According to the Interfax-Ukraine Culture project, the 98th Academy Awards ceremony—the world’s premier film industry award, which annually recognizes the best films, actors, and filmmakers—took place in Los Angeles on the night of March 16. The ceremony was broadcast for Ukrainian viewers with commentary by theater and film actor Oleksiy Hnatkovsky. This article compiles the main results of the awards, the most notable wins, key moments of the ceremony, and details that are being actively discussed by international media. The full list of winners of the 98th Academy Awards has been published on the awards’ official website.
“Today we celebrate cinema—stories that remind us of who we are, what we fear, and what we still believe in,” said ceremony host Conan O’Brien as he opened the 98th Academy Awards.
Ukrainian viewers watched the ceremony all night alongside theater and film actor Oleksiy Geatkovsky, who provided commentary on the Oscar broadcast for the Suspilne Kultura TV channel. Throughout the broadcast, he explained the context of the nominations, shared stories about the making of the films, and highlighted symbolic moments of the ceremony, noting that the Oscars remain not only a celebration of cinema but also a mirror of what global cinema is discussing today.
Meanwhile, the main intrigue of the evening traditionally lay in determining the ceremony’s top winner. After several hours of nominations, performances, and emotional speeches, it became clear that this year the Academy had placed its bet on auteur cinema—the film by director Paul Thomas Anderson “One Battle after Another,” which became the main winner of the 98th Academy Awards ceremony, taking home six statuettes, including in the top categories—“Best Picture” and “Best Director.” The gala ceremony took place at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood and, as is tradition, brought together leading figures from the global film industry.
“This is a film about struggle—and about how history repeats itself if we don’t learn from it,” said Paul Thomas Anderson as he accepted his first Best Director Oscar after numerous nominations throughout his career.
The night’s top winners
The film “One Battle after Another,” based on Thomas Pynchon’s novel Vineland, was the Academy’s clear favorite. In addition to the top prize, the film won Oscars for:
This film became a symbol of the return of auteur Hollywood cinema, which dominated this year’s ceremony.
The second big winner was the film “Sinners” by director Ryan Coogler—a gothic thriller with horror elements that received 16 nominations and won four statuettes.
Among them:
Historic Wins
This year’s ceremony will be remembered for several significant historic milestones.
In particular, cinematographer Autumn Durald Arkapaw became the first woman in the history of the “Oscars” to win the award for cinematography, a category that has existed for nearly a century and has traditionally been a male-dominated field.
Another historic win was the award for Jesse Buckley for her role in the film “Hamnet”. She became the first Irish actress to win an Oscar in the “Best Actress” category.
Meanwhile, Michael B. Jordan won his first Oscar for his role as twin brothers in the film “Sinners.” The actor became the sixth Black winner of the award in the “Best Actor” category in the Academy’s history.
International Film Wins
In the “Best International Feature Film” category, the Norwegian film “Sentimental Value” won, bringing the country its first such award in history.
The award for Best Documentary Feature went to the political film “Mr. Nobody Against Putin”, which explores the mechanisms of Russian propaganda and contemporary political processes around the world.
Animation, Music, and Technical Categories
In the “Best Animated Feature Film” category, the international hit “KPop Demon Hunters” won, also taking home the award for Best Original Song for “Golden,” which became the first K-pop track to win an “Oscar.”
The film “Frankenstein” directed by Guillermo del Toro won three technical awards at once:
Meanwhile, the award for Best Sound went to the film “F1,” and for Best Visual Effects — to the film “Avatar: Fire and Ash.”
A surprise of the ceremony
One of the most unusual events of the evening was a tie in the Best Live Action Short Film category, where the award was shared by “The Singers” and “Two People Exchanging Saliva.” Such a situation is extremely rare in Oscar history.
The atmosphere of the ceremony
American comedian Conan O’Brien hosted the ceremony for the second year in a row, opening the show with a satirical monologue about politics, the film industry, and artificial intelligence in Hollywood.
Certain segments of the ceremony were dedicated to the memory of legendary figures in cinema—notably Robert Redford and Rob Reiner—which elicited one of the most emotional reactions from the audience in the hall.
Trends at the “2026 Oscars”
Film critics note that this year’s ceremony highlighted several new trends in global cinema:
“The 2026 Oscars” became not only a celebration of Hollywood but also a demonstration of how global cinema is gradually changing the rules of the game in the industry.
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PJSC “Interpipe Dnipropetrovsk Vtormet” (Dnipro), a subsidiary of the Interpipe Pipe and Wheel Company (PWC), ended 2025 with a loss of UAH 2.821 million, whereas in 2024 it reported a net profit of UAH 65.931 million.
According to information submitted by the company to the NSSMC’s disclosure system, the annual general meeting of shareholders is scheduled to be held on April 15 of this year via a survey (remote general meeting).
Eleven items are on the agenda, including determining the company’s main areas of activity for 2026, reviewing the supervisory board’s reports and the 2025 audit report, and approving the annual financial statements and the procedure for covering losses. In addition, it is planned, in particular, to terminate the powers of the current members of the supervisory board and elect new ones,
According to draft resolutions available to the Interfax-Ukraine agency, shareholders are proposed to define the main areas of the company’s activities in 2026 as increasing the volumes of scrap metal procurement and processing; developing scrap collection capacities; reducing production costs; and maximizing profits from business operations.
