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Teyana Taylor Speaks Out After Being Shoved by Oscars 2026 Security
Teyana Taylor keeps winning, even when she loses.
Although the One Battle After Another star didn’t take home the Best Supporting Actress trophy at the 2026 Oscars—hosted by Conan O’Brien at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood March 15—she shut down any inclination that she might be upset about fellow nominee Amy Madigan’s win for her role in Weapons. (See all the winners here.)
“The world holds so much misery that miserable hearts forget the face of happiness,” Teyana wrote on X March 16. “They grow comfortable being sore losers, so when they see real sportsmanship it unsettles them! like holy water touching a demon.”
The 35-year-old—who immediately jumped up to cheer on Amy when her name was called—added, “Because clapping for someone else’s victory requires something many people never learned…how to win with grace & pure joy, and how to lose with grace, chin up & dignity.”
And Teyana has been victorious in other ways this award season. The singer previously won the Golden Globe at the Jan. 11 ceremony, noting at the time that the most special part of her night came after her speech: She was overjoyed to be reunited with daughters Iman, 10, and Rue, 5—who she shares with ex Iman Shumpert—immediately after getting the statue.
“It was so cute because they were actually in the lobby,” she shared with E! News in January. “When you come from getting your award, there’s this little lobby area and they were waiting right there for me because they were in a suite. So, when they came down to the little lobby area it was just so cute and I just melted into their arms.”
And while she’d joked in her acceptance speech that her daughters “better not” have been on their phones during her big moment, she was so happy to be proven wrong.
“It was so crazy,” she continued. “As soon as I see my daughter afterward she was like, ‘See, Mommy, we wasn’t on our phones!’”
Being in One Battle After Another wasn't just an opportunity for Teyana to be recognized during awards season—it also gave her the opportunity to work with writer and director Paul Thomas Anderson.
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“It would still have been a yes even if Paul had offered me the part of a background person,” Teyana told W Magazine in an interview published Feb. 23. “I hadn’t read the script, but Paul kept saying, ‘Perfidia is you.'"
As for Paul—who won the Oscars for Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Picture—he had seen her in the 2023 film A Thousand and One and knew he had to work with her.
“Teyana is so electric and alive on-screen,” he told the outlet. “I guess it’s what we call ‘screen presence.’ That performance in A Thousand and One made me want to meet her.”
“Teyana’s physicality is very precise and fun to watch—also, fun to be around,” Paul added. “Perfidia is a ‘runner,’ someone who’s restless if she’s stuck in one place for too long. Teyana is also very restless—always searching for new information, new challenges.”
Of course, Teyana and her fellow nominees shared many special moments during the 2026 Oscars. Keep reading to see everything you may have missed on TV.
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Ryan Coogler & Paul Thomas Anderson
At this point in the night, the Sinners and One Battle After Another directors were just a couple of auteurs clutching their first-ever Oscars, Coogler for Best Original Screenplay and PTA for Best Adapted Screenplay.
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Kylie Jenner & Timothée Chalamet
Jenner is officially a regular, accompanying Best Actor nominee Chalamet to the Oscars for the second year in a row.
And the Kylie Cosmetics mogul was excited to see Sentimental Value star Elle Fanning, her boyfriend's A Complete Unknown costar from his 2025 award season run and a nominee this year for Best Supporting Actress.
Fanning later gave Chalamet a consolatory pat on the back after Michael B. Jordan reigned supreme in the Best Actor race.
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Teyana Taylor & Cassandra Kulukundis
While fellow attendees started ripping into their Conan O'Brien-sanctioned snacks, Taylor celebrated One Battle After Another's casting director for winning the first-ever Oscar for Best Casting.
Once again, the returning host left a note with the box of treats, this time reading, "I hope you enjoy this Conan O’Brien ‘Moderately Happy Meal’ ™. These snacks may not look like much but in any movie theater they would run you $85."
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Jacob Elordi
The Frankenstein star, a first-time Oscar nominee in the Best Supporting Actor category, made the rounds in between awards.
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Stellan Skarsgård
Losing the Best Supporting Actor Oscar to Sean Penn didn't dampen the Sentimental Value star's spirits.
Enjoying a drink in a VIP area afterward, Skarsgård told a well-wisher, per the Los Angeles Times, "We had four actor nominations on an international film. That’s never happened before."
Not to mention, the Joaquim Trier-directed Norwegian film was named Best International Feature.
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Pedro Pascal & Sigourney Weaver
Weaver's trying and failing not to burst out laughing before the duo headed out to present Best Production Design (to Frankenstein) and Best Visual Effects (to Avatar: Fire & Ash).
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Chase Infiniti & Paul Thomas Anderson
After making her acting debut in One Battle After Another, Infiniti couldn't have been more thrilled over how the night was going.
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Winners for Best Original Song
Mark Sonnenblick tried to keep the commercial break at bay, to no avail, when one of his fellow songwriters was cut off mid-sentence while accepting "Golden's" historic when for Best Original Song.
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Demi Moore & Mikey Madison
Madison may have come out ahead in the Best Actress race last year, but they still enjoyed a reunion of substance.
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Pauline Chalamet & Timothée Chalamet
There was plenty of room for family in the Marty Supreme row, Chalamet's sister joining him and Jenner for a night out.
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Rachel McAdams & Sterling K. Brown
This is not us, but rather two actors having a moment near the makeup chair backstage at the Academy Awards. No need to send help.
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Nicole Kidman
The 2003 Best Actress winner didn't mind whiling away a few more of the hours at the 2026 Oscars.
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Michael B. Jordan & Leonardo DiCaprio
DiCaprio was on hand to celebrate Jordan's golden moment, as he surged in the final days of voting to win Best Actor.
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Oscar
This was taken March 10 during the Governors Ball preview at the Ovation Hollywood Complex, a sneak peek at the glam spot where the winners go to get their statues engraved, but we thought you should see how the sausage, er, chocolate is made.
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Pedro Pascal, Jesse Plemons & Kirsten Dunst
Cue the body language experts to decipher what, exactly, Pascal just saw on his phone.
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Alexandre Singh & Natalie Musteata
Art reflected life for the directors of "Two People Exchanging Saliva," who enjoyed their win for Best Live Action Short in the rarest of circumstances after finishing in a tie with "The Singers," produced by Jack Piatt and directed by Sam A. Davis.
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Jack Piatt, Sam A. Davis, Natalie Musteata & Alexandre Singh
It was the more the merrier as the dual pairs of winners had a ball backstage with their shiny new Oscars.
Piatt told reporters in the press room that he wished there could have been a "five-way tie" among all the nominees.
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Michael B. Jordan
The Best Actor winner shared a quiet moment with Oscar before hitting In-N-Out on his way to the after-parties.
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Emma Stone, Dave McCary, Demi Moore, Kate Hudson & Danny Fujikawa
The guy in the row with the longest arms is usually put on selfie duty, and tonight the honor went to Best Actress nominee Hudson's partner.
Kidman just came to this place to get to her seat, but ended up playing a supporting role in a photo bomb.
Watch the Oscars 2026 Sunday, March 15, at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT on ABC and streaming on Hulu.
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