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• The 2026 Oscar winners shall be introduced, as Timothée Chalamet and Michael B. Jordan face off for Greatest Actor.
• Dolly Parton, Tom Cruise, Debbie Allen, and Wynn Thomas beforehand accepted honorary prizes on the Governors Awards.
• Conan O'Brien returns to host this 12 months's Academy Awards ceremony, broadcasting Sunday evening on ABC.

Months of competition jockeying, ever-changing prognosticator predictions, and front-running contenders shading artwork varieties like opera and ballet alongside the awards path have led to Hollywood's greatest evening, because the 2026 Oscars winners shall be introduced at Sunday's stay ceremony.

Main stars will converge inside Los Angeles' Dolby Theatre, the place returning host Conan O'Brien is ready to preside over the night's festivities.

Excessive-profile matchups embrace the two-movie Greatest Image race between Ryan Coogler's Sinners and Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After One other, aBest Supporting Actress showdown between first-time nominees (Teyana Taylor in One Battle After One other, Wunmi Mosaku in Sinners) and veteran actress Amy Madigan (Weapons), in addition to the long-awaited conclusion to the tense Greatest Actor conflict that's seen prior frontrunner Timothée Chalamet's (Marty Supreme) early lead crumble amid the rise of dual-role Sinners standout Michael B. Jordan.

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In current weeks, Chalamet — as soon as considered a shoo-in to take Greatest Actor — has suffered vital setbacks in his marketing campaign, after many took situation with perceived smugness in his bid for awards glory. Speaking to Entertainment Weekly on condition of anonymity, one voting Academy member even instructed us that they "misplaced a whole lot of respect" for the 30-year-old over his marketing campaign feedback.

Conversely, Sinners has ticked up within the race. Along with shattering the file for essentially the most Oscar nominations for a single movie, Jordan gained Greatest Actor at SAG's Actor Awards earlier this month. With the movie additionally taking the awards physique's ensemble prize, all eyes are on the undertaking to repeat on the Oscars, as SAG (the most important union in Hollywood) shares vital voting membership with the Academy.

As beforehand introduced, the Academy bestowed particular awards upon a number of Hollywood professionals late final 12 months, forward of the 2026 ceremony. Trade staple Dolly Parton obtained her Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award by way of video message on the Governors Awards occasion in November. The 80-year-old earned the accolade for a profession devoted to philanthropic efforts — together with the Dollywood Basis and Dolly Parton's Creativeness Library, which has donated round 285 million books to children.

Celebrity actor Tom Cruise, actress and choreographer Debbie Allen, and manufacturing designer Wynn Thomas additionally obtained Academy Honorary Awards on the aforementioned occasion.

See the complete checklist of winners on the 98th Academy Awards beneath, updating stay all through Sunday's ceremony on ABC and Hulu,

Greatest Image

Bugonia
F1
Frankenstein
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
One Battle After One other
The Secret Agent
Sentimental Worth
Sinners
Practice Goals

Greatest Director

Chloé Zhao, Hamnet
Josh Safdie, Marty Supreme
Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After One other
Joachim Trier, Sentimental Worth
Ryan Coogler, Sinners

Greatest Actor

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

Greatest Actress

Jessie Buckley, Hamnet
Rose Byrne, If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
Kate Hudson, Music Sung Blue
Renate Reinsve, Sentimental Worth
Emma Stone, Bugonia

Greatest Supporting Actor

Benicio Del Toro, One Battle After One other
Jacob Elordi, Frankenstein
Delroy Lindo, Sinners
Sean Penn, One Battle After One other
Stellan Skarsgård, Sentimental Worth

Greatest Supporting Actress

Elle Fanning, Sentimental Worth
Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Sentimental Worth
Amy Madigan, Weapons
Wunmi Mosaku, Sinners
Teyana Taylor, One Battle After One other

Greatest Worldwide Characteristic

The Secret Agent (Brazil)
It Was Simply an Accident (France)
Sentimental Worth (Norway)
Sirât (Spain)
The Voice of Hind Rajab (Tunisia)

Greatest Animated Characteristic

Arco
Elio
KPop Demon Hunters
Little Amélie or the Character of Rain
Zootopia 2

Greatest Documentary Characteristic

The Alabama Resolution
Come See Me within the Good Mild
Slicing Via Rocks
Mr No person Towards Putin
The Excellent Neighbor

Greatest Unique Screenplay

Robert Kaplow, Blue Moon
Jafar Panahi (script collaborators: Nader Saïvar, Shadmehr Rastin, Mehdi Mahmoudian), It Was Simply an Accident
Ronald Bronstein, Josh Safdie, Marty Supreme
Eskil Vogt, Joachim Trier, Sentimental Worth
Ryan Coogler, Sinners