It is also proposed to approve the reports for 2025. Given that the company’s financial and operational results for 2025 resulted in a loss of UAH 2.821 million, the procedure for covering losses is to be approved: losses are to be covered in accordance with current legislation.
“Interpipe” is a Ukrainian industrial company and a manufacturer of seamless pipes and railway wheels. The company’s structure includes five industrial assets: “Interpipe Nizhnedneprovsky Pipe Rolling Plant (NTZ),” “Interpipe Novomoskovsky Pipe Plant (NMTZ),” “Interpipe Nico-Tube,” “Dnipropetrovsk Vtormet,” and the electric steelmaking complex ‘Dniprostal’ under the “Interpipe Steel” brand.
The ultimate owner of Interpipe Limited is Ukrainian businessman and philanthropist Viktor Pinchuk and members of his family.
“Interpipe Dnipropetrovsk Vtormet” specializes in the procurement and processing of ferrous metal scrap in the Dnipropetrovsk region, followed by the sale of this product, specifically in the preparation of metal feedstock for steelmaking enterprises. The company’s production facilities have the capacity to process 1.35 million tons of scrap per year. The company has an extensive regional network of procurement and production facilities (Dnipro, Nikopol, Pavlohrad, Zhytomyr, Kyiv, Odesa, Poltava, Vinnytsia, Kharkiv, and Cherkasy).
According to the National Securities and Stock Market Commission (NSSMC) data for the fourth quarter of 2025, Interpipe Limited (Cyprus) owns 98.6699% of the shares of Interpipe Dnipropetrovsk Vtormet PJSC.
The company’s authorized capital is UAH 64.876 million.
PJSC “Vyshnevsky Foundry and Forging Plant” (VLKP, Kyiv region) reported a 3.2% decrease in net profit for 2025 compared to 2024—down to UAH 2.892 million from UAH 2.987 million.
According to VLKS’s announcement in the National Securities and Stock Market Commission (NSSMC) disclosure system regarding the remote general meeting of shareholders to be held on April 27, eight items are on the agenda. In particular, the meeting plans to review the company’s supervisory board’s report on its work in 2025, approve the results of financial and operational activities for the past year, and distribute profits.
Additionally, the meeting will decide on the payment of annual dividends, approve their amount and method of payment, approve significant transactions, terminate the powers of Supervisory Board members, and elect new ones.
Draft resolutions, copies of which are available to the Interfax-Ukraine agency, propose approving the Supervisory Board’s report and the company’s financial and operational results for 2025. Net profit in the amount of UAH 2,891,991 thousand is to be distributed as follows: 75%, amounting to UAH 2,169,049 thousand, is to be allocated for the payment of dividends; 25%, or UAH 722,942 thousand, is to be retained as undistributed profit.
It is proposed to pay dividends based on the results of 2025 and to approve a dividend amount of 1.5133 UAH per share. The method of dividend payment shall be directly to shareholders.
As reported, based on its 2024 results, VLKZ saw its net profit decrease by 35.9% compared to 2023—from UAH 4.663 million to UAH 2.987 million—while the company’s net revenue fell by 25.7% to UAH 68.327 million. Retained earnings as of the end of 2024 amounted to UAH 12.594 million.
PJSC “VLKZ” was founded in 1990 on the basis of the foundry and forging shops of the Artem Kyiv Production Association. It specializes in the production of forged and cast products.
According to the State Registration Service data for the fourth quarter of 2025, resident individual Viktoria Gryshchenko owns 18.5947% of the company’s shares, resident individual Valentina Baeva owns 10.5216%, and JSC “Aviation and Rocket-Technical Engineering Company” holds 51.0001%.
Authorized capital: 358,000 UAH; par value: 0.25 UAH.
Vodafone Ukraine (VFU), Ukraine’s second-largest mobile operator, which has repurchased approximately $22 million worth of its own Eurobonds since late May following several offers related to dividend payments, has announced another similar tender at 98% of par value for a total of $1.18 million.
As noted in a statement on the Irish Stock Exchange, prior to this, on March 2, the company made another monthly dividend payment of UAH 50.866 million, which is equivalent to the monthly cap of EUR 1 million set by the National Bank for such payments.
Applications to participate in the tender are being accepted through March 26, and settlements are scheduled for April 3.
Bonds maturing in February 2027 with a coupon rate of 9.625% per annum were issued for $300 million. Their redemption is related to the fact that on April 24, 2025, VFU announced the accrual of dividends to its shareholder in the amount of UAH 660.245 million ($15.9 million at the exchange rate specified in the announcement) for 2024. In accordance with National Bank restrictions, these dividends will be paid in separate monthly installments. It is expected that each such monthly dividend will amount to a sum in hryvnia equivalent to EUR1 million. The company emphasized that, under the terms of the bond issue, it must in such a case offer all bondholders the opportunity to submit an application to sell their bonds for an amount equal to the dividends paid outside Ukraine.
