Oscar Night: The Complete List of Winners (with Trivia!)
Sunday, March 15, 2026 at 9:27PM In order of presentation. With Trivia notes when applicable
SUPPORTING ACTRESS - Amy Madigan, Weapons
TRIVIA: Only the second Best Supporting Actress winner from the horror genre. The first was Ruth Gordon's all time classic performance in Rosemary's Baby (1968)
ANIMATED FEATURE - KPop Demon Hunters
ANIMATED SHORT - The Girl Who Cried Pearls
COSTUME DESIGN - Frankenstein
TRIVIA: This is the second Frankenstein picture to win Costume Design. The first was Poor Things (2023)
MAKEUP AND HAIR - Frankenstein
TRIVIA: This is the second Frankenstein picture to win Makeup and Hair. The first was Poor Things (2023)
CASTING - One Battle After Another
TRIVIA: Somebody had to be the first ever winner of this category. That honor goes to Cassandra Kulukundis. She joined P.T. Anderson's creative time with Magnolia (1999) and has cast every film of his since. Other highlights from her career: Ghost World (2001), Shattered Glass (2003), Her (2013), The Brutalist (2024)
LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM - TIE
The Singers AND Two People Exchanging Saliva
TRIVIA: Ties are extremely rare at the Oscars. This is only the 7th instance in history. But here's the really cool stat. This makes Live Action Short the only category that's had a tie TWICE. The first was in 1994 when Trevor and Franz Kafka's It's A Wonderful Life were both given statues.
SUPPORTING ACTOR - Sean Penn, One Battle After Another
TRIVIA: Sean Penn becomes only the 8th actor in history to win a third Oscar. The others in order of third wins: Walter Brennan (1940), Katharine Hepburn (1968), Ingrid Bergman (1974), Jack Nicholson (1997), Meryl Streep (2011), Daniel Day Lewis (2012), and Frances McDormand (2020)
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY - Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY - Ryan Coogler, Sinners
TRIVIA: Coogler is only the second Black person to have won this category. Interestingly enough both won for horror films. The first was Jordan Peele who won for Get Out (2017).
~ IN MEMORIAM BREAK ~
PRODUCTION DESIGN Frankenstein
TRIVIA: This is the second Frankenstein picture to win Production Design. The first was Poor Things (2023)
VISUAL EFFECTS Avatar Fire and Ash
TRIVIA: Avatar has become the third franchise to win a Visual effects Oscar for each of its first three installments. The others are Star Wars (1977, 1980, 1983) and The Lord of the Rings (2001, 2002, 2003). No franchise has ever won a fourth Oscar in this category so this might be the end of the line unless they really up their game for Avatar 4 or open in a year with little competition in this category.
[HALWAY MARK OF THE SHOW WAS RIGHT HERE IN TERMS OF OSCARS HANDED OUT 12 OF 24 CATEGORIES BUT THE SHOW WAS ALREADY AT THE TWO HOUR AND TEN MINUTE MARK]
DOCUMENTARY SHORT All the Empty Rooms
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE Mr Nobody Against Putin
ORIGINAL SCORE Ludwig Goransson, Sinners
TRIVIA TIMES TWO: Ludwig Goransson is now 3 for 3 in the Original Score category, having previously been nominated and won for Black Panther (2018), and Oppenheimer (2023). He's also now in an all time four way tie with Ingrid Bergman (Acting), Ingmar Bergman (International Feature), and Per Halberg (Sound) as the Swedish person to have won the most Oscars.
SOUND F1 The Movie
FILM EDITING One Battle After Another
CINEMATOGRAPHY Sinners
TRIVIA TIMES FOUR: Autumn Arkapaw became the first woman cinematographer to win the Oscar. She also became the first woman of color to win the Oscar in this category. She also became the first black person of any gender to win this category. And, finally, (whew) she became the first Filipino Cinematographer to win this category (Matthew Libatique is the only previous Filipino to be nominated in this category and he's been up for the prize three times: Black Swan, A Star is Born, and Maestro)
ORIGINAL SONG "Golden" KPop Demon Hunters
TRIVIA: The first KPop song to win this category
DIRECTOR Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another
INTERNATIONAL FEATURE Sentimental Value (Norway)
TRIVIA: This is Norway's first win in the category on its 7th nomination. They began submitting in 1957 and were nominated on their first try (Nine Lives) though it was 30 years until the nominations started up again becoming more regular. The country that holds the lead for most nominations without a win remains Israel (10 nominations).
