Oscars 2026: Records That Could Be Broken

Tobias Fanta Sports Betting Expert

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UPDATE:

After the 98th Academy Awards, VegasInsider has updated its list of all the records that were broken at the 2026 ceremony:

You can see the full list of all the records that were broken at the 2026 Oscars in detail below, divided by categories. 

OVERALL

• Sean Penn (who won in the Best Supporting Actor category for “One Battle After Another”) became only the fourth male actor to ever win 3 acting Oscars, joining Daniel Day-Lewis, Jack Nicholson and Walter Brennan - Penn previously won in the Best Actor category for “Milk” & “Mystic River”
• Amy Madigan (who won for “Weapons” in the Best Supporting Actress category) set a new record for an actress with the longest gap between a first nomination and a first victory at the Oscars - her 2026 win is 40 years and 1 month after her first Oscar nomination, which she received for “Twice In A Lifetime” at the 58th Oscars (the previous record holder amongst actresses was Geraldine Page who won for “The Trip To Bountiful” at the 1986 Oscars 32 years,1 month after her first nomination for “Hondo” at the 1954 Oscars)

BEST ACTRESS

• Jessie Buckley (who won for “Hamnet”) became the first Irish actress to ever win in the Best Actress category

BEST ACTOR

• Michael B. Jordan (who won for “Sinners”) became the first individual to win in the Best Actor category for playing twins - in “Sinners”, he plays both Smoke and Stack (*some do consider Lee Marvin’s win for “Cat Ballou” in 1965 to be a twins performance win, but it was never unambiguously confirmed that the two characters were twins)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

• Autumn Durald Arkapaw (who won for “Sinners”) became the first woman to ever win in the Best Cinematography category as well as the first black cinematographer to ever win

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

• Dianne Warren (nominated for “Dear Me”) officially broke her tie with Greg P. Russell and she became the sole holder of the record for the most nominations without a win with 17 nominations. As a side note, Warren set another record by becoming the first individual to earn an Oscar nomination in the Best Original Song category for 9 consecutive years - her current run started in 2018, making 2026 her 9th consecutive nomination, thus breaking her previous tie with Sammy Cahn who earned 8 consecutive nominations in the category between 1955 and 1962
• Ejae, 24, Ido & Teddy Park (who won for co-writing “Golden”) became the first South Koreans to win in the Best Original Song category; additionally, “Golden” became a first K-Pop song to win an Oscar

BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE

• Norway (“Sentimental Value”) won their first Oscar in the Best International Feature category at the Oscars on their 7th nomination in the category

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

• Maggie Kang & Michelle L.M. Wong (who won for “K-Pop Demon Hunters”) became the first individuals of South Korean descent to ever win in the Best Animated Feature category

BEST SHORT FILM (LIVE ACTION) 

• For the 7th time in history, a tie occurred in one of the Oscar categories after “The Singers” and “Two People Exchanging Saliva” won at the 2026 Oscars - interestingly, Best Short Film (Live Action) became the first category with multiple ties in different years since there was also a tie in the category in 1995

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Ahead of the 98th Academy Awards, VegasInsider has collected a list of records that could be broken at the 2026 ceremony.

To highlight a few of the records that could be broken:

1. “Sinners”, which already broke the record for the most Oscar nominations received in one year by a film (16 nominations), could also break the record for the most Oscars won in one night, which is currently jointly held with 11 wins each by “Ben-Hur”, “Titanic” & “The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King”; the record for the most wins could also be broken by “One Battle After Another”, which received 13 nominations (however, 2 of those are in one category, so unless a rare occurrence of a tie happens, they can win up to 12 awards).

2. Chloé Zhao (nominated for “Hamnet”) could become the first woman to ever win twice in the Best Director category - Zhao previously won for "Nomadland".

3. Sean Penn (nominated in the Best Supporting Actor category for “One Battle After Another”) could become only the fourth male actor to ever win 3 acting Oscars, joining Daniel Day-Lewis, Jack Nicholson and Walter Brennan - Penn previously won in the Best Actor category for “Milk” & “Mystic River”.

4. Wagner Moura (nominated for “The Secret Agent”) could become the first Brazilian to win in the Best Actor category (or any acting category), Jessie Buckley (nominated for “Hamnet”) could become the first Irish actress to ever win in the Best Actress category while Renate Reinsve (nominated for “Sentimental Value”) could become the first Norwegian actress to ever win in the Best Actress category. Additionally, Wunmi Mosaku (nominated for “Sinners”) could become the first Nigerian actress to ever win in Best Supporting Actress category (and the first Nigerian to win in any Oscar category).

5. Timothée Chalamet (nominated for “Marty Supreme”) could become the first male actor to ever win for acting and producing in the same evening, and only the second individual to ever do so, joining Frances McDormand who won for both acting and producing “Nomadland” in 2021; Emma Stone (nominated for “Bugonia”) could also join Frances McDormand as only the second actress to ever win for producing and acting in one evening.

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Tobias Fanta

Tobias is a Digital PR Manager and he creates research focused on sports and entertainment; his research has appeared in Sports Illustrated, Forbes, The New York Times, Time Magazine & more. More from Tobias Fanta