MOVIE NEWS – The 98th Academy Awards celebrated the best films of 2025. The ceremony was a star-studded event, with a talented array of creatives vying for Hollywood’s top prize. The nominees already impressed fans, with Sinners setting a new record with an astounding 16 Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor. Other high-profile films competing for Best Picture included Paul Thomas Anderson‘s One Battle After Another, Guillermo del Toro‘s Frankenstein, and Chloé Zhao‘s Hamnet.

The Academy Award nominees snubbed some big-ticket movies, like Wicked: For Good, which was shut out of the ceremony despite many expecting it to receive some attention. Delroy Lindo is notably nominated for his first Oscar after decades of stellar work, thanks to Sinners, and surprise nominations like Kate Hudson in Song Sung Blue present distinct choices for voters. Here is MovieWeb’s complete list of nominees and winners from the 98th Academy Awards.

98th Academy Awards: Complete List of Winners

Best Picture
WINNER: One Battle After Another
Sinners
Hamnet
Frankenstein
Marty Supreme
Sentimental Value
Bugonia
F1
The Secret Agent
Train Dreams

Best Actress in a Leading Role
WINNER: Jessie Buckley (Hamnet)
Rose Byrne (If I Had Legs, I’d Kick You)
Renate Reinsve (Sentimental Value)
Emma Stone (Bugonia)
Kate Hudson (Song Sung Blue)

Best Actor in a Leading Role
WINNER: Michael B. Jordan (Sinners)
Timothée Chalamet (Marty Supreme)
Leonardo DiCaprio (One Battle After Another)
Ethan Hawke (Blue Moon)
Wagner Moura (The Secret Agent)

Best Director
WINNER: Paul Thomas Anderson (One Battle After Another)
Ryan Coogler (Sinners)
Chloé Zhao (Hamnet)
Joachim Trier (Sentimental Value)
Josh Safdie (Marty Supreme)

Best Original Song
WINNER: “Golden” (KPop Demon Hunters)
“Dear Me” (Diane Warren: Relentless)
“I Lied to You” (Sinners)
“Sweet Dreams of Joy” (Viva Verdi!)
“Train Dreams” (Train Dreams)

Best International Feature Film
WINNER: Sentimental Value
The Secret Agent
Sirāt
It Was Just An Accident
The Voice of Hind Rajab

Best Cinematography
WINNER: Autumn Durald Arkapaw (Sinners)
Adolpho Veloso (Train Dreams)
Michael Bauman (One Battle After Another)
Dan Laustsen (Frankenstein)
Darius Khondji (Marty Supreme)

Best Film Editing
WINNER: Andy Jurgensen (One Battle After Another)
Stephen Mirrione (F1)
Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie (Marty Supreme)
Olivier Bugge Coutté (Sentimental Value)
Michael P. Shawver (Sinners)

Best Sound
WINNER: Gareth John, Al Nelson, Gwendolyn Yates Whittle, Gary A. Rizzo, and Juan Peralta (F1)
Amanda Villavieja, Laia Casanovas, and Yasmina Praderas (Sirāt)
Chris Welcker, Benjamin A. Burtt, Felipe Pacheco, Brandon Proctor, and Steve Boeddeker (Sinners)
Greg Chapman, Nathan Robitaille, Nelson Ferreira, Christian Cooke, and Brad Zoern (Frankenstein)
José Antonio García, Christopher Scarabosio, and Tony Villaflor (One Battle After Another)

Best Original Score
WINNER: Ludwig Göransson (Sinners)
Jerskin Fendrix (Bugonia)
Alexandre Desplat (Frankenstein)
Max Richter (Hamnet)
Jonny Greenwood (One Battle After Another)

Best Documentary Feature Film
WINNER: Mr. Nobody Against Putin
The Alabama Solution
Come See Me in the Good Light
Cutting Through Rocks
The Perfect Neighbor

Best Documentary Short Film
WINNER: All the Empty Rooms
Armed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud
Children No More: Were and Are Gone
Perfectly a Strangeness
The Devil Is Busy

Best Visual Effects
WINNER: Joe Letteri, Richard Baneham, Eric Saindon, and Daniel Barrett (Avatar: Fire and Ash)
Ryan Tudhope, Nicolas Chevallier, Robert Harrington, and Keith Dawson (F1)
Charlie Noble, David Zaretti, Russell Bowen, and Brandon K. McLaughlin (The Lost Bus)
Michael Ralla, Espen Nordahl, Guido Wolter, and Donnie Dean (Sinners)
David Vickery, Stephen Aplin, Charmaine Chan, and Neil Corbould (Jurassic World Rebirth)

Best Production Design
WINNER: Production Design: Tamara Deverell / Set Decoration: Shane Vieau (Frankenstein)
Production Design: Fiona Crombie / Set Decoration: Alice Felton (Hamnet)
Production Design: Jack Fisk / Set Decoration: Adam Willis (Marty Supreme)
Production Design: Florencia Martin / Set Decoration: Anthony Carlino (One Battle After Another)
Production Design: Hannah Beachler / Set Decoration: Monique Champagne (Sinners)

Best Original Screenplay
WINNER: Ryan Coogler (Sinners)
Robert Kaplow (Blue Moon)
Jafar Panahi (It Was Just an Accident)
Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie (Marty Supreme)
Joachim Trier and Eskil Vogt (Sentimental Value)

Best Adapted Screenplay
WINNER: Paul Thomas Anderson (One Battle After Another)
Will Tracy (Bugonia)
Guillermo del Toro (Frankenstein)
Maggie O’Farrell and Chloé Zhao (Hamnet)
Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar (Train Dreams)

Best Actor in a Supporting Role
WINNER: Sean Penn (One Battle After Another)
Stellan Skarsgård (Sentimental Value)
Jacob Elordi (Frankenstein)
Benicio del Toro (One Battle After Another)
Delroy Lindo (Sinners)

Best Live Action Short Film
WINNER (TIE): The Singers
WINNER (TIE): Two People Exchanging Saliva
Butcher’s Stain
A Friend of Dorothy
Jane Austen’s Period Drama

Best Casting
WINNER: Cassandra Kulukundis (One Battle After Another)
Nina Gold (Hamnet)
Jennifer Venditti (Marty Supreme)
Gabriel Domingues (The Secret Agent)
Francine Maisler (Sinners)

Best Makeup and Hairstyling
WINNER: Mike Hill, Jordan Samuel, and Cliona Furey (Frankenstein)
Thomas Foldberg and Anne Cathrine Sauerberg (The Ugly Stepsister)
Ken Diaz, Mike Fontaine, and Shunika Terry (Sinners)
Kazu Hiro, Glen Griffin, and Bjoern Rehbein (The Smashing Machine)
Kyoko Toyokawa, Naomi Hibino, and Tadashi Nishimatsu (Kokuho)

Best Costume Design
WINNER: Kate Hawley (Frankenstein)
Deborah L. Scott (Avatar: Fire and Ash)
Malgosia Turzanska (Hamnet)
Miyako Bellizzi (Marty Supreme)
Ruth E. Carter (Sinners)

Best Animated Short Film
WINNER: The Girl Who Cried Pearls
Butterfly
Forevergreen
Retirement Plan
The Three Sisters

Best Animated Feature Film
WINNER: KPop Demon Hunters
Arco
Zootopia 2
Little Amélie or The Character of Rain
Elio

Best Actress in a Supporting Role
WINNER: Amy Madigan (Weapons)
Teyana Taylor (One Battle After Another)
Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas (Sentimental Value)
Wunmi Mosaku (Sinners)
Elle Fanning (Sentimental Value)

Source: MovieWeb