At last, the 2026 Oscars marked the end of this long, roller coaster of an awards season on Sunday night as “One Battle After Another” continued its domination at the ceremony.

The Paul Thomas Anderson-directed black comedy-thriller won six statuettes, including Best Picture, Director, Supporting Actor, Adapted Screenplay, Film Editing and Casting.

“Sinners,” Ryan Coogler’s blockbuster horror flick which led the ceremony with a record-breaking 16 nominations, won four Oscars: Best Actor, Original Screenplay, Original Score and Cinematography.

“Frankenstein,” Guillermo del Toro’s sci-fi adaptation of Mary Shelley’s novel of the same name, picked up three awards; the global phenomenon “K-Pop Demon Hunters” nabbed two trophies.

Comedian Conan O’Brien returned to host the ceremony for the second time. He didn’t waste any time cracking jokes and aimed his monologue and other comedic bits at President Donald Trump, Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos and of course, at Best Actor nominee Timothée Chalamet, who received several jabs throughout the night.

“Sinners” star Michael B. Jordan won the Oscar for Best Actor, his first win and first nomination. That race had tightened in recent weeks after Jordan nabbed SAG’s Actor Award over Chalamet, who starred in “Marty Supreme.” Chalamet, who won the Golden Globe for Best Performance By A Male Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical, has made headlines for his comments about ballet and opera, saying that “no one cares” about the art forms anymore.

“Hamnet” star Jessie Buckley won Best Actress, a win that was not at all surprising considering she’d basically locked up the category all awards season.

For the first time, the academy presented an award for Best Casting, which went to Cassandra Kulukundis, the casting director of “One Battle After Another.”

HuffPost covered the awards ceremony live. See below for updates.

“One Battle After Another” just won the Oscar for Best Picture at the 98th Academy Awards. Paul Thomas Anderson directed the film, which has dominated the 2026 awards season.

The film won six Oscars on Sunday night, including Best Director, Supporting Actor, Adapted Screenplay, Editing And Casting.

The film was up against “Sinners,” “Bugonia,” “Frankenstein,” “Hamnet,” “Marty Supreme,” “The Secret Agent,” “Sentimental Value” and “Train Dreams" in the Best Picture category.

Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another” took home six Academy Awards Sunday night, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay.

The much-talked-about action-thriller was an awards season front-runner, despite some criticism from audiences over certain portrayals in the film, particularly over the fetishization of Black female characters like Teyana Taylor’s Perfidia Beverly Hills.

Speaking to HuffPost from the Oscars press room after the show, the filmmaker acknowledged that he knows “a little bit about that critique,” noting “it’s complicated.”

“I know that Teyana [Taylor] has talked about it a lot,” Anderson said. “I know that we have the portrayal of many different characters. In particular, her character, who is so flawed and, unfortunately, makes decisions that are detrimental to the revolution that she’s trying to fight.”

He continued, “It’s complicated. We always knew that we were trying to make something complicated. We knew that we weren’t making something that was heroic, and we needed to lean into that. And we needed to own the fact that this woman was suffering not only from postpartum depression, but she had issues of her own that she hadn’t really reconciled with.”

The director added, “It’s a very dangerous thing when you start out, you want to change the world, but you start to kind of become selfish and you read your own reviews. That was our hero in Perfidia, who becomes an anti-hero. Point of it is to set up a story of Willa, the next generation. What happens when your parents who are damaged and have handed quite a difficult history to you, how do you manage that? That’s our story, and our story is in Chase [Infiniti] and her evolution, like I talked about, in terms of the generational aspect, to try to do better.”

Watch his comments to HuffPost's Njera Perkins below and read her critique of "One Battle After Another" here.

After taking home the #Oscars for Best Picture, Director and Adapted Screenplay for #OneBattleAfterAnother, Paul Thomas Anderson addressed criticism about the film’s portrayal of Black women that has surrounded the movie since its fall release. https://t.co/AoZdU7PeF1 pic.twitter.com/HUTQ0gvse6

The 98th Academy Awards brought a lot of firsts, from Michael B. Jordan winning for Best Actor to “Golden” from “KPop Demon Hunters” hitting it big, too.

EJAE, Mark Sonnenblick, Joong Gyu Kwak, Yu Han Lee, Hee Dong Nam, Jeong Hoon Seo and Teddy Park won the Oscar for Best Original Song for their earworm “Golden” from Netflix’s “Kpop Demon Hunters.” The song is the first K-pop track to win an Oscar.

But their moment on the Oscars stage was cut way too short when the orchestra started loudly playing them off the stage.

“Growing up everyone made fun of me for liking K-pop. And now everyone is singing our song,” EJAE said.

Then, her co-writer Yu-Han Lee, stepped to the mic to add his thank yous, and he was quickly cut off.

The ceremony abruptly went to commercial. It was certainly an awkward moment.

Law Roach isn’t backing down from his comments about Zendaya and Tom Holland already being married.

While on the red carpet at the Academy Awards, Roach doubled down on his earlier remarks that the couple secretly tied the knot.

When asked if he wanted to clarify his previous statement, the celebrity stylist simply smirked and replied, “No.”

When pressed again about whether Zendaya is actually married, Roach kept the mystery alive with a cheeky response: “I said what I said.”

Earlier this month while attending the Actor Awards, he teased that their wedding had “already happened” and everyone just missed it.

Law Roach shares that Zendaya will be at the Oscars tonight. pic.twitter.com/LHGNxLVExM

Ryan Coogler made his Oscars moment one for the history books while accepting the award for Best Original Screenplay for "Sinners."

