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The 98th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), took place on March 15, 2026, at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, United States. During the gala, the AMPAS presented Academy Awards (commonly referred to as the Oscars) in 24 categories, honoring films released in 2025.
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One Battle After Another is a 2025 American black comedy action-thriller film produced, written, and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. It is inspired by the 1990 novel Vineland by Thomas Pynchon. The film's ensemble cast is led by Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Benicio del Toro, Regina Hall, Teyana Taylor, and Chase Infiniti (in her film debut).
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Paul Thomas Anderson (born June 26, 1970), also known by his initials PTA, is an American filmmaker. Often described as one of the preeminent filmmakers of his generation, his accolades include three Academy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, four BAFTAs, three Critics Choice Awards, and nominations for a Grammy.
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Jessie Buckley (born December 1989) is an Irish actress and singer. Her accolades include an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards, an Actor Award, a Golden Globe and a Laurence Olivier Award. Buckley began her acting career in 2008 as a contestant on the BBC talent show I'd Do Anything, in which she came second.
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Sinners is a 2025 American film produced, written, and directed by Ryan Coogler. Set in 1932 in the Mississippi Delta, the film stars Michael B. Jordan in dual roles as criminal identical twin brothers who return to their hometown in the Jim Crow South, where they are confronted by a supernatural evil.
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Amy Marie Madigan (born September 11, 1950) is an American actress. Known for her work on stage and screen, her accolades include an Academy Award, an Actor Award, and a Golden Globe Award, in addition to a nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award. Madigan made her film debut in the drama Love Child (1982), for which she received her first Golden Globe Award nomination.
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. xxx is a sponsored top-level domain (sTLD) intended as a voluntary option for pornographic sites on the Internet. The sponsoring organization is the International Foundation for Online Responsibility (IFFOR). The registry is operated by ICM Registry LLC. The ICANN Board voted to approve the sTLD on 18 March 2011.
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Maya Khabira Rudolph (born July 27, 1972) is an American actress and comedian. In 2000, she became a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live (SNL). During her tenure on the show, she appeared in supporting roles in the films 50 First Dates (2004), A Prairie Home Companion (2006), and Idiocracy (2006).
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The Academy Awards, commonly known as the Oscars, are awards for artistic and technical merit in film. They are presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) in the United States in recognition of excellence in cinematic achievements, as assessed by the Academy's voting membership.
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Hamnet is a 2025 historical drama film directed by ChloΓ© Zhao, who co-wrote the screenplay with Maggie O'Farrell, based on the 2020 novel by O'Farrell. The film dramatises the family life of William Shakespeare and his wife Agnes Hathaway as they cope with the death of their 11-year-old son Hamnet.
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Ryan Kyle Coogler (born May 23, 1986) is an American filmmaker. His accolades include an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, a Grammy Award, a Golden Globe Award, four Black Reel Awards, and ten NAACP Image Awards. Coogler directed a few short films at the USC School of Cinematic Arts before his feature-length debut with Fruitvale Station (2013).
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Chase Infiniti Payne (born 2000) is an American actress. She is known for her roles in the limited series Presumed Innocent (2024) and the film One Battle After Another (2025), for which she received Best Actress nominations for the Actor Award, BAFTA Award, Critics' Choice Movie Award, and Golden Globe Award.
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The 2026 Iran war began on 28 February 2026, when the United States and Israel launched surprise airstrikes on multiple sites and cities across Iran, killing Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and numerous other Iranian officials. Iran responded with missile and drone strikes against Israel, US bases, and US-allied countries in the region.
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Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu (born 21 October 1949) is an Israeli politician and diplomat who has served as Prime Minister of Israel since 2022. Having previously held office from 1996 to 1999 and from 2009 to 2021, Netanyahu is Israel's longest-serving prime minister. Born in Tel Aviv, Netanyahu was raised in West Jerusalem and the United States.
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Edward Allen Harris (born November 28, 1950) is an American actor and filmmaker. Harris received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performances in Apollo 13 (1995), The Truman Show (1998), and The Hours (2002). He also directed and starred in Pollock (2000) and Appaloosa (2008), the former earning him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor.
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The 2026 Revolution was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by All Elite Wrestling (AEW). It was the seventh annual Revolution and took place on Sunday, March 15, 2026, at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, California, marking the second consecutive year that Revolution was hosted at the venue. Internationally, this was the company's first PPV to livestream on MyAEW.
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TimothΓ©e Hal Chalamet (born December 27, 1995) is an American and French actor. Known for his work in a diverse range of blockbusters and independent films, he is the recipient of numerous accolades including an Actor Award, a Golden Globe Award, and two Critics' Choice Awards, in addition to nominations for four Academy Awards, six British Academy Film Awards, and a Grammy Award.
