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Sunday
Mar152026

Oscar Night: The Complete List of Winners

In order of presentation. Commentary must wait of course because we're watching it right now

SUPPORTING ACTRESS - Amy Madigan, Weapons
ANIMATED FEATURE - KPop Demon Hunters
ANIMATED SHORT - The Girl Who Cried Pearls

COSTUME DESIGN - Frankenstein
MAKEUP AND HAIR - Frankenstein
CASTING - One Battle After Another
LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM - TIE
The Singers
Two People Exchanging Saliva

SUPPORTING ACTOR - Sean Penn, One Battle After Another
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY - Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY - Ryan Coogler, Sinners

~ IN MEMORIAM BREAK ~

PRODUCTION DESIGN Frankenstein
VISUAL EFFECTS Avatar Fire and Ash

That's the halfway mark with 12 of 24 categories announced (2 hours and 10 minutes in)

DOCUMENTARY SHORT All the Empty Rooms
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE Mr Nobody Against Putin
ORIGINAL SCORE Sinners
SOUND F1 The Movie

FILM EDITING  One Battle After Another
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Sinners
ORIGINAL SONG "Golden" KPop Demon Hunters
DIRECTOR Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another
INTERNATIONAL FEATURE Sentimental Value (Norway)

ACTOR Michael B Jordan, Sinners
ACTRESS Jesse Buckley, Hamnet
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

 

 

 

Sunday
Mar152026

The 14th Annual Team Experience Awards: “One Battle After Another” is our champion! Three cheers for PTA!!!

by Cláudio Alves

ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER | © Warner Bros.

Later tonight, we’ll have a new batch of Oscar winners to celebrate. But, for now, let us rejoice for the Team Experience Awards, voted on by the site’s writers, sans Nathaniel, who has his own Film Bitch Awards. It’s likely some of these victors may echo AMPAS’ picks, as One Battle After Another is our champion, after having tied with Sinners in nominations, twelve apiece. As ever, there are some ties to report as our voting body is quite small, with Supporting Actress and Costume Design the tightest races of the lot. Sentimental Value and The Secret Agent fans will also have reason to rejoice, with each flick scoring three prizes. Indeed, half of our winners come from international cinema...

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Sunday
Mar152026

Split Decision: "Weapons"

In the Split Decision series, our writers pair up and face off on an Oscar-nominated movie one loves and the other doesn't or has mixed feelings about. Tonight, JUAN CARLOS and NATHANIEL  discuss  Weapons.

WEAPONS © Warner Bros

JUAN CARLOS: Hi, Nathaniel! The last time we did a Split Decision together was for Killers of the Flower Moon. Also about the horrors of American society, but we're now faced with a different kind of horror.

Where do we start? People thought Weapons was just part of the boom that the genre is experiencing right now (never out of style, by the way). There was considerable fanfare since the director's previous work was the cult hit Barbarian back in 2021. And lo and behold, a surprise hit on all accounts. Personally, it took me a while to convince myself to watch the film. Not the biggest fan of watching horror in cinemas (weird, but I do love the experience of watching horror films with my mom at home). But the advanced praise on Amy Madigan was enough for me to go to the cinemas. I thought she was phenomenal and am personally rooting for her to win the Oscar (in a solid lineup for Supporting Actress) and the film itself... hmmm.

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Saturday
Mar142026

98th Academy Awards: FINAL PREDICTIONS!

by Cláudio Alves

Ryan Coogler's SINNERS is the most Oscar-nominated film ever! But will it win the most awards at the 98th Academy Awards? ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER is tough competition.

The 98th Academy Awards are almost upon us, so, on this last day before the festivities, let’s put our pundit hats on and try to suss out whom AMPAS has picked. Nine Team Experience writers, including Nathaniel(!), have provided their best guesses, evidencing some interesting trends, some even more interesting conflicts. One of the big questions is who’ll reign supreme between the two Warner Bros. Best Picture frontrunners. Will it be the all-time nomination leader or the critical darling whose director has been due for ages already? Nat is betting on Sinners getting the biggest haul of the night, including Best Picture, while others, like Eric Blum and Juan Carlos Ojano, don’t even think the vampire flick will beat Frankenstein in sheer number of victories. Presently, I’m the only one predicting Sinners getting the most wins with One Battle After Another still taking Picture. Only time will tell who’s rightest among us. 

Without further ado, please venture, after the jump, to see the full prediction charts, plus some added commentary from the team…

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Friday
Mar132026

Split Decision: "Sinners"

In the Split Decision series, our writers pair up and face off on an Oscar-nominated movie one loves and the other doesn't. Tonight, LYNN LEE and NICK TAYLOR discuss Sinners.

NICK: Lynn, I think you’re one of the only people on this site - maybe in the entire world - whose opinion on Sinners I don’t know. The most nominated film in Oscar’s history deserves a volley before the big night! For my part, I think Ryan Coogler’s ambition is off the charts, and I genuinely can’t wait to see what he and his team are going to do with their blank check. The execution of that ambition, from plotting to formal execution, is very uneven to me, and I have a hard time reconciling what’s so exciting with what’s undernourished. But before I continue, please tell me what you think of Sinners!!

LYNN: Funny, I feel like I've been singing the praises of Sinners so much lately, I'm finding it difficult to avoid repeating myself!  It was my #1 movie of 2025, and I think it deserved many, if not most, of its Oscar nominations...

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