{"id":478144,"date":"2026-03-16T05:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T05:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/478144\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T05:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T05:45:08","slug":"one-battle-after-another-sweeps-the-oscars-as-michael-b-jordan-and-jessie-buckley-win-big-oscars-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/478144\/","title":{"rendered":"One Battle After Another sweeps the Oscars as Michael B Jordan and Jessie Buckley win big | Oscars 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paul Thomas Anderson\u2019s counter-culture caper One Battle After Another<\/a> has won the Oscars war, taking home six awards after a hotly contested season.<\/p>\n

The big-budget comedy thriller, inspired by Thomas Pynchon\u2019s Vineland, was named best picture and also won director<\/a>, supporting actor for Sean Penn, adapted screenplay<\/a>, editing and the first ever Oscar for casting, a category long-petitioned for within the industry.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wrote this movie for my kids to say sorry for the housekeeping mess we left in this world we\u2019re handing off to them,\u201d Anderson said in his first acceptance speech of the night. He also said he hoped a younger generation would help bring back \u201ccommon sense and decency\u201d to society.<\/p>\n

Previously nominated for films including Boogie Nights, There Will Be Blood and Phantom Thread, tonight marks Anderson\u2019s first ever Oscar wins.<\/p>\n

Penn beat out his co-star Benicio del Toro<\/a> for his third Oscar win but wasn\u2019t in attendance to accept his award. \u201cSean Penn couldn\u2019t be here tonight or didn\u2019t want to,\u201d presenter Kieran Culkin joked.<\/p>\n

The season had became a two-horse race between One Battle After Another and Sinners<\/a>, which entered the night as the most-nominated film ever with a record 16 nominations.<\/p>\n

Michael B Jordan Photograph: Kevin Winter\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

The period vampire blockbuster won four awards: actor for Michael B Jordan, original screenplay, original score and cinematography, which makes Autumn Durald Arkapaw the first ever female winner and first Black winner<\/a> of the award.<\/p>\n

Jordan won his first Oscar<\/a> for his lead performance in the film, beating Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet and Leonardo DiCaprio. \u201cI stand here because of the people who came before me,\u201d he said before listing Black Oscar winners in the past. He has become the sixth Black winner in this category.<\/p>\n

Coogler is only the second Black winner of the original screenplay<\/a> Oscar, following in the footsteps of Jordan Peele, who won for Get Out. The 39-year-old made his cast stand up telling them \u201cyou all are winners in my book\u201d and apologised to his children \u201cfor all the time away\u201d.<\/p>\n

Jessie Buckley Photograph: Kevin Winter\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Jessie Buckley became the first ever Irish winner<\/a> of the best actress Oscar for her performance in Chlo\u00e9 Zhao\u2019s Shakespeare drama Hamnet. The 36-year-old was previously nominated for her role in The Lost Daughter.<\/p>\n

She devoted the award to \u201cthe beautiful chaos of a mother\u2019s heart\u201d and called it \u201cthe greatest honour\u201d.<\/p>\n

Amy Madigan was named best supporting actress<\/a> for her villainous role in hit horror Weapons, beating Teyana Taylor and Wunmi Mosaku. It was the first time the award was won by an actor who was the only nominee from their film since Pen\u00e9lope Cruz in Vicky Cristina Barcelona. The 75-year-old actor, who was previously nominated in 1986, set a new record for the longest gap between nominations before a win.<\/p>\n

Amy Madigan. Photograph: Brianna Bryson\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Joachim Trier\u2019s family drama Sentimental Value<\/a> was named best international feature film, the first time that Norway has won in this category. It beat out The Secret Agent, It Was Just an Accident and The Voice of Hind Rijab. \u201cI\u2019m just a film nerd from Norway,\u201d Trier said onstage. At the end of his speech, he paraphrased James Baldwin, saying: \u201cAll adults are responsible for all children and lets not vote for politicians who don\u2019t take this seriously into account.\u201d<\/p>\n

The award was co-presented by Javier Bardem, who said \u201cno to war and free Palestine\u201d onstage, while wearing prominent badges expressing the same messaging.<\/p>\n

The Oscar for best documentary went to Mr Nobody Against Putin<\/a>, which tells of a teacher fighting against oppressive rules being introduced in his Russian school, a film which co-director David Borenstein said is \u201cabout how you lose your country\u201d. He added: \u201cWhen a government murders people on the streets of our major cities, when we don\u2019t say anything, when oligarchs take over the media and control how we could produce it and consume it, we all face a moral choice, but luckily, even a nobody is more powerful than you think.\u201d<\/p>\n