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Teyana Me Shay Jacqueline Taylor (; born December 10, 1990) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, model, dancer, choreographer, and music video director. Her accolades include a Golden Globe Award, two Critics Choice Awards, and an NAACP Image Award, along with nominations for an Academy Award, two Actor Awards, a British Academy Film Award, and a Grammy Award.
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Mr Nobody Against Putin is a 2025 documentary film directed by David Borenstein and Pavel Talankin. It follows Talankin in his job at a school in Karabash, a poor mining town near the Ural Mountains. While recording his students, Talankin also documents the Putin administration's moves to control public perception during the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian war.
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The following notable deaths occurred in 2026. Names are reported under the date of death, in alphabetical order. A typical entry reports information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent nationality (if applicable), what subject was noted for, cause of death (if known), and a reference.
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Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio ( ; Italian: [diΛkaΛprjo]; born November 11, 1974) is an American actor and film producer. Known for his work in biographical and period films, he is the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, an Actor Award, a Silver Bear and three Golden Globe Awards.
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KPop Demon Hunters is a 2025 American animated musical urban fantasy film co-written and directed by Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans. It was produced by Sony Pictures Animation for Netflix and stars the voices of Arden Cho, Ahn Hyo-seop, May Hong, Ji-young Yoo, Yunjin Kim, Daniel Dae Kim, Ken Jeong, and Lee Byung-hun.
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Sentimental Value (Norwegian: Affeksjonsverdi) is a 2025 drama film directed by Joachim Trier, who co-wrote it with Eskil Vogt. It follows sisters Nora (Renate Reinsve) and Agnes (Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas) in their reunion with their estranged father Gustav (Stellan SkarsgΓ₯rd). It also stars Elle Fanning.
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Austin Kenneth Wells (born July 12, 1999) is an American professional baseball catcher for the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball (MLB). He played college baseball for the University of Arizona, and the Yankees selected him in the first round of the 2020 MLB draft. Wells made his MLB debut in 2023.
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Adam Arkapaw is an Australian cinematographer. He received recognition for his work on the first series of Top of the Lake (2013) and True Detective (2014), for which he received two Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards. He is also known for his collaborations with director Justin Kurzel, whom he worked with on Snowtown (2011), Macbeth (2015), and Assassin's Creed (2016).
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Bugonia is a 2025 black comedy thriller film directed by Yorgos Lanthimos and written by Will Tracy. An English-language remake of the 2003 South Korean film Save the Green Planet! by Jang Joon-hwan, the film follows two young men who kidnap a powerful CEO, suspecting that she is secretly an alien who wants to destroy Earth.
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2026 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election
Legislative Assembly elections are scheduled to be held in West Bengal from 23 to 29 April 2026 to elect all 294 members of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly. The votes will be counted and the results will be declared on 4 May 2026.
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The Madison is a neo-Western television series created by Taylor Sheridan for Paramount+. The series follows the Clyburn family, originally from New York City, who relocate to the Madison River valley of southwest Montana for emotional recovery following a major life-changing tragedy that both shocks and permanently changes the family.
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The World Baseball Classic (WBC), also referred to as the Classic, is a quadrennial international baseball tournament sanctioned by the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC), the sport's global governing body, and organized by World Baseball Classic Inc., a partnership of the WBSC with Major League Baseball (MLB) and Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA).
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Academy Award for Best Picture
The Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the Academy Awards (also known as Oscars) presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) since the awards debuted on May 16, 1929. This award goes to the producers of the film and is the only category in which every member of the Academy is eligible to submit a nomination and vote on the final ballot.
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Zendaya Maree Stoermer Coleman ( zen-DAY-Ι; born September 1, 1996) is an American actress and singer. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including two Primetime Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award, and was named by Time as one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2022. Her films as a leading actress have grossed over $3. 9 billion worldwide.
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The Strait of Hormuz () is a strait between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman. It provides the only sea passage from the Persian Gulf to the open ocean and is one of the world's most strategically important choke points. It has been so for centuries, with vast hinterlands rich in luxury trade goods, but no easy access to lucrative trading ports.
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Kim Eun-jae (Korean: κΉμμ¬; born December 6, 1991), known professionally as Ejae (stylized in all caps; μ΄μ¬), is a South Korean and American singer, songwriter, and record producer. A graduate of New York University Tisch School of the Arts, Kim started as a trainee for SM Entertainment in 2003 but did not officially debut as a soloist nor music group member.
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Susan L. Wiles (nΓ©e Summerall; born May 14, 1957) is an American political consultant and lobbyist who has served as the 32nd White House chief of staff since January 2025. Wiles graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park, in 1978. While attending university, she began working for New York representative Jack Kemp.
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Nicole Lilly Christou (born 22 July 2004; known professionally as Nikki Lilly) is a British charity campaigner, social media personality, model, and television presenter. Christou was awarded the International Emmy Kids Awards in 2019, for her episode of the CBBC series My Life, Nikki Lilly Meets, Nikki Lilly Bakes.
