By Michael B. Jordan wins Best Actor Oscar for dual role in “Sinners” and Jessie Buckley the Best Actress Oscar for “Hamnet”
Autumn Durald Arkapaw became the first woman to win an Oscar for Best Cinematography
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03/16/2026March 16, 2026In pictures: The Oscar moments you did not see on TVJordan, one of Hollywood’s most liked leading men, won best actor in one of the night’s closest races
It won six Oscars in total, including Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay, the Oscars’ first trophy for Best Casting and Best Supporting Actor for an absent Sean Penn.
“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,” Director Paul Thomas Anderson said while accepting the screenplay trophy.
“But also with the encouragement that they will be the generation that hopefully brings us some common sense and decency.”
03/16/2026March 16, 2026WINNER: Best actress – Jessie Buckley, “Hamnet”Jessie Buckley won all the top Best Actress awards of the season, including the Oscar
“My family, my Irish family, they’re all here, Ireland bought them flights,” Buckley said. “Mom, dad, thank you for teaching me to dream and to never be defined by expectation but to carve your own passion.”
“We all come from a lineage of women who continue to create against all odds. Thank you for recognizing me in this role,” she said.
Before the show she was asked if the Bard would approve of the Oscars, she reckoned he would.
03/16/2026March 16, 2026WINNER: Best actor – Michael B. Jordan, “Sinners”Jordan won the best actor Oscar on Sunday for playing twin brothers in the genre-bending vampire tale “Sinners”
Jordan plays dual roles as war veterans Elijah “Smoke” and Elias “Stack” Moore who try to use stolen money to open a juke joint in Mississippi during the Great Depression.
“I stand here because of the people that came before me, Sidney Poitier, Denzel Washington, Halle Berry, Jamie Foxx, Forest Whitaker, Will Smith,” he said, “and to be up amongst those giants, amongst those greats, amongst my ancestors, amongst my guys, thank you everybody in this room and everybody at home supporting me over my career.”
03/16/2026March 16, 2026WINNER: Best director – Paul Thomas Anderson, “One battle after another”Paul Thomas Anderson became a first time Oscar winner despite being nominated several times before
“There will always be some doubt in your heart that you deserve it,” Anderson added, “But there is no question the pleasure of having it for myself.”
03/16/2026March 16, 2026WINNER: Best Original Song – “Golden”Great, now this “K-pop demon hunters” song will be stuck in my head for another six months. Mark Sonnenblick, Joong Gyu Kwak, Yu Han Lee, Hee Dong Nam, Jeong Hoon Seo and Teddy Park were on hand to recieve the Oscar. But the mean orchestra made sure only one of them had a chance to speak.
03/16/2026March 16, 2026WATCH: Cheers Teyana Taylor and Leonardo DiCaprioThe cast of “One battle after another” are clearly enjoying their evening.
03/16/2026March 16, 2026WINNER: Best International Feature Film – “Sentimental Value”From Norway, the film “Sentimental Value” won the Oscar.
In the film: Renate Reinsve plays stage actress Nora, who has a complicated relationship with her estranged father Gustav Borg, portrayed by Stellan Skarsgard, whose film-making career has waned. The film also garnered four acting nominations as well as nods for best picture and director.
03/16/2026March 16, 2026WINNER: Documentary Feature Film – “Mr. Nobody against Putin”Teacher and film co-director Pavel Talankin, who smuggled the footage out of Russia, was on the stage to accept the Oscar
It exposes the propaganda and indoctrination of children in Russian schools in the wake of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine
Pavel Talankin, who lives in exile and is the subject of the film, was in Hollywood with the winner to accept the award.
Speaking in Ukrainian he asked, “stop all of these wars now.”
03/16/2026March 16, 2026K-Pop Demon Hunters is going up, up, up It’s the most-watched film in Netflix history, and honestly, where have you been this year if “Golden” hasn’t wormed its way into your brain on a loop?
But in the unlikely event you’re still craving more “K-Pop Demon Hunters,” Netflix says a sequel is officially in the works.
And if co-director Maggie Kang has her way, this won’t be a one‑and‑done situation.
“I feel immense pride as a Korean filmmaker that the audience wants more from this Korean story and our Korean characters,” Kang said. “There’s so much more to this world we have built and I’m excited to show you. This is only the beginning.”
The film is up for two Oscars: Best Animated Feature and Best Original song.
And “Golden” has already made history, earning the Grammy for best song written for visual media, the first time a K-pop track has ever taken home that trophy.
03/16/2026March 16, 2026WINNER: Best Cinematography – Autumn Durald Arkapaw, “Sinners”Autumn Durald Arkapaw asks all the women in the room to stand saying she would not have won without them.
03/16/2026March 16, 2026WINNER: Film Editing – Andy Jurgensen, “One Battle After Another”Andy Jurgensen giving a shout‑out to his friends at the bar has to be worth a sip of your own beverage.
A touch of class, too, dedicating his award to his aunt, who was a film archivist at the Academy.
“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,” Andy Jurgensen said.
03/16/2026March 16, 2026WINNER: Best Sound – Gareth John, Al Nelson, Gwendolyn Yates Whittle, Gary A. Rizzo and Juan Peralta for “F1″For a movie that includes noisy Formula 1 cars, I feel like they might have an unfair advantage.
03/16/2026March 16, 2026WINNER: Best Original Score – Ludwig Goransson, “Sinners” Ludwig Goransson has previously won Oscars for “Black Panther” and “Oppenheimer.” Now he can add one for “Sinners”
