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Oscars 2026: Best Picture victor One Battle After Another leads winners list

One Battle After Another won the coveted Best Picture Academy Award at Sunday's (15.03.26) ceremony, taking its total of wins for the night to six.

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Wins for best make up and sound spare UK’s blushes at Oscars

British performers have now failed to win any of the acting Oscars in every year from 2022 to 2026.

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One Battle After Another sweeps the Oscars as Michael B Jordan and Jessie Buckley win big

Paul Thomas Anderson’s revolutionary epic took home six awards while Sinners scored four including for best actor

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Michael B Jordan pays tribute to other black winners in emotional Oscar speech

He won the gong for Sinners.

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British actors face longest Oscars drought this century after awards snub

Both Delroy Lindon and Wunmi Mosaku missed out on their respective awards at Sunday’s ceremony

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Sean Penn Wasn't At The Academy Awards, But His Oscar Win Still Made History

The One Battle After Another star joined three other actors with a prestigious record

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Kieran Culkin calls out Sean Penn for snubbing Oscars after Best Supporting Actor win

Last year’s winner made subtle dig at expense of ‘One Battle After Another’ star

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Sean Penn bags third Oscar but skips ceremony

He was named best supporting actor for One Battle After Another.

Evening Standard

Why wasn’t Sean Penn at the Oscars?

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Sean Penn won Best Supporting Actor at the 2026 Oscars and, unsurprisingly, didn't turn up

Kieran Culkin humorously accepted the award on Penn's behalf

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Sean Penn wins best supporting actor Oscar for ‘One Battle After Another’

Sean Penn has won best supporting actor Oscar for “One Battle After Another.”

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Cassandra Kulukundis wins inaugural casting Oscar, for ‘One Battle After Another’

“One Battle After Another” has claimed the first-ever Oscar recognizing casting, with the award going to casting director Cassandra Kulukundis

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Sean Penn wins best supporting actor Oscar for One Battle After Another

With this, his third Oscar – he won best actor for Mystic River in 2004 and Milk in 2009 – Penn joins an elite band of triple winners, including Daniel Day-Lewis and Jack Nicholson

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Oscars 2026: All the Winners

The 2026 Oscars had it all, glory, surprises, and more than a few faces that seemed to say, "Wait, what just happened?" Although Sinners came in as the most nominated film of the night, it ultimately did not become the ceremony's undisputed winner. That title went to One Battle After…

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My Apologies To Sean Penn, But How Is Paul Mescal Not Attracting More Oscars Notice For Hamnet?

It was not to be.

Evening Standard

The Oscars: who should win, and who will win?

With Hamnet, Sinners, One Battle After Another and more in the race, here’s who we think will walk away with the statuette

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Oscars 2026: 'One Battle After Another' or 'Sinners'? Euronews Culture’s full Oscar predictions

Who will take home the biggest awards of the night on Sunday and which film will nab Best Picture? Here are Euronews Culture's full predictions.

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CinemaBlend Predicted The Major Oscar Categories, And We're Not On The Same Page In A Few Categories

What will happen on Sunday night at the Oscars? Here’s what we think.

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Oscars 2026: The records ready (and likely) to be broken at the 98th Academy Awards

Only a few more days before awards season comes to a close... Euronews Culture looks at some of the potential record-breaking moments that could make the 2026 Oscars one for the history books.

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Oscars to feature musical performances from Sinners and Kpop Demon Hunters at Sunday’s ceremony

A star-studded line-up featuring Josh Groban and Misty Copeland has been confirmed for Sunday’s ceremony

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Gus Van Sant: ‘My assistant wanted to erect a statue of Luigi Mangione. My generation thought: this is murder’

The Milk and Good Will Hunting director’s new film is about ‘a little guy’ taking violent revenge against the system. He talks about the parallels between Dead Man’s Wire and the homicide case currently dividing Gen Z and boomers

The Independent UK

Opera, cats and other controversies: Can a public backlash really hurt Oscar chances?

OSCARS 2026: Academy Award nominees Timothée Chalamet and Jessie Buckley have both sparked social media storms with recent public comments. Kevin E G Perry looks back at Oscars history to examine whether this could affect their chances of winning

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Oscars 2026: Who will win, who should win, and who shoulda had a look-in

OSCARS 2026: Are we set for a ‘Sinners’ sweep? Or is ‘One Battle After Another’ going to win the war? Has Jessie Buckley’s anti-cat crusade ruined her chances? Or have we all been thinking about the Oscars too long? Adam White predicts who will reign supreme in the show’s major…

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Who will win at the Oscars? AP’s film writers make their predictions

The Oscar race has tightened after surprise wins at the Actor Awards, and Associated Press Film Writers Lindsey Bahr and Jake Coyle say the top prizes now look less settled

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SAG Actor Awards 2026: 'Sinners' takes top prize - What does this mean for the Oscars?

The 32nd Annual Actor Awards – formerly SAG Awards - took place on Sunday in Los Angeles and saw ‘Sinners’ win big and confirm its momentum two weeks prior to the Oscars. Here’s everything you need to know.

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