Jessie Buckley took a beat to laugh at the absurdity of it all when she won the award for Best Actress for her heartbreaking performance in Hamnet at the 2026 Oscars on Sunday night.
Buckely was awarded her statue by last year’s Best Actress winner, Mikey Madison of Anora.
“Wow. Thank you so much,” the Irish actor said. Then she turned away from the mic to laugh incredulously. “This is really something. Thank you to the incredible women that I stand beside, I’m inspired by your art, and your heart, and I want to work with every single one of you.”
Buckley went to thank “my Irish family, they’re all here, Ireland bought that them flights!”
Buckley also thanked her husband and recently born baby, and, of course, Hamnet writer/director Chloe Zhao, and the chance to play a character where she got to “understand the capacity of a mother’s
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