Jessie Buckley shared the name of her daughter for the first time while accepting the award for Best Actress at the Oscars on Sunday evening in Los Angeles.

The Hamnet star, 36, who became the first Irish woman to win the gong on the night, dedicated her history-making award to the ‘beautiful chaos of a mother’s heart’.

Jessie confirmed in December she had welcomed her first child ‘earlier that year’, after becoming pregnant a week after filming wrapped on Hamnet.

The actress had so far kept her little girl’s name under wraps, but sharing her moniker during her acceptance speech, Jessie revealed her child is called Isla.

Speaking on stage at the Dolby Theatre, she said: ‘Chloe and Maggie, you too get to know this incandescent woman, and journey to understand the capacity of a mother’s love is the greatest collision of my life.

‘It’s Mother’s Day in the UK today, but I would like to dedicate this to the beautiful chaos of a mother’s heart.

‘We all come from a lineage of women who continue to create against the odds, thank you for recognising me in this role, this is the greatest honour, I can’t believe it.’

Jessie paid a touching tribute to her family, including her husband Freddie Sorensen and their daughter Isla, eight months.

She said: ‘My family, my Irish family, they’re all here tonight. Ireland bought them flights — where are you? Mom, dad, thank you for teaching us to dream and to never be defined by expectation, but to carve from your own passion.

‘You, Fred, I love you. You’re the most incredible dad, you’re my best friend and I want to have 20,000 more babies with you.

‘Isla, who is eight months and has no idea what is going on and is probably dreaming of milk. But this is a big deal and I love you, I love being your mum and I can’t wait to discover life with you.’

Jessie took the time to recognise the work of her fellow nominees, Emma Stone (Bugonia), Rose Byrne (If I Had Legs I’d Kick You), Renate Reinsve (Sentimental Value) and Kate Hudson (Song Sung Blue).

She gushed: ‘Thank you to the incredible women that I stand beside. I am inspired by your art and your heart, and I want to work with every single one of you.’

Anora star Mikey Madison, last year’s winner in the same category, presented the award to Jessie.

Jessie has so far racked up a slew of wins at earlier ceremonies across awards season and was the favourite to take home the Oscar.

Jessie played Agnes, the wife of Shakespeare and the mother of the titular Hamnet, in the Chloe Zhao-directed film.

The film was nominated in the following categories: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score, Best Casting, Best Production Design and Best Costume Design. 

Earlier during the awards season, she received her flowers at the Actor Awards (formerly known as SAG), the BAFTAs, the Critics’ Choice Awards and the Golden Globes for her performance in the raw and emotional drama piece. 

She was previously nominated in the category of Best Supporting Actress for her performance in The Lost Daughter back in 2022.

Last year, Chloe opened up about casting Jessie and lauded her performance as Agnes.

‘I knew her work,’ the Oscar-winning filmmaker told IndieWire in November 2025. ‘I had a feeling that she wouldn’t be afraid. There was no vanity in her, which is what Fran McDormand had.’ 

Chloe continued: ‘I’m neurodivergent, and when there’s dissonance, I can’t function. I can’t look at the person. So I need that authenticity, and vanity is the number-one enemy of authenticity. 

‘Actors, their greatest blessing they can give to the world is their authenticity and their humanness.’

One Battle After Another ended the 2026 awards season by winning Best Picture on a night where Michael B Jordan and Jessie earned top acting prizes.

Michael, 39, shocked the world at the 98th Academy Awards as he upset Timothee Chalamet to win Best Actor for Sinners.

Paul Thomas Anderson accepted the top prize of the night alongside Teyana Taylor and the rest of the cast and crew as the film earned the most wins of the night with six. 

The American black comedy action-thriller film triumphed over a massive, competitive, field  including: Bugonia, F1, Frankenstein, Hamnet, Marty Supreme, The Secret Agent, Sentimental Value, Sinners, and Train Dreams.

The Leonardo DiCaprio-led film One Battle After Another is centred around a group of ex-revolutionaries who reunite to rescue the daughter of one of their own as their enemy resurfaces after 16 years. 

The most talked about moment of the night will surely be that Michael earned the top honor Best Actor for his leading role in Ryan Coogler’s film Sinners. 

He upset favourite throughout award season 30-year-old Timothee, who starred in Marty Supreme, as the field included: Leonardo DiCaprio – One Battle After Another, Ethan Hawke – Blue Moon, and Wagner Moura – The Secret Agent.

Jordan was in disbelief as he walked up to the stage and was greeted by last year’s winner Adrien Brody.

Sinners is about two brothers who return to their hometown to start again only to discover that an even greater evil – in the form of vampires – is waiting to welcome them back. 

