Oscars 2026: Who won the main categories?

On March 15, the 2026 Oscars ceremony took place in Los Angeles. There were no surprises – the three-hour film "Battle by Battle" by Paul Thomas Anderson, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, won Best Picture. Read on to find out who else won this year's awards and what interesting things happened at the ceremony.

To increase transparency, the Academy tightened its voting rules this year. Members voted only for films they had seen, and viewings were tracked through the proprietary Academy Screening Room app.

In addition, a new category, "Best Casting," was introduced: the Oscar is now also awarded to actors who cast actors.

On the subject: 2026 Golden Globe Awards': full list of winners

Sean Penn will not attend the 2026 Oscars due to the war in Ukraine.

For Sean Penn, who delivered a brilliant performance in "Battle After Battle" and won the award for his supporting role, this is his third Oscar. He first won the statuette in 2004 for Best Actor, and his second in 2009 for the same category.

By the way, the actor left one of his Oscars in Ukraine until the end of the war, reports TSNHe had previously publicly stated that he would boycott the awards ceremony.

Sean Penn was outraged that President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was not allowed to deliver a speech in 2022.

Unfortunately, the Ukrainian films—the documentary "2000 Meters to Andreevka" and the animated film "I Died in Irpen"—did not make the final list of nominees.

However, this list included two Russian works: the documentary film "Mr. Nobody vs. Putin" about Russian schools and propaganda, as well as the short animation "Three Sisters."

At this year's ceremony, however, not a word was said about the war in Ukraine. Of all the armed conflicts, only the Middle East was mentioned, when actor Javier Bardem declared from the stage, "Free Palestine!"

Mr. Nobody vs. Putin

The winner in the Best Feature Documentary category was the film "Mr. Nobody vs. Putin," which tells the story of Russian teacher Pavel Talankin, writes "Observer".

The documentary "Mr. Nobody vs. Putin" was created by American director David Borenstein. Its protagonist is Russian educator Pavel Talankin, who worked at a school in a mining town near the Ural Mountains. In the film, he filmed his students and, according to the authors, documented the implementation of state propaganda in the Russian educational system during the war in Ukraine. Well, for future historians, this is fascinating material: it offers a comparison of brainwashing techniques in the Third Reich and in Putin's Russia.

Taking the stage, the film's team showed no emotion—the project's participants smiled and thanked the Academy for the award. In his acceptance speech, American director David Borenstein stated that the film is supposedly about moral choice and social responsibility. This moment was broadcast live at the 2026 Oscars.

"The film 'Mr. Nobody vs. Putin' is about losing your country. And while working on this material, we saw that you lose it through countless small acts of complicity. When we become complicit when the government kills people on the streets of our big cities. When we remain silent when oligarchs take over the media and control how we create and consume it. We all face a moral choice, but fortunately, even Nobody is stronger than you think." – said the director from the stage.

After this, the film's protagonist and co-director, Pavel Talankin, a former teacher from Russia, about whom the film tells the story, took the floor. He addressed those present in Russian and called for an "end to all wars," but did not specify to whom exactly he was addressing, as armed aggression continues not only in Ukraine.

"For four years, we've been looking at the sky for falling stars to make a very important wish. But there are countries where, instead of these stars, bombs fall and drones fly. For the sake of our future, for the sake of all our children, stop all these wars now," he declared, shamefacedly neglecting to mention that his country is the world's leading terrorist and aggressor, and that Russians are already responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths.

However, let's move on to the list of nominees and winners.

Number of film nominations

• Sinners - Warner Bros. - 16
• One Battle After Another - Warner Bros. - 13
• Frankenstein - Netflix - 9
• Marty Supreme - A24 - 9
• Sentimental Value - Neon - 9
• Hamnet - Focus Features - 8
• Bugonia - Focus Features - 4
• F1 — Apple — 4
• The Secret Agent - Neon - 4
• Train Dreams (Netflix) - 4
• Avatar: Fire and Ash (Walt Disney) - 2
• Blue Moon (Sony Pictures Classics) - 2
• It Was Just an Accident - Neon - 2
• K-Pop Demon Hunters (Netflix) - Episode 2
• Sirât – Neon – 2

Oscar 2026: Best Picture

• Bugonia
• F1
• Frankenstein
• Hamnet
• Marty Supreme
• One Battle After Another
• The Secret Agent
• Sentimental Value
• Sinners
• Train Dreams

Best Director

• Chloe Zhao as Hamnet
• Joshua Safdie - Marty Supreme
• Paul Thomas Anderson — One Battle After Another
• Joachim Trier - Sentimental Value
• Joachim Trier - Sinners

Best Actress

• Jessie Buckley - Hamnet
• Rose Byrne - If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
• Kate Hudson — Song Sung Blue
• Renate Reinswe – Sentimental Value
• Emma Stone - Bugonia

