Paul Thomas Anderson’s revolutionary epic took home six awards while Sinners scored four including for best actor Oscar winners 2026: the full list Paul Thomas Anderson’s counter-culture caper One Battle After Another has won the Oscars war, taking home six awards after a hotly contested season. The big-budget comedy thriller, inspired by Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland, was named best picture and also won director, supporting actor for Sean Penn, adapted screenplay, editing and the first ever Oscar for casting, a category long-petitioned for within the industry. Continue reading...

Jordan is the sixth black actor to take the award – and the first person to take the prize for portraying twins Oscars 2026 – follow the action live! The winners: the full list – updating live Michael B Jordan has won the best actor Oscar for Sinners at the 98th Academy Awards, currently under way in Los Angeles. This is Jordan’s first Oscar, for which he triumphed over a strong field including Timothée Chalamet for Marty Supreme, Ethan Hawke for Blue Moon and Leonardo DiCaprio for One Battle After Another. Continue reading...

Anderson wins for film starring Leonardo DiCaprio as an ex-revolutionary, taking Oscar in this category for the first time Paul Thomas Anderson has won the Oscar for best director for One Battle After Another at the 98th Academy awards, currently under way in Los Angeles. This marks the much-admired director’s second ever Oscar, following his win earlier in the evening for best adapted screenplay. He has been nominated three times previously for best director, for There Will Be Blood, Phantom Thread, and Licorice Pizza. Continue reading...

Cinematographer asks all the women in the room to rise as she thanks cast, crew and her family Sinners’ director of photography Autumn Durald Arkapaw has become the first woman to win the Oscar for best cinematography at the 98th Academy Awards now under way in Los Angeles. Durald, who previously worked with Sinners director Ryan Coogler on the superhero sequel Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, is only the fourth woman nominated for the award, and the first woman of colour. (Previous nominees include Rachel Morrison for Mudbound, Ari Wegner for The Power of the Dog and Mandy Walker for Elvis.) Continue reading...

Foreign countries and firms should not be able to bypass the government, Zelenskyy says. What we know on day 1,482 Foreign countries and firms that wish to buy Ukrainian drones should not be able to bypass the Ukrainian government by talking directly to manufacturers, president Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in remarks released Sunday. Zelenskyy said a new system was needed to prevent this from happening, and that his government had already reprimanded one manufacturer for selling interceptors without considering the implications for Ukraine’s defences. The US-Israel war with Iran has sparked renewed interest in Ukrainian drone interceptors, with the United States and its Middle Eastern allies looking for ways to counter Iranian drone attacks. Ukraine is waiting on Washington and Moscow for the next round of trilateral peace talks, Zelenskyy said. The Ukrainian president told reporters that the US had proposed hosting a meeting, but Russia refused to send a delegation. “We are waiting for a response from the Americans,” added Zelenskyy. Zelenskyy appeared to push back against Donald Trump’s claim that the US did not need Ukraine’s help on drone defence. The US has reached out to Ukraine “several times” to ask for help for a particular country, or for support for Americans, Zelenskyy said. “All our institutions received these requests, and we responded to them,” he told a briefing, without providing specifics. Trump said on Sunday that Nato faces a “very bad” future if US allies fail to help open the strait of Hormuz, the critical oil transport conduit effectively shut by Iran in the Mideast war. In a brief interview with the Financial Times, Trump said that as the US has aided Ukraine in the war with Russia, he expects Europe to help on the strait of Hormuz, whose closure has sent energy prices soaring around the world. “If there’s no response or if it’s a negative response I think it will be very bad for the future of Nato,” said Trump, who over the years has criticised the alliance as freeloading on US largesse. Mr Nobody Against Putin, about a young Russian schoolteacher waging quiet resistance against Russia’s war on Ukraine, won the Oscar for best documentary feature on Sunday. The film, directed by David Borenstein and Pavel Talankin, uses two years of footage shot by Talankin to show how the Russian state indoctrinates students with pro-war messages. The videographer documents his own persecution and eventual exile in the film, which The Hollywood Reporter called a “touching, intimate chronicle”. Moldova triggered an environmental alert following a fuel spill in the Dniester River triggered by a Russian military strike in Ukraine, the government said on Sunday. Authorities have “declared a state of environmental alert in the Dniester River basin for 15 days, effective March 16, 2026”, the CNMC government crisis management centre said in a statement. The fuel spill is thought to have been caused by a Russian attack on the Dniester hydroelectric Power Plant in Ukraine on 7 March. After the US waived sanctions on Russian oil, Zelenskyy said he was against allowing oil from Russia to transit through Ukraine via the Druzhba pipeline, which until late January transported Russian oil to Hungary and Slovakia. “Why can we, in one case, tell the United States that we oppose lifting sanctions, while on the other hand forcing Ukraine to resume oil transit through Druzhba – and at a political price that effectively pays for anti-European policies?” Zelenskyy asked. In 2023, what were thought to be Nazar Daletskyi’s remains were buried in his home village and his mother, Nataliia, visited the grave every week. Three years later, he spoke to her on the phone. Read Shaun Walker’s extraordinary story of the soldier who came back from the dead. Continue reading...