In the first two tenders, mobile operator “Vodafone Ukraine” repurchased bonds in an amount equivalent to EUR1 million. The initial repurchase was announced at 99% of par value, the second at 90% of par value. The company did not announce the results of the second buyback on the exchange, while the bid-to-cover ratio for the first buyback was 0.0040355668.
According to the results of the third tender, where the buyback price was reduced to 85% of par value and the offer was capped at $4.67 million, “Vodafone Ukraine” received bids totaling $53.395 million and accepted them for $5.208 million. The scale factor was 0.1315451889487317.
The fourth tender was announced on August 13 but was subsequently extended seven times. As a result, the redemption price was increased from 85% to 98%, and the redemption amount to $10.84 million. The company received bids totaling $127.14 million for this amount. Some of the bonds were returned to their holders due to the inability to split the face value, while the remainder were accepted with a scaling factor of 0.1150681.
In the fifth, sixth, and seventh bond buyback tenders in December, January, and February, the price was again 98%: in the fifth tender, with bids totaling $1.165 million, the scaling factor was set at 0.01901; in the sixth, with bids totaling $1.475 million, it was 0.04234; and in the seventh, with bids totaling $1.185 million, it was 0.3246.
Overall, based on the results of the seven tenders, the total nominal value of bonds remaining in circulation is $277.98 million.
As reported, mobile operator VFU increased its net profit by 10.7% to UAH 3.4468 billion and revenue by 13.3% to UAH 19.03 billion in the first nine months of 2025.
The report noted that in 2025, the company received loans from related parties to service and redeem Eurobonds. In February, the parent company Telco Investments B.V. provided $49.59 million for the partial repayment of Eurobond debt. In June, an agreement was signed with Telco Investments for a dollar-denominated credit line in an amount equivalent to 660 million UAH, at 10% per annum, maturing in 2028.
Finally, in July 2025, a loan agreement was signed with the Dutch company Cemin B.V. for $10 million at 10% per annum, with a repayment term no later than the end of 2027, but not before the maturity of the Eurobonds. The funds are credited in tranches to the company’s bank account at a foreign bank and are intended to be used to redeem the bonds that Vodafone Ukraine is issuing in connection with the resumption of dividend payments this year.
The global wheat market has entered the spring season with increased volatility due to geopolitical tensions in the Middle East and fierce competition among key exporters, according to the information and analytical agency “UkrAgroConsult.”
Analysts noted that the Black Sea region remains the main benchmark for global prices, and Ukrainian wheat quotations at ports on CPT terms are currently in the range of $215–222 per ton. Demand from major importers in North Africa and the Middle East remains strong, as evidenced by buyers’ willingness to operate at current price levels even during periods of geopolitical uncertainty.
At the same time, in EU countries, large carryover grain stocks and weaker export rates continue to put pressure on domestic prices. Against this backdrop, logistics costs and energy prices are playing an increasingly significant role in shaping the global market, as they directly determine suppliers’ competitiveness and the overall economics of production.
Among the key trends of the season, UkrAgroConsult highlighted the formation of a new structure of global trade under the influence of geopolitical factors. Analysts predict that increased investor interest in commodity assets and changes in traditional logistics routes will be decisive for price dynamics in the short term.
Construction has begun on the Tera Hall shopping and entertainment center (Chernivtsi, 236 Ruska St.), with its opening scheduled for the third quarter of 2028, according to the press service of the consulting firm Retail & Development Advisor (RDA), which serves as the exclusive broker for the shopping center.
According to RDA CEO Andriy Lototsky, the total area of the four-story complex will be 16,150 square meters, with 11,600 square meters dedicated to retail. The shopping center’s anchor tenants will be the Silpo supermarket and the Kraina Mriy children’s entertainment center. Other retail chains will include stores selling clothing and footwear, home goods, household appliances, jewelry, books and stationery, as well as impulse-buy items and service providers. According to him, the project’s target audience will be families with children, motorists, and active young people aged 20–40, and the estimated projected traffic for the shopping center will be approximately 10,000 visitors per day on weekdays and 13,000–14,000 on weekends.
As Tera Hall Director Svitlana Gomeniuk clarified, the permit for the construction of the shopping center was obtained in January 2026, after which preparatory work began on the site. By the end of this year, the developer plans to complete the monolithic and main structural work.
“It is of fundamental importance to us that the complex complies with modern building codes, safety standards, and energy efficiency requirements. Solar panels are planned for its roof, which will ensure autonomous power supply, and heating will be provided by its own gas boiler room,” Gomenyuk said.
The preliminary design of the complex was developed in collaboration with the architectural firm Guess Line Arch. As part of the project, the developer will also build a large parking lot with 240 spaces; in case of air raid alerts, the shopping center will feature a shelter designed to accommodate 1,500 people.
Retail & Development Advisor is a Ukrainian consulting company that provides a full range of services in the field of retail and office real estate. It offers services in architectural concept development, brokerage, property management, outsourcing of shopping center development/leasing departments, market analytics, and more.
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