Continuing a long-running Oscars tradition, last year’s acting winners will return to the 2026 Academy Awards as presenters.
Best actress winner Mikey Madison (Anora), best actor winner Adrien Brody (The Brutalist), best supporting actor winner Kieran Culkin (A Real Pain) and best supporting actress winner Zoe Saldaña (Emilia Pérez) are all set to present at the 2026 Oscars.
Madison’s surprise win was among five trophies taken home by Sean Baker’s Anora, the most wins of any movie last year, including the top prize of best picture, during the 2025 ceremony.
Executive producer and showrunner Raj Kapoor and executive producer Katy Mullan announced the news Thursday as the first batch of presenters set for this year’s ceremony.
It’s unclear which awards Madison, Brody, Culkin and Saldaña will present, but in the past, the Oscars have often had the best actress and supporting actress winners present the best actor and supporting actor categories and vice versa.
This year, the Oscar nominees for best actor are Timothée Chalamet (Marty Supreme), Leonardo DiCaprio (One Battle After Another), Ethan Hawke (Blue Moon), Michael B. Jordan (Sinners) and Wagner Moura (The Secret Agent). The best actress nominees are Jessie Buckley (Hamnet), Rose Byrne (If I Had Legs I’d Kick You), Kate Hudson (Song Sung Blue), Renate Reinsve (Sentimental Value) and Emma Stone (Bugonia). The best supporting actor nominees are Benicio Del Toro (One Battle After Another), Jacob Elordi (Frankenstein), Delroy Lindo (Sinners), Sean Penn (One Battle After Another) and Stellan Skarsgard (Sentimental Value). And the best supporting actress nominees are Elle Fanning (Sentimental Value), Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas (Sentimental Value), Amy Madigan (Weapons), Wunmi Mosaku (Sinners) and Teyana Taylor (One Battle After Another).
The 2026 Oscars, hosted by Conan O’Brien for the second year in a row, are set to air live on ABC and Hulu from the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on Sunday, March 15, starting at 4 p.m. PT.
Sinners leads this year’s Oscar nominations with a record-breaking 16 nods.
It was previously announced that only two of this year’s best original song nominees — “Golden” from KPop Demon Hunters and “I Lied to You” from Sinners — will be performed live at the awards ceremony.
