The 2026 Oscar for Best Picture has gone to “One Battle After Another.”

I told you this last September.

Paul Thomas Anderson won Best Director for “One Battle.”

Best Actor went to Michael B. Jordan for “Sinners.” Best Actress went to Jessie Buckley for “Hamnet.”

Full list coming..

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 Director

Chloé Zhao, “Hamnet”
Josh Safdie, “Marty Supreme”
Paul Thomas Anderson, “One Battle After Another” WINNER
Joachim Trier, “Sentimental Value”
Ryan Coogler, “Sinners”

Best Cinematography

“Sinners” WINNER
“One Battle After Another”
“Train Dreams”
“Frankenstein”
“Marty Supreme”

Best Picture

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

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 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 Makeup and Hairstyling

“Frankenstein” WINNER
“Kokuho”
“Sinners”
“The Smashing Machine”
“The Ugly Stepsister”

Best Original Score

“Bugonia”
“Frankenstein”
“Hamnet”
“One Battle After Another”
“Sinners,” Ludwig Goransson WINNER

Best Live Action Short Film

“Butcher’s Stain”
“A Friend of Dorothy”
“Jane Austen’s Period Drama”
“The Singers” WINNER
“Two People Exchanging Saliva” WINNER

Best Animated Short Film

“Butterfly”
“Forevergreen”
“The Girl Who Cried Pearls” WINNER
“Retirement Plan”
“The Three Sisters”

Best Adapted Screenplay

“One Battle After Another” WINNER
“Hamnet”
“Bugonia”
“Train Dreams”
“Frankenstein”

Best Original Screenplay

“Blue Moon”
“It Was Just an Accident”
“Marty Supreme”
“Sentimental Value”
“Sinners” WINNER

Best Casting

Nina Gold, “Hamnet”
Jennifer Venditti, “Marty Supreme”
Casandra Kulukundis, “One Battle After Another” WINNER
Gabriel Domingues, “The Secret Agent”
Francine Maisler, “Sinners”

Best Costume Design

“Avatar: Fire and Ash”
“Frankenstein” WINNER
“Hamnet”
“Marty Supreme”
“Sinners”

Best International Feature Film

“It Was Just an Accident”
“The Secret Agent”
“Sentimental Value” WINNER
“The Voice of Hind Rajab”
“Sirat”

Best Original Song

“Dear Me” from “Diane Warren: Relentless”
“Golden” from “KPop Demon Hunters” WINNER
“I Lied to You” from “Sinners”
“Sweet Dreams of Joy” from “Viva Verdi!”
“Train Dreams” from “Train Dreams”

Best Production Design

“Frankenstein” WINNER
“Hamnet”
“Marty Supreme”
“One Battle After Another”
“Sinners”

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 Film Editing

“F1”
“Marty Supreme”
“One Battle After Another” WINNER
“Sentimental Value”
“Sinners”

Best Visual Effects

“Avatar: Fire and Ash” WINNER
“F1”
“Jurassic World Rebirth”
“The Lost Bus”
“Sinners”

Best Animated Feature Film

“KPop Demon Hunters” WINNER
“Zootopia 2”
“Arco”
“Elio”
“Little Amélie or the Character of Rain”

Best Sound

“F1” WINNER
“Frankenstein”
“One Battle After Another”
“Sinners”
“Sirat”

Best Documentary Short

“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”.

Sean Penn didn’t campaign for the Oscar, but he knew he was going to win Best Supporting Actor for “One Battle After Another.”

He did win, but he didn’t show up. Presenter Kieran Culkin said, “Sean Penn couldn’t come tonight, or didn’t want to.”

Paul Thomas Anderson won Best Adapted Screenplay for “One Battle After Another.” Ryan Coogler won Best Original Screenplay for “Sinners.”

Barbra Streisand brought down the house with a tribute to the late Robert Redford. She even sang a bit of “The Way We Were.” There wasn’t a dry eye in the house.

The In Memoriam segment was beautifully executed.

As expected Amy Madigan won Best Supporting Actor for the movie “Weapons.”

Madigan was last nominated for an Oscar forty years ago, for “Twice in a Lifetime.”

She thanked everyone including her famous actor Ed Harris. Bravo!

Conan O’Brien’s opening was very funny, and trenchant. He played it right, just the right roasting and subtle political jokes.

I needed almost no makeup to play Aunt Gladys. #OSCARS pic.twitter.com/nBaxh7aZnP

— Conan O'Brien (@ConanOBrien) March 15, 2026

The gambling sites, Polymarket and Kalshi, have put their money on an Oscar for Best Actor.

They’re all in for Michael B. Jordan, star of “Sinners,” which is great.

The money is on Jordan for a lot of good reasons. But the main reason is that Timothee Chalamet made what seemed like disparaging remarks about ballet and opera on a CNN Town Hall with Matthew McConnaughey.

But Chalamet’s derided quotes weren’t unearthed just as voting closed on March 7th. The first report was on March 6th. It seems unlikely that the bulk of voters hadn’t already cast their ballots.

Nearly everyone seems not to get that, which is why Jordan’s stock rose quickly, Before that, Jordan was popular but not the perceived leader of the pack.

Will Chalamet still win? Or will he and Jordan split the vote? That could usher in Wagner Moura, Leonardo DiCaprio, or Ethan Hawke. Best Actor isn’t announced until the last half hour, so that means 10pm on the East Coast.

Check back here during the show to see how things are going

Disney has really rallied with Pixar’s “Hoppers.”

The animated animal-robotics story has soared to $87 million in just 10 (or 11) days.

This is the beginning of a beautiful franchise, with lots of merchandising to add to the bottom line.

Plus, the music comes from Mark Mothersbaugh, of Devo fame. Whip it!

“Hoppers” is probably already the winner of many animation awards next winter. All the main actors, including Piper Curda, can go out and buy houses now.

There are lots of voice actors involved, including Meryl Streep, of all people, who plays the head of the Animal Council. Forget making live action movies– Meryl is all set now!

Meantime, the box office is enduring “Reminders of Him,” which racked up $18.5 million with terrible reviews. The ladies in the South loved it. They liked the rating — NTI– No Thinking Involved. The Colleen Hoover Club scores another victory.

Go figure, right? “Reminders” doesn’t have star or a plausible story or good writing. But “The Bride!” has the best of everything and is a total disaster.

This weekend, the box office fell 70% from nowhere, basically. The take was $2.3 million, which means this film has earned $11.3 million over two weekends. All of its $90 million budget is lost. And no theaters were dropped this weekend. You better bet the coming weekend will see a slash in the number of venues willing to clean up after no one.

Will live action adults ever get it together on screen? Let’s hope this next weekend with Ryan Gosling in “Project Hail Mary.” Great reviews so far, and two weeks in a row of promotion by Gosling on “SNL.”