Looking at Film from Every Angle

98th Academy Awards (2025): The Ceremony

Nominations Announcement

Nominations Announcement Date: Thursday, January 22, 2026
Nominations Presenter: Danielle Brooks, Lewis Pullman
Nominations Morning Category Presentation: Group 1: Supporting Actress, Makeup & Hairstyling, Original Score, Live Action Short Film, Animated Short Film, Adapted Screeplay, Original Screenplay, Supporting Actor
Nominations Morning Category Presentation: Group 2: Casting, Costume Design, Original Song, Documentary Feature, Documentary Short, International Feature, Animated Feature, Production Design, Film Editing, Sound, Visual Effects, Cinematogrpahy, Actor, Actress, Directing, Picture

Ceremony Details

Awards Ceremony Date/Time: Sunday, March 15, 2026, 4:00pm
Location: Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood
Televised On: ABC & Hulu
Host: Conan O’Brien
Length: 3 hours, 44 minutes
Nielsen Ratings: 3.92
Viewers: 17.86 million

Presenters

Supporting Actress: Zoe Saldaña
Animated Feature: Will Arnett, Channing Tatum
Animated Short Film: Will Arnett, Channing Tatum
Best Picture: Sinners:
Sinners Music Tribute: Miles Caton, Raphael Saadiq, Misty Copeland, Eric Gales, Buddy Guy, Brittany Howard, Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, Jayme Lawson, Li Jun Li, Bobby Rush, Shaboozey, Alice Smith
Best Picture: Marty Supreme:
Costume Design: Anne Hathaway, Anna Wintour
Makeup & Hairstyling: Anne Hathaway, Anna Wintour
Best Picture: Hamnet:
Casting: Paul Mescal, Gwyneth Paltrow, Chase Infiniti, Wagner Moura, Delroy Lindo
Best Picture: Sentimental Value:
Live Action Short Film: Kumail Nanjiani
Supporting Actor: Kieran Culkin
Best Picture: Bugonia:
Adapted Screenplay: Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr.
Original Screenplay: Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr.
In Memoriam: Rob Reiner Tribute: Billy Crystal, Kathy Bates, Annette Bening, John Cusack, Christopher Guest, Cary Elwes, Carol Kane, Michael McKean, Demi Moore, Jerry O’Connell, Mandy Patinkin, Kevin Pollak, Meg Ryan, Fred Savage, Kiefer Sutherland, Wil Wheaton, Daphne Zuniga
In Memoriam: Claudia Cardinale, Diane Ladd, Catherone O’Hara, Diane Keaton: Rachel McAdams
In Memoriam: Robert Redford: Barbra Streisand
Best Picture: Frankenstein:
Production Design: Sigourney Weaver, Pedro Pescal
Visual Effects: Sigourney Weaver, Pedro Pescal
Best Picture: Train Dreams:
Documentary Short Subject: Jimmy Kimmel
Documentary Feature: Jimmy Kimmel
Best Picture: F1:
Original Score: Maya Rudolph, Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Rose Byrne, Ellie Kemper
Sound: Maya Rudolph, Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Rose Byrne, Ellie Kemper
President’s Remarks: Lynette Howell Taylor
Best Picture: The Secret Agent:
Film Editing: Bill Pullman, Lewis Pullman
Cinematography: Demi Moore
KPop Demon Hunters Music Tribute: EJAE, Audrey Nana, Rei Ami
Best Picture: One Battle After Another:
International Feature: Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Javier Bardem
Original Song: Lionel Ritchie
Directing: Zendaya, Robert Pattinson
Actor: Adrien Brody
Actress: Mikey Madison
Picture: Ewan McGregor, Nicole Kidman

Previous Acting & Directing Winners

The tradition of prior acting winners returning the subsequent year to present the opposite-gender category is a long one. Each year, we look to see whether the prior winners returned. There was an intermittent tradition where the prior directing winner returned as well, but this was a rare occurrence.

Actor – Adrien Brody: Yes and No. Presented Actor.
Actress – Mikey Madison: Yes and No. Presented Actess.
Supporting Actor – Kieran Culkin: Yes and No. Presented Supporting Actor.
Supporting Actress – Zoe Saldaña: Yes and No. Presented Supporting Actress.
Directing – Sean Baker: No

Song Performances

Dear Me: Kesha
Golden: EJAE, Audrey Nana, Rei Ami
I Lied to You: Miles Caton
Sweet Dreams of Joy: Ana Maria Martinez
Train Dreams: Nick Cave

Original Song Film Performers

Was the song performed at the Oscars by the same individuals who performed it in the film?

Dear Me: No (Performed in the Film by: )
Golden: Yes and More (Performed in the Film by: EJAE, Audrey Nana, Rei Ami)
I Lied to You: Yes and More (Performed in the Film by: Miles Caton, Raphael Saadiq)
Sweet Dreams of Joy: No (Performed in the Film by: )
Train Dreams: No (Performed in the Film by: )

Other Performances

I Won: Josh Groban
In Memoriam: The Way We Were: Barbra Streisand

Ceremony Production Staff

Announcer: Matt Berry
Conductor / Musical Arranger: Chris Walden
Director: Hamish Hamilton
Producer: Raj Kapoor, Katy Mullan
Writer: Amberia Allen, José Arroyo, Josh Comers, Dan Cronin, Jessie Gaskell, Skyler Higley, Berkley Johnson, Ian Karmel, Brian Kiley, Laurie Kilmartin, Carol Leifer, Todd Levin, Jon Macks, Conan O’Brien, Matt O’Brien, Agathe Panaretos, Mike Sweeney
Writer (Special Material): Levi MacDougall
Writer (In Memoriam): Eric Roth
Production Design: Alana Billingsley, Misty Buckley
Costume Design: Katja Cahill
Choreography: Mandy Moore, Aakomon Jones