The filmmaker stepped on stage with a subtle but powerful nod to the film’s blues roots, sporting a guitar braided directly into his hair.

During his speech, the Oscar winner grew emotional, thanking his wife, Zinzi Coogler, saying, “Zinzi, you’re the best wife and mom in the world. Every day I get to spend with you is better than the one that came before.”

See details of the intricately braided hairstyle below via Vibe Magazine.

Ryan Coogler taking home an #Oscar for 'Sinners' with a blues guitar braided in his hair. 📸 Getty Images pic.twitter.com/VequZBm6WB

Jessie Buckley just won the Oscar for Best Actress for her stirring performance as Agnes Shakespeare in "Hamnet." The actor has dominated the category all awards season.

Michael B. Jordan won the Oscar for Best Actor for his role as Smoke and Stack in Ryan Coogler's "Sinners."

See more about his big win in the link below.

Paul Thomas Anderson wins the Oscar for Best Directing for "One Battle After Another." He also won Best Adapted Screenplay.

See below for more details.

“No to war and free Palestine,” Javier Bardem said before he introduced the nominees for the Oscar for Best International Feature Film.

"Sentimental Value" wins the Oscar for Best International Feature film. Joachim Trier, the director, accepted the award.

"I'm just a film nerd from Norway," he said as he accepted the award before thanking his family and the cast and crew of the film.

Sunday’s tie for Best Live-Action Short Film, between “The Singers” and “Two People Exchanging Saliva,” is the seventh tie to happen in Oscars history. Reflecting on the rare moment after their wins, “The Singers” filmmaker Sam Davis told USA Today in a backstage Oscars interview, “None of us could imagine what the outcome would be.”

“For me, that was incredible,” added producer Jack Piatt. “I wish we could have a five-way tie, to be honest with you.”

“Two People Exchanging Saliva” director Natalie Musteata also told the outlet that the tie was “such a dream,” adding: “Someone on Reddit asked us if we would be happy to share the award and we were like, ‘Heck yeah!’ We would love to share with another film that is equally beautiful and totally different.”

The 98th Academy Awards took an emotional turn when Billy Crystal took the stage to remember his friend Rob Reiner.

Autumn Durald Arkapaw is the first woman to win the Oscar for Best Cinematography for her work on “Sinners.”

"I feel like I don't get here without you guys," she said, as she asked all the women in the room to stand up. "Moments like this happen because of you guys."

She is only the fourth woman to be nominated for the award: Rachel Morrison was nominated for “Mudbound” in 2017; Ari Wegner for “The Power of the Dog” in 2021 and Mandy Walker for “Elvis” in 2022.

Ludwig Goransson, the composer for the “Sinners” score, accepted the Oscar for Best Original Score. He honored his father who introduced him to the blues and gave him his first guitar.

He thanked director Ryan Coogler, whom he called “one of the greatest storytellers of our time.”

This is Goransson’s third Oscar. He won for “Oppenheimer” in 2024 and "Black Panther" in 2019.

"All The Empty Rooms" by Joshua Seftel and Conall Jones wins Best Documentary Short Film.

The film documents the untouched bedrooms of children who died in school shootings across the United States.

“We believe that if the world could see their empty bedrooms, we’d be a different America," said Gloria Cazales, the mother of Jackie, who was killed in the Uvalde school shooting in Texas in 2022.

The documentary short is streaming on Netflix.

In the Instagram post below, Cazares posted a photo of her daughter that she took along with her to the Academy Awards.

“Frankenstein” is taking home a bunch of awards at the 98th Academy Awards. So far, it has won Best Costume Design, Best Makeup and Hairstyling, and Best Production Design.

The Netflix film is also up for Best Picture, Cinematography and Sound. It received nine nominations in all.

Sean Penn won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor but he wasn't in attendance at Sunday's ceremony, reportedly due to European travel plans as he looked to visit Ukraine.

Penn, who won the Oscar for his role as Col. Steven J. Lockjaw in "One Battle After Another," has been a fierce advocate for Ukraine and the Ukrainian people following Russia's invasion of the country in 2022.

The actor met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy shortly thereafter and gave him his first statuette from his Oscar-winning performance in "Mystic River," The Hollywood Reporter recently found.

At the time, Penn said that he hoped Zelenskyy, in holding onto the statuette, would be able to "bring it back to Malibu" when he defeated Russia.

After Penn was a no-show Sunday and presenter Kieran Culkin accepted his most-recent statuette in his absence, The New York Times reported that the actor wasn't on hand as he planned to visit Ukraine as of late last week.

It's unclear the reason for Penn's visit, although his absence at Sunday's ceremony arrives after he skipped the BAFTAs and Actor Awards, the Times noted.

"Hamnet" is largely about a mother in mourning — see how the film's director seemingly paid tribute.

Speaking from the Oscars interview room following her win, Amy Madigan, who won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress on Sunday, told Collider she’s “really happy” to see horror films like “Weapons” be celebrated more by audiences.

“Horror, as we all know, is kind of looked at like you’re the little kids table at Thanksgiving — you’re just kind of over there — which, as we know, is not true,” she said. “You just look at the great silent horror films that started our business. … It just makes me feel really happy, and I hope it’ll continue to open it up for [the genre].”

Ryan Coogler just won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for “Sinners.” He received a standing ovation.

“Please sit down because I’m very nervous that they might play me off,” Coogler, who also directed “Sinners,” said as he accepted the award.

He thanked his wife, Zinzi, who is a producer of the film, the cast, his parents and his kids.

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