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).
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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.
Monday, March 16, 2026 at 9:30PM 
Looking back, it's notable that, of the four acting winners, Michael B. Jordan was the only one some predicted would be snubbed of a nomination altogether. Eric and Nathaniel had him out of their final five in our first round of predictions. Look at him now!