This also means that for three consecutive years now, we've experienced first wins for the winning country (UK's The Zone of Interest, Brazil's I'm Still Here, and now Norway's Sentimental Value. Which country will it be next year?
ACTOR Michael B Jordan, Sinners
TRIVIA: This is the first ever vampire performance (well one half of the performance at least) to win an Oscar.
ACTRESS Jesse Buckley, Hamnet
TRIVIA: She's the first Best Actress winner from Ireland! (Saoirse Ronan is still waiting on her first Oscar win. sigh)
PICTURE One Battle After Another
Four Films Won Multiple Oscars
One Battle After Another - 6 Oscars
Sinners - 4 Oscars
Frankenstein - 3 Oscars
KPop Demon Hunters - 2 Oscars
MORE GENERAL TRIVIA
This is the sixth consecutive year (from 2020's Nomadland through 2025's One Battle After Another) where the Best Picture winner also took home an acting trophy. While it is fairly common for a BP winner to also win an acting prize, sometimes they don't. This is the second longest stretch ever. The longest consecutive stretch is seven consecutive years (from 1944's Going My Way through 1950's All About Eve) before An American in Paris (which had zero acting nominations) broke the streak.
Sinners is now the most-Oscared vampire picture of all time. The previous most-Oscared was Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) which won 3 Oscars. Sinners beat it by a single statue ending the night with four wins.
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Reader Comments (54)
It's just ended and I have thoughts
I totally agreed on the Supporting winners and totally disagreed on the Lead winners.
MBJ's speech was one of the best of the night
Timmy's loss was obvious they make the young pretty ones wait,he'll get one in about 10 years for a lesser role and hopefully Julianne Moore will hand it to him as she did with Leo's overdue Oscar.
YEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSS Aunt Gladys.
This is first time 2 horror performances have won since Silence of the Lambs.
Leo looks great with the moustache.
Hottest guy of the night The Singers Director.
Best dressed ladies Demi,Gwyneth and Kate.
Best dressed men Lionel Richie and Leo.
What happened to Pascal's jacket
Did RDJ comes a sexy Dr Doom.
Nice to see Nicole and Ewan,she was very animated
That's how you do an In Memorium section,i have been saying it for years.
Sigourney's line to Kate Hudson was the funniest of the night.
I want a Bridesmaids sequel.
PTA was a well deserved winner.
That K Pop song sounds like something that comes 5th at Eurovision.
I don't think Conan as a host works at all,his jokes were flatter than my bum.
It flew by.
Why did Penn not show he did the last 2 times he won and presented Swank and Bullock the year after.
Some questionable presenters why Pattinson and Zendaya for Director when Spielberg's sat right there.
Not enough of the big stars Priyanka Jonas is not a star or a major actress.
Well done the cinematography winner though I was sad for Jack Fisk.
Random thoughts:
- Conan’s opening bit was actually the best opening in a few years. The closing skit was also great and (fortuitously?) appropriate given OBAA’s best pic win
- AMY MADIGAN!!!!!!!!! I was praying it happened but was dreading horror bias would get in the way.
- PTA finally wins!!!
- the acting clips were egregiously short (by the time the audience stopped clapping the next one was starting)
- although I was not a fan of his performance, MBJ gave the best speech of the night.
The tie was amaaazzziiingg!!! And for the two best films!!!
I thought it was great that Amy Madigan won for Best Supporting Actress considering how much we tore into her in the Supporting Actress Smackdown for her previous nomination.
Welp, I guess Timmy really is the new Leo. His was by far the best performance in that category and they gifted MBJ a win for being good for the first time since 2018.
Another stat: this is now a record for the most consecutive Best Picture winners to also win an acting award! Six years in a row!!
It was just an insult — The N word that resulted in an Oscar.
No comments.
Stupid people.
Timmy is going to win his Oscar soon.
It's a matter of talent!
MrRipley - had the same thought about Best Director presenters - horrible
Was jumping up and down for Madigan and Jordan.
Fabio - speechless and appalled at your comment
Fyi - Timmy is not talented or hot
Oh, another fun stat: The Girl Who Cried Pearls marks the seventh time that a film by the National Film Board of Canada won in the Best Animated Short category, but it was their first win since The Danish Poet won in 2006. They had eight nominations in between wins, with the first of those coming in 2007 with Madame Tutli-Putli, directed by the duo of Chris Levis and Maciek Szczerbowski, who incidentally ended the drought with The Girl Who Cried Pearls.
