Jack Grey
Live reporter

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It's just about to hit 03:30 in LA, where the Oscars after parties are just getting going.

It's been a year of firsts, including first ever female best cinematographer, first awarding of a casting Oscar and first Irish best actress winner.

The big winner was One Battle After Another and its director Paul Thomas Anderson, with the film winning six awards and Anderson bagging three of them.

Sinners entered this year's Oscars with a record-breaking number of nominations, 16, and won four of them.

And, we saw the first tie since 2013, with best live action short being awarded jointly to The Singers and Two People Exchanging Saliva.

That's a wrap from us, but across the BBC we've got the fashion, winners and unseen moments recapped, and a full write up of the night.

In the words of Anderson: "What a night you guys, let's have a Martini."

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It’s the biggest speech in an actor’s career, the moment they’ve all run through in their heads more times than they’ll admit, so what did we hear at the 2026 Oscars acceptance speeches?

"I was in the shower last night trying to think of something to say when I was shaving my legs... but I have pants on so didn't need to worry about that," joked supporting actress winner Amy Madigan in the first speech of the night.

"As you can tell, I'm a little flummoxed," before paying tribute to her fellow nominees and her family including fellow actor husband Ed Harris before leaving the stage tearfully.

KPop Demon Hunters' winnerMaggie Kang apologised to "people that look like me" that it "took us so long to see us in a move like this".

"But it is here, and that means the next generations don't have to go longing, this is for Korea and Koreans everywhere."

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Jessie Buckley dedicated her win to the "beautiful chaos of a mother’s heart" during her acceptance for best actress.

Thanking the "incredible women I stand beside" - her fellow nominees - she said: "I am inspired by your heart and I want to work with every single one of you."

Michael B Jordan told the crowd that he was standing on the Oscars stage because of the "people that came before me".

"Sydney Poitier, Denzel Washington, Halle Berry, Jamie Fox, Forest Whittaker, Will Smith," he lists. "To be amongst those giants, amongst those greats… thank you everybody… I feel it."

In one of three speeches from Paul Thomas Anderson, this time for best film, he lists the 1975 best picture nominees, including Jaws, Dog Day Afternoon and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

"There is no best among them, there's just a mood that day. We're just happy to be part of this. So many great films this year," he said.

Steve Rosenberg
Russia editor

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The Oscars success for Mr Nobody Against Putin has received little coverage in the Russian media.

The documentary is Pavel Talankin’s record of his time as a primary school teacher in Russia and the indoctrination of pupils in support of Russia’s war on Ukraine.

Russian news outlet Kommersant did report that Mr Nobody Against Putin won best documentary but describes it simply as a film about “how the teaching process changed after the start of Russia’s military operation in Ukraine.”

Kommersant did, however, quote from Pavel Talankin’s Oscars acceptance speech:

"In the name of our future, in the name of all of our children, stop all of these wars now."

The RBK business news outlet mentioned it, too, but only as a film about “changes in a Russian school, since the start of the military operation in Ukraine.”

Ultra pro-Kremlin news outlet Komsomolskaya Pravda published what it referred to as "a full list of Oscar winners 2026."

But Mr Nobody Against Putin wasn’t in it.

The Kremlin had little to say about the Oscars success of Mr Nobody Against Putin.

"I couldn’t comment, because I haven’t seen the film," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists today. "First I’d need to know what it’s about."

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'This will change so many girls' lives' - Autumn Durald Arkapaw, the first woman to win best cinematographer at the Oscars, told us that "a lot of little girls that look like me will sleep really well tonight" following her win.

"This isn't about me anymore. This is about so much more, and I know that. And I wanted it for all the ladies in the room, and I wanted it for all the girls," she added.

More focus needed on Uncle James- Speaking to the BBC backstage, Sinners director Ryan Coogler says he hasn't spoken about his late Uncle James enough during the event.

"I'm so proud that he gave me the gift of his stories about Mississippi, that he played blues music for me and talked to me about it, and he continues to give me gifts from where he is now," he said.

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'I thought we were supposed to be partying' - Paul Thomas Anderson said when asked backstage about what One Battle After Another's best picture win could say about the sign of the times.

He did, however, go on to say there's a "certain amount of parallel" to his film and "what's happening in the world", and that he would like to "bring at least common sense and decency back into fashion".

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Jessie Buckley, the first Irish woman to win best actress at the Oscars, has delivered a message for those watching at home: "Don't go to bed. Keep partying. That's what I'm going to do."

The Hamnet star told RTE during the ceremony she was grateful for the support she had received, adding, "I feel the love, man. I feel it."

"I feel it from young people and old people, from women and men and from my family, and to be here tonight with all my family who've literally flown in from New Zealand and Australia and Kerry and Dublin, that makes it real.

"They're the people who built me and to share this moment with them and know that back home (they) are either drunk or staying up, I'm delighted for us all."

