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Free Palestine and ICE out: how this year’s Oscars got political

As One Battle After Another swept, Paul Thomas Anderson, Javier Bardem and Conan O’Brien gave a welcome reality check to the glitzy ceremony

Conan’s bits, O’Connell’s fangs and Jafar Panahi unimpressed: Oscars 2026 viral moments

In a year that largely stuck to script, host O’Brien’s antics and the It Was Just an Accident director’s stare at Kevin O’Leary got the internet talking

Warner Bros wins a record 11 Oscars as One Battle After Another and Sinners dominate awards

Film studio – currently in acquisition talks with Paramount – earned 11 awards thanks to films by Ryan Coogler and Paul Thomas Anderson

Diane Warren becomes record-holder for longest Oscars losing streak with 17 nominations and no wins

Songwriter first nominated for ballad Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now in 1987 and is beaten this year by K-Pop Demon Hunters’ Golden

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

Jessie Buckley becomes first Irish winner of best actress Oscar for Hamnet

Buckley, who plays Shakespeare’s wife Agnes in adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s novel, was favourite to win after victories in all preceding ceremonies

Michael B Jordan wins best actor Oscar for Sinners

Jordan is the sixth black actor to take the award – and the first person to take the prize for portraying twins

Paul Thomas Anderson wins best director Oscar for One Battle After Another

Anderson wins for film starring Leonardo DiCaprio as an ex-revolutionary, taking Oscar in this category for the first time

Golden from KPop Demon Hunters wins Oscar for best original song

Victory for South Korean sensation is film’s second of the evening, after best animated feature

Sentimental Value becomes first Norwegian film to win best international feature Oscar

Joachim Trier’s family saga is about a film director estranged from his adult daughters

Sinners’ Autumn Durald Arkapaw becomes first woman – and first black person – to win best cinematography Oscar

Cinematographer asks all the women in the room to rise as she thanks cast, crew and her family

Mr Nobody Against Putin wins the best documentary Oscar

Primary school teacher Pavel Talankin’s record of the indoctrination of his pupils to support Russia’s invasion of Ukraine beats contenders

Barbra Streisand pays tribute to Robert Redford at the Oscars: ‘He blazed his own trail’

The actor and singer remembered her co-star in 1973’s The Way We Were, who died in September

‘What fun we had storming the castle’: Billy Crystal pays tribute to Rob Reiner at the Oscars

The star of When Harry Met Sally, one of Reiner’s most enduring movies, honoured the director and his wife

Rachel McAdams pays tribute to late Diane Keaton at the Oscars: ‘A legend with no end’

Much-loved actor, who died in October aged 79, remembered in emotional segment at the 98th Academy Awards

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