The 98th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), took place on March 15, 2026, at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles. During the gala, the AMPAS presented Academy Awards (commonly referred to as Oscars) in 24 categories honoring films released in 2025. The ceremony, televised in the United States by ABC and streamed on Hulu, was produced by Raj Kapoor and Katy Mullan, and was directed by Hamish Hamilton. Comedian Conan O'Brien hosted the show for the second consecutive year.
In related events, the Academy held its 16th Governors Awards ceremony at the Ray Dolby Ballroom of the Ovation Hollywood complex in Hollywood on November 16, 2025. The Academy Scientific and Technical Awards were presented by host Sofia Carson on April 28, 2026, in a ceremony at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles.
One Battle After Another won the most awards with six, including Best Picture and the inaugural award for Best Casting. Sinners received a record sixteen nominations and won four awards. Other winners included Frankenstein with three; KPop Demon Hunters with two; and All the Empty Rooms, Avatar: Fire and Ash, F1, The Girl Who Cried Pearls, Hamnet, Mr Nobody Against Putin, Sentimental Value, The Singers, Two People Exchanging Saliva, and Weapons with one each. The telecast drew 17.86 million viewers in the United States.
Winners and nominees
The nominees for the 98th Academy Awards were announced on January 22, 2026, at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, by actress Danielle Brooks and actor Lewis Pullman. Sinners led with sixteen nominations, the most in Oscar history; One Battle After Another came in second with thirteen. The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on March 15.
Michael B. Jordan became the second actor to win an Oscar for a dual role after Lee Marvin for Cat Ballou (1965). At the age of 30, Timothée Chalamet became the youngest actor to earn three acting nominations since Marlon Brando, and also became the youngest person to be nominated for both acting and producing in the same year. The 40-year span between Amy Madigan's first nomination, for her supporting role in Twice in a Lifetime (1985), and her recent nomination for Weapons, set the record for the longest gap between Oscar nominations for an actress. With her fifth Best Costume Design nomination, Ruth E. Carter became the most-nominated Black woman in Oscar history across all categories. Best Cinematography winner Autumn Durald Arkapaw became the first female and Black winner in the category as well as the first Filipino winner; she was also the first woman of color to be nominated in the category. The joint win by The Singers and Two People Exchanging Saliva for Best Live Action Short Film marked the first occurrence of a tie since the 85th ceremony in 2013, and the seventh tie overall.
Awards
Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger (‡).
{| class="wikitable defaulttop" role="presentation" | style="width:50%;"| One Battle After Another – Adam Somner (), Sara Murphy, and Paul Thomas Anderson, producers ‡ Bugonia – Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe, Yorgos Lanthimos, Emma Stone, and Lars Knudsen, producers F1 – Chad Oman, Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Joseph Kosinski, and Jerry Bruckheimer, producers Frankenstein – Guillermo del Toro, J. Miles Dale, and Scott Stuber, producers Hamnet – Liza Marshall, Pippa Harris, Nicolas Gonda, Steven Spielberg, and Sam Mendes, producers Marty Supreme – Eli Bush, Ronald Bronstein, Josh Safdie, Anthony Katagas, and Timothée Chalamet, producers The Secret Agent – Emilie Lesclaux, producer Sentimental Value – Maria Ekerhovd and Andrea Berentsen Ottmar, producers Sinners – Zinzi Coogler, Sev Ohanian, and Ryan Coogler, producers Train Dreams – Marissa McMahon, Teddy Schwarzman, Will Janowitz, Ashley Schlaifer, and Michael Heimler, producers | style="width:50%;"| Paul Thomas Anderson – One Battle After Another ‡ Chloé Zhao – Hamnet Josh Safdie – Marty Supreme Joachim Trier – Sentimental Value Ryan Coogler – Sinners
