Oscars 2026 live updates: Rose Byrne and Jacob Elordi miss out, Michael B Jordan wins Best Actor, One Battle After Another dominates
Jessie Buckley won Best Actress for Hamnet, while Michael B Jordan won Best Actor for Sinners. (Reuters: Mario Anzuoni)
Australians Rose Byrne and Jacob Elordi have missed out at the 98th Academy Awards where One Battle After Another swept the ceremony to claim Best Picture.
Paul Thomas Anderson won his first Oscar for Best Director and Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay), with Sean Penn beating Elordi to win Best Supporting Actor.
One Battle After Another also won Best Film Editing, with Cassandra Kulukundis winning the inaugural Best Casting award.
Director Paul Thomas Anderson and the One Battle After Another cast celebrate their Best Picture win.
Sinners was the other big winner of the night, with Michael B Jordan winning Best Leading Actor. He thanked the black actors who had won before him.
Sinners' Autumn Durald Arkapaw made history by becoming the first woman to win Best Cinematography, with Ludwig Goransson winning for Best Music and Ryan Coogler for Best Writing (Original Screenplay).
Rose Byrne missed out in the Best Leading Actress category for her performance in If I Had Legs I'd Kick You, with Hamnet's Jessie Buckley taking the top honour.
Amy Madigan won Best Supporting Actress for Weapons, while F1 won Best Sound.
KPop Demon Hunters made history with its hit Golden becoming the first K-pop song to win Best Original Song at the event — the film also won Best Animated Feature Film.
Frankenstein managed to pick up three awards for makeup and hair styling, costume design and production design.
Norwegian film Sentimental Value won Best International Film.
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🏆 Oscars Winners Tally🏆
- One Battle After Another: 6
- Sinners: 4
- Frankenstein: 3
- KPop Demon Hunters: 2
- F1: 1
- Weapons: 1
- Sentimental Value: 1
That's it for our Oscars live coverage
Thank you so much for joining us today! We had a blast bringing you all the big winners, so we hope you enjoyed following along.
If you're looking for more, you can:
- Check out our full winners list
- Enjoy all the glitz and glamour in our red carpet wrap
- Catch up with our key moments wrap
That's a wrap on awards season, but we'll catch you later in the year for the Emmys!
Until then, have a lovely rest of your Monday.
Catch up on all the key moments
From our Australian hopefuls missing out to Michael B. Jordan's standing ovation, my colleague Mawunyo Gbogbo has some of the key moments from this year's awards.
One Battle After Another dominates but DiCaprio misses out
Leonardo DiCaprio stars in this year's big winner One Battle After Another, but lost out in the best actor category to Michael B. Jordan.
Leo showed his support to the winner after the show.
The star was also sporting a brand new moustache.
We think this is for a new Martin Scorsese movie he's been working on called What Happens At Night.
So much love for PTA in the comments
Great to see PTA finally get a win. After not winning for There Will Be Blood and not even being nominated for The Master, it looked like he might never get there, but after masterpiece after masterpiece I suppose it was only a matter of time.
- James
Agreed, James!
The other snubs of the night
We mentioned before how Marty Supreme lost all nine categories it was nominated in.
Joining it is Bugonia, which was nominated for four awards and missed out on all.
Train Dreams was also up for four and went home empty-handed.
Sentimental Value also had nine nominations, but managed to win Best International Film.
Celebrations backstage
The winners celebrate after coming off stage.
Want more Oscars coverage?
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- And enjoy all the glitz and glamour in our red carpet wrap.
Yes, ties can happen at the Oscars
The academy voting can have ties? I assumed they'd have a rule or policy about that
- elaborate
So this year's Oscars is the 98th ... and before today there have only ever been six ties in Academy history.
The most famous incident was in 1969 when Katharine Hepburn and Barbra Streisand were both honoured with Best Actress.
The most recent tie was in 2013 when Skyfall and Zero Dark Thirty were joint winners for Sound Editing.
A tie happens when two nominees end up with the exact same number of votes from Academy members.
It means both winners get a statue, and time to give their own speeches.
A surprising Australian connection
Autumn Durald Arkapaw is married to Aussie cinematographer Adam Arkapaw, who shot Animal Kingdom and Snowtown.
- Mr Hitchcock
Unfortunately, all of our Australian nominees missed out on taking home gold today but there was one suprising Australian winner connection.
The husband Sinners cinematographer Autumn Durald Arkapaw thanked in her Oscar speech is indeed Bowral-born cinematographer Adam Arkapaw, who most recently worked on Elijah Bynum's Magazine Dreams.
What a talented family, no pressure on their son Aidan or anything, haha!
Marty Supreme one of this year's biggest snubs
Yikes.
Marty Supreme went into tonight with nine nominations, and walked away empty-handed.
It was in the running for Best Picture along with directing, cinematography, editing, production design, writing, casting, costume design and, of course, Best Leading Actor for Timothée Chalamet.
