And The Oscar Goes To….The 2026 Academy Awards Winners Are Revealed!
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Carl Roberts 
The 98th Academy Awards have been handed out, bringing the 2025 awards season to a close. Who won what, and did your favourite win?
And…we’re done! The awards season has come to a close with the 98th Academy Awards. This brings to a close the race for the best performances across many categories for movies released in 2025. Going into the Oscars, it was a straight-up fight between Sinners and One Battle After Another as to which film would leave the ceremony as the big winner. As the dust settled, it was One Battle After Another that took the honours, with six wins to Sinners’ four. But despite there being a few surprises (Amy Madigan taking Best Supporting Actress over Wunmi Mosaku and Teyana Taylor, Sean Penn not bothering to show up to the awards to collect his Best Supporting Actor statuette), it went as we all thought it would.
It was the year of horror for the most part, with Sinners and Frankenstein leading the way for the genre. It was also the year that K-Pop made its mark on the awards. In fact, K-pop Demon Hunters took home two awards. The In Memoriam segment was emotional, but has come in for criticism for who it DIDN’T feature during the montage. It was also criticised for some of whose sad passing was quickly skipped over. And with several acceptance speeches cut off and replaced by mostly unfunny, unnecessary skits, the ceremony wasn’t what we’d call a vintage, memorable one this year.
But with heartfelt acceptance speeches and a few political statements from presenters and winners, it was still enjoyable. Especially seeing Sigourney Weaver telling Kate Hudson to “Stay away from him, you bitch!” when it was revealed Grogu from The Mandalorian had also attended the ceremony, with the nominated actress seen sitting with the lovable creature. So, let’s see who won what.
BEST PICTURE
Frankenstein
One Battle After Another-WINNER
The Secret Agent
Sentimental Value
Sinners
BEST ACTOR
Timothée Chalamet, Marty Supreme
Leonardo DiCaprio, One Battle After Another
Ethan Hawke, Blue Moon
Michael B. Jordan, Sinners-WINNER
Wagner Moura, The Secret Agent
A very popular choice here, Jordan beating out Chalamet for his first Oscar, and delivering a heartfelt and emotional acceptance speech.
BEST ACTRESS
Jessie Buckley, Hamnet-WINNER
Rose Byrne, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
Kate Hudson, Song Sung Blue
Renate Reinsve, Sentimental Value
Emma Stone, Bugonia
The only award that was 100% nailed on, the Irish actress delivered an emotional acceptance speech to all assembled, speaking about the joys of motherhood and paying tribute to mothers everywhere.
BEST DIRECTOR
Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another-WINNER
Ryan Coogler, Sinners
Josh Safdie, Marty Supreme
Joachim Trier, Sentimental Value
Chloé Zhao, Hamnet
As I predicted, the Academy went with Paul Thomas Anderson to finally win his much-deserved Best Director statuette. While it wouldn’t have surprised me if Ryan Coogler had won, this just felt right, and it felt like this was Anderson’s year.
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Elle Fanning, Sentimental Value
Inga Ibsdotter LilIeaas, Sentimental Value
Amy Madigan, Weapons-WINNER
Wunmi Mosaku, Sinners
Teyana Taylor, One Battle After Another
A HUGE surprise here. Going into the awards, the momentum was with Wunmi Mosaku and Teyana Taylor in the race for Oscar glory. But, in a stunning upset, Amy Madigan finally won her Academy Award, 40 years after her last nomination.
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Benicio Del Toro, One Battle After Another
Jacob Elordi, Frankenstein
Delroy Lindo, Sinners
Sean Penn, One Battle After Another-WINNER
Stellan Skarsgård, Sentimental Value
Again, not a huge surprise here, with Pen having all the momentum going into the ceremony. The only surprise was that the actor didn’t bother to show up to collect his award, causing the award announcer, Kieran Culkin, to quip, “Sadly, Sean Penn can’t be with us tonight…or he couldn’t be bothered!”
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Arco
KPop Demon Hunters-WINNER
Little Amélie or the Character of Rain
Zootopia 2
Again, not a big surprise; everyone expected it to win going into the ceremony.
BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE
The Secret Agent, Brazil
It Was Just an Accident, France
Sentimental Value, Norway-WINNER
Sirāt, Spain
The Voice of Hind Rajab, Tunisia
It was between The Secret Agent and Sentimental Value going into the awards, with the critically acclaimed Norwegian movie taking home the gold.