Michael B. Jordan – Sinners as Elijah "Smoke" Moore / Elias "Stack" Moore ‡ Timothée Chalamet – Marty Supreme as Marty Mauser Leonardo DiCaprio – One Battle After Another as Bob Ferguson Ethan Hawke – Blue Moon as Lorenz Hart Wagner Moura – The Secret Agent as / Fernando Solimões | Jessie Buckley – Hamnet as Agnes Shakespeare ‡ Rose Byrne – If I Had Legs I'd Kick You as Linda Kate Hudson – Song Sung Blue as Claire Sardina Renate Reinsve – Sentimental Value as Nora Borg Emma Stone – Bugonia as Michelle Fuller
Sean Penn – One Battle After Another as Col. Steven J. Lockjaw ‡ Benicio del Toro – One Battle After Another as Sensei Sergio St. Carlos Jacob Elordi – Frankenstein as The Creature Delroy Lindo – Sinners as Delta Slim Stellan Skarsgård – Sentimental Value as Gustav Borg | Amy Madigan – Weapons as Aunt Gladys ‡ Elle Fanning – Sentimental Value as Rachel Kemp Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas – Sentimental Value as Agnes Borg Pettersen Wunmi Mosaku – Sinners as Annie Teyana Taylor – One Battle After Another as Perfidia Beverly Hills
Sinners – Ryan Coogler ‡ Blue Moon – Robert Kaplow It Was Just an Accident – Jafar Panahi; in collaboration with Nader Saïvar, Shadmehr Rastin, and Marty Supreme – Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie Sentimental Value – Eskil Vogt and Joachim Trier | One Battle After Another – Paul Thomas Anderson; based on the novel Vineland by Thomas Pynchon ‡ Bugonia – Will Tracy; based on the film Save the Green Planet! by Jang Joon-hwan Frankenstein – Guillermo del Toro; based on the novel by Mary Shelley Hamnet – Chloé Zhao and Maggie O'Farrell; based on the novel by Maggie O'Farrell Train Dreams – Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar; based on the novella by Denis Johnson
KPop Demon Hunters – Maggie Kang, Chris Appelhans, and Michelle L.M. Wong ‡ Arco – Ugo Bienvenu, , Sophie Mas, and Natalie Portman Elio – Madeline Sharafian, Domee Shi, Adrian Molina, and Mary Alice Drumm Little Amélie or the Character of Rain – Maïlys Vallade, Liane-Cho Han, Nidia Santiago, and Henri Magalon Zootopia 2 – Jared Bush, Byron Howard, and Yvett Merino | Sentimental Value (Norway) in Norwegian, Swedish, and English – directed by Joachim Trier ‡ It Was Just an Accident (France) in Persian and Azerbaijani – directed by Jafar Panahi The Secret Agent (Brazil) in Portuguese and German – directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho Sirāt (Spain) in Spanish, French, and Arabic – directed by Oliver Laxe The Voice of Hind Rajab (Tunisia) in Arabic – directed by Kaouther Ben Hania
Mr Nobody Against Putin – David Borenstein, Pavel Talankin, Helle Faber, and Alžběta Karásková ‡ The Alabama Solution – Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman Come See Me in the Good Light – Ryan White, Jessica Hargrave, Tig Notaro, and Stef Willen Cutting Through Rocks – and Mohammadreza Eyni The Perfect Neighbor – Geeta Gandbhir, Alisa Payne, Nikon Kwantu, and Sam Bisbee | All the Empty Rooms – Joshua Seftel and Conall Jones ‡ Armed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud – Craig Renaud and Juan Arredondo – Hilla Medalia and Sheila Nevins The Devil Is Busy – Christalyn Hampton and Geeta Gandbhir Perfectly a Strangeness – Alison McAlpine
The Singers – Sam A. Davis and Jack Piatt ‡ Two People Exchanging Saliva – Alexandre Singh and Natalie Musteata ‡ – and Oron Caspi A Friend of Dorothy – Lee Knight and James Dean Jane Austen's Period Drama – Julia Aks and Steve Pinder | The Girl Who Cried Pearls – Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski ‡ Butterfly – Florence Miailhe and Ron Dyens Forevergreen – Nathan Engelhardt and Jeremy Spears Retirement Plan – John Kelly and Andrew Freedman The Three Sisters – Konstantin Bronzit