Nardine Saad
at the 98th Academy Awards in Hollywood

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Movie magic is at the heart of Tinseltown's biggest night, but not everything at the Oscars plays out on screen:

Beefed-up security

Authorities in Los Angeles enhanced this year's security due to the US and Israel's war in Iran. Preparations included layered security perimeters, traffic management plans, and a highly visible police presence throughout the Hollywood area.

A scramble following Oscars tie

The Academy Awards are nearly 100 years old but only a handful of times in that storied history has there been a tie for an award. This year marked the latest time with best short action film, which was awarded to both The Singers and Two People Exchanging Saliva, and there was a scramble as reporters made a beeline to get confirmation.

The rest of that KPop Demon Hunters speech

The Oscars are fairly famous for cutting off speeches when they go too long. During their speech, the musicians and songwriters behind Golden were cut off, so backstage, they got to share more of their thoughts you didn't hear on TV, including thanking their families, and singers Audry Nuna and Rei Ami.

• Read my full story on the moments that didn't make it on TV

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Chicken Shop Date's Amelia Dimoldenberg tells us she's worried that the weight of Paul Thomas Anderson's three Oscars may get in the way of his dancing ability at the after party.

Anderson's film One Battle After Another won six awards in total, but he was personally named as the winner of three: best picture, best director and best adapted screenplay.

"It's crazy that Paul Thomas Anderson hasn't won an Oscar before," she says on the Vanity Fair after party red carpet. "I'm really happy for him that he's got multiple now."

"But they are very heavy, so I don't know what it's going to be like dancing with those Oscars on the dancefloor," she adds.

Jack Grey
Live reporter

While the Vanity Fair after party continues, here's a look back at the 2026 Oscars:

The big winners

• One Battle After Another took home six Oscars including best picture and best director for Paul Thomas Anderson
• Michael B Jordan came out top in the best actor category for his performance in Ryan Coogler's Sinners

• Sinners, which entered the 98th Academy Awards as the most Oscar-nominated film in history - competing in 16 categories - won four: screenplay, score, actor and cinematography

Historic firsts

• Hamnet's Jessie Buckley became the first Irish woman to win a best actress Oscar
• Sinners' Autumn Durald Arkapaw made historyas the first woman to take home the cinematography award

"It's a tie, I'm not joking, it's actually a tie"

• These were the words of comedian Kumail Nanjiani announcing the winners of best short live action film.The Singers and Two People Exchanging Saliva received the same amount of votes, making the award a tie, for just the seventh time in Oscars history

Who missed out?

• Timothée Chalamet missed out on a win at this year's Oscars. He was fabulous in Marty Supreme, but what people are saying is that Academy voters have a history of making young male actors wait for their big moment, our culture editor writes

How to catch up across the BBC

• Winners list - in full
• All the moments you didn't see on TV
• Oscars red carpet: Stars and fashion in pictures

Colin Paterson
Entertainment Correspondent, reporting from the Oscars

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Mike Hill is part of the team which has just won best make-up and hairstyling for Frankenstein. Growing up in the north of England in the 1970s, watching black and white horror films on the BBC made him fall in love with monsters.

When I went to visit him in his Hollywood workshop he told me: "When I was about five years old, I used to walk to the canal, and I would dig under the dirt to get to the clay.

"I'd wash the clay and put it on slabs in the back garden to dry it out, because I couldn't afford plasticine. I would make a menagerie of these creatures, the Frankensteins, the King Kongs, the Wolfmen."

In his 20s his talents were spotted by British TV personality Jeremy Beadle, who recruited him to make him disguises for the massively successful hidden camera TV show Beadle’s About.

"It was a great job to dress him up as an old man or a heavy-set person and fool the public," he reminisces.

Then in his mid 30s Hill moved to the US with nothing more than $1000 and a suitcase, because his full-sized monster statues had found an audience there.

Guillermo Del Torro bought a giant Boris Karloff Frankenstein from him, became a regular customer and then, starting with The Shape of Water, he used Hill to create creatures for his films.

And now an Oscars’ win for Frankenstein - a real British success story. "From the canal bank to Hollywood," he muses while shaking his head. "It's only when I hear you say it, that it really amplifies everything."

Best documentary winner David Borenstein tells the BBC it is "unbelievable" to have made it this far.

He says his film, Mr Nobody Against Putin, was made over the course of two-and-a-half years undercover in a school in Russia and "felt like it was going to fall apart so many times".

"We are so happy to be here tonight," he adds.

The BBC documentary charts the story of what happened after Russia's full scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

He also speaks about his political speech on stage, saying "it was really important to do it".

Oscar's host Conan O'Brien has been speaking to the BBC's Colin Paterson on the red carpet of Vanity Fair's Oscars after party.

Asked what track will get him on the dancefloor tonight, O'Brien says "oh come on, anything by UB40".

"I just came up with that, I can't even think of any of their songs right now," he adds.

