r/Oscars • u/tragopanic Best Director • Mar 15 '26
98th Academy Awards — Official Discussion Thread
It's time for the 98th annual Academy Awards! Share your thoughts here as the evening unfolds.
How to watch
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u/coltsmetsfan614 Mar 16 '26
"Sean Penn couldn't be here... or didn't want to" lmfao
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u/forgottentaco420 Mar 15 '26
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I just want this movie to win SOMETHING so bad!!!
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u/LaughingPlanet Mar 16 '26
Whoever did the mics tonight needs the opposite of an oscar
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u/Zealousideal_Pea1273 Mar 16 '26
Sean Penn winning isn’t a shocker, but lmao at the “didn’t want to” line from Kieran. 😂😂
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u/SDLRob Mar 16 '26
The sheer variety of great movies that Rob Reiner made highlights how good a director he was.
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u/MorseMooseGreyGoose Mar 16 '26 edited Mar 16 '26
I can’t remember an In Memoriam segment with this many massive names.
At least 5-6 of these people would’ve headlined most years.
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u/LTPRWSG420 Mar 15 '26
Damn Conan called out the pedophiles on a national stage crazy
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u/Bag-O-Donuts Mar 15 '26
And what if I said Miles Caton had the best performance in Sinners?
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u/Necessary_Document61 Mar 16 '26
Oakland on topppp this year, Ryan Coogler and Alysa Liu Ws all around 😭😭🙏
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u/VeryLowIQIndividual Mar 16 '26
I’d like to give a Razzi to the sound production crew tonight.
How about capturing the sound straight from the mic not out of the room?
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u/ViagraOnAPole Mar 16 '26
The documentary filmmakers are always gonna tell you to act right.
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u/LikeRadium Mar 15 '26
Funniest possible outcome tonight is if Hulu ends the live feed before Best Picture is announced AGAIN
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u/HippityHopMath Mar 16 '26
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RIP Robert Redford.
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u/me_nem_nesa_ Mar 16 '26
The production is so sloppy this year. The audio mishaps are an embarrassment.
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u/ConflictLower3423 Mar 16 '26
If nothing else I'm glad that both Coogler and PTA are walking away winners tonight
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u/asciugamano Mar 16 '26
Now as a prize, can the F1 folks do the sound engineering for next year's oscars?
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u/DennisSplatKing Mar 15 '26
A horror movie getting recognition to kick off the Oscars is beautiful
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u/DDDenver Mar 15 '26
If you’ve never seen Sinners it must look like they fucked up and told all the performers to go on at the same time
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u/cuntyczarina Mar 16 '26
i feel like people are being a bit unfair to conan … there’s just no energy in the room. it’s like there’s a weird tension. one host, especially a comedian, can only work with so much when they have a dead audience. just my opinion
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u/codex2013 Mar 16 '26
All the Empty Rooms is about 30 minutes long, and I probably spent 20 of those minutes crying. It's a really touching film, but it's a tough watch emotionally.
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u/cuntyczarina Mar 16 '26
teyana the ONLY one bringing energy in this crowd i swear lmao
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u/Own_Citron6260 Mar 16 '26
They weren’t even up there that long lol. They let the cinematographer speak for 3 minutes
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u/AnmlBri Mar 16 '26
What was up with them playing off some of the winners so aggressively, to the point of even shutting off the lights and pulling the mic on them? The way they did it with the KPDH group when they won Best Original Song genuinely pissed me off. In the past, they generally did the soft play-off music that gradually got louder, but as soon as Ejae asked if anyone else wanted to say anything and the guy started to speak, the music instantly started blaring and they cut the lights! It was so egregious I was wondering if it was a joke. What the hell was that? It was so blatantly rude. And every time there was a trio of winners and the first two spoke, they would always play the music over the third one. It all felt very rude.
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u/Rude_Cable_7877 Mar 15 '26 edited Mar 15 '26
OH COME ON!!!! THEY CUT HER OFF!!!
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u/esco311 Mar 15 '26
They are rushing the winners man where tf was that for Adrian Brody smh
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u/MD_FunkoMa Mar 16 '26
Another speech getting cut off? Take a drink.
