Oscars 2026 Complete Winner List Update: Michael B. Jordan bags Best Actor Award for 'Sinners', Jessie Buckley wins Best Actress Award for 'Hamnet', 'One Battle After Another' wins Best Picture Award

'Sinners' - 16

'One Battle After Another' - 13

'Frankenstein' - 9

'Marty Supreme' - 9

'Sentimental Value' - 9

'Hamnet' - 8

fter months of expensive campaigns, the stage is set for the Oscars on Sunday, with all eyes on the race between "One Battle After Another" and "Sinners" for best picture, Hollywood's most coveted prize.

Hollywood's A-listers began making their way down the red carpet at the Dolby Theatre, with best actress nominees Rose Byrne and Renate Reinsve among the early arrivals.

Ahead of the star-packed gala, pundits say the Leonardo DiCaprio-starring political thriller "One Battle" is neck-and-neck with Michael B. Jordan's bluesy vampire horror "Sinners," while several acting prizes are similarly impossible to call.

Either movie could break multiple Oscar records, but until the final envelope is opened for best picture, we're not going to know who's going to win.

The nominations for the 2026 edition of the 98th Academy Awards have sparked conversation among film fans, with several high-profile snubs and unexpected nominations making headlines

Actors Danielle Brooks and Lewis Pullman announced the nominees for the 98th Academy Awards on January 22, revealing a list that included notable surprises as well as surprising omissions.

Among the most talked-about snubs was Ariana Grande, who missed out on a nomination in the Best Supporting Actress category despite strong recognition during the awards season for her portrayal of Glinda in Wicked.

Actor Paul Mescal was also absent from the Best Supporting Actor nominations despite receiving praise for his performance in Hamnet. Similarly, Odessa A'Zion missed a nod for her work in Marty Supreme.

While several stars were left out, the nominations also brought surprising milestones. Actor Delroy Lindo earned his first-ever Oscar nomination for his performance as Delta Slim in Sinners.

Meanwhile, Kate Hudson secured a Best Actress nomination for her role in Song Sung Blue despite a highly competitive category.

As Hollywood’s biggest names gather for the Oscars on Sunday, A-list celebrities will have their moment in the spotlight on the red carpet. Some will win there even if they fail to take home an Academy Award.

For this year’s nominees, the Oscars red carpet is the final chance to dazzle before the curtain closes on award season. While some stars stick to traditional codes of red-carpet attire choosing to wear tuxedos and evening gowns, others shake it up with their own fresh spin on black tie dressing.

Teyana Taylor, Timothée Chalamet and Emma Stone are just a few of the fashionable actors up for Academy Awards. With their track record of red carpet risk-taking, these stars are guaranteed to liven up the carpet.

Whether those changes will have any effect on some of the night’s closest races remains to be seen. Coming into the show, Best Actor is one of the hardest-to-call categories. Chalamet had been seen as the front-runner for his performance in “Marty Supreme.” But a swaggering meta campaign, that drew headlines, of all things, a perceived slight of ballet and opera, may have helped put Jordan into the lead. (In Chalamet's favour, the uproar only started as voting was ending.)

While Jessie Buckley (“Hamnet”) is widely expected to win Best Actress, a first for Irish performers, the supporting categories are highly competitive. Amy Madigan (“Weapons”) is the slight favourite in Best Supporting Actress, but Teyana Taylor (“One Battle After Another”) and Wunmi Mosaku (“Sinners”) are in the mix, too.

Despite almost no campaigning, Penn is viewed as the Best Supporting Actor favourite. That award could easily also go to Stellan Skarsgård (“Sentimental Value”) or Delroy Lindo (“Sinners”).

Though the Oscars often feel largely removed from their times, a crop of nominees that explicitly grapple with the current political moment will be centre stage. That includes not just “One Battle After Another,” which opens with a raid on an immigration detention facility, but movies like Kleber Mendonça Filho’s Brazilian political thriller “The Secret Agent” and Jafar Panahi’s Iranian revenge drama “It Was Just an Accident.”

“KPop Demon Hunters,” a Sony Pictures production that was sold to Netflix, was the most-watched movie of 2025. (It has 325 million views and counting, making it Netflix's most-streamed movie ever.) But it seems all but certain that the night’s final award won’t go to a streaming release; Apple's “CODA” remains the only streaming film to achieve that. Instead best picture is likely to go to an anomaly in today’s movie industry: big-budget original films from a personal vision.

“Sinners” and “One Battle After Another” were both theatrical releases shot on film. And both came from Warner Bros., the legacy studio that’s agreed to merge with David Ellison’s new media colossus, Paramount Skydance.

Conan O’Brien is returning as host for the second year in a row. Despite the war in Iran and expanding geopolitical turmoil, O’Brien has pledged an entertaining show in the mold of hosts like Bob Hope and Johnny Carson. “Let’s have fun with it, is my attitude,” O’Brien told reporters earlier in the week.

Still, the already high security will be even greater this year at an Oscars, taking place two weeks after the United States and President Donald Trump launched the war with Iran. Some attendees wore pins reading “Artists for cease fire.”

“Of course, every year we monitor what’s going on in the world,” Raj Kapoor, executive producer of the show, said earlier in the week. “We have the support of the FBI and the LAPD, and it’s a close collaboration.”

Two of the five best song nominees will be performed: “I Lied to You,” from “Sinners,” with Miles Caton, Raphael Saadiq and others; and “Golden” from “KPop Demon Hunters.”

Hollywood will convene Sunday night for a nail-biter Academy Awards that’s steering toward a coronation for either Paul Thomas Anderson or Ryan Coogler. Most would call that a win-win.

Anderson’s “One Battle After Another” is the favourite heading into the ceremony at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. But Coogler’s “Sinners” comes in the lead nominee with a record 16 nominations. Both filmmakers are poised to leave with their first Oscar.

But little else is assured at an Academy Awards where Michael B. Jordan or Timothée Chalamet (despite the ballet diss heard 'round the world) could win their first Academy Award in a too-close-to-call best actor race.

A picture-perfect sunny afternoon greeted early arrivals at the Dolby Theatre on Sunday. This year, the carpet is colored in an earthy brown shade called “red rock.” Japanese maple trees are also lining the path.