Best Actor

• Timothée Chalamet as Marty Supreme
• Leonardo DiCaprio — One Battle After Another
• Ethan Hawke - Blue Moon
• Michael B. Jordan - Sinners
• Wagner Moura - The Secret Agent

Best female role of the second plan

• Elle Fanning - Sentimental Value
• Inga Ibsdotter-Lilleås — Sentimental Value
• Amy Madigan - Weapons
• Unmi Mosaku - Sinners
• Teyana Taylor — One Battle After Another

Best Supporting Actor

• Benicio del Toro — One Battle After Another
• Jacob Elordi - Frankenstein
• Delroy Lindo - Sinners
• Sean Penn — One Battle After Another
• Stellan Skarsgård — Sentimental Value

The best adapted scenario

• Bugonia - Will Tracy
• Frankenstein — Guillermo del Toro
• Hamnet - Chloe Zhao and Maggie O'Farrell
• One Battle After Another by Paul Thomas Anderson
• Train Dreams - Clint Bentley and Greg Cuidard

The best original script

• Blue Moon - Robert Kaplow
• It Was Just an Accident - Jafar Panahi
• Marty Supreme - Joshua Safdie and Ronald Bronstein
• Sentimental Value by Joachim Trier and Eskil Vogt
• Sinners - Ryan Coogler

Best Documentary Short Film

• 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

Best Feature Documentary

• The Alabama Solution - Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman
• Come See Me in the Good Light - Ryan White, Jessica Hargrave, Tig Notaro and Steph Willen
• Cutting Through Rocks by Sarah Khaki and Mohammadreza Eini
• Mr. Nobody Against Putin - David Borenstein, Pavel Talankin, Elle Faber, Alzbeta Karaskova
• The Perfect Neighbor - Geeta Gandbir, Alisa Payne, Nikon Quantu, and Sam Bisbee

Best animated feature film

• Arco
• Elio
• K-Pop Demon Hunters
• Little Amélie, or the Character of Rain
• Zootopia 2

Лthe best animated short film

• Butterfly
• Forevergreen
• The Girl Who Cried Pearls
• Retirement Plan
• The Three Sisters

Best Cinematography

• Frankenstein - Dan Laustsen
• Marty Supreme – Darius Khondji
• One Battle After Another by Michael Bauman
• Sinners - Autumn Durald Arkapau
• Train Dreams by Adolfo Veloso

Best Costume Design

• Avatar: Fire and Ash by Deborah L. Scott
• Frankenstein - Kate Hawley
• Hamnet — Malgorzata Turzanska
• Marty Supreme - Miyako Bellizzi
• Sinners - Ruth E. Carter

Best mounting

• F1 - Stephen Mirrion
• Marty Supreme - Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie
• One Battle After Another by Andy Jurgensen
• Sentimental Value - Olivier Bugge Coutte
• Sinners - Michael P. Shawver

The best film in a foreign language

• It Was Just an Accident - France
• The Secret Agent - Brazil
• Sentimental Value - Norway
• Sirât - Spain
• The Voice of Hind Rajab – Tunisia

Best Fiction Short Film

• Butcher's Stain
• A Friend of Dorothy
• Jane Austen's Period Drama
• The Singers
• Two People Exchanging Saliva

(There are two winners in this category)

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

• Frankenstein - Mike Hill, Jordan Samuel and Cliona Fury
• Kokuho - Kyoko Toyokawa, Naomi Hibino and Tadashi Nishimatsu
• Sinners - Ken Diaz, Mike Fontaine and Shunika Terry
• The Smashing Machine - Kazu Hiro, Glen Griffin and Björn Rehbein
• The Ugly Stepsister - Thomas Foldberg and Anne Katrine Sauerberg

Best Music for a Film

• Bugonia (Bugonia) - Jerskin Fendrix
• Frankenstein - Alexandre Desplat
• Hamnet — Max Richter
• One Battle After Another - Jonny Greenwood
• Sinners - Ludwig Göransson

Best song for a film

• Dear Me - Diane Warren: Relentless
• Golden — K-Pop Demon Hunters
• I Lied To You - Sinners
• Sweet Dreams of Joy — Viva Verdi! (Viva Verdi!)
• Train Dreams

Best Production Design

• Frankenstein
• Hamnet
• Marty Supreme
• One Battle After Another
• Sinners

Best Sound

• F1
• Frankenstein
• One Battle After Another
• Sinners
• Sirat (Sirât)

Best Visual Effects

• Avatar: Fire and Ash
• F1
• Jurassic World: Rebirth
• The Lost Bus
• Sinners

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Best casting

• Hamnet
• Marty Supreme
• One Battle After Another
• The Secret Agent
• Sinners

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