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Neal Patrick Dunn (born February 16, 1953) is an American surgeon and politician serving as the U.S. representative for Florida's 2nd congressional district since 2017. A member of the Republican Party, Dunn is a medical doctor who served in the United States Army for eleven years, reaching the rank of major. On January 13, 2026, Dunn announced he would not seek re-election in 2026.
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The Secret Agent (Portuguese: O Agente Secreto) is a 2025 historical political thriller film written and directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho. It follows Armando (Wagner Moura), a former professor caught in the political turmoil in the midst of the Brazilian military dictatorship, attempting to flee persecution and resist an authoritarian regime.
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Mojtaba Hosseini Khamenei (born 8 September 1969) is an Iranian Shia cleric who was named the third supreme leader of Iran in March 2026. A member of the Khamenei family, he is the second child and son of the previous supreme leader, Ali Khamenei. Born in Mashhad, northeastern Iran, he was nine when his father emerged as a leading figure in the Iranian Revolution of 1978β79.
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Conan Christopher O'Brien (born April 18, 1963) is an American television host, comedian and writer. He is best known for having hosted late-night talk shows, beginning with Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1993β2009) and The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien (2009β2010) on the NBC television network, and Conan (2010β2021) on the cable channel TBS.
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The Academy Award for Best Actor is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It has been awarded since the 1st Academy Awards to an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance in a leading role in a film released that year. The award was traditionally presented by the previous year's Best Actress winner.
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One Piece (stylized in all caps) is a fantasy adventure television series developed by Matt Owens and Steven Maeda for Netflix. The series is a live-action adaptation of the 1997 Japanese manga series of the same name by Eiichiro Oda, who serves as a creative consultant for the television series. It is produced by Kaji Productions and Shueisha, who also publishes the manga.
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Frankenstein is a 2025 American Gothic science fiction drama film written, produced, and directed by Guillermo del Toro, based on the 1818 novel by Mary Shelley. The film stars Oscar Isaac as Victor Frankenstein and Jacob Elordi as the Creature, with Mia Goth and Christoph Waltz in supporting roles.
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All the Empty Rooms is a 2025 American documentary short film, directed and produced by Joshua Seftel. It follows Steve Hartman and photographer Lou Bopp as they embark across the United States to memorialize the bedrooms of children killed in school shootings. All the Empty Rooms had its world premiere at the 52nd Telluride Film Festival on August 31, 2025.
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The 97th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), took place on March 2, 2025, at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles. During the gala, the AMPAS presented Academy Awards (commonly referred to as Oscars) in 23 categories honoring films released in 2024.
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Vineland is a 1990 postmodern novel by Thomas Pynchon set in California in 1984, the year of President Ronald Reagan's reelection. Through flashbacks, its characters, who lived through the 1960s, account for the free spirit of rebellion of that decade, and describe the traits of the "fascistic Nixonian repression" and the war on drugs that clashed with it.
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JosΓ© Pedro Balmaceda Pascal (Spanish: [xoΛse ΛpeΓ°ΙΎo Ξ²almaΛseΓ°a pasΛkal]; born April 2, 1975) is a Chilean and American actor. Known for his portrayals of parental figures, he has starred in television series and blockbuster films. His accolades include an Actor Award, in addition to nominations for a Golden Globe Award and four Primetime Emmy Awards.
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List of awards and nominations received by Michael B. Jordan
The following is a list of awards and nominations received by American actor Michael B. Jordan. Jordan initially broke out in television, playing Reggie Montgomery in the ABC soap opera All My Children, for which he received three consecutive nominations for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Daytime Drama Series. Jordan is known for his collaborations with Ryan Coogler.
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Javier Γngel Encinas Bardem (born 1 March 1969) is a Spanish actor. In a career spanning over three decades, he has received various accolades, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Critics' Choice Movie Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and seven Goya Awards, in addition to a Cannes Film Festival Award and two Volpi Cups.
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Priyanka Chopra Jonas (nΓ©e Chopra; born 18 July 1982) is an Indian actress and producer. The winner of the Miss World 2000 pageant, she is India's highest-paid actress and her accolades include two National Film Awards and five Filmfare Awards. In 2016, the Government of India honoured her with the Padma Shri, and Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world.
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List of awards and nominations received by Sean Penn
Sean Penn is an American actor, director and producer. He has earned acclaim for his intense broody roles in dramatic films. Over his career he has received numerous accolades including three Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award, three Critics' Choice Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards as well as nominations for an Emmy Award and a Grammy Award.
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Train Dreams is a 2025 American period drama film directed by Clint Bentley, who co-wrote the screenplay with Greg Kwedar, based on the 2011 novella by Denis Johnson. The film stars Joel Edgerton, Felicity Jones, Nathaniel Arcand, Clifton Collins Jr., John Diehl, Paul Schneider, Kerry Condon, and William H. Macy, with narration from Will Patton.