Two words for you, Nat: Katharine Hepburn. Won her third (for The Lion in Winter) before Ingrid Bergman did, and her fourth (for On Golden Pond) after Bergman's third.
Tony L,
The naked truth.
He only won because of what happened on BAFTA.
Or do you think he really delivered an Oscar worthy performance?
He's the weakest among the nominees.
C'mon...
Yes! I think he's finally found the right facial hair, but it's probably for What Happens at Night.
These are almost my exact words!
And suck it, MBJ haters—great performance, great win, great speech.
The best speech of the night was from David Borenstein:
“Mr Nobody Against Putin is about how to lose your country. And what we saw when working with this footage is that you lose it through countless small little acts of complicity. When we act complicit when a government murders on the street of our major cities. When we don’t say anything when oligarchs take over the media and control how we can produce it and consume it.”
I must apologize for my previous post dearies, I was wrong! The longest streak is 1944 to 1950, seven consecutive years of Best Picture winners with acting awards! But 2020 to 2025 is now the second longest!!
Jack Nicholson won his first Oscar in early 1976 (for the film year 1975). Twenty two years later he would win his third in 1998 (for the film year 1997). Sean Penn’s three wins also span 22 years (2003-2025). They’ve won the same combination of two leads, one supporting though obviously not in the same order.
@Fabio What a tone deaf thing to state.
MBJ didn't win because of the Bafta incident,he won because he was in one of the 2 BP frontrunners,he campaigned real hard for his film and everything about it,he's probably a dream on the shilling circuit and that stood out in his speech the line about people wanting him to do well and also he's been doing great work for a number of years,then there's a perceived Black Panther snub,
I first remember him from the Carrie type horror film Chronicle and since then he's done quality films..
I would put MBJ 4th or 5th personally,he's solid in the film though,costumes do a lot of the work and I don't think it's worthy of an Oscar but it is a popularity contest too.
Timothee would be my winner and I don't think he's that hot either..
They always make the young guys wait,only 2 have broken the rule,Brody won in 2002 because his competition all had 1 or 2 Oscars each and Dreyfuss won in 77 because he had 2 huge hit films and his competition were all in films with no BP nomination..
Learn your facts about the Oscars before slinging around insulting comments.
Someone else is correct he is the new Leo consistently good,a box office star who can open a film but snubbed at the Oscars until his 40's.
When is the last time any acting winner was a no-show, not counting Heath Ledger's posthumous win? It seems extremely uncommon in modern times. Am I forgetting someone?
The cold open was pretty fun but, I found the rest of the ceremony boring. There were a lot of audio issues, too, it seemed.
As for the winners:
OBAA is a great movie. Solid choice for picture, director and screenplay.
As much as I loved Penn, I really wanted Stellan to win.
I hated Sinners. It winning cinematography, screenplay and score is almost insulting to me. I didn't like Michael B. Jordan's performance, either. To me he was by far the weakest in the entire cast. That said, I LOVE that he won over Timothee Chalamet. That's just hilarious.
I'm so happy Marty Supreme got nothing. Didn't care for it at all.
Happy for Madigan, even though I was rooting for Teyana. It was so entertaining seeing how much fun she seemed to be having throughout the entire ceremony.
At least Sentimental Value got International Picture.
The Secret Agent should've won actor.
KPop, who cares.
Frankenstein, ugh.
F1, go fuck yourself.
Jessie Buckley, happy for her. Wasn't crazy over her or the movie, but solid winner.
So even though it was a mostly chaotic and unpredictable season in some key categories, it ended up being kinda...uneventful. No real surprises.
Marsha: anthony Hopkins for The Father, memorably.
@Mike in Canada - LOL How could I forget?
The ballet/opera thing broke too late to really affect voting. But I think public sentiment had been souring on Timmy well before that.
Last year’s SAG speech was polarizing, that set the table. The Marty Supreme hype tour was cartoonishly self-regarding in ways that helped the movie but cheapened his brand. His early speeches this year reflected a “pivot to humility” that rang false and contained notes of twerpiness (didn’t he complain about his seating at BFCA?). Fair or not, the Kardashian connection suggests an interest in the “wrong” kind of fame. His offscreen life has eclipsed “the work” in a way that rubs people the wrong way; Leo was always good at keeping those things very separate, he doesn’t shit where he eats and we barely know him.
Tim routinely misjudges the moment (crystalized with the opera comments, and he missed his chance to cauterize it with a statement), and the little stuff adds up. He seems interested in being a baller, a meme, a media phenomenon, the center of the industry’s attention AND his generation’s Brando. His theory is that all those things go together at the same time, but the industry doesn’t want it. They see something to smack down a peg.
