One Battle After Another takes home six wins at this year's Oscars, including best picture
Hamnet's Jessie Buckley becomes the first Irish winner of the best actress category, and Sinners' Autumn Durald Arkapaw makes history as the first woman to win the Oscar for best cinematography
Michael B Jordan says "I stand here because of the people who came before me" as he accepts the best actor award for his portrayal of twin brothers Smoke and Stack in Sinners
Stars are arriving at the Vanity Fair after party - Heated Rivalry's Connor Storrie and Hudson Williams and Anya Taylor-Joy are among those to be snapped
Watch: The biggest moments from the 2026 Oscars in two minutes
It's an unusual moment in Oscars history.
There have been six ties in Oscar history - the first was in 1932 for best actor, according to the Academy's database.
The last time there was a tie was in 2013 for the award for sound editing.
Helen Bushby
Culture reporter
What is going on here - a tie at the Oscars? This is unusual to say the very least.
"A tie, wow we didn't know that could happen," say Sam A Davis and Jack Piatt.
A story "about the power of music and art to bring us together. May be we all be brave enough to keep on singing", they say.
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Emma Saunders
Culture reporter
A little earlier Timothée Chalamet laughed as Conan joked about his naked scenes in Marty Supreme - there's a special "bum drum" in his honour being used by the orchestra.
If you haven't seen the film, let's just say, there is some spanking.
Image source, Getty ImagesNardine Saad
Reporting from the Oscars
Backstage in the winners interview, Weapons star Amy Magidan is asked if her best supporting actress win bodes well for a potential Aunt Gladys prequel film.
Madigan, who plays the villain in the horror film, says she's been asked that a number of times and leaned into cues she's received from writer-director Zach Cregger.
"He kind of says, 'yes, this is going to happen.' But we know how long stuff takes. We know what this business is like, and nothing's real till it is," she says.
"But if it worked out that would be great, because I trust Zach, and he's got a lot of wacky ideas."
Emma Saunders
Culture reporter
It's the first time a casting award has been given at the Oscars, honouring the casting directors who don't often get the recognition they deserve, given their choices can make or break a film.
It's the first new category at the Oscars for 24 years.
Cassandra Kulukundis, Paul Thomas Anderson's long-time collaborator, thanks her predecessors who never got a chance to get up on that stage, given it's the inaugural year.
The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Teyana Taylor, Sean Penn and Benicio del Toro, all of whom are nominated tonight, so it's not a surprise the casting has been recognised.
You can read what Cassandra Kulukundis told the BBC before her win here.
Image source, Getty ImagesHelen Bushby
Culture reporter
Frankenstein's second win tonight is for Mike Hill, Jordan Samuel and Cliona Furey, for make-up and hairstyling.
British winner Mike Hill reserved special praise for Jacob Elordi, who played Frankenstein's monster.
"I want to thank my mate, Jacob Elordi, who sat for 400 hours in the makeup chair," he said, to which Elordi raised his fist and smiled back from the audience in agreement.
Helen Bushby
Culture reporter
Image source, Getty ImagesThe film is directed by Chloé Zhao (left) and stars Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley
Hamnet, starring Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal, which has eight Oscar nominations including best film, actress, and director, fictionalises the lives of William Shakespeare and his wife Agnes.
Based on Maggie O'Farrell's award-winning novel, Chloé Zhao's film explores how the death of William and Agnes's son Hamnet could have influenced one of the writer's most enduring masterpieces, Hamlet.
The film received six Golden Globe nominations and won two, including best film, and it won outstanding British film at the Baftas, where hotly-tipped Buckley won best actress.
O'Farrell said she always saw Paul Mescal taking on the role of Shakespeare in the film adaption, and called Buckley "a dream Agnes".
Earlier this year, the actress told BBC News: "It was honestly one of the biggest privileges of my life to live beside and inside this amazing woman, Agnes."
Katie Razzall
Culture editor
Image source, Getty ImagesPamela Abdy is in a strong position with two Warner Bros films out in front for the nominations
Two years ago I interviewed Pam Abdy, who’d recently taken over as co-CEO of Warner Bros Motion Picture Group.
When I pointed out that the studio hadn’t won an Oscar since Argo in 2013 it was clear she intended to change that - fast.
