{"id":17369,"date":"2026-03-16T11:56:36","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T11:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/warner-bros-dominates-oscars-with-11-wins-ahead-of-its-acquisition-by-paramount\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T11:56:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T11:56:36","slug":"warner-bros-dominates-oscars-with-11-wins-ahead-of-its-acquisition-by-paramount","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/warner-bros-dominates-oscars-with-11-wins-ahead-of-its-acquisition-by-paramount\/","title":{"rendered":"Warner Bros. dominates Oscars with 11 wins ahead of its acquisition by Paramount"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">Ahead of its acquisition by Paramount Skydance, Warner Bros. dominated the 2026 Oscars with 11 wins primarily for Ryan Coogler&rsquo;s <em>Sinners<\/em> and Paul Thomas Anderson&rsquo;s <em>One Battle After Another.<\/em> Netflix also put in a strong showing with seven Academy Awards, including two for <em>KPop Demon Hunters<\/em> and three for Guillermo Del Toro&rsquo;s <em>Frankenstein<\/em><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">All told, dedicated streaming services chalked up eight awards, but were shut out of the major prizes. <em>Frankenstein<\/em> took the trophies for for Best Production Design, Best Costume Design and Best Makeup and Hairstyling, while <em>KPop Demon Hunters<\/em> took Best Animated Feature and Best original Song. Netflix also took prizes for <em>All The Empty Rooms<\/em> (Best Documentary Short Film) and <em>The Singers<\/em> (Best Live Action Short Film). Apple TV garnered the other streaming service Oscar for <em>F1<\/em> (Best Sound).<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">Warner Bros. dominated the more prestigious awards. The studio took its first Oscar for Best Picture (<em>One Battle After Another) <\/em>since <em>Argo<\/em> won in 2012, while also winning Anderson the prizes for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay, and giving Sean Penn the Best Supporting Actor Oscar. <em>Sinners<\/em>, meanwhile, won for Best Cinematography, giving Autumn Durald Arkapaw the first ever win for a woman and woman of color in that category. Michael B. Jordan took the Best Actor prize for that film, while Director Ryan Coogler won for Best Original Screenplay.<\/p>\n<div class=\"col-fullbleed mb-4 bg-marshmallow pb-5 dark:bg-ramones md:invisible md:mb-0 md:h-0 md:overflow-hidden md:pb-0\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-nowrap justify-center\">\n<div class=\"flex\" id=\"_R_lgb7b4ilfaiv5tilbH1_\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-body mb-4 hidden pb-5 dark:bg-ramones md:block\">\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-nowrap justify-center\">\n<div class=\"flex\" id=\"_R_15gb7b4ilfaiv5tilbH1_\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/12-weeks-jail-for-school-it-support-technician-who-took-upskirt-videos-of-teachers\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">&lt;div&gt;12 weeks' jail for school IT support technician who took upskirt videos of teachers&lt;\/div&gt;<\/span><\/a><\/div><p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">Other notable acting prizes were won by Jessie Buckley (Best Actress, Hamnet) and Amy Madigan (Best Support Actress, Weapons).<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">Host Conan O&rsquo;Brien joked that it was the &ldquo;first time in a theater&rdquo; for Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos. It remains to be seen, however, whether Netflix losing out to Paramount Skydance on the Warner Bros. acquisition will be to the film industry&rsquo;s benefit or detriment. One clear loser of late is broadcast television as the 2026 Oscars will be the third-to-last aired by Walt Disney&rsquo;s ABC, with YouTube set to stream the ceremony exclusively starting in 2029.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>Warner Bros. dominates Oscars with 11 wins ahead of its acquisition by Paramount<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of its acquisition by Paramount Skydance, Warner Bros. dominated the 2026 Oscars with 11 wins primarily for Ryan Coogler&rsquo;s Sinners and Paul Thomas Anderson&rsquo;s One Battle After Another. Netflix also put in a strong showing with seven Academy Awards, including two for KPop Demon Hunters and three for Guillermo Del Toro&rsquo;s Frankenstein. All told,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/warner-bros-dominates-oscars-with-11-wins-ahead-of-its-acquisition-by-paramount\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Warner Bros. dominates Oscars with 11 wins ahead of its acquisition by Paramount&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17370,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}