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List of awards and nominations received by Paul Thomas Anderson
The following is a list of awards and nominations received by Paul Thomas Anderson. Paul Thomas Anderson is an American filmmaker. He has received various accolades including, three Academy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, four British Academy Film Awards, and three Critics' Choice Awards as well as nominations for 14 Academy Awards and a Grammy Award.
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The 2026 World Baseball Classic is an international professional baseball tournament between 20 national baseball teams, and the sixth iteration of the World Baseball Classic (WBC). It began on March 5, 2026, and will run until March 17. The pool-play rounds were played in Miami, Florida; Houston, Texas; San Juan, Puerto Rico; and Tokyo, Japan.
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2026 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election
Legislative Assembly elections are scheduled to be held in Tamil Nadu on 23 April 2026 to elect all 234 members of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly. The votes will be counted and the results will be declared on 4 May 2026.
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Goldie Jeanne Hawn (born November 21, 1945) is an American actress, producer, dancer, and singer. She achieved stardom and acclaim for playing lighthearted comedic roles in film and television. In a career spanning six decades, she has received several awards, including an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award as well as nominations for a BAFTA Award and two Primetime Emmy Awards.
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Mikaela "Mikey" Madison Rosberg (born March 25, 1999) is an American actress. Her accolades include an Academy Award and BAFTA Award, in addition to nominations for two Actor Awards, two Critics' Choice Awards, and a Golden Globe Award. Madison began her acting career as a teenager with roles in short films.
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Anti-slip gratings (more correctly known as slip-resistant grating) are grating products used to provide grip on steps, running boards, walkways, platforms, and ladder rungs. Anti-slip gratings are produced by stamping perforations or serrations into sheet metal. Bar gratings, expanded metal, and diamond plate (or checker plate) are technically not safety gratings.
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Louis Sebastian Theroux (LOO-ee thΙ-ROO; born 20 May 1970) is a British journalist, broadcaster, author and rapper. He has received three British Academy Television Awards and a Royal Television Society Television Award. After graduating from Magdalen College, Oxford, Theroux moved to the United States and worked as a journalist for Metro Silicon Valley and Spy.
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Anne Hathaway (wife of Shakespeare)
Anne Shakespeare (nΓ©e Hathaway; 1556 β 6 August 1623), commonly known as Anne Hathaway and sometimes referred to as Agnes Hathaway (from her father's will), was the wife of William Shakespeare, the English poet, playwright and actor. They were married in 1582, when Hathaway was pregnant at 26 years old and Shakespeare was 18.
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Limonene () is a colorless liquid aliphatic hydrocarbon classified as a cyclic monoterpene, and is the major component in the fragrance and essential oil of citrus fruit peels, taking its name from Italian limone ("lemon"). Limonene is a chiral molecule, and most biological sources produce just one enantiomer (isomer).
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Oluwunmi Olapeju Mosaku (; born 31 July 1986), known professionally as Wunmi Mosaku, is a Nigerian and British actress. She rose to prominence for her roles as Joy in the BBC Two miniseries Moses Jones (2009) and Holly Lawson in the ITV series Vera (2011β2012). She won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Gloria Taylor in the TV film Damilola, Our Loved Boy (2016).
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John James Shannon (30 October 1971 β 13 March 2026), better known by his stage name John Alford, was a British actor, singer, convicted child sex offender and drug dealer. He played Robbie Wright in the BBC series Grange Hill (1985β1990) and Billy Ray in the ITV series London's Burning (1993β1998). He also had three Top 30 hits on the UK singles chart in 1996.
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Elias Kazantzoglou (Greek: ΞΞ»Ξ―Ξ±Ο ΞΞ±ΞΆΞ±Ξ½ΟΞΆΟΞ³Ξ»ΞΏΟ , IPA: [iΛli. as kazanΛdzoΙ£lu]; September 7, 1909 β September 28, 2003), known as Elia Kazan ( EE-lee-Ι kΙ-ZAN), was a Greek-American film and theatre director, producer, screenwriter and actor, described by The New York Times as "one of the most honored and influential directors in Broadway and Hollywood history".
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Paul Colm Michael Mescal ( MESS-kΙl; born 2 February 1996) is an Irish actor. His accolades include two BAFTA Awards and a Laurence Olivier Award, in addition to nominations for an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, two Actor Awards, and a Golden Globe Award. Born in Dublin and raised in Maynooth, he studied acting at The Lir Academy and then performed in plays in Dublin theatres.
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Lynette Howell Taylor (born May 1979) is a British producer for film and television who has served as the president of Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences since 2025. She was co-nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture for producing A Star Is Born (2018). She founded the production company 51 Entertainment in 2017.