And when the 2026 Oscar nominations were announced, the studio's films had 30, tying its all-time record.
The 16 nominations for its supernatural drama Sinners broke Oscar records for a single film, while best picture frontrunner One Battle After Another had 13 nominations including best actor for Leonardo DiCaprio.
Those two films are now in an epic battle for Oscars supremacy. But whichever triumphs tonight, Abdy will have a lot to celebrate.
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Image source, Getty ImagesA little earlier, former Vogue editor-in-chief Dame Anna Wintour presented the award for best costume design alongside Anne Hathaway, who is set to star in May in the Devil Wears Prada 2, a movie inspired by Wintour and life at Vogue.
In a reference to the film, Hathaway asked Wintour on stage: "What do you think of my dress tonight?"
Wintour jokingly ignored her question before announcing the nominees for best costume design.
Later, Wintour said to Hathaway, "Thank you, Emily" - a reference to a character in the Devil Wears Prada.
Colin Paterson
Entertainment Correspondent, BBC News
Watch: Frankenstein make-up artist tells the BBC what went into creating the movie monster
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, again, 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 Mike 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 Mike 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.”
“I have come a long way,” he muses, looking rather misty eyed, before laughing and adding, “About 20,000 miles.”
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Category: Costume design
Emma Saunders
Culture reporter
Image source, NetflixJacob Elordi spent hours in the make-up chair on set
The third film nominated for best picture is Frankenstein.
Jacob Elordi has been racking up the column inches recently for his steamy role in Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights but he takes on a very different role in Guillermo del Toro’s interpretation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.
The Aussie star plays Frankenstein’s monster in the Netflix movie, which has won plaudits – and awards, including several Baftas – for its technical craft, including make-up.
Elordi had to sit in the make-up chair for 10 hours every day to achieve his look for del Toro’s ambitious take, a project that had been on his bucket list since he was a youngster.
It’s not for the faint-hearted or squeamish but this interpretation – and there have been many - turns the spotlight on the feelings of the creature and his ill-treatment.
Elordi is recognised for his harrowing portrayal with a best supporting actor nod, and the film has eight other nominations including best picture and best adapted screenplay.
Helen Bushby
Culture reporter
Image source, Getty ImagesMisty Copeland is part of those on stage right now for this performance from Miles Caton and Raphael Saadiq from Sinners' Oscar-nominated original song, I Lied To You.
She joins performers Eric Gales, Buddy Guy, Brittany Howard, Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, Jayme Lawson, Li Jun Li, Bobby Rush, Shaboozey and Alice Smith.
This performance happens to come just after the famous dancer called out Timothée Chalamet after he said "no-one cares" any more about ballet and opera, which caused global headlines and a rather large online backlash.
Copeland responded that Chalamet "wouldn't be an actor" without them, highlighting she had actually been invited to be part of the huge publicity for his film, Marty Supreme.
Speaking about ballet and opera's popularity compared with film, she said in response: "It’s important that we acknowledge that, yes, this is an art form that is not popular and a part of pop culture as movies are. But that doesn’t mean it doesn’t have enduring relevance in culture.”
All eyes tonight will be on Chalamet to see if he wins his best actor nomination later tonight - and also if he says any more about ballet and opera.
Meanwhile, this performance got a standing ovation, heralding more love in the room for Sinners.
Read more: Has Hollywood golden boy Timothée Chalamet lost his shine?
Helen Bushby
Culture reporter
KPop Demon Hunters winners Maggie Kang, Chris Appelhans and Michelle LM Wong said that although "it took so long to see us in a movie like this... it is here, this means it's for Koreans everywhere".
Category: Animated short film
Helen Bushby
Culture reporter
Image source, Getty ImagesThis film, which tells the story of a female K-Pop trio who must save the world from evil forces, has been a juggernaut of a success.
When it launched on Netflix in June, KPop Demon Hunters registered 33 million views in just two weeks, and reached the top 10 of the Netflix charts in 93 countries.
It’s also been dominating the global music charts, with seven tracks from its soundtrack featured on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US.
It has its own fan art, and audiences around the world are demanding a sequel.
Tonight is the culmination of many successes, which will no doubt delight its millions of fans.
KPop Demon Hunters presents Korea in a 'beautiful way', says star EJAE
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