LIVE 2026 Oscars: Sean Penn wins 3rd career Oscar, 'Sinners' and 'One Battle After Another' share their first statuettes / Triumph for Netflix too

The 2026 Academy Awards, the 98th in the history of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, is now announcing its winners. The first statuettes have already been awarded, with acclaimed American actor Sean Penn being awarded the Oscar for the third time in his career, while the films “Sinners” and “One Battle After Another” shared their first two awards for feature films.

Penn, now 65, won the Academy Award for best supporting actor for his performance in director Paul Thomas Anderson's “One Battle After Another,” a political satire in which Penn plays a corrupt military officer.

Sean Penn previously won the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role twice, in 2009 for the mystery film “Mystic River” and in 2009 for “Milk,” a biographical feature film about the life of American activist and politician Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in the state of California.

At this year's Academy Awards, the statuette for best actress in a supporting role was awarded to actress Amy Madigan, a 75-year-old Hollywood veteran who was honored for her performance in the horror film “Weapons”, which begins with the mysterious disappearance of a group of students from the same school class.

Both Penn and Madigan were seen as favorites to win the statuettes in their respective categories.

First Academy Awards won by “Sinners” and “One Battle After Another” at the 2026 gala

“Sinners” and “One Battle After Another,” the big favorites of the night, have so far won in both categories in which they were not in direct competition. American director Ryan Coogler's horror film “Sinners” won the Oscar for best original screenplay, while “One Battle After Another” won best adapted screenplay.

Netflix, on the other hand, won the Oscar for the best animated film thanks to its film “KPop Demon Hunters”, which was so successful that it surpassed well-known films such as “Don't Look Up” to become the most watched feature film ever produced by the streaming platform.

The 2026 Oscars is a real triumph for Netflix, with its film competing for the statuette for best animated feature with Disney's Zootropolis 2, which became the highest-grossing animated title of all time in January.

The list of winners is being updated:

Full list of 2026 Academy Awards nominations:

Best Film:

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

Oscar Nominations for Best Actor in a Leading Role in 2026:

• Timothée Chalamet, “Marty Supreme”;
• Leonardo DiCaprio, “One Battle After Another”;
• Ethan Hawke, “Blue Moon”;
• Michael B. Jordan, “Sinners”;
• Wagner Moura, “The Secret Agent”.

Academy Award Nominations for Best Actress in a Leading Role:

• Jessie Buckley, “Hamnet”;
• Rose Byrne, “If I Had Legs I'd Kick You”;
• Kate Hudson, “Song Sung Blue”;
• Renate Reinsve, “Sentimental Value”;
• Emma Stone, “Bugonia”.

Sean Penn won the 2026 Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role

• 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 Actress in a Supporting Role:

• Elle Fanning, “Sentimental Value”;
• Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, “Sentimental Value”;
• Amy Madigan, “Weapons” (WINNER);
• Wunmi Mosaku, “Sinners”;
• Teyana Taylor, “One Battle After Another.”

Best Director:

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

Best Original Screenplay:

• “Blue Moon”;
• “It Was Just an Accident”;
• “Marty Supreme”;
• “Sentimental Value”;
• “Sinners” (WINNER).

Best adapted scenario:

• “Bugonia”;
• “Frankenstein”;
• “Hamnet”;
• “One Battle After Another” (WINNER);
• “Train Dreams”.

Best Foreign Film:

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

Best Documentary:

• “The Alabama Solution”;
• “Come See Me in the Good Light”;
• “Cutting Through Rocks”;
• “Mr. Nobody Against Putin” (WINNER);
• “The Perfect Neighbor”;

Best Documentary Short Film:

• “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”.

Best picture:

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

Best Short Film:

• “Butcher's Stain”;
• “A Friend of Dorothy”;
• “Jane Austen's Period Drama”;
• “The Singers” (WINNER);
• “Two People Exchanging Saliva”.

Netflix wins Oscar for best animated film thanks to phenomenon 'KPop Demon Hunters'

Best Animated Feature:

• “Arco”;
• “Elio”;
• “KPop Demon Hunters” (WINNER);
• “Little Amélie or the Character of Rain”;
• “Zootropolis 2”.

Best Animated Short Film:

• “Butterfly”;
• “Forevergreen”;
• “The Girl Who Cried Pearls” (WINNER);
• “Retirement Plan”;
• “The Three Sisters”.

Best Visual Effects:

• “Avatar: Fire and Ash”;
• “F1”;
• “Jurassic World Rebirth”;
• “The Lost Bus”;
• “Sinners”.

Best Suits:

• “Avatar: Fire and Ash”;
• “Frankenstein” (WINNER);
• “Hamnet”;
• “Marty Supreme”;
• “Sinners”.

Best montage:

• “F1”;
• “Marty Supreme”;
• “One Battle After Another”;
• “Sentimental Value”;
• “Sinners”.

Best makeup and hairstyling:

• “Frankenstein” (WINNER);
• “Kokuho”;
• “Sinners”;
• “The Smashing Machine”;
• “The Ugly Stepsister”.

Best Soundtrack:

• “Bugonia”;
• “Frankenstein”;
• “Hamnet”;
• “One Battle After Another”;
• “Sinners” (WINNER).

Best Sound:

• “F1”;
• “Frankenstein”;
• “One Battle After Another”;
• “Sinners”;
• “Sirat”.

Best Original Song:

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

Best casting:

• “Hamnet”;
• “Marty Supreme”;
• “One Battle After Another” (WINNER);
• “The Secret Agent”;
• “Sinners”.

Best Production Design:

• “Frankenstein” (WINNER);
• “Hamnet”;
• “Marty Supreme”;
• “One Battle After Another”;
• “Sinners”.