Oscars 2026 recap: See all the winners and best moments

David Borenstein, Pavel Talankin, Helle Faber and Alžběta Karásková have won the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature Film for "Mr. Nobody against Putin" at the 2026 Academy Awards.

David Borenstein, Pavel Talankin, Helle Faber and Alzbeta Karaskova have won the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature Film for "Mr. Nobody against Putin" at the 2026 Academy Awards.

Borenstein, the film's co-director, shared a powerful message while accepting the award, saying the film "is about how you lose your country."

"What we saw when working with this footage, it's that you lose it through countless small little acts of complicity. When we act complicit, when a government murders people on the streets of our major cities. When we don't say anything, when oligarchs take over the media and control how we can produce it and consume it," Borenstein said.

Other nominees in the category included "The Alabama Solution," "Come See Me in the Good Light," "Cutting Through Rocks," and "The Perfect Neighbor."

Joshua Seftel and Conall Jones have won the Oscar for Best Documentary Short Film for "All the Empty Rooms" at the 2026 Academy Awards.

Joshua Seftel and Conall Jones have won the Oscar for Best Documentary Short Film for "All the Empty Rooms" at the 2026 Academy Awards.

The film documents the bedrooms left behind when children are killed in school shootings.

Gloria Cazares, whose 9-year-old daughter Jackie was killed in the 2022 Robb Elementary School mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, and whose bedroom was among those included in the documentary, spoke onstage as the filmmakers accepted the Oscar.

Since Jackie's murder, "her bedroom has been frozen in time," Cazares said.

"Jackie is more than just a headline. She is our light and our life," she said. "Gun violence is now the No. 1 cause of death in kids and teens. We believe that if the world could see their empty bedrooms, we would be a different America. Thank you."

Other nominees in the category were "Armed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud," "Children No More: 'Were and Are Gone'," "The Devil is Busy" and "Perfectly a Strangeness."

Joe Letteri, Richard Baneham, Eric Saindon and Daniel Barrett have won the Oscar for Best Visual Effects for "Avatar: Fire and Ash" at the 2026 Academy Awards.

Joe Letteri, Richard Baneham, Eric Saindon and Daniel Barrett have won the Oscar for Best Visual Effects for "Avatar: Fire and Ash" at the 2026 Academy Awards.

With this win, all three of James Cameron's "Avatar" movies have won the Oscar for Best Visual Effects.

Other nominees in the category included "F1" (Ryan Tudhope, Nicolas Chevallier, Robert Harrington, and Keith Dawson); "Jurassic World Rebirth" (David Vickery, Stephen Aplin, Charmaine Chan, and Neil Corbould); "The Lost Bus" (Charlie Noble, David Zaretti, Russell Bowen, and Brandon K. McLaughlin); and "Sinners" (Michael Ralla, Espen Nordahl, Guido Wolter, and Donnie Dean).

Production designer Tamara Deverell and set decorator Shane Vieau of the film "Frankenstein" won the Academy Award for best production design.

Other nominees were "Hamnet" (production designer Fiona Crombie and set decorator Alice Felton), "Marty Supreme" (production designer Jack Fisk and set decorator Adam Willis), "One Battle After Another" (production designer Florencia Martin and set decorator Anthony Carlino), and "Sinners" (production designer Hannah Beachler and set decorator Monique Champagne).