Sinners – Ludwig Göransson ‡ Bugonia – Jerskin Fendrix Frankenstein – Alexandre Desplat Hamnet – Max Richter One Battle After Another – Jonny Greenwood | "Golden" from KPop Demon Hunters – Music and lyrics by Ejae, Mark Sonnenblick, , , Hee Dong Nam, Jeong Hoon Seo, and Teddy Park ‡ "Dear Me" from Diane Warren: Relentless – Music and lyrics by Diane Warren "I Lied to You" from Sinners – Music and lyrics by Raphael Saadiq and Ludwig Göransson "" from Viva Verdi! – Music and lyrics by Nicholas Pike "Train Dreams" from Train Dreams – Music by Nick Cave and Bryce Dessner; lyrics by Nick Cave
F1 – Gareth John, Al Nelson, Gwendolyn Yates Whittle, Gary A. Rizzo, and Juan Peralta ‡ Frankenstein – Greg Chapman, Nathan Robitaille, Nelson Ferreira, Christian Cooke, and Brad Zoern One Battle After Another – José Antonio García, Christopher Scarabosio, and Tony Villaflor Sinners – Chris Welcker, Benjamin A. Burtt, Felipe Pacheco, Brandon Proctor, and Steve Boeddeker Sirāt – Amanda Villavieja, Laia Casanovas, and Yasmina Praderas | One Battle After Another – Cassandra Kulukundis ‡ Hamnet – Nina Gold Marty Supreme – Jennifer Venditti The Secret Agent – Gabriel Domingues Sinners – Francine Maisler
Frankenstein – Production Design: Tamara Deverell; Set Decoration: Shane Vieau ‡ Hamnet – Production Design: Fiona Crombie; Set Decoration: Alice Felton Marty Supreme – Production Design: Jack Fisk; Set Decoration: Adam Willis One Battle After Another – Production Design: Florencia Martin; Set Decoration: Anthony Carlino Sinners – Production Design: Hannah Beachler; Set Decoration: Monique Champagne | Sinners – Autumn Durald Arkapaw ‡ Frankenstein – Dan Laustsen Marty Supreme – Darius Khondji One Battle After Another – Michael Bauman Train Dreams – Adolpho Veloso
Frankenstein – Mike Hill, Jordan Samuel, and Cliona Furey ‡ Kokuho – Kyoko Toyokawa, Naomi Hibino, and Tadashi Nishimatsu Sinners – Ken Diaz, Mike Fontaine, and Shunika Terry The Smashing Machine – Kazu Hiro, Glen Griffin, and Bjoern Rehbein The Ugly Stepsister – Thomas Foldberg and Anne Cathrine Sauerberg | Frankenstein – Kate Hawley ‡ Avatar: Fire and Ash – Deborah L. Scott Hamnet – Malgosia Turzanska Marty Supreme – Miyako Bellizzi Sinners – Ruth E. Carter
One Battle After Another – Andy Jurgensen ‡ F1 – Stephen Mirrione Marty Supreme – Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie Sentimental Value – Olivier Bugge Coutté Sinners – Michael P. Shawver | Avatar: Fire and Ash'' – Joe Letteri, Richard Baneham, Eric Saindon, and Daniel Barrett ‡ F1 – Ryan Tudhope, Nicolas Chevallier, Robert Harrington, and Keith Dawson Jurassic World Rebirth – David Vickery, Stephen Aplin, Charmaine Chan, and Neil Corbould The Lost Bus – Charlie Noble, David Zaretti, Russell Bowen, and Brandon K. McLaughlin Sinners – Michael Ralla, Espen Nordahl, Guido Wolter, and Donnie Dean
Governors Awards The Academy held its 16th annual Governors Awards ceremony on November 16, 2025, during which the following awards were presented:
Academy Honorary Awards Debbie Allen"A trailblazing choreographer and actor, whose work has captivated generations and crossed genres". Tom CruiseFor his "incredible commitment to [the] filmmaking community, to the theatrical experience, and to the stunts community". Wynn Thomas"Production designer [who] has brought some of the most enduring films to life through a visionary eye and mastery of his craft".
Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award Dolly PartonA "beloved performer [who] exemplifies the spirit of the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award through her unwavering dedication to charitable efforts".
Films with multiple nominations and awards
+ Films with multiple nominations Nominations Film 16 Sinners 13 One Battle After Another 9 Frankenstein Marty Supreme Sentimental Value 8 Hamnet 4 Bugonia F1 The Secret Agent Train Dreams 2 Avatar: Fire and Ash Blue Moon It Was Just an Accident KPop Demon Hunters Sirāt
+ Films with multiple wins Awards Film 6 One Battle After Another 4 Sinners 3 Frankenstein 2 KPop Demon Hunters
Presenters and performers