KPop Demon Hunters, Netflix\u2019s most watched film ever, won two Oscars for animated feature and original song. This week saw official confirmation<\/a> that a sequel was on the way. \u201cFor those of you who look like me, I\u2019m so sorry that it took us so long to see us in a movie like this,\u201d co-director Maggie Kang said before devoting the win to Korea and \u201cfor Koreans everywhere\u201d. Smash hit Golden made history as the first K-pop song to win an Oscar<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Guillermo del Toro\u2019s Netflix take on Frankenstein also won three awards for production design, costume design and makeup and hairstyling. The Oscar for visual effects went to Avatar: Fire and Ash while F1 took home the award for sound.<\/p>\n

There was also an unusual tie in the category for live action short, only the seventh time in Oscars<\/a> history this has happened. The last time was in 2012 for sound editing.<\/p>\n

It marks a major night for Warner Bros<\/a>, with the studio taking home 11 awards and the first best picture win since Argo in 2013. The epic night for the studio arrives as Paramount prepares to merge after a heated battle for ownership.<\/p>\n

Conan O\u2019Brien Photograph: Frank Micelotta\/Disney\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Conan O\u2019Brien returned as host<\/a> for the second year in a row and kicked off the show with a pre-recorded bit dressed as Madigan\u2019s character in Weapons, racing through scenes from the year\u2019s big films. He joked that he will be \u201cthe last human host\u201d of the Oscars (while hosting the animated short award, Will Arnett also made an impassioned plea against the use of AI, which received roaring applause).<\/p>\n

He said anyone offended by politics during the ceremony should watch the \u201calternate Oscars being hosted by Kid Rock\u201d, poked fun at Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos being there for \u201chis first time in a theatre\u201d, referenced the lack of British lead acting contenders by saying a spokesperson said \u201cwell at least we arrest our paedophiles\u201d and quipped about Amazon\u2019s lack of nominations by asking \u201cwhy isn\u2019t the website I buy toilet paper from winning more Oscars?\u201d<\/p>\n

O\u2019Brien also spoke about the \u201cvery chaotic frightening times\u201d we\u2019re in and how the awards are \u201cparticularly resonant\u201d given the many international nominees. \u201cLet us celebrate not because we think all is well but because we work and hope for better in the days ahead,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Later in the night he also joked that he was coming live from the \u201chas a small penis theatre\u201d before joking: \u201cLet\u2019s see him put his name in front of that.\u201d When hosting the two documentary Oscars, Jimmy Kimmel also took aim at Amazon\u2019s Melania doc (\u201cOh mad is he gonna be mad his wife wasn\u2019t nominated for this\u201d) and the rightwing takeover of media (\u201cAs you know, there are some countries whose leaders don\u2019t support free speech. I\u2019m not at liberty to say which. Let\u2019s just leave it at North Korea and CBS\u201d).<\/p>\n

Billy Crystal Photograph: Chris Pizzello\/Invision\/AP<\/p>\n

The night also saw a special tribute to the late Rob Reiner<\/a> led by longtime friend and collaborator Billy Crystal. He said his films will \u201clast for lifetimes\u201d and the loss of Reiner and his wife, Michele, is \u201cimmeasurable\u201d. He was then joined by other stars from his films including Meg Ryan, Carol Kane, Demi Moore and Annette Bening.<\/p>\n

Rachel McAdams also remembered<\/a> fellow Canadian Catherine O\u2019Hara (\u201cmade us laugh until we cried\u201d) and her Morning Glory co-star Diane Keaton (\u201cluminous on screen and indelible in life\u201d) both of whom died in the last year.<\/p>\n

Barbra Streisand followed with a tribute<\/a> to the late Robert Redford, an \u201cintellectual cowboy\u201d who had \u201creal backbone on and off the screen\u201d. She also sang a section of The Way We Were, the title track from their much-loved romantic drama.<\/p>\n

Nominated films which came away empty-handed tonight included Bugonia, Train Dreams, It Was Just an Accident and The Secret Agent.<\/p>\n

Last year\u2019s Oscars<\/a> were led by major wins for Sean Baker\u2019s low-budget comedy drama Anora which was named best picture and picked up four other awards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paul Thomas Anderson\u2019s counter-culture caper One Battle After Another has won the Oscars war, taking home six awards…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-478144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}