One Battle After Another won the coveted Best Picture Academy Award at Sunday's (15.03.26) ceremony, taking its total of wins to six.

The drama scooped the night's biggest prize ahead of Bugonia, F1, Frankenstein, Hamnet, Marty Supreme, The Secret Agent, Sentimental Value, Sinners, and Train Dreams, capping off a hugely successful night for the...Read more

Michael B. Jordan paid tribute to the Black actors who "came before him" as he picked up the Best Actor prize at Sunday's (15.03.26) Academy Awards.

The 39-year-old actor scooped the accolade for his work on Sinners and began his acceptance speech for the award - for which Timothée Chalamet (Marty Supreme), Leonardo DiCaprio (One Battle After ...Read more

Jessie Buckley hailed her Best Actress Oscar win as the "greatest honour".

The 36-year-old actress became the first Irish woman to win the accolade on Sunday (15.03.26) for her performance in Chloe Zhao's Hamnet, and she dedicated the prize to "the beautiful chaos of a mother's heart".

Speaking on stage at Los Angeles' Dolby Theatre, she said:...Read more

Paul Thomas Anderson admitted it was a "pleasure" and a "wonderful gift" to receive his first Best Director Oscar on Sunday (15.03.26).

The 55-year-old filmmaker - who has received 14 Oscar nominations over the years - picked up his second award of the night for One Battle After Another, and dedicated his win to late producer Adam Somner.

He ...Read more

Golden from KPop Demon Hunters made history as the first K-Pop song to win an Oscar on Sunday (15.03.26).

The catchy track won the Best Song accolade ahead of Dear Me from Diane Warren: Relentless, I Lied to You from Sinners, Sweet Dreams of Joy from Viva Verdi, and the title song from Train Dreams, and writer and performer EJAE was ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Warner Bros. tied the record for most wins for a studio in a single night with 11 Academy Awards on Sunday, a milestone that comes as the company faces an uncertain future.

The studio won six Academy Awards for “One Battle After Another” and four awards for “Sinners.”

Notable among the accolades was Michael B. Jordan’...Read more

LOS ANGELES — “One Battle After Another,” Paul Thomas Anderson’s political epic, took home the award for best picture at Sunday night’s Oscars, edging out “Sinners,” which gained considerable momentum late in the game, in a tight and dramatic race to the finish line.

Entering the night with 13 nominations, the film had been an ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — It was a big night for Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another,” taking home six Oscars, including best picture, best director and adapted screenplay at the 98th Academy Awards. The film also won for Sean Penn for supporting actor, film editing and casting, the first time the category was presented.

“Sinners,”...Read more

LOS ANGELES — “Sinners” entered the night with the record for the most Oscar nominations for a single film, with 16.

It leaves with four awards, won by Ryan Coogler for original screenplay, Michael B. Jordan for lead actor, Autum Durald Arkapaw for cinematography and Ludwig Göransson for score. Arkapaw became the first woman to ever win ...Read more

“One Battle After Another” has won the biggest battle of awards season — with newly minted best director Paul Thomas Anderson also taking home the Oscar for best picture.

Anderson’s epic, adapted from the Thomas Pynchon novel, “Vineland,” won six of the 13 awards for which it was nominated at Sunday’s 98th Academy Awards.

The win...Read more

DETROIT — Potterville, Michigan, got a big shout-out on the Oscar stage on Sunday night.

Sam A. Davis, a filmmaker from Potterville — just southwest of Lansing — shouted out his hometown when he was accepting the best live Action short film award for his film "The Singers." "The Singers" tied for the award, sharing an Oscar with "Two ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — With her win at Sunday’s Oscars for “Sinners,” Autumn Durald Arkapaw becomes the first woman to take home the prize for cinematography.

The film is her second collaboration with “Sinners” director Ryan Coogler, following 2018’s “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.” Set in 1930s Mississippi, “Sinners” is a tale of...Read more

Billy Crystal paid tribute at Sunday’s 98th Academy Awards to best friend and collaborator Rob Reiner, following the December 2025 murders of the beloved director and his wife Michele Singer Reiner.

Crystal, 78, at the start of the Oscars’ In Memoriam segment recalled meeting “master storyteller” Reiner when they played best friends on ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — "KPop Demon Hunters" brought a celebration of Korean culture to the 98th Academy Awards Sunday.

The movie struck gold twice and made history on Sunday, winning Oscars for animated feature and original song. It became the first K-pop song to ever win an Oscar. Six of the credited writers were also the first South Koreans to win ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Michael B. Jordan is a first-time Academy Award winner.

The “Sinners” star won the lead actor Oscar for his dual roles as Smoke and Stack in Ryan Coogler’s Southern Gothic horror film, which received a record 16 Oscar nominations including best picture.

With his win, Jordan became the first performer in more than half a ...Read more

Billy Crystal paid a touching tribute to his late friend Rob Reiner during the Oscars In Memoriam segment on Sunday (15.03.26).

The 78-year-old actor took to the stage at Los Angeles' Dolby Theatre to honour the "master storyteller" and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, three months after they were shot dead, and pledged the director's work will...Read more

Paul Thomas Anderson won his first Academy Award on Sunday (15.03.26) night.

The 55-year-old filmmaker scooped the Best Adapted Screenplay award for One Battle After Another ahead of Bugonia' Will Tracy, Frankenstein's Guillermo del Toro, Hamnet' Chloe Zhao and Maggie O'Farrell, and Train Dreams' Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar, and he admitted ...Read more

The Oscar for live action short film culminated in a rare tie Sunday — only the sixth in the Academy Awards’ 98 years.

Kumail Nanjiani announced the surprising win, in what the audience initially read as a joke, with award going to “The Singers” and “Two People Exchanging Saliva.”

“Ironic that the short film Oscar’s gonna take ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Sean Penn won the supporting actor Oscar on Sunday night for his performance as the ruthless, racist Col. Steven J. Lockjaw in Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another.”

However, Penn was not present for the ceremony, which became the subject of jokes from Kieran Culkin and Conan O’Brien.

“We have a ‘no show...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Amy Madigan was horror's secret weapon this awards season, and now she has the gold to prove it.

Madigan won the Academy Award for supporting actress for her turn as the ginger wig-donning witch Aunt Gladys in Zach Cregger's "Weapons." She was the supernatural film's sole nominee and beat out contenders Teyana Taylor ("One ...Read more