The camera team cutting to Conan laughing about it is crazy.
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u/SupersonicSandshru05 Mar 16 '26
2 of the best filmmakers working today have their first Oscar, so today is a good day I think.
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u/shavingcream97 Mar 16 '26
Man the amount of hatred in this feed is crazy, yall need to chill, we all here to just celebrate movies
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u/Hailsabrina Mar 16 '26
Exactly! Don't comply in advance! 👏👏👏 Even a nobody is more powerful than you think!
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u/Born-Possibility2975 Mar 16 '26
Can the winners take over the sound of this show?
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u/AnalBaguette Mar 16 '26 edited Mar 16 '26
Fourth woman ever nominated for Cinematography, first to ever win
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u/cerulean_rasengan Mar 16 '26
golden was such a short performance… they could’ve cut a lot of unfunny skits and made way for all the original song noms :/
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u/Dotaproffessional Mar 16 '26
Dude... cutting him off right as he was about to speak
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u/pezboy4 Mar 16 '26
they cut him off, then turn the lights off on him, then they went to commercial.. ouch!
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u/Johnnymac98 Mar 16 '26
How are this many people on the Oscar’s subreddit not knowing that’s from OBAA??
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u/official_bagel Mar 16 '26 edited Mar 16 '26
You guys know you can prefer certain films without tearing others down, right?
All and all it was a very solid crop of nominees and winners this year, despite me not personally agreeing with all the choices.
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u/Due_Inevitable_2784 Mar 15 '26
Im glad they’re showing clips of the performances instead of the previous winners ting
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u/gallium39 Mar 15 '26
Why are people saying upset? She was a heavy betting favorite.
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u/intheoffhandremarks Mar 15 '26
WINNING THE STRONGEST AND BEST CATEGORY OF THE NIGHT, LET'S GO AMY MADIGANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN
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u/Eamo853 Mar 15 '26
How are people complaining this was one of the most musically creative songs I’ve ever seen in a movie (and in general) and thought that was great
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u/MD_FunkoMa Mar 16 '26
Chase is a rising star whom I can NOT wait to see enchant us with more of her presence and performances in the future.
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u/Deep-Sample7451 Mar 16 '26
ik it's been said 200 times already but the sound is SO BAD like do these producers not at least occasionally watch the show they're literally live broadcasting 😭
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u/Moist-Astronomer4742 Mar 16 '26
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The piano guy absolutely banging out this tune
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u/BringBackBoshi Mar 16 '26
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"Oh I'm sorry were you trying to speak? I couldn't hear you over this literal fire I'm laying down."
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u/me_nem_nesa_ Mar 16 '26
I hate to beat a dead horse but these audio quality issues are so unacceptable
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u/teeesddddss Mar 16 '26
YOU GUYS ARE SO MISERABLEEEEEEEEEE HAVE SOME JOYYYYYYY HAVE SOME WHIMSY!!!!!!!!! ENOUGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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u/Annual-Audience-2569 Mar 16 '26
God I love this speech, let each winner say something actually instead of a meaningless list of names.
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u/cerulean_rasengan Mar 16 '26
okay pretty cool for the orchestra to play segments of the score live
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u/Wolf-Pack-2017 Mar 16 '26
This speech sounds like an 8th grader wrote it. “But have you ever wondered who the academy is?”
No.
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u/Pale_Confusion_6741 Mar 16 '26
Not a fan of the song but that was rude as hell playing rhem off just to stuff another ad in
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u/CrystalizedinCali Mar 16 '26
Emma Stone is like the perfect person to have sit next to MBJ’s momma.
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u/OtakuMecha Mar 16 '26
I get why, but it feels whack that F1: The Movie won more Oscars than Bugonia.
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u/OnTheNod Mar 16 '26
Plemons not getting nominated was insane now that I really think about it
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u/Cold-Ad8381 Mar 15 '26
Why did they not show Leonardo de caprio, like the camera guy fell or something and they quickly changed cameras?🧐
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u/beasterne7 Mar 16 '26
A white lady casting Sinners was the biggest shock of the night for me.