I think the whole thing puts a layer of funk over his future Oscar prospects—questions like “has he grown up?” will color the next one, and it might be a while. It’s hard enough to become a frontrunner and public perception will be a real handicap for him moving forward.
If all this sounds dramatic, remember the Sony hack? This is the kind of thing industry types really inhale, gossip about and treat as gospel.
Frank Zappa - thank you
MrRipley - thank you
The results were mostly predictable, but deserving.
However, MBJ ranks as one of the worst Best Actor winners ever. Just playing the protagonists in a mainstream film and not being able to provide characterization to differentiate one from the other gives you an Oscar when you're lucky and the circumstances are highly political, it seems. Objectively the weakest performance in the category, he shouldn't even have been nominated, considering Plemons and Edgerton were left out.
@Ad_Mil His win will not age well,it kind of reminds me of Bullock in 2009 a well liked performer winning for fine but unremarkable acting.
No-one can convince me he differentiates between the twins apart from the costuming.
@DK I too think the conversation will be has he matured next time for Timmy.
Is the really with the Kardashian person or is it spin,reality types sully the Oscars esp when the likes of real legend like Redford and Keaton and Reiner are being celebrated,people who meant something to people and brought great artistic achievemnt to the world not just for themselves but for others too,these Kardashains are to me and I don't know alot all about the fame and the hype and what moneys in it for them,maybe that rubbed off on Chalamet
I never knew Rob Reiner had been a big campaigner for equal marriage,what a truly great guy.
Michael B. Jordan was probably my least favorite in the category, but he's not an embarrassingly bad winner. Have people already forgotten Rami Malek and Brendan Fraser?
jules
All three are equally embarrassing.
As others have said, the Michael B. Jordan win is going to age like fine milk. Literally any of the other contenders (or Joel Edgerton!!!!) would've been better.
We do seem to be in an era of non-sweeping winners, unlike in the '80s and '90s where most of the Pic Best winners take home 5-6ish awards instead of 8-10ish and the wealth is spread around a bit. Sinners was one BAFTA incident away from only winning just 2 or 3 awards despite the large nomination haul.
Sean Penn & Amy Madigan’s wins are probably the best best supporting actor/actress wins since Christoph Waltz & Monique. Truly iconic villain performances. The right people clearly won.
Michael B. Jordan is not a great winner by any means. I will choose to think this makes up for being passed over previously and as an acknowledgment of all the great roles he’ll have in the future. I’ve loved him since The Wire, and I loved Sinners but this one is just baffling. Even Rami Malek you could understand because he also won the globe and bafta so there was a clear love for him (for some bizarre reason).
Speaking of Sinners, I am so thrilled that it won Cinematography. It got to make history AND be fully deserving of it at the same time. I wish the same could’ve happened in Director too.
I wish a more interesting and better film had won International. There were plenty to pick from.
Having just watched Mr. Nobody Against Putin, it’s an ok winner. I think it will be forgotten quickly.
What can be done about the writing categories? They bizarrely always become set it in stone. I love Sinners but not for the screenplay. One Battle was good too but…why do the voters just nominate pretty much only best picture nominees??
MBJ was 1) the film 2) perceived Black Panther and Creed snubs (i.e. overdue) 3) lack of undeniable competition and 4) degree of difficulty (playing twins). I'd say he didn't hit my personal bar for the win, but no one was all that great this year anyway. I'd have put Skarsgård in lead and given it to him.
I'm glad Sentimental Value won, though the other films were also great (bar Sirat, which I have major issues with). Hopefully we'll see more Oscar appearances from both Filho and Moura in the future.
I think I've hated just about every song that's won the category, but this year's is particularly annoying. May as well give it to Diane Warren one of these days already. The best of the worst.
Regarding the International Oscar :
France has now the longest "losing nomination" streak ever, with 12 lost bids in a row.
SINNERS also became the first movie ever to lose 12 nominations!!!
My random thoughts:
For acting nominees, I prefer film images/clips/a scene, then a shot of the nominee getting applauded. They might've done this for the Supporting categories, but in a rush to save time, they apparently zipped through their Leads without any reaction from their seats.
I really like when a 'winner' is genuinely happy to receive an award. Guess that's why I liked the Costume Designer and Casting Director who were both overjoyed & giddy. Ditto, I appreciated Jessie Buckly bursting into tears.
