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Oscars 2026: Chase Infiniti Pitches ‘One Battle After Another’ Sequel With Costar Teyana Taylor
Teyana Taylor was not letting anything ruin her Oscars night.
After the Best Supporting Actress nominee was shoved by a security guard, she addressed what really happened during the incident.
“It’s all good…I don’t think anyone was trying to stop my shine,” the One Battle After Another actress explained to TMZ in a March 15 interview. “Everybody’s having a good time and security was just doing a lot. There’s always that one, but I’m fine. I’m happy.”
“The first thing people do is make assumptions,” Teyana continued, “but at the end of the day, I just don’t tolerate disrespect, especially when it is unwarranted and it’s unprovoked.”
The incident occurred inside the Dolby Theatre when security approached Teyana as she attempted to walk on stage with Warner Bros. co-head Pamela Abdy to take a group photo, a witness told E! News.
In a social media video, Teyana confronted the guard, who she said shoved her: “You’re a man putting your hands on a female, you’re very rude.” E! News has learned the officer was subsequently relocated from his position inside the theatre.
Thankfully, the rest of the March 15 ceremony was not one battle after another for Teyana, 35, who took home a Golden Globe this season. Though she lost in her category to Amy Madigan, Teyana was ecstatic to celebrate the 75-year-old’s first Oscar win, leaping out of her seat to applaud the Weapons actress. (See all of the evening's the biggest winners here.)
And later when Paul Thomas Anderson won Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Picture for One Battle After Another, Teyana was his no.1 cheerleader—though she did hilariously pull him in for a headlock on the way up to the stage.
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“He already knew the headlock was coming,” Teyana told Variety at the Vanity Fair Oscars after party. “We kind of took it back to Critics Choice and I told him like, ‘Listen, when you get that Best Picture, I’m telling you now, I’m gonna get you a helmet.’ Because I’m such a sports girl. I’m like, ‘Yeah!’”
For more moments you didn’t see on TV during the 98th annual Academy Awards, keep reading...
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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.
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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