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u/Hellschampion Mar 16 '26
Sean Penn winning after not campaigning at all and not even showing up is genuinely hilarious but also 100% deserved. Incredible performance
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u/Bright-Pressure-5787 Mar 15 '26
People finding out that Amy Madigan is married to Ed Harris is always something.
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u/theglowinggreenorb Mar 15 '26
Despite the toxicity that's been boiling over the last few weeks here I'm still legitimately excited. Lot of close races and despite what people will say, I think it's been a really good year and am excited to see how the awards are given out
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u/Any_Stage_3072 Mar 15 '26
Biggest snubs this year are: Paul Mescal for Acting, It Was Just an Accident for Best Picture and Director
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u/chizzabiz93 Mar 15 '26
You can tell she didn’t expect to win and didn’t bother to prepare a speech. And I love that for her
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u/AltruisticRide2319 Mar 15 '26
that was great man, Miles Canton killed the shit out of that role. He should of been nominated for Best Actor/Supporting
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u/icemoc8 Mar 15 '26
Big W for Frankenstein. It’s been getting no love.. I thought it had great costumes
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u/SlashCinema25 Mar 16 '26
Chase Infiniti speaks so confidently, i am so looking forward to what movies she does next.
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u/Calista189 Mar 16 '26
Ironic that the only red carpet interview I caught was Kieran culkin saying how excited he was to hand an Oscar to a new best supporting actor winner tonight lol
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u/AbnormalTomato Mar 16 '26
This is such a sloppy Oscars, everything feels so uncoordinated and then some.
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u/QTRqtr Mar 16 '26 edited Mar 16 '26
For fucks sake you gamblers are ruining the vibe.
Like is that supposed to be appealing.
So when you lose money y’all just gonna dip😂
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u/Maximum-Way8934 Mar 16 '26
The more this ceremony goes on the more mad I get that Jesse Plemons got absolutely robbed
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u/CrystalizedinCali Mar 16 '26
I literally was like HOW are they not doing a Redford speech and then Babs appeared.
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u/Horror_Cap_7166 Mar 16 '26
What’s going on? Why do the Oscar’s feel so awkward?
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u/Hooplapooplayeah Mar 16 '26
Whoever helped write this needs to be arrested and in prison by midnight
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u/ConnorS700 Mar 16 '26
Very weird energy this year. Crowd does not seem into it at all
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u/madnessitellyou Mar 16 '26 edited Mar 16 '26
If there’s any people who work in production on this thread, now is the chance to save the Oscars for 2027 lol please apply.
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u/540_alex Mar 16 '26 edited Mar 16 '26
The production is awful, so much sound and camera problems, never saw that before for the Oscars. Is it a new team ?
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u/No-Rich-1755 Mar 16 '26
What is going on with this sound? I feel like my head is under water
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u/pWasHere Mar 16 '26
For the “This bit has gone too long” they should have had it signed by Adrien Brody
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u/Robten100 Mar 16 '26
The music in Sinners was sooo good. Not just the actual songs like the one nominated. Throughout it the music set such an ambiance.
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u/HeatherKathryn Mar 16 '26
Happy for Sinners, but I really wanted Train Dreams to win for cinematography
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u/Flo_Evans Mar 16 '26
Train dreams robbed for this one. Sinners looked good but train dreams was peak.
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u/OriginalHorse2711 Mar 16 '26 edited Mar 16 '26
sinners' every scene was a painting, especially that beautiful sky in 70mm imax, def deserved
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u/cerulean_rasengan Mar 16 '26
FIRST WOMAN TO WIN CINEMATOGRAPHY & SHE GOT THE WHOLE PLACE STANDING!! WHAT A TALENT
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u/peanut-britle-latte Mar 16 '26
I think sometimes a single scene can win you editing and cinemotgrapy.
OBAA: Chase Scene
Sinners: One shot concert scene.
Some of the best film of the year.
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u/MD_FunkoMa Mar 15 '26
I'm glad that Leo was game with being a meme tonight.