Weekend Self-Care: The 2026 Historic Oscars Winners
For this weekend's self-care, we turn our attention to Hollywood.
This past Sunday was the 98th annual Academy Awards, and with it came several historic wins. Chief among them was Michael B. Jordan, becoming only the sixth Black man to win the Oscar for Best Actor. Jordan's Sinners director Ryan Coogler also made history as only the second Black man to win an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay, and Autumn Durald Arkapaw took home the Oscar for Best Cinematography, becoming the first woman and woman of color to capture the award. The film Sinners
made history with its record 16 nominations, and despite losing out to One Battle After Another for Best Picture, the night was a clear and obvious success for the entire cast and crew, highlighted by those historic wins.
Other winners include Jessie Buckley, who gave a generational performance as Agnes, a fictionalized version of the wife of Shakespeare in Hamnet. Buckley gave a virtuoso performance and swept all Best Actress awards leading up to the Oscars and became the first Irish woman to take home the coveted top prize. For Best Supporting Actors, you had wins by Sean Penn for One Battle After Another and Amy Madigan for Weapons, the latter of which was Madigan's first Oscar win 40 years after her first nomination. Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein won three technical awards, and Best Documentary went to Mr. Nobody Versus Putin, becoming the third anti-Putin film to capture the category over the past four years. In addition to Best Picture, One Battle After Another also received recognition for Paul Thomas Anderson, who took home the Oscar for Best Director. While there weren't any obvious surprises, the night's one loser had to be Marty Supreme, which received 11 Oscar nominations but got shut out of each and every category for which it was nominated.
To celebrate the Oscars, we turn to our EB family. What films and acting performances caught your attention over the past year? Add your recommendations to our Bar Film Library below. And, as always, take care of yourselves and your loved ones this weekend.
Other winners include Jessie Buckley, who gave a generational performance as Agnes, a fictionalized version of the wife of Shakespeare in Hamnet. Buckley gave a virtuoso performance and swept all Best Actress awards leading up to the Oscars and became the first Irish woman to take home the coveted top prize. For Best Supporting Actors, you had wins by Sean Penn for One Battle After Another and Amy Madigan for Weapons, the latter of which was Madigan's first Oscar win 40 years after her first nomination. Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein won three technical awards, and Best Documentary went to Mr. Nobody Versus Putin, becoming the third anti-Putin film to capture the category over the past four years. In addition to Best Picture, One Battle After Another also received recognition for Paul Thomas Anderson, who took home the Oscar for Best Director. While there weren't any obvious surprises, the night's one loser had to be Marty Supreme, which received 11 Oscar nominations but got shut out of each and every category for which it was nominated.
To celebrate the Oscars, we turn to our EB family. What films and acting performances caught your attention over the past year? Add your recommendations to our Bar Film Library below. And, as always, take care of yourselves and your loved ones this weekend.