Michael portrayed both brothers in the film: older and more serious twin Elijah ‘Smoke’ Moore in addition to younger and more cheerful sibling Elias ‘Stack’ Moore.

One Battle After Another was the biggest winner of the evening as Paul Thomas Anderson earned both Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay.

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The 2026 Oscars marked a huge night for Michael B. Jordan and Jessie Buckley, who triumphed in the most coveted categories, best actor and best actress.

Hosted for the second time by Conan O’Brien, the 98th Academy Awards saw Hollywood’s biggest names descend on the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles for a celebration of another epic 12 months of cinema.

Ahead of the night, Ryan Coogler’s horror/action blockbuster Sinners led the way with a record-breaking 16 nominations, while acting titans including Leonardo DiCaprio, Emma Stone, Ethan Hawke, and Kate Hudson had hopes of winning big.

Jordan’s portrayal of the dual role of twin brothers Smoke and Stack in Sinners ultimately secured him a leading gong, as did Buckley’s performance as Agnes Shakespeare in Hamnet.

Meanwhile, it was Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another that emerged the most decorated, taking home six of its 13 noms. This included best picture and Anderson’s first-ever Oscar win after 14 nominations.

Taking to the stage for his acceptance speech, Jordan, 39, was visibly stunned, taking to the mic and declaring: ‘God is good.

‘I stand here because of the people that came before me,’ he continued, name-checking Sidney Poitier, Denzel Washington, Halle Berry, Jamie Foxx, Forest Whitaker, and Will Smith.

‘To be amongst those giants, amongst those greats, amongst my ancestors, amongst my guys. Thank you, everybody in this room and everybody at home for supporting me over my career. I feel it.

‘I know you guys want me to do well, and I want to do that because you guys bet on me. So thank you for keep betting on me, and I’m gonna keep stepping up, and I’m gonna keep being the best version of myself I could be.’

His gratitude undeniable, he concluded: ‘Thank you for everybody in this room that has something to do with my success.

‘I love you guys and everybody at home who supported Sinners, who went to go see the movie, once, twice, three, four or five times, thank you, because you guys made this movie what it is. I love you. I love you. I love you.’

Jordan faced competition from DiCaprio (One Battle After Another), Hawke (Blue Moon), Timothée Chalamet (Marty Supreme), and Wagner Moura (The Secret Agent), but proved the bookies right as he collected the golden statue, having been the favourite with odds of over 50%.

And when it came to best actress, Buckley’s winning moment was equally emotional as she hugged her husband, Freddie Sorensen, and her ecstatic co-star Paul Mescal.

Through tears, the Irish actress, 36, dedicated the award to the ‘beautiful chaos of a mother’s heart’.

‘This is really something,’ she began in disbelief. ‘Thank you to the incredible women that I stand beside. I am inspired by your art and your heart, and I want to work with every single one of you.

‘Mum, Dad, thank you for teaching us to dream and to never be defined by expectation but to carve from your own passion.’

She went on to note that it is Mother’s Day in the UK: ‘We all come from a lineage of women who continue to create against all odds.’

‘Thank you for recognising me in this role,’ Buckley finished off. ‘This is the greatest honour. I can’t even believe it.’

Other main categories saw the cast and crew of action-thriller One Battle After Another collect best picture, during which Anderson, who also bagged best director, said proudly: ‘What a night. Let’s have a martini. This is pretty amazing!’

The filmmaker also used the night to honour his friend ‘on the other side of the shadows’, Adam Somner, who was Anderson’s long-time collaborator and died in 2024 before the film was released.

Anderson said: ‘He’s at the bar having a gin and tonic, and he’s so happy for me.’

Looking at the award, he added: ‘There will always be some doubt that you deserve it, but there is no doubt in the pleasure at having it for myself.’

Other notable wins of the night came from the supporting actor and actress categories, which went to Sean Penn and Amy Madigan, respectively.

For Penn, it was his third Oscar thanks to his portrayal of corrupt military officer Col. Steven J. Lockjaw in One Battle After Another, and for Madigan, following a successful awards season run, she added another accolade to her collection for playing the villainous Aunt Gladys in horror flick Weapons.

While Penn, 65, stayed true to tradition by opting not to attend, Field of Dreams star Madigan, 75, told the audience how ‘overwhelmed’ she felt upon winning.

Referring to her husband of more than 40 years, she said: ‘The most important is my beloved Ed, who’s been with me forever, and that’s a long-ass time, and none of this would mean anything if he wasn’t by my side.

‘Thank you, I’m very overwhelmed.’