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Frankenstein, Dan Laustsen
Marty Supreme, Darius Khondji
One Battle After Another, Michael Bauman
Sinners, Autumn Durald Arkapaw-WINNER
Train Dreams, Adolpho Veloso
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Bugonia, screenplay by Will Tracy
Frankenstein, written for the screen by Guillermo del Toro
Hamnet, screenplay by Chloé Zhao and Maggie O’Farrell
One Battle After Another, written by Paul Thomas Anderson-WINNER
Train Dreams, screenplay by Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Blue Moon, written by Robert Kaplow
It Was Just an Accident, written by Jafar Panahi; script collaborators: Nader Saïvar, Shadmehr Rastin, and Mehdi Mahmoudian
Marty Supreme, written by Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie
Sentimental Value, written by Eskil Vogt and Joachim Trier
Sinners, written by Ryan Coogler-WINNER
As predicted, Ryan Coogler took home the Best Original Screenplay Oscar, awarding him a deserved award, and making up for his loss for Best Director.
COOGLER in Warner Bros. Pictures’ “SINNERS a Warner Bros. Pictures release. Photo Credit: Eli Adé. © 2025 Warner Bros. Ent. All Rights Reserved
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Frankenstein-WINNER
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
Sinners
Ok, I’m going to break my neutrality here by simply saying, after visiting the exhibition in London last year for the film, this one made me cheer almost as loudly as Jessie Buckley’s win. The film completely deserved its win; what went into making the film was nothing less than breathtaking.
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Avatar: Fire and Ash-WINNER
F1
The Lost Bus
Sinners
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
The Alabama Solution
Come See Me in the Good Light
Cutting Through Rocks
Mr Nobody Against Putin-WINNER
The Perfect Neighbor
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Bugonia, Jerskin Fendrix
Frankenstein, Alexandre Desplat
Hamnet, Max Richter
One Battle After Another, Jonny Greenwood
Sinners, Ludwig Göransson-WINNER
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
“Dear Me,” Diane Warren: Relentless
“Golden,” KPop Demon Hunters-WINNER
“I Lied to You,” Sinners
“Sweet Dreams of Joy,” Viva Verdi!
“Train Dreams,” Train Dreams
BEST EDITING
F1, Stephen Mirrione
Marty Supreme, Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie
One Battle After Another, Andy Jurgensen-WINNER
Sentimental Value, Olivier Bugge Coutté
Sinners, Michael P. Shawver
BEST SOUND
F1-WINNER
Frankenstein
One Battle After Another
Sinners
Sirāt
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Avatar: Fire and Ash, Deborah L. Scott
Frankenstein, Kate Hawley-WINNER
Hamnet, Malgosia Turzanska
Marty Supreme, Miyako Bellizzi
Sinners, Ruth E. Carter
BEST MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
Frankenstein-WINNER
Kokuho
Sinners
The Smashing Machine
BEST CASTING
Hamnet, Nina Gold
Marty Supreme, Jennifer Venditti
One Battle After Another, Cassandra Kulukundis-WINNER
The Secret Agent, Gabriel Domingues
Sinners, Francine Maisler
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT
All the Empty Rooms-WINNER
Armed Only With a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud
Children No More: “Were and Are Gone”
The Devil Is Busy
Perfectly a Strangeness
BEST LIVE-ACTION SHORT-TIE
Butcher’s Stain
A Friend of Dorothy
Jane Austen’s Period Drama
The Singers-WINNER
Two People Exchanging Saliva-WINNER
A very rare tie between two live-action shorts, one of the surprises of the night.
BEST ANIMATED SHORT
Butterfly
Forevergreen
The Girl Who Cried Pearls-WINNER
Retirement Plan
The Three Sisters
We at the Future Of The Force offer our most heartfelt and sincere congratulations to all the winners and nominees, and thank them for making 2025 a superb year for movies. It is one to be remembered.
Introducing Carl! As the News Editor at Future of the Force, Carl has been an invaluable member of our team since early 2016. His expertise and dedication have made him an integral part of our editorial staff. Beyond his professional role, Carl is a fervent supporter of Liverpool F.C. and an avid follower of pop culture. He has a deep passion for Halloween, Friday the 13th, and the iconic movie franchises Star Wars and Star Trek.
He can be found either at his neighborhood cinema, enjoying the latest releases on the big screen, or at home streaming the newest blockbuster movies.
