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Jessie Buckley makes history and all the winners from the 98th Academy AwardsJessie Buckley makes history and all the winners from the 98th Academy Awards
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Jessie Buckley makes history and all the winners from the 98th Academy Awards


by Sarah Gill
16th Mar 2026

Jessie Buckley makes history in becoming the first Irish actor to win an Academy Award in the category of Best Actress! One Battle After Another takes home a total of six Oscars, with Sinners scooping four.

“I would like to dedicate this to the beautiful chaos of a mother’s heart,” Jessie Buckley says in her acceptance speech. “We all come from a lineage of women who continue to create against all odds.”

Killarney’s very own Jessie Buckley has scooped the Best Actress statuette at the 98th Academy Awards! Another Irish win came in the form of Richard Baneham’s Best Visual Effects award, which brings the total number of Academy Award wins he’s got under his belt to three.

“First and foremost, thank you to our families,” Richie Baneham says during his acceptance speech. “There are 2,200 artists. This is a massive, massive collaboration on the VFX side. We also overlap with everybody on the movie. So, to all our families, it’s like, this is everything. Truly, truly everything. Jim Cameron. Go raibh mile maith agat. He literally informs every frame of the movie and I think has a big part of the effects.”

One Battle After Another made quite a splash throughout the evening, winning across six categories including Best Picture and a brand new category this year, Best Casting. Paul Thomas Anderson won for Best Directing, Sean Penn won for Best Supporting Actor, and they were also awarded Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Film Editing.

Sinners won Best Original Score and Best Original Screenplay, Michael B Jordan took home the title of Best Actor, and Autumn Durald Arkapaw won for Best Cinematography, becoming the first woman of colour to achieve this merit.

Elsewhere, highlights from the ceremony included the first Oscars tie in ten years as The Singers and Two People Exchanging Saliva were named as joint winners of Best Live Action Short Film. ‘Golden’ from KPop Demon Hunters became the first K-Pop song to win Best Original Song.

Find the full list of winners below.

Best picture

WINNER: One Battle After Another

Bugonia
F1
Frankenstein
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
The Secret Agent
Sentimental Value
Sinners
Train Dreams

Best directing

WINNER: Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another

Chloé Zhao, Hamnet
Josh Safdie, Marty Supreme
Joachim Trier, Sentimental Value
Ryan Coogler, Sinners

Best actress

WINNER: Jessie Buckley, Hamnet

Rose Byrne, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
Kate Hudson, Song Sung Blue
Renate Reinsve, Sentimental Value
Emma Stone, Bugonia

Best actor

WINNER: Michael B Jordan, Sinners

Timothée Chalamet, Marty Supreme
Leonardo DiCaprio, One Battle After Another
Ethan Hawke, Blue Moon
Wagner Moura, The Secret Agent

Best supporting actor

WINNER: Sean Penn, One Battle After Another

Benicio del Toro, One Battle After Another
Jacob Elordi, Frankenstein
Delroy Lindo, Sinners
Stellan Skarsgård, Sentimental Value

Best supporting actress

WINNER: Amy Madigan, Weapons

Elle Fanning, Sentimental Value
Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Sentimental Value
Wunmi Mosaku, Sinners
Teyana Taylor, One Battle After Another

Best original screenplay

WINNER: Sinners

Blue Moon
It Was Just an Accident
Marty Supreme
Sentimental Value

Best adapted screenplay

WINNER: One Battle After Another

Bugonia
Frankenstein
Hamnet
Train Dreams

Best animated feature film

WINNER: KPop Demon Hunters

Arco
Elio
Little Amélie or The Character of Rain
Zootopia 2

Best international feature film

WINNER: Sentimental Value

The Secret Agent
It Was Just an Accident
Sirât
The Voice of Hind Rajab

Best documentary feature film

WINNER: Mr Nobody Against Putin

The Alabama Solution
Come See Me in the Good Light
Cutting Through Rocks
The Perfect Neighbor

Best documentary short film

WINNER: All the Empty Rooms

Armed Only With a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud
Children No More: Were and Are Gone
The Devil Is Busy
Perfectly a Strangeness

Best animated short film

WINNER: The Girl Who Cried Pearls

Butterfly
Forevergreen
Retirement Plan
The Three Sisters

Best live action short film

WINNERS: The Singers AND Two People Exchanging Saliva

Butcher’s Stain
A Friend of Dorothy
Jane Austen’s Period Drama

Best casting

WINNER: One Battle After Another, Cassandra Kulukundis

Hamnet
Marty Supreme
The Secret Agent
Sinners

Best cinematography

WINNER: Sinners, Autumn Durald Arkapaw 

Frankenstein
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
Train Dreams

Best costume design

WINNER: Frankenstein, Kate Hawley

Avatar: Fire and Ash
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
Sinners

Best film editing

WINNER: One Battle After Another, Andy Jurgensen

F1
Marty Supreme
Sentimental Value
Sinners

Best make-up and hairstyling

WINNER: Frankenstein

Kokuho
Sinners
The Smashing Machine
The Ugly Stepsister

Best production design

WINNER: Frankenstein  

Hamnet
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
Sinners

Best original score

WINNER: Sinners

Bugonia
Frankenstein
Hamnet
One Battle After Another

Best original song

WINNER: Golden, KPop Demon Hunters

Dear Me, Diane Warren: Relentless
I Lied To You, Sinners
Sweet Dreams of Joy, Viva Verdi!
Train Dreams, Train Dreams

Best sound

WINNER: F1

Frankenstein
One Battle After Another
Sinners
Sirât

Best visual effects

WINNER: Avatar: Fire and Ash

F1
Jurassic World Rebirth
The Lost Bus
Sinners