WHEN: Sunday, March 15, 2026 beginning at 7PM ET, red carpet coverage beginning at 6:30PM ET. WHERE: Televised on ABC live from the Dolby Theater at Ovation Hollywood in Los Angeles
Movie fans were glued to the small screen when the 90th annual Academy Oscar Awards was televised live from Los Angeles on Sunday, March 15 2025 on ABC beginning at 6PM ET / 3PM PT.
Hosting the 98th Academy Awards was funnynan Conan O'Brien who returns in 2026 following rave reviews for first Oscar hosting gig last year.
2026 Oscar nominees
2026 Oscar nominees (also see WINNERS, below) included "Sinners" front and center as the most nominated Hollywood film of all time with 16 nods including Best Picture and a Best Actor nomination for Michael B. Jordan.
"One Battle After Another" was another major contender for best picture along with "Marty Supreme", "Frankenstein", "Sentimental Value" and "Hamnet"
America's best young actor? Timothée Chalamet's acting chops are again on full display as a manic ping pong champ in "Marty Supreme" and was almost a sure bet to take home an Oscar.
Now a perennial favorite, Emma Stone was also a sure bet for a Best Actress nod this year for stuning performance in "Bugonia". The same could be said for "Hamnet" star Jessie Buckley with a heart-wrenching performance as Shakespeare's wife, Agnes.
"Sinners" leads the 2026 Oscar race with a record-breaking 16 nominations.
Also up for Oscar glory: Timothée Chalamet in "Marty Supreme" and "Hamnet" star Jessie Buckley
2026 Oscar presenters
Javier Bardem, Chris Evans, Chase Infiniti, Demi Moore, Kumail Nanjiani and Maya Rudolph headed the list of presenters at the 98th Oscars, along with Adrien Brody, Kieran Culkin, Mikey Madison and Zoe Saldaña.
Just up ahead, check out all of this year's Oscar nominees and WINNERS along with Oscar fun facts and related resources about Hollywood's biggest night!
• There's good reason that stars holding the Oscar are surprised by its sheer weight. Each 24-karat gold-plated Oscar award stands 13.5 inches tall and weighs around 8 1/2 lbs. or about the equivalent of a gallon of milk.
• The worst Oscars performance of all time goes to unlucky aspiring actress Eileen Bowman who appeared as Snow White during the 1989 show. She was there to entertain stars such as Tom Hanks, Dustin Hoffman, and Sigourney Weaver who sat in the audience, dumbstruck. (An awkward duet with actor Rob Lowe didn't help.) The following day, The New York Times declared that the performance earned "a permanent place in the annals of Oscar embarrassments."
• In 1974, actor David Niven appeared to introduce the Best Picture nominees when a streaker stormed the stage and ran behind him. The witty British actor quickly remarked, "The only laugh that man will ever get in his life is by stripping ... and showing his shortcomings.”
• Midnight Cowboy (1969) is the only X-rated film to ever win the Best Picture award.
With husband Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh had her 1940 acceptance speech already prepared.
• Wonder why Oscar ballots are so closely guarded? In 1940, The LA Times leaked the complete winners list the night before the ceremony. So Hollywood star Vivien Leigh, for example, arrived at the Oscars already aware that she had won Best Actress for "Gone with Wind" that year. Academy voting results have been a closely guarded secret ever since.
2026 Oscar Nominees & WINNERS
Best supporting actress
Elle Fanning, Sentimental Value
Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Sentimental Value Amy Madigan, Weapons – WINNER
Wunmi Mosaku, Sinners
Teyana Taylor, One Battle After Another
Best animated feature film
Arco
Elio KPop Demon Hunters – WINNER
Little Amélie or The Character of Rain
Zootopia 2
Best animated short film
Butterfly
Forevergreen The Girl Who Cried Pearls – WINNER
Retirement Plan
The Three Sisters
Best costume design
Avatar: Fire and Ash Frankenstein (Kate Hawley) – WINNER
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
Sinners
Best makeup and hairstyling
Frankenstein – WINNER
Kokuho
Sinners
The Smashing Machine
The Ugly Stepsister
Best casting
Hamnet (Nina Gold)
Marty Supreme (Jennifer Venditti) One Battle After Another (Cassandra Kulukundis) – WINNER
The Secret Agent (Gabriel Domingues)
Sinners (Francine Maisler)
Best live action short film
Butcher’s Stain
A Friend of Dorothy
Jane Austen’s Period Drama The Singers – JOINT WINNER Two People Exchanging Saliva - JOINT WINNER
Best supporting actor
Benicio del Toro, One Battle After Another
Jacob Elordi, Frankenstein
Delroy Lindo, Sinners Sean Penn, One Battle After Another – WINNER
Stellan Skarsgård, Sentimental Value
Best adapted screenplay
News: Paul Thomas Anderson wins first ever Oscar as One Battle After Another takes best adapted screenplay
Bugonia
Frankenstein
Hamnet One Battle After Another (Paul Thomas Anderson) – WINNER
Train Dreams
Best original screenplay
Blue Moon
It Was Just an Accident
Marty Supreme
Sentimental Value Sinners (Ryan Coogler) – WINNER
Best production design
Frankenstein – WINNER
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
Sinners
Best visual effects
Avatar: Fire and Ash – WINNER
F1
Jurassic World Rebirth
The Lost Bus
Sinners
Best documentary short film
All the Empty Rooms – WINNER
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 documentary feature film
The Alabama Solution
Come See Me in the Good Light
Cutting Through Rocks Mr Nobody Against Putin – WINNER
The Perfect Neighbor
Best original score
Bugonia
Frankenstein
Hamnet
One Battle After Another Sinners (Ludwig Göransson – WINNER)
Best sound
F1 – WINNER
Frankenstein
One Battle After Another
Sinners Sirât
Best film editing
F1
Marty Supreme One Battle After Another - WINNER
Sentimental Value
Sinners
Best cinematography
Frankenstein
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another Sinners – WINNER
Train Dreams
Best international feature film
The Secret Agent
It Was Just an Accident Sentimental Value – WINNER
Sirât
The Voice of Hind Rajab
Best original song
Dear Me, Diane Warren: Relentless Golden, KPop Demon Hunters – WINNER
I Lied To You, Sinners
Sweet Dreams of Joy, Viva Verdi!
Train Dreams, Train Dreams
Best directing
Chloé Zhao, Hamnet
Josh Safdie, Marty Supreme Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another – WINNER
Joachim Trier, Sentimental Value
Ryan Coogler, Sinners
Best actor
Timothée Chalamet, Marty Supreme
Leonardo DiCaprio, One Battle After Another
Ethan Hawke, Blue Moon Michael B Jordan, Sinners – WINNER
Wagner Moura, The Secret Agent
Best actress
Jessie Buckley, Hamnet – WINNER
Rose Byrne, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
Kate Hudson, Song Sung Blue
Renate Reinsve, Sentimental Value
Emma Stone, Bugonia
Best picture
Bugonia
F1
Frankenstein
Hamnet
Marty Supreme One Battle After Another – WINNER
The Secret Agent
Sentimental Value
Sinners
Train Dreams
More about the Oscars around the Web:
2026 Oscars - The official site features the glitz, the glamour, and the movies, actors and actresses of the past, as well as Academy Award history and video clips, this year's Oscar fashion trends, with more news & features as Oscar night draws near.
Academy Awards - Wikipedia - Check out the whole story from its earliest days until the present including voting rules, what's in those gift bags, and more with photos and related resources.
