2026 Oscars live chat: We break down biggest winners, best speeches and more

Follow our unrecorded chat arsenic Times columnists Mary McNamara and Glenn Whipp interruption down the large winners, champion performances, astir memorable moments and much from the 2026 Oscars.

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3:51 p.m. The clip is throwing maine too, particularly truthful adjacent to the daylight savings change-up. I support reasoning astir Maggie Smith’s large enactment successful “California Suite”: “No pistillate tin beryllium expected to look bully astatine 4 p.m. but Tatum O’Neal” — who was a kid astatine the time. Which is conscionable different mode of maine saying “I miss Maggie Smith.” — M.M.

Maggie Smith would beryllium my imagination red-carpet interviewer. It’s hot! We request a small frostiness! “So, Mr. Chalamet ... person you brought your opera glasses to the show?” — G.W.

3:46 p.m. Quick question, Glenn. Will this beryllium the hottest Oscars ever? As in, literally. Today has been a spot cooler than past fewer days, and adjacent fewer days, but still. My upwind app conscionable said 85 degrees successful Hollywood, which is beauteous blistery for March. No 1 seems to beryllium visibly sweating, astir apt due to the fact that astir of reddish carpet is covered. And I conjecture it’s amended than rain. Still I consciousness for those successful agelong sleeves and/or tons of sequins. — M.M.

It feels similar September Emmy weather, Mary! And I’m inactive getting utilized to this caller commencement time. There’s excessively overmuch daylight for the Oscars to beryllium starting successful 10 minutes. — G.W.

3:40 p.m. Here we are again astatine the Oscars, Mary, erstwhile again an hr earlier and with much questions than accustomed heading into the ceremony. Who is going to triumph the pb histrion Oscar? Timothée Chalamet? Michael B. Jordan? Leonardo DiCaprio? I’ve misread this class truthful thoroughly this twelvemonth they could unfastened the envelope, accidental the sanction of an histrion not adjacent nominated and I would think, “Yes! Of course!” Will Sean Penn triumph his 3rd Oscar? Will Paul Thomas Anderson person his archetypal 3 Oscars by the extremity of the evening? Will the academy troll Chalamet (and the remainder of us) with an interpretative creation performance? What’s connected your caput arsenic we hole to ticker this year’s show? — G.W.

Glenn! Is this the antheral usually truthful wide and assured astir his well-calculated predictions that I, with my much emotion-based hopes, often privation to scream? Already the amusement is much absorbing and it hasn’t adjacent started! I person been rooting for “Sinners” since I saw it astir a twelvemonth agone — vampires haven’t been utilized with specified spot-on metaphoric resonance since Bram Stoker wrote “Dracula.” And arsenic I person said before, Michael B. Jordan gives 2 fine, almighty performances to his chap nominees’ one. I ideate determination volition beryllium a ballet/opera gag oregon two, though that brouhaha occurred aft voting closed truthful if Chalamet does not win, nary hatred should beryllium directed astatine the Royal Opera company. I americium mostly funny successful if/how existent events, including the warfare successful Iran and the protests against ICE, are mentioned successful immoderate way. Especially fixed the politico-cultural themes of immoderate of the apical nominees. — M.M.

If Sean Penn and Amy Madigan, noted pot-stirrers, triumph Oscars, arsenic I deliberation they might, and don’t accidental thing astir existent events, past tin safely accidental we’ve entered highest disconnect betwixt what’s happening successful the satellite and what’s taking spot wrong the privileged abstraction of awards shows. Many (most?) viewers astir apt wouldn’t person a occupation with that benignant of disengagement. People booed Michael Moore astatine the 2003 Oscars erstwhile helium spoke retired against the warfare successful Iraq. Some cheered him on. It takes guts to get up connected that large signifier and talk out. I’m besides funny to spot if that happens tonight. — G.W.

True, and nary uncertainty astir folks astatine Oscars are much acrophobic with authorities of industry, peculiarly what David Ellison’s takeover of Warner Bros. volition mean for aboriginal of moviemaking. Especially fixed the information that, betwixt “Sinners” and “One Battle After Another,” Warner Bros. volition beryllium cleaning up. Conan O’Brien is simply a jocular, wise-cracky big who volition apt eschew contention but helium whitethorn not beryllium capable to defy taking a jab astatine the messy conflict for the studio, which saw Netflix fold. Ted Sarandos has been known to instrumentality a joke; we whitethorn find retired if Ellison can. In immoderate case, I’m gladsome to spot Conan backmost — helium brings a large side-eye vigor to the proceedings and seems perfectly astatine location connected that big, sumptuously dressed stage, which is fractional the battle. — M.M.