Further winners included Netflix hit Kpop Demon Hunters, which took two prizes, for best original song for Golden, plus best animated feature film, whole

And, interestingly, in the best live-action short film category, there was a tie for the seventh time in Oscars history, meaning it was won by both Two People Exchanging Saliva and The Singers.

After the winners left the stage, host O’Brien congratulated them and quipped: ‘You just ruined 22 million Oscar pools.’

The first tie came in 1932, while the last was in 2012, when Skyfall and Zero Dark Thirty both took home best sound editing.

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The 2026 awards season is set to come to a spectacular close on Sunday with the Oscars, the glitzy climax of months of campaigning – and the final say on the best movies of the year.

With varied winners across the categories in industry ceremonies over the past few months, it’s an excitingly hard-to-predict culmination at the 98th Academy Awards.

Jessie Buckley’s best actress win for her gut-wrenchingly raw performance in Hamnet is considered the only sure bet, although Sinners goes into the evening as the most nominated film in history with a massive 16.

But there is robust competition from the likes of satirical thriller One Battle After Another, the gorgeously evocative Train Dreams, and the stunning cohort of international features, including Sentimental Value, It Was Just an Accident and The Secret Agent.

There’s also the high-octane Marty Supreme (if recent bad press for both director Josh Safdie and leading man Timothée Chalamet hasn’t damaged its chances) and the beautiful artistry of Frankenstein.

So as nominees, celebrities, and guests prepare to don their grandest gladrags, here are my predictions for who will walk away with the ultimate prizes.

Best director

A category that’s shown little variation so far, the Oscars have previous winner Chloé Zhao for Hamnet, Ryan Coogler for Sinners, Paul Thomas Anderson for One Battle After Another, Josh Safdie for Marty Supreme, and Joachim Trier for Sentimental Value in play.

They all helmed some of the most popular films of the past year and represent a great variety of genres, from drama to horror to sports biopic to thriller and period drama weepie.

However, it’s been widely predicted – since even before official nominations were announced – that it will finally be Anderson’s year to win. He has amassed a whopping 14 nods in the screenplay, picture, and director fields over the past nearly 30 years without a single win yet.

He’s so far picked up the Bafta, Golden Globe, and Critics’ Choice Award this year, too.

However, he faces stiff competition from Coogler for the win, another filmmaker who, while earlier in his career, has already had a major impact on cinema with Black Panther and Creed. And then came Sinners’ record-breaking run of nominations…

Prediction: Paul Thomas Anderson

Dark horse: Ryan Coogler

Best actress in a leading role

Let’s not beat about the bush; Jessie Buckley is the overwhelming favourite and has been for months.

Claiming every prize so far on the road to the Oscars, the Irish star is rightfully having her moment to shine after her astonishingly vulnerable turn as William Shakespeare’s grieving wife, Agnes.

She’d already convinced me she was Oscar-worthy when she was first nominated in 2022 for The Lost Daughter in the supporting actress category, more than holding her own opposite Olivia Colman in an intimate generational drama.

Her fellow nominees are Rose Byrne for her deliciously chaotic performance in If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (the only other person I’d be happy to see triumph after the role of a lifetime), as well as Kate Hudson for Song Sung Blue (a sentimental but sweet nod, years after she was last nominated for Almost Famous).

Renate Reinsve (Sentimental Value) and Emma Stone (Bugonia) complete the category with effortlessly good performances too, ones that could easily win in another year – but this one is a comfortable bet.

Prediction: Jessie Buckley

Dark horse: Rose Byrne 

Best actor in a leading role

This is where we reach some of the most unpredictable territory, with a category that’s had fluctuating frontrunners and winners during this awards season.

Timothée Chalamet started the year as a favourite as audiences revelled in the pacing and audacity of Marty Supreme, picking up a Golden Globe for best actor in the comedy or musical category, while The Secret Agent’s Wagner Moura won in the drama category. Some fancied him as the eventual Oscar winner after he scooped the best actor prize at Cannes, too, where the film premiered.

DiCaprio was beaten by Chalamet already at the Globes in January, but for an established acting icon on his eighth Academy Award nomination, it seems foolish to ever truly rule him out.

Ethan Hawke hasn’t had enough fanfare for my liking, though, given his outstanding turn as the witty but petty lyricist Lorenz Hart in Blue Moon, watching the beginning of the end of his successful musical partnership with Richard Rodgers on the opening night of Oklahoma! on Broadway.

It’s a gorgeously theatrical performance in the best way, thanks to Hawke’s live-wire interpretation, and if Academy voters were in a sentimental mood, I could see them making him a surprise winner. It would also mark the 55-year-old’s first Oscar after five nominations (although it’s been lovely to witness his enjoyment over just being along for the ride).

