Oscars 2026 winners list: 'Sinners' expected to win big

The year’s biggest awards show is here. The Oscars celebrate the best movies of 2025, with Conan O’Brien hosting live from the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.

Ryan Coogler’s Sinners leads all films with 16 nominations ahead of the 98th Academy Awards, setting a record for the most in Oscar history.

Sinners broke the 14-nomination mark set by All About Eve, Titanic and La La Land. Along with best picture, Coogler was nominated for best director and best screenplay, and star Michael B. Jordan was rewarded with his first Oscar nomination for best actor.

Coogler took home the award for original screenplay for Sinners, marking the film’s first win of the night.

At the start of his speech, Coogler asked the audience to quiet down their applause so he wouldn’t get played off.

“To my babies that are at home watching, I apologize for all the time away,” he said. “I love y’all more than anything.”

He also asked the Sinners cast and crew to stand up. “You’re all winners in my book,” he said.

Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another is in second with 13 nominations. Four of its actors — Leonardo DiCaprio, Teyana Taylor, Benicio del Toro and Sean Penn — were nominated.

Canadians made a strong showing at this year’s Academy Awards with Korean-Canadian director Maggie Kang winning the Oscar for best animated feature for her debut film KPop Demon Hunters.

The Girl Who Cried Pearls, a Canadian animated short film by Montreal directors Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski, also took home an Oscar for best animated short film.

“This award is a tribute to all the artists who shared this labour with us. They are not just names in the credits, they are our community, and their extraordinary talent and hard work made this possible. We’d especially like to thank the National Film Board of Canada for their enduring support, and the Academy for continuing to champion short animated film. Statue or no statue, the support we’ve gotten from friends and family these past weeks has been overwhelming,” Lavis and Szczerbowski said in a statement after their win.

The Oscars announced that they’re making room for one more award on their live broadcast with a new prize for achievement in casting.

That brings the total award count to 24 for the Oscars broadcast, where statuettes for best picture, best actor and actress will be among the others awarded.

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(Find below a complete list of winners in the major categories at the 2026 Oscars below — this list will be updated live throughout the broadcast as each winner is announced.)

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Best Picture

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

Actor in a Leading Role

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

Actress in a Leading Role

Jessie Buckley, Hamnet
Renate Reinsve, Sentimental Value
Rose Byrne, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
Kate Hudson, Song Sung Blue
Emma Stone, Bugonia

Actor in a Supporting Role

Benicio Del Toro, One Battle After Another
Jacob Elordi, Frankenstein
Delroy Lindo, Sinners
**WINNER: Sean Penn, One Battle After Another
Stellan Skarsgard, Sentimental Value

Actress in a Supporting Role

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

Directing

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

Cinematography

Frankenstein
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
Sinners
Train Dreams

Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

Bugonia
Frankenstein
Hamnet
**WINNER: One Battle After Another
Train Dreams

Writing (Original Screenplay)

Blue Moon
It Was Just An Accident
Marty Supreme
Sentimental Value
**WINNER: Sinners

Film Editing

F1
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
Sinners
Sentimental Value

International Feature Film

The Secret Agent, Brazil
Sentimental Value, Norway
It Was Just An Accident, France
Sirāt, Spain
The Voice of Hind Rajab, Tunisia

Animated Feature Film

Arco
Elio
**WINNER: Kpop Demon Hunters
Little Amélie or The Character of Rain
Zootopia 2

Animated Short Film

Butterfly
Forevergreen
**WINNER: The Girl Who Cried Pearls
Retirement Plan
The Three Sisters

Live-Action Short Film

Butcher’s Stain
A Friend of Dorothy 
Jane Austen’s Period Drama
**WINNER (TIE): The Singers
**WINNER (TIE): Two People Exchanging Saliva

Music (Original Song)

Diane Warren: Relentless — Dear Me by Diane Warren
KPop Demon Hunters — Golden by Huntr/x
Sinners — I Lied to You by Miles Caton
Viva Verdi! — Sweet Dreams of Joy by Nicholas Pike
Train Dreams — Train Dreams by Nick Cave

Music (Original Score)

Alexandre Desplat, Frankenstein
Ludwig Göransson, Sinners
Jonny Greenwood, One Battle After Another
Jerskin Fendrix, Bugonia
Max Richter, Hamnet

Sound

F1
Frankenstein
One Battle After Another
Sinners
Sirāt

Documentary Feature

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

Documentary Short Film

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

Makeup and Hairstyling

**WINNER: Frankenstein
Kokuho
Sinners
The Smashing Machine
The Ugly Stepsister

Costume Design

Avatar: Fire and Ash
**WINNER: Frankenstein
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
Sinners

Production Design

Frankenstein
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
Sinners

Visual Effects

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

Casting

Hamnet
Marty Supreme
**WINNER: One Battle After Another
The Secret Agent
Sinners

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—With files from The Associated Press

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