"One Battle After Another" wins 6 Oscars including Best Picture

2026, March 21

United States

One Battle After Another was the big winner at the 98th Academy Awards ceremony, held on Sunday, March 15 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, California. The film received six Oscars including Best Picture. Director Paul Thomas Anderson personally won Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay, in addition to being one of the producers who received the Best Picture award.

The other three Oscars which One Battle After Another received were for Best Editing and Best Casting, the first time the latter award has been presented, and for Sean Penn as Best Supporting Actor, the third Oscar of his career.

Sinners, which had set a record by earning sixteen Oscar nominations, won awards in four categories: Best Actor for Michael B. Jordan, Best Original Screenplay for Ryan Coogler, Best Original Score for Ludwig Goransson, and Best Cinematography for Autumn Durald Arkapaw. Arkapaw is the first woman to win an Academy Award for Best Cinematography.

Two other films won multiple Oscars. Frankenstein won Best Production Design, Best Costume Design, and Best Makeup and Hairstyling. KPop Demon Hunters won Best Animated Feature and Best Song for Golden.

Other winners were:

Best Actress: Jessie Buckley for Hamnet
Best Supporting Actress: Amy Madigan for Weapons
Best International Feature: Sentimental Value, from Norway (directed by Joachim Trier)
Best Sound: F1
Best Visual Effects: Avatar: Fire and Ash
Best Documentary Feature: Mr. Nobody Against Putin
Best Documentary Short: All the Empty Rooms
Best Animated Short: The Girl Who Cried Pearls
Best Live Action Short: The Singers and Two People Exchanging Saliva (tie)

The Oscar ceremony was hosted by Conan O'Brien.