Oscars 2026 complete list of winners! (live update)

The 98th Academy Awards officially began on Monday, March 16, 2026, at the break of dawn in India. The ceremony at Los Angeles's Dolby Theatre, featuring returning host Conan O'Brien, feels like a clash between Hollywood's past and future reputation. At the event, Ryan Coogler's Sinners will take centre stage. The film has broken records with 16 nominations, surpassing Titanic and La La Land. A high-stakes Best Picture and Best Director battle is in the works, with Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another providing formidable opposition.

There is a lot of regional interest in the ceremony among Indian viewers of the live stream on JioHotstar. Along with Robert Downey Jr and Anne Hathaway, Priyanka Chopra Jonas makes her long-awaited return to the Oscars stage as a presenter. The industry is closely observing the launch of Best Casting, the first new competitive Oscar category in decades. The evening is living up to its billing as a night of nostalgic, high-octane Hollywood splendour, along with the much-anticipated reunions of the Bridesmaids and Marvel casts.

And the Oscar goes to...

Best Actress in a Supporting Role:

40 years after her first nomination, Amy Madigan made Academy Award history by clinching the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her haunting, orange-wigged turn as the malevolent Aunt Gladys in the supernatural horror hit Weapons, setting a new record for the longest gap between nominations before a win.

Best Animated Feature Film

From chart-topping idols to history-making hunters, the supernatural superstars of K-Pop: Demon Hunters officially grabbed the golden Oscar by taking home the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Film.

Best Animated Short Film

Nearly two decades after their first nomination, the visionary Montreal duo Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski have finally secured the Oscar for Best Animated Short Film, proving that they still reign supreme in the art of stop-motion storytelling with the haunting and tactile fable The Girl Who Cried Pearls.

Best Costume Design

By weaving together high-fashion artistry and gothic horror, Kate Hawley has claimed the Oscar for Best Costume Design for her exquisite, tactile work in Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein, marking a crowning achievement for the film

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

By breathing life into the "stitched" skin of a legend, Mike Hill, Jordan Samuel, and Cliona Furey have claimed the Oscar for Best Makeup and Hairstyling for their stunningly humanistic and tactile transformation of the Creature in Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein.

Best Casting

In a milestone moment that finally brought the "invisible" art of the ensemble to centre stage, Cassandra Kulukundis made history as the inaugural winner of the Best Casting Oscar for her masterful work on Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another.

Best Live Action Short Film

In a rare and historic moment that split the Academy’s heart in two, the 98th Oscars crowned two winners for Best Live Action Short Film, as the barroom harmony of The Singers and the dystopian surrealism of Two People Exchanging Saliva both walked away with the golden statuette.

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

By completing his mission to join the most elite ranks of Hollywood history, Sean Penn secured his third Academy Award—and first in the Best Supporting Actor category—for his transformative, "sandblasted" turn as the corrupt and obsessive Col. Steven J. Lockjaw in Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another.

Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

By breaking a legendary losing streak with a heartfelt "apology" to the next generation, Paul Thomas Anderson finally secured his first-ever Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, successfully taming Thomas Pynchon’s notoriously "unadaptable" novel Vineland into the action-packed, three-hour odyssey One Battle After Another.

Best Writing (Original Screenplay)

By weaving a blood-soaked tale of redemption and rhythm, Ryan Coogler has made Academy Award history by taking home the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for his record-breaking supernatural thriller Sinners.