{"id":331788,"date":"2026-03-16T04:51:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T04:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/331788\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T04:51:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T04:51:07","slug":"oscars-2026-as-it-happened-all-the-looks-stars-and-awards-at-the-98th-academy-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/331788\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscars 2026 as it happened: All the looks, stars, and awards at the 98th Academy Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/01\/22\/entertainment\/oscar-nominations-announced-academy-awards\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">98th Academy Awards<\/a> have wrapped up in the heart of Hollywood, with funnyman Conan O&#8217;Brien hosting proceedings for the second year in a row.<\/p>\n<p>The leadup to this year&#8217;s edition of the Oscars was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/life\/screens\/movies\/and-best-drama-goes-to-this-year-s-totally-unhinged-award-season\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">anything but standard<\/a>, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/life\/people\/celebrity\/timothee-chalamet-taken-to-task-over-opera-ballet-dig\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">disdain for ballet<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/life\/people\/celebrity\/is-it-cool-to-hate-cats-now-jessie-buckley-and-doechii-seem-to-think-so\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">hatred of housecats<\/a> adding some zany conversation to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/life\/screens\/movies\/the-oscars-are-coming-up-and-it-s-anyone-s-game\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">wide-open race<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Follow how the ceremony unfolded in our blog below:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 98th Academy Awards have wrapped up in the heart of Hollywood, with funnyman Conan O&#8217;Brien hosting proceedings&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,47,42,43,49,46,44,45,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-331788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-audio","tag-current-affairs","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}