The star of When Harry Met Sally, one of Reiner’s most enduring movies, honoured the late director and his wife in Los Angeles Billy Crystal, the star of When Harry Met Sally, one of Rob Reiner’s most enduring movies, has paid emotional tribute to the late director and his wife, Michele, at the Academy Awards in Hollywood. Crystal, whose friendship with Reiner formed much of the basis for the film, which was scripted by Nora Ephron, was one of the first people on the scene when the bodies of the couple were found on 14 December. Continue reading...

Coogler, who also directed the film, becomes only the second black writer to win this award, after Jordan Peele Ryan Coogler has won the best original screenplay Oscar for Sinners, at the 98th Academy awards now under way in Los Angeles. Coogler’s victory makes him only the second black writer to win the award, following Jordan Peele who won in 2018 for Get Out. Continue reading...

The director has won the Oscar for his critically-acclaimed film based loosely on Thomas Pynchon’s novel Vineland Oscars 2026 – follow the action live! The winners: the full list – updating live Paul Thomas Anderson has won his first Oscar, for best adapted screenplay for One Battle After Another. Also directed by Anderson, One Battle After Another is a loose adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s 1990 novel Vineland; it stars Leonardo DiCaprio as a former revolutionary living under a new name with his teenage daughter, played by Chase Infiniti. Continue reading...

With his third Oscar, Penn joins an elite band of triple winners, including Daniel Day-Lewis and Jack Nicholson Oscars 2026 – follow the action live! The winners: the full list – updating live Sean Penn has won the Oscar for best supporting actor for One Battle After Another, at the 98th Academy Awards now under way in Los Angeles. With this win, Penn has joined an elite company of male actors to win three acting Oscars, joining Daniel Day-Lewis, Jack Nicholson and Walter Brennan. Penn previously won best actor Oscars for Mystic River in 2004 and Milk in 2009. Continue reading...

Another weekend of violence compounded global market concerns over war in the Middle East, following US strikes on the vital oil hub Oil prices have climbed again amid mounting supply fears after the US struck Iran’s vital Kharg Island oil hub and Donald Trump demanded allies help reopen the strait of Hormuz. Brent crude, the international benchmark, rose 1.8% to $104.98 per barrel during early trading on Monday. Another weekend of violence across the Middle East compounded concerns over the conflict, and its ramifications for global energy markets. Continue reading...

Borrowers coming off fixed deals hit hard as Savills says big spike in interest payments made up half the overall rise UK households spent a record £226bn to keep a roof over their heads last year, figures showed on Monday, with mortgage borrowers finishing fixed-rate deals particularly hard hit by rising payments. Overall housing costs have gone up by £66bn over the past five years, a rise of 41%, the property group Savills said. Continue reading...

Pretending not to hear parents or hiding toys are among children’s early ploys, while by age of three they may be telling lies such as ‘a ghost ate the chocolate’, research finds They may be yet to take their first step or say their first word, but some babies have already grasped the basics of deception before their first birthday, according to research. The study, based on interviews with 750 parents, suggested that by 10 months about a quarter of children were practising some rudimentary form of deceit such as pretending not to hear their parents, hiding toys or eating forbidden foods out of view. By the age of three, children were more proficient, creative and frequent fabricators, according to the parents’ responses. Continue reading...

National Audit Office highlights benefits of state rescue for jobs and orders but warns of continuing high cost The cost of keeping the UK’s last remaining blast furnaces going at British Steel’s Scunthorpe plant could exceed £1.5bn by 2028 if it continues at its current rate, according to the government’s spending watchdog. Ministers took the plant into public control in April last year, after its Chinese owner – industrial firm Jingye – threatened to shut down the loss-making site. Continue reading...

Having been nominated in 1986, the actor sets a new record for the longest gap between nominations before a win Oscars 2026 – follow the action live! The winners: the full list – updating live Amy Madigan has won the best supporting actress Oscar for Weapons at the 98th Academy Awards,. Madigan defeated a strong field to take the prize, including Elle Fanning for Sentimental Value, Wunmi Mosaku for Sinners and Teyana Taylor for One Battle After Another. In doing so she set a new record for the longest gap between nominations before a win; she was previously nominated in the same category 40 years ago, in 1986, for Twice in a Lifetime. Continue reading...

⚾ Winners will play either Italy or Venezuela in final ⚾ Email david.lengel@theguardian.com with your thoughts David will be here shortly. In the meantime, here’s how Japan’s tournament came to a sudden end: Wilyer Abreu watched the ball leave the park and tossed his bat high in the air. His Venezuela teammates streamed out of the dugout in celebration. The comeback was on, and the win over the reigning World Baseball Classic champion Japan was within reach. Continue reading...