I was already eyeing the clock and the nominees that still had to come when the Live Action Short tie occurred. This really pushed back the time limit-especially since multiple winners had to trek down from 'the second tier.' Was the audience still going to sing through all 5 sung Original Song? Of course, not, scan the app and listen for yourselves.
The pounding drumbeat to immediately cut off the 2nd writer of Golden/Kpop Demon Hunter winner was the rudest thing I saw all evening.
Who was on stage for the Rob Reiner tribute? I was expecting a possible line scan with names. All that was shown was an overhead shot (of somebody's head blocking out Meg Ryan). I think I saw two guys from Spinal Tap, Carol Kane and John Cusack with a new face.
The Memorial segment was 99% better than in prior years. Guess I wanted a montage of Diane Keaton movie images while that lady talked on and on.
Worst joke-the entire Robert Downey Jr. silver thong/Magic Mike bit. Ka-boom.
Am I the only one who finds Adrien Brody insufferable. Him taking that gum out of his mouth? I'm supposed to remember a year back on what that dumb bit was about? Just when I thought I was done with him, the camera showed him while MBJ was talking. When I finally believed that I was done with him, he popped up again in a tax preparation commercial.
Yeah-you wait your entire career for a Best Director award only to receive it from the sleepwalking Robert Pattison and Zendaya.
Teyana Taylor was a bit overboard. What's with putting PTAnderson in an onstage headlock. How disrespectful. She also ruined the light surprise for the Golden song. I saw her in the audience waving that thing and thought 'what the hell is that big thing?'
Documentary Short Film - 3 noticeable empty seats in the front row. Where were you Leonardo and whoever was 3 & 4 seats down from him.
In the spirit of tacking more time to the overlong ceremony, I'm sure that audiences appreciate having to wait for everybody involved with Sentimental Value and OBAA walk all the way from their seats to the stage.
Barbra Streisand has now appeared in 3 ceremonies where there was a tie, and two of those times involved her singing 'The Way We Were'
Re: Timmy. I'm just surprised Academy members can't tell the difference between an actor doing a bit to give their film publicity and a guy who actually has a huge ego.
@Tom Yeah-you wait your entire career for a Best Director award only to receive it from the sleepwalking Robert Pattison and Zendaya.
Exactly,this was almost insulting,I mean Scorsese got 3 legends and PTA got the girl from Euphoria and Spiderman's girlfriend and yet another Batman,neither of whom have paid their Academy dues or have any nominations for anything to do with film.
I watched a piece today on the lack of stars in attendence.
Goldie Hawn was there i'd have even preferred her at least she directed something once and has worked with some greats and her daughter was nominated.
I saw half of Meg Ryan's face and mis took Cusack for RDJ.
"The results were mostly predictable, but deserving.
However, MBJ ranks as one of the worst Best Actor winners ever. Just playing the protagonists in a mainstream film and not being able to provide characterization to differentiate one from the other gives you an Oscar when you're lucky and the circumstances are highly political, it seems. Objectively the weakest performance in the category, he shouldn't even have been nominated, considering Plemons and Edgerton were left out.
March 16, 2026 | Ad_Mil
Fact, Ad_Mil.
Shameful fact.
You're a smart and honest person.
You guys realize that acting is an art form and that there is no objective way to assess it, right? We're all just making subjective calls, including those who like to call themselves objective. Jordan delivered the performance I liked the least of the Best Actor nominees, but some of these responses are a tad much. Also, please let's try to be respectful in this comment section.
Maybe one of these days I should write about who I consider the worst acting winners in each category, as I've seen them all, sans Emil Jannings' lost film that he won for, along with THE LAST COMMAND at the inaugural Academy Awards. Jordan's low, for sure, but he's safely out of the Best Actor bottom twenty for me.
Should we all share the acting winners we dislike the most in Oscar history? Maybe it would provide some perspective and help us all recover from the emotions brought on by last night's results?
„Shameful fact.
You're a smart and honest person.“
Fake news. But douches gonna douche.
"Should we all share the acting winners we dislike the most in Oscar history?"
Cláudio Alves, why not?
You can make a poll.
"And that's all I have to say about that."
Forrest Gump, smart and honest man, 1994.
Thank you Cláudio.
I mean c’mon, talk about beating a dead horse. We get it! Now shut up about it. I’m sure if I complained about something Fabio liked, I would get the third degree.
Move on
Thanks Cláudio!
I can think of a bunch of “weaker” Best Actor winners (in this century alone), but as has been noted it’s subjective, a matter of taste. (And there’s no such thing as “Best” anyway.)
