98th Academy Awards · March 15, 2026 · Dolby Theatre
Inside the 98th Academy Awards
24 categories · 1 unforgettable night
The Big Winners
Six major categories — flip each card to see who took home the gold
History Made Tonight
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Only the 6th Black actor ever to win Best Actor. He joins Sidney Poitier (1963), Denzel Washington (2001), Jamie Foxx (2004), Forest Whitaker (2006), and Will Smith (2022).
The first woman in Oscar history to win Best Cinematography — for Sinners. Her shadowy, blues-drenched work redefined how horror can look.
The inaugural Best Casting Oscar was awarded to Cassandra Kulukundis for One Battle After Another. A long-overdue category finally recognized.
The first K-pop themed film to win Best Animated Feature, cementing Korean popular culture's conquest of global cinema.
Ryan Coogler's horror epic received 16 nominations — the most in Academy Awards history — and converted 4 into wins.
The Scorecard
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Deep Dive
The story behind the night's most talked-about film
Set in 1932 Mississippi Delta, Sinners follows twin brothers — both played by Michael B. Jordan — who return home from Chicago to start a new life, only to encounter a terrifying supernatural evil rooted in the Jim Crow South. Blues music pulses through every frame as the brothers navigate racism, violence, and vampiric horror in a story that fuses American history with visceral genre filmmaking.
Sinners marks the sixth collaboration between Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan — a creative partnership that began with Fruitvale Station (2013) and produced Creed (2015) and Black Panther (2018). With this film, they've achieved their most personal, most daring, and now most decorated work together.
All 24 Categories
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The Big Five
Screenplay
Animated · International · Documentary
Craft & Technical
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Short Films
By the Numbers
The 98th ceremony at a glance