Timothée Chalamet's 'blunt warning' to sister about Kylie Jenner revealed by lipreader

Marty Supreme star Timothée Chalamet unfortunately left the 98th Academy Awards empty-handed after receiving a nomination in the Best Actor category.

The prestigious accolade ended up going to Sinners star Michael B. Jordan, who is just the sixth Black actor to win an Oscar for a leading role. Sinners also broke records for the most Oscar nominations for a single film with 16 before leaving the evening with four awards in total.

Other nominees in the Best Actor category included Leonardo DiCaprio for One Battle After Another, Ethan Hawke for Blue Moon and Wagner Moura for The Secret Agent.

Following suit with previous awards ceremonies, Chalamet's partner of three years, Kylie Jenner, was also in attendance as she accompanied the Hollywood A-lister on the front row at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.

Chalamet's sister, Pauline, also made an appearance with one clip circling across social media showing her and Jenner meeting.

Lip-reading expert Nicola Hickling has since weighed in on the exchange, telling The Mirror that Chalamet asked Pauline to 'go easy' on Jenner.

At one point during the ceremony, Chalamet - who did not fall down the red carpet stairs - was seen turning to his older sister before asking her: "Where are you sitting?"

After pointing to her seat, Jenner reached out to shake her hand and reportedly appeared to praise Pauline's outfit.

The pair embraced for a quick hug before the sibling duo posed for photos together.

According to the lip reader, Chalamet checked in on Pauline asking: "How you doing?"

Seemingly referring to Jenner, he then appeared to lean in and whisper: "Could you go easy on her?"

"Okay," Pauline allegedly replied before Chalamet reportedly repeated: "I want you to go easy on her."

Tyla has reached out to Timothée Chalamet's representatives for comment.

Chalamet found himself at the centre of controversy ahead of this year's Oscars due to his recent comments about ballet and opera, something which host Conan O'Brien used as material for a light roast.

"I don’t want to be working in ballet, or opera, or things where it’s like, 'Hey, keep this thing alive, even though like no one cares about this anymore.' All respect to all the ballet and opera people out there," Chalamet declared during a University of Texas talk with Matthew McConaughey.

His remarks were quick to spark backlash online, with O'Brien poking fun at the ordeal as he quipped on stage: "Security is extremely tight tonight. I'm told there's concern about attacks from both the opera and ballet community. You're just mad you left out jazz!"

Oscars 2026 recap

It’s a wrap for the glitziest night in showbiz - here’s everything that happened on Hollywood’s biggest night.

History-making Oscars tie

Last night saw the seventh-ever tie in Oscars history, as both Two People Exchanging Saliva and The Singers shared the award for Best Live-Action Short Film.

Presenting the award, actor and comedian Kumail Nanjiani quipped: “It's a tie, I'm not joking, it's actually a tie. Ironic that the short film Oscar's going to take twice as long.”

The other six times this has happened are in 1932 for Best Actor (Fredric March for Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Wallace Beery for The Champ), 1950 for Best Documentary Short Subject (A Chance to Live and So Much for So Little), 1969 for Best Actress (Katharine Hepburn for The Lion in Winter and Barbra Streisand for Funny Girl), 1986 for Best Documentary Feature (Artie Shaw: Time is All You've Got and Down and Out in America), 1995 for Best Live Action Short Film (Trevor and Franz Kafka’s It’s a Wonderful Life); and most recently 2013 for Best Sound Editing (Skyfall and Zero Dark Thirty).

Bridesmaids reunion - but one person is missing

Fifteen years on from the beloved comedy, Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Rose Byrne, Ellie Kemper and Maya Rudolph took to the stage to present the award for Best Score.

Performing a comedy skit, the actors pretended to receive notes from some of the big-name nominees.

Rudolph joked: “Mine says, 'First of all, you ladies look extremely beautiful tonight.' Thank you. 'You’re aging well.' Signed, Stellan Skarsgård.”

McCarthy quipped: “Mine is almost impossible to read. The handwriting is really pretty terrible. Says, ‘Hi, I’m with Stellan Skarsgård, writing my own separate note.

“‘I also agree you ladies look radiant. All the things you’ve done to your faces are very tasteful. Yours truly, Elle Fanning.’

“Wait, wait, there’s more. It says, ‘Just kidding. It’s me again, Stellan Skarsgård.’”

Wendi McLendon-Covey, who played Rita in the film, was noticeably absent. She later said she was recovering from a neck lift.

Where was Sean Penn?

Sean Penn won his third Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his hilarious and terrifying portrayal of Colonel Lockjaw in One Battle After Another, but he was nowhere to be seen at the ceremony

Accepting the award on his behalf, Kieran Culkin joked: “Sean Penn couldn’t be here this evening, or didn’t want to, so I’ll be accepting the award on his behalf.”

The New York Times reports - citing two sources familiar with the situation - that Penn was actually in Ukraine instead.

He has been a vocal critic of Russia’s invasion, making the documentary Superpower about it in 2022.

He’s firm friends with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy and even gave him one of his Oscar statuettes as a gift. Zelenskyy promised to return it when the war was won.

Amy Madigan and Autumn Durald Arkapaw smash records

While One Battle After Another was the night’s big winner, history was made in several other categories.

Amy Madigan, who took home Best Supporting Actor for her performance as fashion icon and child abductor Aunt Gladys in Weapons, broke the record for the longest time between Oscar nominations.

It’s been 40 years since his first nomination for Twice in a Lifetime in 1986, which ended up going to Anjelica Huston for Prizzi’s Honor.

She said in her acceptance speech: “This is great. Everybody's asking me, 'Well, it's been 40 years, what's different about this time?' Different is I have this little gold guy!"

Autumn Durald Arkapaw took home the Oscar for Best Cinematography for Sinners. She is the first woman and the first black person to win the award.

She said in her speech: “I’m so honoured to be here and I really want all the women in the room to stand up because I feel like I don’t get here without you guys.”

She also thanked Rachel Morrison in her speech, a cinematographer who was nominated in 2018 for Mudbound, but lost out to Roger Deakins for Blade Runner 2049.

A touching In Memoriam - with some notable omissions

We lost some huge names in Hollywood this year, and the Academy paid tribute to Rob Reiner and his wife Michelle, Diane Keaton, Robert Redford and Catherine O’Hara.

Brigette Bardot, who died last December aged 91, was not honoured. Since her tribute was booed at the César awards, largely due to her far-right politics later in life, the Academy may have been trying to avoid controversy.

It’s less clear why Dharmendra, one of the biggest names in Indian cinema, and Harold and Maude star Bud Cort weren’t included.

Stars who were more widely known for TV roles, such as James Van Der Beek and Eric Dane, also did not feature.