Key occasions
WINNER! ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER, BEST PICTURE
WINNER! JESSIE BUCKLEY, BEST ACTRESS
WINNER! MICHAEL B JORDAN, BEST ACTOR
WINNER! PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON, BEST DIRECTING
WINNER! GOLDEN, BEST ORIGINAL SONG
WINNER! SENTIMENTAL VALUE, BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE
WINNER! SINNERS, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
WINNER! ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER, BEST EDITING
WINNER! F1, BEST SOUND
WINNER! SINNERS, BEST SCORE
WINNER! MR NOBODY AGAINST PUTIN, BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE FILM
WINNER! ALL THE EMPTY ROOMS, BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM
WINNER! AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH, BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
WINNER! FRANKENSTEIN, BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
WINNER! SINNERS, BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
WINNER! ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER, BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
WINNER! SEAN PENN, BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
WINNER! TWO PEOPLE EXCHANGING SALIVA, (ALSO) BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM
WINNER! THE SINGERS, BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM
WINNER! CASSANDRA KULUKUNDIS, BEST CASTING
WINNER! FRANKENSTEIN, BEST MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
WINNER! FRANKENSTEIN, BEST COSTUME DESIGN
WINNER! THE GIRL WHO CRIED PEARLS, BEST ANIMATED SHORT
WINNER! KPOP DEMON HUNTERS, BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
WINNER! AMY MADIGAN, BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
The ceremony begins
And the Oscar goes to … you! And us!
Lauren Cochrane
If trend made textbooks, this image of Vicky Krieps in Bottega Veneta is likely to be used for instance of how black clothes look nice on the crimson carpet.
It’s nonetheless most likely the most typical color that Oscar-goers put on – from males’s tuxedos to girls’s LBDs, black has been greater than the default at factors. See girls carrying black to stand for #MeToo in 2018, or Billy Porter’s gender non-conforming black robe a 12 months later. It additionally means one thing when they’re a default. For the primary Baftas post-Covid in 2021, stars stuck to black as an emblem of security whereas final 12 months, the ceremony noticed a special type of black: one which brought out celebrities’ goth side.
Judging by stars like Krieps and Amelia Dimoldenberg, to this point the color this 12 months is giving traditional with one thing a bit attention-grabbing. Let’s see the way it develops as extra attendees hit the crimson carpet.
Stuart Heritage
Meanwhile, Peter Bradshaw’s crimson carpet whirlwind continues apace. It pleases me no finish to announce that he has situated Ken Jeong from The Masked Singer. “I can sort of go home now,” he writes on Instagram. Nice strive, Peter, but when we’ve bought to cowl the entire ceremony then you have got, too.
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Stuart Heritage
I don’t know in case you’re following the AP crimson carpet feed however, if you’re, you’re lacking a few of the most frenzied commenting I’ve ever seen. I’ve change into significantly enamoured with the YouTube consumer who has spent the final 25 minutes typing “WHERE IS JAVIER BARDEM?” into the chatbox each few seconds. I really pray that Javier Bardem turns up sooner or later, in any other case this poor idiot goes to have an aneurism.
Stuart Heritage
One factor that Conan O’Brien will nearly definitely handle in his monologue later is the marginally berserk furore that Timothée Chalamet blundered into when he informed Matthew McConaughey that individuals don’t care about ballet and opera. The din attributable to the ballet and opera communities getting their knickers in a twist has been so colossal that this weekend even Steven Spielberg waded in.
Speaking about his new film Disclosure Day, Spielberg mentioned that he nonetheless made movies with the collective viewers in thoughts. “We are all united with a whole bunch of feelings that we walk into the daylight with, or into the night-time with,” he mentioned. “And there’s nothing like that. It happens in movies, and in concerts, and it happens in ballet and opera, by the way.”
Which is a comparatively sick burn, and it most likely implies that Chalamet most likely shouldn’t get his hopes up about touchdown a job within the subsequent Jaws film. But it additionally speaks to how fortunately Chalamet has allowed himself to change into the villain of this 12 months’s awards season. If he wins finest actor later, there’s a non-zero % probability that he’ll even be booed. And opera singers can actually boo from the diaphragm.
Lauren Cochrane
A uncommon sighting of pastels on the crimson carpet. This Louis Vuitton robe, with layers and layers of parma violet frills, is equal components candy and scene stealer. Much like Chase Infiniti, the girl who wears it.
Morwenna Ferrier
Sentimental Value’s Renate Reinsve has been dialling up the glamour since she began the marketing campaign path. Here she is in a structually inflexible strapless Louis Vuitton costume with what’s technically generally known as a mega-slit. I fear about that prepare on the rostrum ought to she win however she nonetheless appears to be like superb.
It’s value declaring right here that her stylist is Danielle Goldberg.
As my colleague Chloe Mac Donnell writes: “You might not know her name but you will know her work. She’s the stylist who has put Greta Lee in that Dior bow dress, Ayo Edibiri in Chanel’s turn-up jeans before they’d even appeared on the catwalk and Saoirse Ronan in a teeny, tiny electric blue JW Anderson shift dress.
Goldberg has the power to shape a celebrity’s style so that it transcends the red carpet. Her clients go on to secure lucrative brand deals, become fixtures on best dressed lists and influence the high street.
Goldberg’s minimalism is the antidote to method dressing. She lets her clients carve out and develop a quieter more personal style. It’s polished but not try-hard. It sounds easy but it’s no mean feat in Hollywood to ensure an A-lister doesn’t look like the clothes are wearing them.”
Expect to see extra Goldberg girlies on the crimson carpet shortly …
Chloe Mac Donnell
We’re nonetheless early on the crimson carpet however there’s already a development – with attendees carrying political pins. Hamnet costume designer Malgosia Turzanska wore an ICE Out pin on a security pin costume, whereas producer Elizabeth Woodward and actor Saja Kilani each had “Artists4Ceasefire”.
This isn’t the primary time Hollywood has worn pins to attract consideration to points – with HIV/Aids ribbons, anti-war badges and girls’s rights showing on the crimson carpet over time.
2026 follows on from final 12 months – when Billie Eilish and Mark Ruffalo wore red pins calling for a right away and everlasting ceasefire in Gaza. At this 12 months’s Golden Globes and Grammy awards, “ICE Out” and “Be Good” pins were widely worn as a part of the condemnation of actions of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Is it drawing consideration to those points in a method that broadcasts them to the world, or advantage signalling? You determine.
Lauren Cochrane
HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA – MARCH 15: Rose Byrne attends the 98th Oscars at Dolby Theatre on March 15, 2026 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Mike Coppola/Getty Images) Photograph: Mike Coppola/Getty Images
Old Hollywood is such a hackneyed reference – however Rose Byrne in a costume by JW Anderson’s Dior manages to make it look, effectively, fairly beautiful actually. The key to updating the traditional to 2026? Bright crimson, barely clashing, lipstick.
Lauren Cochrane
Who doesn’t need to go to the Oscars in leather-based dungarees and a polka dot shirt? Blues singer Buddy Guy – who performs on the finish of Sinners – is giving us outfit inspo. Let’s hope the remainder of the crimson carpet brings extra attendees having this a lot enjoyable with their outfits.
Lauren Cochrane
Amelia Dimoldenberg’s model of comedy is usually described as awkward – so it is sensible her crimson carpet pose has a bit of that high quality. Otherwise, a black strapless Ralph Lauren robe with peplum and a string of sparkles is pure blue chip magnificence.
