Did Any British Stars Win An Oscar In 2026? Everything To Know

The Oscars took over Los Angeles last night, featuring glamorous outfits, an exorbitant goodie bag for select attendees and, of course, trophies galore.

Officially known as the Academy Award of Merit, 45 Oscar statuettes were handed out last night as the 10,136 voting members of the United States’ Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences gave their verdict on the best actors, directors and technical filmmakers at its 98th annual awards, usually known simply as the Oscars.

Below we’ve got the full list of winners. But first: did any Brits take home a trophy?

Oscars 2026: Winners, Nominees & British Showing

Michael B. Jordan poses backstage with the Oscar® for Actor in a Leading Role during the 98th Oscars® at Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday, March 15, 2026.

The Headlines

This year, 317 feature films were eligible for an Academy Award across 24 categories, whittled down to 35 actually nominated by the Academy’s 10,136 voting members. Likewise 202 films were eligible for Best Picture, reduced to just 10.

When the nomination were announced in January, Ryan Coogler’s Sinners not only led the pack but broke records with its 16 nominations – the most of any film in Oscars history. But on the big night this boiled down to just four wins, with the vampire horror flick edged out by Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another with six wins from its 13 nominations.

PTA bagged Best Picture and Best Director for the political thriller for the very first time, despite being considered one of Hollywood’s greatest directors. Accepting Best Director, he joked: ‘You make a guy work hard for one of these. I really appreciate it.’

Paul Thomas Anderson, Sarah Murphy, Anthony Carlino, Will Weiske, Andy Jurgensen, Teyana Taylor, Michael Bauman, Cassandra Kulukundis, Regina Hall, Shayna McHale aka Junglepussy, Leonardo DiCaprio, Chase Infiniti and Benicio del Toro accept the Oscar® for Best Picture during the 98th Oscars® at the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday, March 15, 2026.

Sinners did get a look in in the form of Michael B Jordan’s Best Actor win, while Jessie Buckley took Best Actress for her searing performance in Hamnet. Jordan is only the sixth Black actor to win the prize, while Buckley is the first Irish woman to take home Best Actress. It’s the first Oscar for both, after Buckley missed out on Best Supporting Actress for The Lost Daughter in 2022.

Upon his win, Jordan, who is also the first star to win an Oscar for portraying twins, declared, ‘God is good,’ adding: ‘I stand here because of the people that came before me: Sidney Poitier, Denzel Washington, Halle Berry, Jamie Foxx, Forest Whitaker, Will Smith. To be amongst those giants, amongst those greats, amongst my ancestors, amongst my guys… Thank you.’

Jessie Buckley and Michael B. Jordan backstage with the Oscar® for Actress in a Leading Role during the 98th Oscars® at Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday, March 15, 2026.

This left Timothée Chalamet empty handed despite a commendable press run for Marty Supreme. Regardless, following Best Actor nominations for Call Me By Your Name and A Complete Unknown, Chalamet remains the youngest star to be nominated thrice in the Best Actor category.

Internationally, it was a surprise win for Norway’s Joachim Trier, who bagged Best International Feature for Sentimental Value, which entered the night with nine nominations. The film beat out Brazil’s entry, The Secret Agent, which missed out on wins from all four of its nominations.

Joachim Trier accepts the Oscar® for International Feature Film during the 98th Oscars® at the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday, March 15, 2026 with Andrea Berentsen Ottmar, Stellan Skarsgård, Maria Ekerhovd, Elle Fanning, Eskil Vogt, Anders Danielsen Lie, Renate Reinsve, Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, and Olivier Bugge Coutté.

Accepting the prize, the director said, ‘I’m just a film nerd from Norway. Thank you so much. Honestly, this means the world to me.’ He added: ‘Because I’m in this category, I feel I represent global filmmakers. In a moment like this, I want to recognize the wonderful films we were nominated together with. Important, beautiful films that reflect our present crisis and the crisis of the past. And I want to end by  paraphrasing the wonderful American writer James Baldwin, who makes us remember that all adults are responsible for all children. Let’s not vote for politicians who don’t take this seriously into account.’

Jessie Buckley poses backstage with the Oscar® for Actress in a Leading Role during the 98th Oscars® at Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday, March 15, 2026.

British Winners At The 2026 Oscars

Brits have always played a sizeable role in the film industry, on and off camera, and in recent years film production here has really spiked. So of course when the Oscar nominations roll in, our minds immediately flit to celebrating homegrown talent. But we have to say, we’ve had better years than 2026… Here’s the rundown.

Firstly it’s an honourable mention to Irishwoman Jessie Buckley who made her name on British TV and walked home with the Oscar for Best Actress last night, thanks to her performance as a grieving mother in Hamnet. She is the first Irish star to ever win the prize. It being Mother’s Day back home in the UK, Buckley took the opportunity of her win to thank the ‘incredible women that I stand beside’, dedicating the prize ‘to the beautiful chaos of a mother’s heart’. ‘We all come from a lineage of women who continue to create against all odds,’ the star added.

