental Value) and Emma Stone (Bugonia).

Asked what her message for her family and friends was, she said: “Don’t go to bed. Keep partying. That’s what I’m going to do.”

Michael B. Jordan’s best actor triumph for Sinners – he played twin brothers Smoke and Stack – is far from the first time someone has won an Oscar for playing multiple characters in the same film.

As recently as three years ago, Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan, Stephanie Hsu and Jamie Lee Curtis played multiple versions of their characters across different multiverses in Everything Everywhere All At Once, winning Oscars for their efforts.

Six decades ago, Lee Marvin won best actor for playing identical brothers – I’d have to watch the film again to see if they were twins – in the 1965 comic Western Cat Ballou.