Well, someone has to lose!
KPop Demon Hunters, F1 and Weapons also had a great night
The most awards of the night might have gone to One Battle After Another, Sinners and Frankenstein, but plenty of other films had their time in the sun, too.
KPop Demon Hunters won Best Animated Feature Film and Best Original Song.
Amy Madigan won Best Supporting Actress for horror film Weapons, while F1 won for Best Sound.
How are we feeling?
One of the better ceremonies when it comes to actual quality films! Pretty ha with the outcome tonight, seems to be spread evenly! And nothing for Marty Supreme, which is karma at its finest!
- Melbie
How surprising is it that Hamnet seems to have largely missed out on wins?
- Chloe
So happy for my idol, PTA, and MBJ! Ceremony was a bit mixed - a lot of the jokes seemed to fall flat, and there were so many sound bugs! Cutting off one of the best song winners was just plain cruel. I do love Conan though and hope he really does host for life. Final prediction tally: 20/24 Thanks for covering!
- CJ
I am most stoked for Amy Madigan, and by extension the Academy finally learning about the horror genre.
- Daniel
Woah! What a ceremony, in a year of some very competitive categories there were a couple races that were nailbiters!
Of course, the biggest news out of today is Michael B. Jordan trouncing Timothee Chalamet, who had been leading the race up until a couple weeks ago for Best Lead Actor. I think the eruption of applause after the announcement says all you need to know about that outcome.
As much as I loved Sinners, it was wonderful to see Paul Thomas Anderson on stage so many times. No matter if you think he should already have an Oscar for Boogie Nights or Punch Drunk Love, I think the SIX statues One Battle After Another picked up today more than soothes the snubs.
It was also an excellent night for the girls; Jessie Buckley became the first Irish actress to win in her category, Amy Madigan finally collected an award (40 years after her first nomination) and, in a moment that made me tear up, Autumn Durald Arkapaw became the first women to ever win Best Cinematography for her electrifying work in Sinners.
The lowlights go to whomever was manning the sound desk today, cold mics, off-mark mics, cutting multiple winners' speeches off with ear-splittingly loud music (where was the soft fade?!) AND cutting off the beginning of Barbra Streisand's In Memoriam speech?? Whoever this was... I just wanna talk.
Conan O'Brien made a fine return and is always a welcome addition to the Oscars stage. Some bits, especially some of the pre-taped skits, fell flat but that opening montage will be supplying us with memes for years to come.
Let us know what you thought in the comments!
Frankenstein won three awards
Frankenstein picked up three awards. Jacob Elordi lost out in the supporting actor category but the movie triumphed in design. Elordi spent up to 11 hours daily in the make-up chair to transform into the creature.
Here's the full list of awards it won:
- Best Makeup and Hairstyling
- Costume design
- Production design
Sinners another big winner of the night, with four awards
Sinners was another major winner on the night, winning four awards, including Best Leading Actor for Michael B. Jordan and Best Cinematography for Autumn Durald Arkapaw, making her the first woman to win this category.
Here's the full list of the Oscars Sinners took home:
- Best Actor in a Leading Role — Michael B. Jordan
- Best Cinematography — Autumn Durald Arkapaw
- Best Music (Original Score) — Ludwig Goransson
- Best Writing (Original Screenplay) — Ryan Coogler
One Battle After Another wins six awards
Paul Thomas Anderson's film well and truly swept the awards, including the inaugural Oscar for Best Casting.
Here's the full list of awards it won:
- Best Picture
- Best Director – Paul Thomas Anderson
- Film Editing – Andy Jurgensen
- Writing (Adapted Screenplay) – Paul Thomas Anderson
- Best Actor in a Supporting Role – Sean Penn
- Best Casting – Cassandra Kulukundis
You can catch One Battle After Another on HBO Max.
And that's it for the Oscars
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It's been a long time coming for PTA
After almost two decades and 14 nominations, Paul Thomas Anderson finally got his flowers and he celebrated by decrying the concept of "best" film after a thrilling contest with Sinners.
"In 1975 the nominees for Best Picture were Dog Day Afternoon, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Jaws, Nashville and Barry Lyndon. There is no best between them, there is just the mood that might be in that day.
"We're happy to be a part of this with our fellow filmmakers."
One Battle After Another wins Best Picture
- Bugonia
- F1
- Frankenstein
- Hamnet
- Marty Supreme
- One Battle After Another - WINNER
- The Secret Agent
- Sentimental Value
- Sinners
- Train Dreams
That's six awards for OBAA!
Buckley makes history for Ireland!
"This is really something, thank you to all the women I stay beside," Buckley began.
"My Irish family, they're all here, Ireland bought them flights!"
Buckley is the first Irish actress to win in this category.
"It's Mother's Day today in the UK, so I would like to dedicate this to the beautiful chaos of a mother's heart.
"We all come from a lineage of women who continue to create against all odds."
