Oscar night returns to Hollywood with the 98th Academy Awards, dedicated to films released in 2025. Dominating the evening was Paul Thomas Anderson’s A Battle After Another, which took the Best Picture award along with directing and other honors, in a competition that included such titles as The Sinners, Frankenstein, andSentimental Value among the frontrunners. The 98th Academy Awards took place on March 15, 2026 at the Dolby Theatre in Ovation Hollywood.
The night’s top award, for Best Picture, went to A Battle After Another, produced by Adam Somner, Sara Murphy and Paul Thomas Anderson. The film also won the Oscar for best director with Paul Thomas Anderson, as well as the award for best editing given to Andy Jurgensen and the award for best nonoriginal screenplay signed by Anderson himself. Nominated in the same category were Bugonia, F1, Frankenstein, Hamnet, Marty Supreme, The Secret Agent,Sentimental Value , The Sinners andTrain Dreams.
In terms of male performances, the Oscar for best leading actor was awarded to Michael B. Jordan for The Sinners. Nominees included Timothée Chalamet for Marty Supreme, Leonardo DiCaprio for A Battle After Another, Ethan Hawke for Blue Moon, and Wagner Moura for The Secret Agent. In contrast, the award for best supporting actor went to Sean Penn for A Battle After Another. Nominated in the same category were Benicio Del Toro for A Battle After Another, Jacob Elordi for Frankenstein, Delroy Lindo for The Sinners, and Stellan Skarsgård for Sentimental Value.
In terms of female performances, Jessie Buckley received theOscar for Best Actress in a Leading Role for Hamnet. Among the nominees appeared Rose Byrne for If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, Kate Hudson for Song Sung Blue, Renate Reinsve for Sentimental Value, and Emma Stone for Bugonia. The award for Best Supporting Actress, on the other hand, went to Amy Madigan for Weapons. The other nominees were Elle Fanning and Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas forSentimental Value , Wunmi Mosaku for The Sinners, and Teyana Taylor for A Battle After Another.
The evening’s top award-winning titles also included The Sinners, which won several technical awards. The film won the Oscar for best cinematography awarded to Autumn Durald Arkapaw and that for best original score composed by Ludwig Göransson. The same production was also given the award for best original screenplay, written by director Ryan Coogler.
In contrast, the film Frankenstein received three awards in the technical categories. The film won the Oscar for best costumes made by Kate Hawley, the Oscar for best makeup and hairstyling awarded to Mike Hill, Jordan Samuele Cliona Furey, and the Oscar for best set design, with Tamara Deverell for set design and Shane Vieau for stage decor.
In the field of animation, the award for best animated film went to K-pop Demon Hunters, produced by Maggie Kang, Chris Appelhans and Michelle L. M. Wong. The film prevailed over Arco, Elio, Little Amélie or the Rain Character and Zootropolis 2. The award for best animated short film, on the other hand, went to The Girl Who Cried Pearls by Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski.
On the documentary side, the Oscar for best documentary feature film was awarded to Mr. Nobody v. Putin by David Borenstein, Pavel Talankin, Helle Faber, and Alžběta Karásková. The award for best documentary short film , on the other hand, went to All the Empty Rooms by Joshua Seftel and Conall Jones.
The award for best international film went to Norway’s Sentimental Value, which beat out Brazil’s The Secret Agent, France’s It Was Only an Accident, Spain’s Sirāt, and Tunisia ’s The Voice of Hind Rajab, among others.
Among the technical categories, the award for best sound was given to F1, featuring Gareth John, Al Nelson,Gwendolyn Yates Whittle, Gary A. Rizzo and Juan Peralta. The award for best visual effects, on the other hand, went to Avatar: Fire and Ashes, created by Joe Letteri, Richard Baneham, Eric Saindon and Daniel Barrett.
As for the short film categories, the Oscar for best live action short film was awarded ex aequo to The Singers by Sam A. Davis and Jack Piatt and Two People Exchanging Saliva by AlexandreSingh and Natalie Musteata.
The evening also honored Cassandra Kulukundis for best casting of One Battle After Another, while nominations also included Hamnet, Marty Supreme, The Secret Agent and The Sinners.
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