Cláudio Alves
I wouldn't say that people are overreacting in this comment section; you should check out how the MBJ win is being received all over social media.
Art becomes subjective when it's highly regarded (DDL in TWBB) or obviously inept (Zellweger in Cold Mountain, MBJ in Sinners). The Best Actor category this year was so rich with beautiful performances it's apparent that MBJ didn't deserve to be nominated, and one should be allowed to say that.
Also, I have seen at least 90 of the winners in the category, and I would absolutely place the most recent one in the bottom twenty. The key is that even the most pompous performances were in service of their respective films and came through with the task at hand. MBJ was asked to portray discernible twins and provide interiority to balance the film's outré premise and failed to do so. I would argue that, if the actor thanked one person in his speech, it should have been Mosaku, for, even though her role was minimal, she managed to shape the emotional arc of the story and enrich the actor's performance in their shared scenes.
So we should go by social media and not the standing ovation he got when he won? Uhm ok.
Art is subjective, but the appalling remarks of the bafta incident being the reason he won are uncalled for and downright immature.
I haven't seen all the Best Actor winners,my 30's and 40's history is very minimal but out of the 70 or so I have seen I found some.
I went through them all last night and i've come up with just 12 who I feel are not worthy winners or simply not very good in the role or I just didn't enjoy.
In order
1 Robert Benigni I have never in 27 years been able to make it through this film he's the reason
2 Eddie Redmayne So insultingly baity and then he did it again in 2015
3 Rex Harrison I found him smug and he can't sing.
4 Michael B. Jordan I thought his costumes did the work and not his acting
5 Rami Malek Never convinced as Freddie in those early 70's scenes at all,an insult to a legend
6 Lee Marvin Funny but not great acting
7 John Wayne Was no different from any other film he appeared in
8 Jack Nicholson Too much Jack not enough Melvin,About Schmidt been better for a 3rd
9 Russell Crowe Very commanding in the part but that's it,better before and after the win
10 Al Pacino So over the top it feels like a parody of Pacino's style
11 Gary Oldman Terrible film and this is this great actor's win why Academy?
12 Leonardo DiCaprio for grunting and fighting a bear,should have won in 2013.
Some of the others I almost included that I know others don't like but I think are solid winners or very good were Brenda Fraser,Richard Dreyfuss,Cliff Robertson,Will Smith,Paul Newman,Geoffrey Rush,Art Carney,Charlton Heston,David Niven and Sean Penn 2003
It is unfair to say it’s “the BAFTA incident” alone.
It’s the BAFTA incident. It’s the triumphant SAG reception (and ensemble win). It’s Chalamet wearing on people’s nerves. It’s Marty Supreme underperforming while Sinners got a late surge. It’s Jordan being extremely likable and well regarded for his past performances. He’s good at playing the game, that’s a compliment.
It’s all those things! But I think most of them are more salient than “the performance.” That’s why it won’t age particularly well…not a disaster, but not a great win on the merits. I don’t say that “emotionally,” that just seems to be what we all saw happen with our eyes.
Maybe when MBJ is 60 and he’s been “Academy Award Winner Michael B. Jordan” for 20 years it’ll all make sense (based on how he spends the next two decades) and no one will mind that he won for one of his lesser performances. I hope that’s where this lands because I like him a lot.
Also, justice for Zellweger in Cold Mountain! Delightful comic relief, well-drawn characterization and real pathos when the movie needs it most. That movie is an underrated masterpiece and she’s one of many (discordant, chaotic, big swing) reasons why it works so well. It’s just a bizarre hodgepodge tapestry of tones and aesthetics, never got enough appreciation for what it is. GREAT rewatch.
One thing's for sure: MBJ's win will age a lot better than some of the online reaction to it.
DK: That is so well-put on MBJ. I definitely think Chalamet fatigue played much more into this win than the BAFTAs did. I also think the general voting populate consider "playing twins... and one is a vampire!" to be a much higher degree of difficulty than the TFE commenters seem to.
At the end of the day, it's an acting win from a popular star of a well-regarded movie. it'll age well.
Has Jacob Elordi stepped into the vacuum Timothée Chalamet created?
Elordi, at the Oscars, showing his appreciation of the craftspeople of his film and their treating him as a well liked colleague, creates a really positive industry perception. He becomes “young guy most likely to be nominated again”.
OTOH, Chalamet has the follow up of a terrific leading part in Dune 3, working with the still underappreciated great, Denis Villeneuve.
Thank you DK
Thank you Mike in Canada
Thank you Frank Zappa