KPop Demon Hunters Wins Best Animated Feature at 2026 Academy Awards

The Sinners cast (with Misty Copeland), Barbra Streisand, Josh Groban performed at the ceremony.

March 15, 2026 By Diep Tran

The 98th Annual Academy Awards is underway March 15 at the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood in Los Angeles. The event is being broadcast on ABC and livestreamed on Hulu. And musicals are already getting some love.

Animated movie musical KPop Demon Hunters won Best Animated Feature Film. Directors Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans, and producer Michelle L.M. Wong accepted the award. The film is up for a second Oscar for Best Original Song.

READ: KPop Demon Hunters Songwriter Says the Film Would Be an ‘Amazing’ Stage Musical

Horror movie musical Sinners won Best Original Screenplay, for director Ryan Coogler. Sinners is up for a record-breaking 16 Academy Awards.

Plus, the nominees from Best Original Song are being presented throughout the evening. First up was the musical performance from Sinners, and their nominated song "I Lied to You." Watch the film's cast, led by Miles Caton, perform the epic number (which included an appearance from ballerina Misty Copeland) above. Sinners really does care about ballet, there was also a ballerina in that sequence in the movie.

READ: Is Sinners a Musical? Yes, And

EGOT winner Barbra Streisand gave a speech honoring the late Robert Redford, and sang "The Way We Were," the Marvin Hamlisch-Alan Bergman-Marilyn Bergman song from the film the two starred in together. See her tribute below.

And Broadway favorite Josh Groban also showed up to sing a medieval-themed song about Oscar winners with host Conan O'Brien. Well that's a nice way to get played off the stage.