American pars 18th for victory after birdie on 17 Fitzpatrick had led at Sawgrass before late slip The PGA Tour might have lost out in the court of public opinion over whether the Players Championship could be a major. However, the level of drama as shadows lengthened on this Sawgrass Sunday set the tournament aside from most others. It came down to Cameron Young versus Matt Fitzpatrick. As Fitzpatrick agonisingly missed for par on the 72nd hole, Young had secured the biggest win of his career. He had emerged triumphant from a sporting thriller. Fitzpatrick will rue the 18th hole. He had taken a double bogey there on Saturday. As his tee shot in round four sprayed right and into pine straw, the Yorkshireman was in trouble again. Young had battered his drive 375 yards down the fairway. It was an advantage the New Yorker was unwilling to waste. Continue reading...

Prime minister expected to set out tens of millions of pounds in help for heating oil users as conflict with Iran drives up costs Keir Starmer will on Monday announce tens of millions of pounds’ worth of support for Britons hit by a spike in energy prices as a result of the Iran war. The prime minister will lay out the plans during a press conference in Downing Street on Monday, during which he will also take aim at some suppliers of heating oil for price gouging. Continue reading...

Share of 16- to 24-year-old Neets who report a work-limiting condition up 70% in a decade, says thinktank There has been a sharp rise in the number of jobless young people in the UK citing health problems as the reason they are not working, according to analysis. The share of 16- to 24-year-olds not in education, employment or training – known as Neets – who reported a work-limiting condition has surged by 70% in a decade, a charity thinktank found. Continue reading...

Government reluctant to dispatch ships amid concerns complying with Trump’s demands could escalate Iran crisis Ministers are drawing up plans to send minesweeping drones to the strait of Hormuz amid concerns in Whitehall that complying with Donald Trump’s demand to send ships could escalate the crisis. The government is considering dispatching aerial minesweepers to help clear the vital waterway of mines in an attempt to allow the flow of oil exports to resume. However, officials said that sending ships, as requested over the weekend by the US president, could worsen the situation given the volatile nature of the war. Continue reading...

Students in Canterbury given antibiotics for fast-acting and invasive meningococcal disease, says UKHSA Two people have died and 11 are reportedly seriously ill in hospital after an outbreak of a rare form of invasive meningitis at the University of Kent. The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said it had provided antibiotics to students in the Canterbury area after it detected 13 cases of invasive meningococcal disease, a combination of meningitis and septicaemia. Continue reading...

Zahira Byjaouane, 43, arrested on Saturday after reports baby fell from property on Horseferry Road in Westminster A mother has been charged with murdering her 18-day-old baby girl, who fell from a height at a property in central London. Zahira Byjaouane, 43, was arrested on Saturday morning after reports that a baby had fallen from a property on Horseferry Road in Westminster. Continue reading...

World No 1 had lost four finals against opponent Sabalenka comes back from set down for victory Aryna Sabalenka snapped her losing streak against Elena Rybakina in a thrilling Indian Wells final on Sunday. The world No 1 beat Rybakina to win her maiden grand slam title at the Australian Open in 2023 but since then had lost all four finals against the Kazakh, including at the WTA Finals last season and in Melbourne in January. Continue reading...

The best looks from the red carpet at the 98th Academy Awards in Los Angeles Oscars 2026 liveblog – follow the action Continue reading...

Patients experiencing raised bedside rails, doors and pathways blocked by furniture and physical interventions People with dementia are being subjected to restraints and non-consensual sedation while in hospitals in England, according to the first study of its kind. These restrictive practices were found to be an “embedded aspect of routine ward care”, according to the analysis, with such examples including dementia patients having their bedside rails raised, doors and pathways blocked by furniture, experiencing verbal commands to sit down or go back to bed, and physical interventions such as non-consensual sedation. Continue reading...

Russia’s involvement meant politics could not be avoided at a Paralympics more competitive than ever The theme of the closing ceremony of the Winter Paralympics, held at the Olympic curling arena in Cortina D’Ampezzo, was “Italian Souvenir”. It followed, through dance and music, the ambitions of a young girl, played by Sofia Tansella who has spinal muscular atrophy, to see her dreams represented in the world. It was of course a metaphor for the Paralympic movement more broadly, a movement that has been boosted by a successful two weeks in Milano Cortina. The International Paralympic Committee has been able to boast a number of striking milestones at these Games, on the 50th anniversary of the first. Milano Cortina has had the most countries in competition, 55, and the most to win medals, 27. The number of countries winning gold medals, 18, is the joint-highest in history. Although gender imbalance remains a genuine problem, there were more female competitors than ever before, 160, an 18% increase on four years ago and 26% of the total athlete count of 611, another record. Continue reading...