Oscars 2026: Every Winner, Every Snub, and the Surprises Nobody Saw Coming
One Battle After Another took home Best Picture, Timothée Chalamet left empty-handed for the third time, and someone said "it's actually a tie" live on stage. Here's everything that happened at the 98th Academy Awards.
# Oscars 2026: Every Winner, Every Snub, and the Surprises Nobody Saw Coming
Last night's 98th Academy Awards had everything. A genuinely unpredictable Best Picture race, one of the most talked-about shutouts in Oscar history, a live tie that left the presenter visibly stunned, and Timothée Chalamet sitting in the front row with Kylie Jenner watching his film lose every single award it was nominated for. Nine nominations. Zero wins.
Let's get into it.
Best Picture: One Battle After Another Wins — But It Was Never Certain
Going into the night, most people had it as a coin flip between One Battle After Another and Sinners. Both films had dominated the season. Both had passionate support from the Academy. One Battle After Another ultimately took home six Oscars, while Sinners won four
Paul Thomas Anderson's film — a rollicking black comedy about a sad sack former radical on the comeback trail — was a major vindication for a filmmaker who had previously lost all 11 Oscars he'd ever been nominated for. Oscars Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Film Editing, Best Casting — it was a clean sweep for a film that not everyone had predicted to dominate so completely.
The Acting Winners
Michael B. Jordan took Best Actor for Sinners, while Jessie Buckley won Best Actress for Hamnet.
Michael B. Jordan made Oscar history as the first Best Actor winner to play twins. His performance in Sinners had been building momentum through the second half of awards season, eventually overtaking Chalamet in the polls and he delivered on the night.
Jessie Buckley winning for Hamnet was one of the more satisfying results of the evening. She had been consistent throughout the season and the win felt deserved.
Sean Penn won Best Supporting Actor for One Battle After Another notable for two reasons. First, he wasn't at the ceremony. Second, he became only the seventh person to secure a career hat-trick at the Oscars, having previously won Best Actor for Mystic River in 2004 and Milk in 2009.
The Biggest Snub: Timothée Chalamet and Marty Supreme
This is the story everyone is talking about today. Marty Supreme entered the ceremony with nine nominations and left with zero wins, placing it among the worst Oscar losses in Academy history alongside American Hustle, The Irishman, and Killers of the Flower Moon.
Chalamet had won early-season awards at the Golden Globes and Critics Choice, but his momentum completely reversed as the night went on. He sat in the front row all night, clapping graciously each time his film's category came up and someone else's name was read out.
It's worth remembering this is his third nomination without a win. Leonardo DiCaprio had to wait until he was 41 to win his first Oscar. Chalamet is 30. The wait continues, but it won't be forever.
Adding to the awkwardness, host Conan O'Brien opened the show with a joke about security concerns from "the opera and ballet communities," cutting directly to Chalamet's reaction which is a callback to a recent controversy where Chalamet made dismissive comments about both art forms that didn't go down well publicly.
The Surprises
A live tie on stage. When Kumail Nanjiani opened the envelope for Best Live Action Short Film, he said "I'm not joking. It's actually a tie." The award was shared by Two People Exchanging Saliva and The Singers — only the seventh tie in Oscars history. Nanjiani held it together better than most would have.
The casting award upset. This year the Oscars introduced a brand new category Best Casting, the first new category since Best Animated Feature in 2002. Sinners casting director Francine Maisler had been heavily favoured to win, having also won the Casting Society's Artios Award for the film. She lost to One Battle After Another's Cassandra Kulukundis. During her speech, Kulukundis joked that she had won an Oscar before director Paul Thomas Anderson who then went on to win three.
The documentary nobody expected. Mr. Nobody Against Putin was a surprise winner in the Documentary Feature category, having gone much of awards season without US distribution before being acquired by Kino Lorber in early January. Nobody had it winning. Nobody.
The Films That Left Empty-Handed
It wasn't just Marty Supreme. Bugonia, Train Dreams, and The Secret Agent came into the night with a combined 21 nominations between them and won nothing. Emma Stone, who won for Poor Things just two years ago, was nominated for Best Actress for Bugonia and lost. Wagner Moura, who had won two Golden Globes for The Secret Agent, left without a trophy.
When two films are as dominant as One Battle After Another and Sinners were, there simply isn't room for anyone else, no matter how deserving.
Start Your Countdown to Watching Them
Now that the dust has settled and you have your watchlist sorted, the next question is when you can actually stream these films. Most Oscar winners tend to hit streaming platforms within 45 to 90 days of their theatrical run ending which means several of last night's winners should be landing on Netflix, Prime Video, Apple TV+ and Disney+ over the coming weeks.
Head to our
section and set your countdown so you don't miss the moment any of them drop. You spent all of awards season following the race, you may as well watch the films that won it.