But the odds are currently in Michael B. Jordan’s favour for his technically accomplished (and just genuinely impressive) performance as twins Smoke and Stack in boundary-pushing vampire horror Sinners. A first-time nominee at 39, he’s not too young to fall by the wayside in a category not often dominated by young men – and he also picked up the Actor Award for his performance just a couple of weeks ago.

Prediction: Michael B. Jordan

Dark horse: Ethan Hawke

Best actress in a supporting role

Another pretty open race, Amy Madigan has furthered her successful season after following up her surprise win at the Critics’ Choice Awards for Weapons with the Actor Award as well. There’s also some neat symmetry in a win for her, as 2026 marks 40 years since her first nomination for the very fittingly titled Twice in a Lifetime.

Meanwhile, Wunmi Mosaku was the hometown hero honoured at the Baftas for Sinners, and Teyana Taylor got the Golden Globe for One Battle After Another.

While Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas and Elle Fanning are both wonderful in the nuanced (and funny) family drama Sentimental Value – which their nominations attest to – they are perhaps the least likely winners of the Oscar in this category.

Taylor’s turn in One Battle is a force to be reckoned with in one of the most instantly iconic and provocative female roles written in a good while – that of fierce revolutionary leader Perfidia Beverly Hills. And Taylor only rose to the occasion of acting opposite Sean Penn and Leonardo DiCaprio. 

Prediction: Teyana Taylor

Dark horse: Amy Madigan

Best actor in a supporting role

My gut for this category is telling me Sean Penn; whether he turns up to the Oscars or not is another matter entirely.

He’s been well-recognised by the Academy in the past (he won his last two nominations), and has already scooped the Bafta and Actor Award for playing the repulsive and unhinged villain Colonel Lockjaw in One Battle After Another.

His popularity makes it unlikely co-star Benicio del Toro will break through as the supporting actor winner at this stage, although it’s been satisfying to see two such different performances from the same movie celebrated.

Jacob Elordi did win the Critics’ Choice Award in January after his transformative role in Frankenstein, but it feels more like an outside bet.

Penn’s main competition comes down to the two acting veterans in his category, both first-time Oscar nominees with storied careers – which Academy voters tend to like to recognise.

Sinners’ Delroy Lindo is widely considered to have been snubbed when he didn’t get nominated for Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods in 2021, meaning now could be his moment – especially with the love the Academy has shown for his film.

Meanwhile, Stellan Skarsgård was anointed an Oscar nominee by the public back in May after Sentimental Value’s Cannes premiere and, like Lindo, has really pulled a shift promoting the work. And without getting morbid, after a period of health challenges, this could be now or never for the Swedish thespian.

Prediction: Sean Penn

Dark horse: Stellan Skarsgård

Best picture

Finally, we come to the biggie, crowning the definitive best movie of the year (well, sometimes) from a crowded field of 10.

It’s the first time these specific 10 have gone up against each other, as previous awards do tend to work from shorter nominee lists or split categories.

January’s Critics’ Choice Awards was the last – and previously only – time 10 were in direct competition, from which One Battle After Another emerged victorious; however, Jay Kelly and Wicked: For Good were among those candidates, and we now have The Secret Agent (exceptional) and blockbuster F1 (a crowd-pleaser).

Seeing as One Battle also won the Bafta for best film, it’s in pole position to take the prize at the Oscars, unless Sinners converts some of its groundbreaking nomination recognition. It’s the top dog of the evening, whereas One Battle was at the Baftas.

Frankenstein and Bugonia, while admirable films, never truly hit the zeitgeist in the same way as those; Sentimental Value and Train Dreams are quieter nominees I wish more had made the effort to see.

Hamnet had its expected triumph at the Baftas as a British film, but all awards attention and expectation seems to have naturally gathered around Buckley, while Marty Supreme has drifted since it failed to break through from the pack with quite so many nominations as One Battle and Sinners.

This category will truly be the battle of those titans, and anything else clinching this prize will be a shock victory.

Prediction: Sinners (by a hair)

Dark horse (if you can call it that): One Battle After Another

The 98th Annual Academy Awards airs on Sunday from 10:15pm on ITV and ITVX in the UK.

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Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal have sparked outrage for their anti-cat declarations in a resurfaced interview.

The pair have come under fire for saying ‘f**k cats’, unprovoked, and no, we don’t mean that infamous 2019 film.

While promoting Hamnet on the Happy Sad Confused podcast in November, the duo slipped in the confession that they are distinctly not cat people.

