Oscars 2026 recap: The biggest winners and best moments

After their winning best animated feature for "KPop Demon Hunters," filmmakers Maggie Kang, Chris Appelhans and Michelle Wong reacted to their historic Oscar win while speaking to press in the Oscars press room.

Kang talked about her love for K-Pop music and having the genre being "beloved by audiences globally just means so much to me."

"It was a real honor to feature all aspects of my culture that I loved," she said. ""It’s just so meaningful as a Korean filmmaker. I just hope to see more films, especially in animation that focuses on different cultures. We really need that."

Read more about "KPop Demon Hunters" Oscar win here.

Sean Penn won the Academy Award for best supporting actor for his role in "One Battle After Another."

Penn was not in attendance to receive the award.

Other nominees in the category included Benicio del Toro ("One Battle After Another"), Jacob Elordi ("Frankenstein"), Delroy Lindo ("Sinners") and Stellan Skarsgård ("Sentimental Value").

"The Singers" and “Two People Exchanging Saliva” have tied, with both films winning the Oscar for best live action short film.

There have been six ties in Oscars history, most recently at the 2013 ceremony when "Skyfall" and "Zero Dark Thirty" tied for sound editing.

Other nominees in the category were "Butcher's Stain," "Jane Austen's Period Drama" and "A Friend of Dorothy.”

Cassandra Kulukundis won the Oscar for best casting for the film "One Battle After Another."

In her acceptance speech, Kulukundis dedicated her award to all the casting directors who “never got a chance to get up here, who didn't even get a chance to get their name on the movie.”

Other nominees in the category included Nina Gold ("Hamnet"), Jennifer Venditti ("Marty Supreme"), Gabriel Domingues ("The Secret Agent") and Francine Maisler ("Sinners").