Another lively award season has come to an end after the 2026 Oscars rolled out the red carpet for the year’s top talent, including big winners like Michael B. Jordan, Jessie Buckley, and Paul Thomas Anderson. Host Conan O’Brien kicked the evening off with a Weapons-inspired run through the backgrounds of the year’s Best Picture nominees, which was later followed by an In Memoriam that paid homage to beloved talent who died in the last year, including Rob Reiner, Diane Keaton, Catherine O’Hara, and Robert Redford, as remembered by some of their close friends and collaborators like Barbra Streisand and Billy Crystal.
As always, only a chosen few took home the coveted golden statues. Writer-director Guillermo del Toro’s Gothic sci-fi film Frankenstein won the prizes for Best Production Design, Best Costume Design, and Best Makeup and Hairstyling. And international music sensation KPop Demon Hunters was awarded Best Animated Feature and Best Original Song for “Golden.” But that’s not all. If you’re looking for more from the performers and filmmakers who received the year’s top prizes, read on to learn about their wide-ranging movies and series available to watch on Netflix.
Paul Thomas Anderson, aka PTA, took home three of the awards that his most recent film, One Battle After Another, was nominated for at the 2026 ceremony: Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Director, and Best Picture. Previously nominated for 11 Oscars, Anderson is known for dramas including Magnolia, There Will Be Blood, and Licorice Pizza. He also directed the musical ANIMA, starring Radiohead’s Thom Yorke. The 15-minute film is part music video and part dystopian visual album, and it’s currently available to watch on Netflix.
Jessie Buckley swept the 2026 award season. After earning top prizes at the Golden Globes, BAFTAs, Critics Choice, and Actor Awards, the Irish actor won the Oscar for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her part as Shakespeare’s wife, Agnes, in writer-director Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet. Known for her work in intense films like Alex Garland’s folk horror Men and Sarah Polley’s Oscar-winning drama Women Talking, Buckley delivers more dramatic performances in The Lost Daughter, which co-stars Olivia Colman, and the psychological thriller I’m Thinking of Ending Things, in which she plays a woman who’s reassessing her relationship with her boyfriend (Jesse Plemons) on a surreal road trip to meet his family.
In writer-director Ryan Coogler’s Sinners, which won Best Original Screenplay, Michael B. Jordan portrays twin brothers, Smoke and Stack, who open a juke joint that’s targeted by vampires in 1930s Mississippi. The dual role won him his first Oscar, Best Actor in a Leading Role. Jordan first received acclaim for his performances in series like The Wire and Friday Night Lights before breaking out in Coogler’s biopic Fruitvale Station. Jordan continued to work with Coogler in Creed and its sequels, as well as Black Panther. For more Jordan on your screen, you can watch him play a loving but absent father in the superhero series Raising Dion and an interstellar pilot in Love, Death + Robots. You can also get to know more about his life and career in his episode of My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman.
Amy Madigan began her career in the ’80s, and more than four decades later, she won her first Oscar, Best Actress in a Supporting Role, for her part as the deceptively feeble Gladys in writer-director Zach Cregger’s horror flick Weapons. Madigan got her start in series including Hart to Hart and starred in movies like Love Child, The Hunt, and Twice in a Lifetime, the latter of which earned her an Oscar nomination. Madigan also co-starred with Kevin Costner in the Best Picture nominee Field of Dreams, which you can watch on Netflix.
The award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role went to Sean Penn for his part in writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another, in which he plays the villainous Steven J. Lockjaw. The movie marks Penn’s second collaboration with Anderson; the first was Licorice Pizza. Penn is known for his work in intense dramas like Dead Man Walking, Daddio, Mystic River, and Milk — with the latter two earning him Oscars — and thrillers like The Game and The Gunman.
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