The Oscars celebrated the best movies of 2025, with Conan O’Brien hosting live from the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.
Ryan Coogler’s Sinners led 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.
Ludwig Göransson won the Oscar for best score for Sinners, marking his third Oscar win.
“My dad bought his first blues album in Sweden, 1964,” Göransson said. “Even though it was on the other side of the world from a place my dad never been, and a place he could not relate to, the music was so powerful it changed my dad’s life.”
Autumn Durald Arkapaw made history as the first woman ever — the first Black and Asian woman too — to win the Oscar for best cinematography for her work on Sinners.
She asked all the women in the room to stand up. “I don’t get here without you guys,” she said.
Jordan won his first-ever Oscar for best actor for portraying identical twin brothers Elijah “Smoke” Moore and Elias “Stack” Moore in Sinners.
“I stand here because of the people that came before me,” he said, before naming Sidney Poitier, Denzel Washington, Halle Berry, Forest Whitaker, Jamie Foxx and Will Smith.
“I feel it, I know you guys want to me to do well, and I want to do that because you guys bet on me,” he added.
Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another was in second with 13 nominations ahead of the ceremony. Four of its actors — Leonardo DiCaprio, Teyana Taylor, Benicio del Toro and Sean Penn — were nominated.
One Battle After Another was the big winner at this year’s Oscars, with six wins including best picture. It becomes the 42nd film in Oscars history with at least six statuettes.
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Anderson earned his first-ever Oscar, winning best adapted screenplay for the film.
“I wrote this movie for my kids to say sorry for the housekeeping mess that we left in this world we’re handing off to them,” Anderson said.
Anderson also won the Oscar for best directing and dedicated his win to Adam Somner.
“He’s in a really big bar up in the sky right now,” Anderson said of his late collaborator. “He’s having a gin and tonic, and he is so happy.”
Sean Penn won best supporting actor winner for the movie, but skipped the Oscars ceremony.
“Sean Penn couldn’t be here this evening,” presenter Kieran Culkin said. “Or didn’t want to, so I’ll be accepting the award on his behalf.”
Cassandra Kulukundis, of One Battle After Another, won the newly created award for best casting and thanked the academy for making the award happen.
“I dedicate this to you and to the casting directors who never got a chance to get up here, who didn’t even get a chance to get their name on the movie,” she said.
The best film editing award went to Andy Jurgensen, also for One Battle After Another.
“I would like to dedicate this to my aunt, Barbara Hall, who was film archivist for the Academy for over 25 years, showing me old movies and teaching me about film history,” Jurgensen said.
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.
Canada’s Tamara Deverell and Shane Vieau won the Oscar for best production design for their work on Frankenstein.
Production designer Deverell, now based in Cape Breton, N.S., and set decorator Vieau, originally from Dartmouth, N.S., took home the prize for their work on the horror-fantasy directed by Guillermo del Toro.
Earlier in the night, Canadians Jordan Samuel and Cliona Furey were part of the team that won the Oscar for best makeup and hairstyling on the film.
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(Find below a complete list of winners in the major categories at the 2026 Oscars.)
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Best Picture
Frankenstein
Hamnet
The Secret Agent
Sentimental Value
Sinners
Bugonia
Marty Supreme
F1
Train Dreams
**WINNER: One Battle After Another
Actor in a Leading Role
**WINNER: 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
**WINNER: 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
**WINNER: Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another
Joachim Trier, Sentimental Value
Ryan Coogler, Sinners
Cinematography
Frankenstein
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
**WINNER: 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
**WINNER: One Battle After Another
Sinners
Sentimental Value
International Feature Film
The Secret Agent, Brazil
**WINNER: 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
**WINNER: 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
**WINNER: Ludwig Göransson, Sinners
Jonny Greenwood, One Battle After Another
Jerskin Fendrix, Bugonia
Max Richter, Hamnet
Sound
**WINNER: F1
Frankenstein
One Battle After Another
Sinners
Sirāt
Documentary Feature
The Alabama Solution
Come See Me In The Good Light
Cutting Through Rocks
**WINNER: Mr. Nobody Against Putin
The Perfect Neighbor
Documentary Short Film
**WINNER: 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
**WINNER: Frankenstein
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
Sinners
Visual Effects
**WINNER: 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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