‘I don’t like cats,’ Jessie, 36, admitted rather sheepishly before Paul, 30, said ‘F**k cats’ with his whole chest.

Host Josh Horowitz warned the stars that such a bold declaration could be career-ruining, but The Bride! actress doubled down.

She laughed and revealed: ‘My husband, when I started dating him, he had two cats. This is bad so I’m going to get cancelled. But one of the cats was like, a pedigree model b***h.

‘And she staged like a coup against me. I’d come home and there’d just be like, poo on the pillow. And I was like, “It’s me or the cats.”‘

Jessie apparently ‘won’ that battle, but her and Paul’s feline discrimination has not gone down well.

‘Well, Hamnet’s not winning anything at the Oscars FOR SURE now,’ declared the Reddit poster LawrenceBrolivier, with a hint of sarcasm.

Glimmhilde wrote: ‘Getting rid of your pets for someone is crazy. Asking someone to do that is even crazier.’

‘So vile making someone getting rid of their pets. and her husband is a loser for doing so,’ agreed Kate4everBae.

On X, fans voiced that disliking cats was one thing, but forcing your partner to rehome their pets was a ‘red flag’.

‘I like Jessie Buckley a lot as an actress, but her gleefully retelling the story of giving her husband the ultimatum of rehoming his cats when they got together… not to be dramatic, but that genuinely makes me think less of her,’ texasrozanov said.

MissLSW added: ‘Jessie Buckley admitted in an interview that she hates cats so much she made her husband get rid of his when they met. And laughed about it like it’s funny. Knew there was a reason I couldn’t warm to her.’

However, Paul and Jessie aren’t the only ones taking aim at cats recently, with American rapper Doechii clashing with fans over her feline faux pas.

‘People act like it’s a crime to dislike cats when they genuinely aren’t friendly animals,’ she boldly claimed on Threads.

Explaining her position the Alter Ego singer said: ‘They don’t wanna be domestic, just leave em alone! Like it’s not organic, I’m sorrryyy be fr it’s rare that cats are immediately lovey without years of pain and work put in.

‘Y’all be scratched and beat tf up by your own animals, I can’t lmaoooo’.

Fans pointed out that cats not wanting to be around humans is largely a misconception; it’s just that they’re not as human-focused as dogs.

One research paper found that cats are ‘quite concerned about their owners’, monitoring their actions and anticipating our next moves.

Dr Carlo Siracusa told The Guardian: ‘Cats can’t make long-term plans. Some people think that [when] they leave the house, and their cat poops on the couch, it is so that when I return I have a nasty experience.

‘But cats do not have the ability to plan ahead in this way.’

He insisted that cats do get attached to humans but we’re just not great at understanding their behaviour, as our kisses and cuddles are not their way of interacting.

‘Cats don’t do anything like that. They are much more elegant,’ he explained. ‘They approach us. They bump their heads. Then they have some contact with us and walk away.’

Doechii ended up fighting with cat owners in her comments, telling them they were ‘too worked up’ over her comments.

She teased that the ‘feeling is mutual’ when told maybe cats don’t like her, refusing to back down except to tell one fan their cat has ‘pretty eyes’.

Looks like bizarre celebrity question this month might be their feelings on cats, someone better call Taylor Swift immediately for balance.

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By CASSIE CARPENTER, US SHOWBUSINESS REPORTER

Published: 23:56 EST, 3 March 2026 | Updated: 00:24 EST, 4 March 2026

The Actor Awards, formerly known as the Screen Actors Guild Awards, have finally arrived – and as A-list stars descend upon the red carpet, there are sure to be some seriously wild and memorable fashion fails tonight.

The big event, which takes place at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, will honor this year’s biggest performances in film and television.

The winners are decided upon by active members of the SAG-AFTRA union, and this year, some of the biggest names in Hollywood are nominated across the various categories.

The awards show comes as the Oscars loom just two weeks away, set for March 15. 

Timothee Chalamet, Leonardo DiCaprio, Ethan Hawke, Michael B. Jordan, and Jesse Plemons are all competing for Best Male Actor in a Leading Role, while Jessie Buckley, Rose Byrne, Kate Hudson, Chase Infiniti and Emma Stone are up against each other for Best Female Actor in a Leading Role.

Many of this year’s hit movies are also up for nominations in Best Cast in a Motion Picture – including Marty Supreme, Hamnet, One Battle After Another, Sinners, and Frankenstein. 

Ahead of tonight’s ceremony, stars attended the awards in a slew of sartorial nightmares and over-the-top outfits.

The Daily Mail has rounded up the biggest fashion faux pas from the 2026 Actor Awards.