Greatest Tailored Screenplay

Will Tracy, Bugonia
Guillermo del Toro, Frankenstein
Chloé Zhao, Maggie O'Farrell, Hamnet
Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After One other
Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar, Practice Goals

Greatest Casting

Nina Gold, Hamnet
Jennifer Venditti, Marty Supreme
Cassandra Kulukundis, One Battle After One other
Gabriel Domingues, The Secret Agent
Francine Maisler, Sinners

Greatest Movie Modifying

Stephen Mirrione, F1
Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie, Marty Supreme
Andy Jurgensen, One Battle After One other
Olivier Bugge Coutté, Sentimental Worth
Michael P. Shawver, Sinners

Greatest Cinematography

Dan Laustsen, Frankenstein
Darius Khondji, Marty Supreme
Michael Bauman, One Battle After One other
Autumn Durald Arkapaw, Sinners
Adolpho Veloso, Practice Goals

Greatest Manufacturing Design

Tamara Deverell, Shane Vieau, Frankenstein
Fiona Crombie, Alice Felton, Hamnet
Jack Fisk, Adam Willis, Marty Supreme
Florencia Martin, Anthony Carlino, One Battle After One other
Hannah Beachler, Monique Champagne, Sinners

Greatest Costume Design

Deborah L. Scott, Avatar: Hearth and Ash
Kate Hawley, Frankenstein
Malgosia Turzanska, Hamnet
Miyako Bellizzi, Marty Supreme
Ruth E. Carter, Sinners

Greatest Make-up and Hairstyling

Mike Hill, Jordan Samuel, Cliona Furey, Frankenstein
Kyoko Toyokawa, Naomi Hibino, Tadashi Nishimatsu, Kokuho
Ken Diaz, Mike Fontaine, Shunika Terry, Sinners
Kazu Hiro, Glen Griffin, Bjoern Rehbein, The Smashing Machine
Thomas Foldberg, Anne Cathrine Sauerberg, The Ugly Stepsister

Greatest Unique Music

"Pricey Me," Diane Warren: Relentless (music and lyrics by Diane Warren)
"Golden," KPop Demon Hunters (music and lyrics by EJAE, Mark Sonnenblick, Joong Gyu Kwak, Yu Han Lee, Hee Dong Nam, Jeong Hoon Seon, Teddy Park)
"I Lied to You," Sinners (music and lyrics by Raphael Saadiq and Ludwig Goransson)
"Candy Goals of Pleasure," Viva Verdi! (music and lyrics by Nicholas Pike)
"Practice Goals," Practice Goals (music by Nick Cave and Bryce Dessner; lyrics by Nick Cave)

Greatest Unique Rating

Jerskin Fendrix, Bugonia
Alexandre Desplat, Frankenstein
Max Richter, Hamnet
Jonny Greenwood, One Battle After One other
Ludwig Goransson, Sinners

Greatest Sound

Gareth John, Al Nelson, Gwendolyn Yates Whittle, Gary A. Rizzo, Juan Peralta, F1
Greg Chapman, Nathan Robitaille, Nelson Ferreira, Christian Cooke, Brad Zoern, Frankenstein
José Antonio García, Christopher Scarabosio, Tony Villaflor, One Battle After One other
Chris Welcker, Benjamin A. Burtt, Felipe Pacheco, Brandon Proctor, Steve Boeddeker, Sinners
Amanda Villavieja, Laia Casanovas, Yasmina Praderas, Sirât

Greatest Visible Results

Joe Letteri, Richard Baneham, Eric Saindon, Daniel Barrett, Avatar: Hearth and Ash
Ryan Tudhope, Nicolas Chevallier, Robert Harrington, Keith Dawson, F1
David Vickery, Stephen Aplin, Charmaine Chan, Neil Corbould, Jurassic World: Rebirth
Charlie Noble, David Zaretti, Russell Bowen, Brandon Okay. McLaughlin, The Misplaced Bus
Michael Ralla, Espen Nordahl, Guido Wolter, Donnie Dean, Sinners

Greatest Stay-Motion Brief

Butcher's Stain
A Buddy of Dorothy
Jane Austen's Interval Drama
The Singers
Two Folks Exchanging Saliva

Greatest Animated Brief

Butterfly
Forevergreen
The Lady Who Cried Pearls
Retirement Plan
The Three Sisters

Greatest Documentary Brief

All of the Empty Rooms
Armed Solely with a Digicam: The Life and Dying of Brent Renaud
Kids No Extra: "Had been and Are Gone"
The Satan Is Busy
Completely a Strangeness

Academy Honorary Awards

Tom Cruise
Debbie Allen
Wynn Thomas

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

Dolly Parton

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