Speaking of Hamnet, the British-made film was also up for Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay, but missed out to One Battle After Another on both fronts.

Elsewhere in the acting categories, Brits Delroy Lindo and Wunmi Mosaku were both nominated for their supporting roles in Sinners, but sadly both missed out.

In a new-for-2026 category, British casting director Nina Gold was nominated for Best Casting for Hamnet, but again One Battle After Another clinched that trophy. Hamnet‘s set decorator Alice Felton was also up for Best Production Design, but Frankenstein won that one.

British composer Jerskin Fendrix was nominated for Best Original Score for his work on Bugonia, going head-to-head with German-British composer Max Richter for his work on Hamnet and Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood for his work on One Battle After Another – alas Swedish musician Ludwig Göransson won for Sinners. Brit Daniel Blumberg took this prize home last year for his score of The Brutalist.

Lee Knight’s short comedy-drama A Friend of Dorothy – starring Miriam Margolyes and Stephen Fry – was up for Best Live Action Short Film, but again missed out.

Norwegian director Joachim Trier bagged his first Oscar with Sentimental Value. (Stellan Skarsgård & Renate Reinsve in Sentimental Value © Mubi)

The Nominees In Full

Best Picture

• Bugonia (Focus Features)
• F1 (Apple)
• Frankenstein (Netflix)
• Hamnet (Focus Features)
• Marty Supreme (A24)
• One Battle after Another (Warner Bros.) – WINNER
• The Secret Agent (Neon)
• Sentimental Value (Neon)
• Sinners (Warner Bros.)
• Train Dreams (Netflix)

Best Actor

• Timothée Chalamet in Marty Supreme (A24)
• Leonardo DiCaprio in One Battle after Another (Warner Bros.)
• Ethan Hawke in Blue Moon (Sony Pictures Classics)
• Michael B. Jordan in Sinners (Warner Bros.) – WINNER
• Wagner Moura in The Secret Agent (Neon)

Best Actress

• Jessie Buckley in Hamnet (Focus Features) – WINNER
• Rose Byrne in If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (A24)
• Kate Hudson in Song Sung Blue (Focus Features)
• Renate Reinsve in Sentimental Value (Neon)
• Emma Stone in Bugonia (Focus Features)

Timothee Chalamet is officially the youngest star to be nominated for Best Actor thrice. (Chalamet in Marty Supreme)

Best Director

• Chloé Zhao, Hamnet (Focus Features)
• Josh Safdie, Marty Supreme (A24)
• Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle after Another (Warner Bros.) – WINNER
• Joachim Trier, Sentimental Value (Neon)
• Ryan Coogler, Sinners (Warner Bros.)

Best Supporting Actor

• Benicio Del Toro in One Battle after Another (Warner Bros.)
• Jacob Elordi in Frankenstein (Netflix)
• Delroy Lindo in Sinners (Warner Bros.)
• Sean Penn in One Battle after Another (Warner Bros.) – WINNER
• Stellan Skarsgård in Sentimental Value (Neon)

Best Supporting Actress

• Elle Fanning in Sentimental Value (Neon)
• Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas in Sentimental Value (Neon)
• Amy Madigan in Weapons (Warner Bros.) – WINNER
• Wunmi Mosaku in Sinners (Warner Bros.)
• Teyana Taylor in One Battle after Another (Warner Bros.)

Jessie Buckley bags her first Best Actress win for her role as Agnes in Hamnet. (© Agata Grzybowska/2025 FOCUS FEATURES LLC)

Best International Feature Film

• The Secret Agent (Brazil)
• It Was Just an Accident (France)
• Sentimental Value (Norway) – WINNER
• Sirāt (Spain)
• The Voice of Hind Rajab (Tunisia)

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Bugonia (Focus Features)
• Frankenstein (Netflix)
• Hamnet (Focus Features)
• One Battle after Another (Warner Bros.) – WINNER
• Train Dreams (Netflix)

Best Original Screenplay

• Blue Moon (Sony Pictures Classics)
• It Was Just an Accident (Neon)
• Marty Supreme (A24)
• Sentimental Value (Neon)
• Sinners (Warner Bros.) – WINNER

Jacob Elordi secured his very first Oscar nomination for his role as The Creature in Frankenstein, but missed out on the win. (Ken Woroner/Netflix © 2025)

Best Cinematography

• Dan Laustsen for Frankenstein (Netflix)
• Darius Khondji for Marty Supreme (A24)
• Michael Bauman for One Battle after Another (Warner Bros.)
• Autumn Durald Arkapaw for Sinners (Warner Bros.) – WINNER
• Adolpho Veloso for Train Dreams (Netflix)

Best Casting

• Nina Gold for Hamnet (Focus Features)
• Jennifer Venditti for Marty Supreme (A24)
• Cassandra Kulukundis for One Battle after Another (Warner Bros.) – WINNER
• Gabriel Domingues for The Secret Agent (Neon)
• Francine Maisler for Sinners (Warner Bros.)

