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By Kevin Slane
“One Battle Another” won big at the 2026 Oscars Sunday night, with Paul Thomas Anderson’s film capping off a very successful awards season by winning Best Picture at the 98th Academy Awards.
“One Battle” took home six awards in total, with the Warner Bros. film also winning Best Director, Best Supporting Actor (Sean Penn), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Film Editing, and the first-ever Oscar for Best Casting.
Accepting the Academy’s top prize, Anderson was effusive in honoring his fellow Best Picture nominees.
“I just want to say that in 1975, the Best Picture nominees were ‘Dog Day Afternoon,’One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,’ ‘Jaws,’ ‘Nashville,’ and ‘Barry Lyndon,’ Anderson said. “There is no best among them, there is just what the mood might be that day. But we’re happy to be part of this wonderful, wonderful journey.”
Throughout awards season, “One Battle After Another” faced close competition from “Sinners,” Ryan Coogler’s Depression-era blues drama. At the 2026 Oscars, “Sinners” wasn’t far behind, notching four total Oscar wins for Best Original Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Score, and Best Actor for Michael B. Jordan.
“I stand here because of the people that came before me — Sidney Poitier, Denzel Washington, Halle Berry, Jamie Foxx, Forest Whitaker, Will Smith,” Jordan said in his acceptance speech. “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.”
Check out the full list of winners at the 2026 Oscars below.
Bugonia
F1
Frankenstein
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another (WINNER)
The Secret Agent
Sentimental Value
Sinners
Train Dreams
Timothee Chalamet, Marty Supreme
Leonardo DiCaprio, One Battle After Another
Ethan Hawke, Blue Moon
Michael B. Jordan, Sinners (WINNER)
Wagner Moura, The Secret Agent
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
Elle Fanning, Sentimental Value
Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Sentimental Value
Amy Madigan, Weapons (WINNER)
Wunmi Mosaku, Sinners
Teyana Taylor, One Battle After Another
Benicio del Toro, One Battle After Another
Jacob Elordi, Frankenstein
Delroy Lindo, Sinners
Sean Penn, One Battle After Another (WINNER)
Stellan Skarsgård, Sentimental Value
Chloe Zhao, Hamnet
Josh Safdie, Marty Supreme
Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another (WINNER)
Joachim Trier, Sentimental Value
Ryan Coogler, Sinners
Blue Moon
It Was Just An Accident
Marty Supreme
Sentimental Value
Sinners (WINNER)
Bugonia
Frankenstein
Hamnet
One Battle After Another (WINNER)
Train Dreams
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another (WINNER)
The Secret Agent
Sinners
The Secret Agent
It Was Just An Accident
Sentimental Value (WINNER)
Sirât
The Voice of Hind Rajab
Arco
Elio
KPop Demon Hunters (WINNER)
Little Amélie or the Character of Rain
Zootopia 2
Bugonia
Frankenstein
Hamnet
One Battle After Another
Sinners (WINNER)
“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
Frankenstein
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
Sinners (WINNER)
Train Dreams
F1 (WINNER)
Frankenstein
One Battle After Another
Sinners
Sirât
F1
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another (WINNER)
Sentimental Value
Sinners
Avatar: Fire and Ash (WINNER)
F1
Jurassic World Rebirth
The Lost Bus
Sinners
Frankenstein (WINNER)
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
Sinners
Avatar: Fire and Ash
Frankenstein (WINNER)
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
Sinners
Frankenstein (WINNER)
Kokuho
Sinners
The Smashing Machine
The Ugly Stepsister
The Alabama Solution
Come See Me in the Good Light
Cutting Through Rocks
Mr Nobody Against Putin (WINNER)
The Perfect Neighbor
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
Butterfly
Forevergreen
The Girl Who Cried Pearls (WINNER)
Retirement Plan
The Three Sisters
Butcher’s Stain
A Friend of Dorothy
Jane Austen’s Period Drama
The Singers (WINNER)
Two People Exchanging Saliva (WINNER)
Kevin Slane is a staff writer for Boston.com covering entertainment and culture. His work focuses on movie reviews, streaming guides, celebrities, and things to do in Boston.
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