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The big winner of the night was One Battle After Another, taking home six of its 13 nominations, more than any other film - they were:

• Best picture - Paul Thomas Anderson, Sara Murphy, Adam Somner
• Best director - Paul Thomas Anderson
• Best supporting actor - Sean Penn
• Adapted screenplay - Paul Thomas Anderson
• Film editing - Andy Jurgensen
• Casting - Cassandra Kulukundis

The party is still going on, with more celebrities continuing to arrive. Heated Rivalry stars Connor Storrie and Hudson Williams have made their entrance.

Demi Moore, Odessa A'zion and Anya Taylor-Joy have also been pictured at the entrance to the Vanity Fair party.

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On the red carpet at the Vanity Fair party, American filmmaker and screenwriter Ava DuVernay praised Sinners cinematographer Autumn Durald Arkapaw.

Arkapaw, who won the Academy Award for her work on the film Sinners, has made history as the first woman to take home the accolade.

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It's an evening of stars, fashion and childhood dreams come true.

Let's have a look at some of the biggest wins tonight.

Taking out best picture was dark comedy action thrillerOne Battle After Another which also bagged the best director gong for Paul Thomas Anderson, who has been nominated in the category three times before finally winning.

Best actor went to Michael B Jordan for his star turns - he played twins - in vampire horror film Sinners, which made history as the most nominated movie in Oscars history with recognition in 16 categories.

Also making history was Jessie Buckley who became the first Irish star to win best actress, with her powerful portrayal of William Shakespeare's wife in Hamnet.

Veteran actor Sean Penn won best supporting actor for his role as unpredictable villain Colonel Lockjaw in One Battle After Another, but wasn't at the ceremony to collect the golden statue.

Fellow veteran Amy Madigan, who was first nominated for an Oscar 40 years ago, took home the best supporting actress category with her role as the terrifying Aunt Gladys in horror film Weapons.

Ryan Coogler won best screenplay for his Sinners script which he wrote in just two months while the best adapted screenplay went to One Battle After Another, which was adapted by Paul Thomas Anderson from Thomas Pynchon's novel Vineland.

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Although it is an Oscars tradition to cut speeches short with music when they run overtime, what happened tonight with the songwriters of the Netflix hit Kpop Demon Hunters still caused some uproar online.

After winning best original song, only EJAE managed to deliver her speech. When composer Yu-han Lee began reading his, the music started playing and the show went to a commercial break, despite the group raising their hands together on stage to plead for more time.

On X, some users called it “sad and disrespectful”. “The orchestra has more screen time tonight than half the winners do,” one angry fan wrote. “Historic moment treated so poorly,” another said.

The group did get some time backstage to finish their speeches. “I would like to thank our families... this is an incredible honour,” he added in the press room.

Barry Keoghan has praised fellow Irish actor Jessie Buckley for her Oscar-winning performance in Hamnet.

"What’s up Jessie, well done, bring it home," he tells the BBC's Colin Paterson on the Vanity Fair red carpet.

"I’m proud, I’m really really proud, amazing," he says.

On the amount of success Irish actors have seen, Keoghan says "when you read all the names that have been nominated, for such a small island... we are true storytellers".

“I am massively, massively proud of Jessie. I went to see Hamnet at the premiere and I couldn’t stop crying," he adds.

“When it was finished I had to rush out because I couldn’t stop thinking of my little boy, everyone was sobbing."

Katie Razzall
Culture editor

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The winner of the first Oscar for casting Cassandra Kulukundis has worked with director Paul Thomas Anderson on every one of his movies since she interned on his first, Hard Eight, more than 30 years ago.

She told me before the Oscars: “I’m the only person who can say I have been on all of them - apart from him”.

Their latest collaboration is best picture winner One Battle After Another.

“Paul has been working at this for so long, it’s his 10th movie," she says adding that despite all his nominations he's "won nothing".

Now he’s won best director, best adapted screenplay and best picture.

“This movie has affected so many people on so many levels. Paul’s been seen as a young upstart for so long. He’s in his 50s, he’s an incredibly creative human being and nobody is making movies like him”.

Helen Bushby
Culture reporter

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Misty Copeland, who performed during the ceremony to the song from Sinners, I Lied To You, has changed from her ballet costume into a close-fitting black dress, at the Vanity Fair party.

Actress Isla Fisher was also there, along with former Oscars host Chris Rock and Vogue's Anna Wintour.

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Nardine Saad
at the Oscars

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When asked about his best picture win being a sign of the times, One Battle After Another director and writer Paul Thomas Anderson reflected on what it all means - although, he initially wanted to celebrate rather than talk about bleaker topics.

"I thought we were supposed to be partying," he quips, before striking a more serious note.

"Our film obviously has a certain amount of parallel to what's happening in the news every day, so it obviously reflects what's happening in the world in terms of where it's going," he says, appearing to refer to the divisive political climate in the US, anti-immigration sentiments and racial issues from his dark satire.

"I don't know, but I know that the end of our movie is our hero heading off to continue to fight against evil forces. And I think, like I said in my speech, bring at least common sense and decency back into fashion."