Best Documentary

• The Alabama Solution (HBO Documentary Films)
• Come See Me in the Good Light (Apple)
• Cutting through Rocks
• Mr. Nobody against Putin (PINK) – WINNER
• The Perfect Neighbour (Netflix)

Yorgos Lanthimos’ quirky Bugonia bagged four nominations. (Jesse Plemons as Teddy Gatz in BUGONIA. © Focus Features)

Best Documentary Short Film

• All the Empty Rooms (Netflix) – WINNER
• Armed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud (HBO)
• Children No More: “Were and Are Gone” (Sky)
• The Devil is Busy (HBO)
• Perfectly a Strangeness (Second Sight Pictures)

Best Animated Feature

• Arco (Neon)
• Elio (Walt Disney)
• KPop Demon Hunters (Netflix) – WINNER
• Little Amélie or the Character of Rain (GKIDS)
• Zootopia 2 (Walt Disney)

Best Animated Short Film

• Butterfly (Sacrebleu Productions)
• Forevergreen
• The Girl Who Cried Pearls (National Film Board of Canada) – WINNER
• Retirement Plan
• The Three Sisters (Polydont Films/Rymanco Ventures)

Apple TV’s F1 movie had four nominations, including Best Picture. (Brad Pitt as Sonny Hayes and Javier Bardem as Ruben Cervantes in F1 © Apple TV)

Best Live Action Short Film

• Butcher’s Stain (Tel Aviv University Steve Tisch School of Film and Television)
• A Friend of Dorothy
• Jane Austen’s Period Drama
• The Singers (Netflix) – JOINT WINNER
• Two People Exchanging Saliva (Canal+/The New Yorker) – JOINT WINNER

Best Costume Design

• Deborah L. Scott for Avatar: Fire and Ash (Walt Disney)
• Kate Hawley for Frankenstein (Netflix) – WINNER
• Malgosia Turzanska for Hamnet (Focus Features)
• Miyako Bellizzi for Marty Supreme (A24)
• Ruth E. Carter for Sinners (Warner Bros.)

Best Makeup & Hairstyling

• Mike Hill, Jordan Samuel & Cliona Furey for Frankenstein  (Netflix) – WINNER
• Kyoko Toyokawa, Naomi Hibino & Tadashi Nishimatsu for Kokuho (GKIDS)
• Ken Diaz, Mike Fontaine & Shunika Terry for Sinners (Warner Bros.)
• Kazu Hiro, Glen Griffin & Bjoern Rehbein for The Smashing Machine (A24)
• Thomas Foldberg & Anne Cathrine Sauerberg for The Ugly Stepsister (Independent Film Company/Shudder)

One Battle After Another bagged Best Picture and Best Director but Leonardo DiCaprio missed out on Best Actor. (© Warner Bros. Pictures)

Best Editing

• Stephen Mirrione for F1 (Apple)
• Ronald Bronstein & Josh Safdie for Marty Supreme (A24)
• Andy Jurgensen for One Battle after Another (Warner Bros.) – WINNER
• Olivier Bugge Coutté for Sentimental Value (Neon)
• Michael P. Shawver for Sinners (Warner Bros.)

Best Original Song

• ‘Dear Me’ from Diane Warren: Relentless (MasterClass/ Greenwich Entertainment)
• ‘Golden’ from KPop Demon Hunters (Netflix) – WINNER
• ‘I Lied to You’ from Sinners
• ‘Sweet Dreams of Joy’ from Viva Verdi!
• ‘Train Dreams’ from Train Dreams

Best Original Score

• Jerskin Fendrix for Bugonia (Focus Features)
• Alexandre Desplat for Frankenstein (Netflix)
• Max Richter for Hamnet (Focus Features)
• Jonny Greenwood for One Battle after Another (Warner Bros.)
• Ludwig Goransson for Sinners (Warner Bros.) – WINNER

Netflix’s Train Dreams bagged four nominations, the most of any of its original films this year, but no wins. (Joel Edgerton as Robert Grainier in Train Dreams © 2025)

Best Production Design

• Tamara Deverell & Shane Vieau for Frankenstein (Netflix) – WINNER
• Fiona Crombie & Alice Felton for Hamnet
• Jack Fisk & Adam Willis for Marty Supreme (A24)
• Florencia Martin & Anthony Carlino for One Battle after Another (Warner Bros.)
• Hannah Beachler & Monique Champagne for Sinners (Warner Bros.)

Best Sound

• F1 (Apple) – WINNER
• Frankenstein (Netflix)
• One Battle after Another (Warner Bros.)
• Sinners (Warner Bros.)
• Sirāt (Neon)

Best Visual Effects

• Avatar: Fire and Ash (Walt Disney) – WINNER
• F1 (Apple)
• Jurassic World Rebirth (Universal)
• The Lost Bus (Apple)
• Sinners (Warner Bros.)

Nigerian-British star Wunmi Mosaku, who rose to fame in ITV’s Vera, was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Sinners. (© Warner Bros)

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