Oscar Night: The Complete List of Winners (with Trivia!)

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

MAKEUP AND HAIR - Frankenstein

CASTING - One Battle After Another

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 7th actor in history to win a third Oscar. The others in order of third wins: Walter Brennan (1940), Ingrid Bergman (1974), Jack Nicholson (1997), Meryl Streep (2011), Daniel Day Lewis (2012), 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. 

~ IN MEMORIAM BREAK ~

PRODUCTION DESIGN Frankenstein

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 and became 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 had first wins for the winning country (UK's The Zone of Interest, Brazil's I'm Still Here, and now Norway's Sentimental Value.

ACTOR Michael B Jordan, Sinners

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

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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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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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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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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