Amy Madigan became the recipient of an Academy Award for the first time when she won Best Actress in a Supporting Role at the 2026 Oscars – 40 years after her first nomination.
Madigan, 75, finally received the award Weapons on Sunday, March 15, a celebration event at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles.
“Everyone asks how the 40 years have gone [since I was first nominated] and what is different this time? It's different because I have this little guy,” he joked, showing his award. [even though] I have pants on and I don't have to worry about that. We are advised not to say all these names because no one knows who these people are.”
Madigan continued, “But you don't argue with them. They are important people to you and you wouldn't be here without them.”
Emotional Value's Elle Fanning again Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, They are sinners' Wunmi Mosaku again One Battle After Another's Teyana Taylor they are the remaining nominees for Best Supporting Actress.
Regardless of who won the category, the honoree was guaranteed to win the first Oscar of his acting career as none of the contenders had won an Academy Award before the 2026 ceremony. Fanning, 27, Lilleaas, 36, Mosaku, 39, and Taylor, 35, are all first-time Oscar nominees, while Madigan, 75, previously won Best Supporting Actress in 1986. Twice in a lifetime.
The race for Best Supporting Actress at the Oscars was tight given that awards season failed to produce a clear front runner. Madigan defeated Fanning, Lilleaas, Mosaku, Taylor and more Bad: Good's Ariana Grande to win the category at the Critics Choice Awards in January, while competing against Grande, Mosaku, Taylor and Marty Supreme's Odessa A'zion at the Actor Awards earlier this month.
“I didn't really expect all this because I thought people would like this film and I thought people would dig it [my Weapons character] Gladys, but you love Gladys,” Madigan said at her Critics Choice Awards acceptance speech. “I mean, it's crazy.”
Taylor, meanwhile, won supporting actress at the Golden Globe in January, beating out Madigan, Grande, Fanning, Lilleaas and Milling Machine's Emily Blunt.
After the 2026 Oscars nominations were revealed, movie fans were quick to call out some big and surprising things. When Lewis Pullman and Danielle Brooks teamed up to announce the nominees for the 98th annual Academy Awards on January 22, many movie fans weren't surprised to see Sinners dominate the nominations list, with […]
“I almost can't even write a speech because I didn't tell myself that I was one [going to win],” Taylor said on stage at the time.
Later in her emotional speech, Taylor dedicated her award to “my black sisters and the little black girls watching.”
“Our softness is not a liability. Our depth is not too much,” he added. “Our light needs no permission to shine. We live in every room we walk in. Our voices matter, and our dreams deserve a place.”
At the BAFTA Awards in February, Mosaku received his laurels when he won in the supporting actor category against A'zion, Lilleaas, Taylor, Ballad of Wallis Island's Carey Mulligan again Hamnet's Emily Watson.
“I got my share [my Sinners character] Annie—part of my hopes, my ancestors' strength and connection, parts of me that I thought I had lost or tried to fade away as an immigrant trying to fit in,” said Mosaku in his acceptance speech.” “Through him, I deepened my belief in my strength, my strength to love and hope in the most difficult times of grief despite this cruel world.”
