Oscars 2026 live: Stars arrive on the red carpet for Hollywood’s biggest night of the year

When asked who she’s rooting for at the Oscars tonight, singer Diane Warren simply said, “Me.”

A-listers are beginning to file on to the red carpet — and here’s a peek at some of the best looks of the night so far.

Kevin O’Leary, who appeared in nominated film Marty Supreme, has arrived on the red carpet.

The award categories will be presented in the following order:

1. Supporting Actress
2. Animated Feature
3. Animated Short
4. Costume Design
5. Makeup and Hairstyling
6. Casting
7. Live Action Short
8. Supporting Actor
9. Adapted Screenplay
10. Original Screenplay
11. Production Design
12. Visual Effects
13. Documentary Short
14. Documentary Feature
15. Original Score
16. Sound
17. Film Editing
18. Cinematography
19. International Feature
20. Original Song
21. Lead Actor
22. Lead Actress
23. Director
24. Best Picture

The show, hosted by Conan O’Brien, will also include performances and an in memoriam tribute.

As stars are filing on to the red carpet, “Tipsy” singer Shaboozey has arrived wearing a black tux and silver jewelry.

The singer will perform tonight alongside actor Miles Caton and singer Brittany Howard to honor the movie Sinners, which is nominated for best original song for “I Lied To You.”

That’s the Best Picture line-up for you! And we’re now getting awfully close to the start.

A reminder that you can watch the live feed here:

Then, finally, the favourite. One Battle After Another. It would be a deserving winner any year, writes Annabel Nugent…

Finally, we have the first of the two horses in what seems for all the world to be a two-horse race.

Sinners is still the outside bet, but only slightly: it’s a blockbuster juggernaut that has only seemed to gain momentum as the awards season has progressed.

It’s not just Best Picture that Sinners stands a good chance of winning, either. Ryan Coogler’s film should be competitive in basically all of the record-breaking 16 categories it was nominated in.

Next we have Hamnet. For a while, Chloé Zhao’s historical fiction adaptation was being tipped as the film to beat One Battle to Best Picture.

Going into the evening, though it seems unlikely that Hamnet will really pose a threat – despite Jessie Buckley’s Best Actress award being perhaps the most bankable win of the whole ceremony. Bookmakers now place Hamnet’s odds of winning Best Picture at about 25-1.

Jessie Thompson argued that it really deserved to go the distance:

Marty Supreme faces a very real chance of going home empty-handed, though Chalamet may well still win Best Actor. It’d be a harsh shutout for a film that’s quite obviously one of the year’s very best.

It’s unlikely to win Best Picture at this point (between 33-1 and 50-1, per bookies), but you could make the case that it’d be a deserving winner.

Ellie Harrison did, in fact, make exactly this case!