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Teyana Taylor Speaks Out After Being Shoved by Oscars 2026 Security
Hopefully, there won't be another battle with security on Oscars night.
After Teyana Taylor was shoved by a security guard at the March 15 ceremony for attempting to get up onto the stage after her movie One Battle After Another's Best Picture win, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences publicly condemned the incident. (Click here to see all the celebrities at the Conan O'Brien-hosted award show.)
“We were extremely upset to learn about the experience endured by Teyana Taylor at the end of the Oscars ceremony last night,” the organization, which oversees the Oscars, said in a March 16 statement to Variety. “We have worked with Teyana over the last several months during awards season, and she has been nothing short of remarkable, supportive, kind, and all about community."
Their statement continued, "Though the incident was with our outside security firm SIS, the experience of every single guest is our responsibility. We have made it clear to them that this behavior is not acceptable."
"We want to thank Teyana for showing remarkable grace," the Academy added, "and we are taking the appropriate measures to ensure this does not happen again."
In a separate statement, the Security Industry Specialists, Inc. (SIS) confirmed that there was a "brief interaction involving Ms. Taylor and a member of our security team."
"Our security personnel were working to manage a crowded area and ensure the safety of all guests," the company told Variety. "During that interaction, there was incidental contact and we regret that the situation escalated. This is not the standard of professionalism we expect from our team, and we have addressed the matter internally to help ensure situations like this do not happen again."
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Though the altercation was not captured on the Oscars telecast, bystander video taken from inside the Dolby Theatre circulating on social media showed Teyana confronting the security guard in question.
“You’re a man putting your hands on a female," she told him. "You’re very rude."
Still, the 35-year-old—who was up for Best Supporting Actress but lost to Weapons' Amy Madigan—didn't let the scuffle dampen her spirits.
"It’s all good," Teyana told TMZ shortly after the incident. “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.”
For more Oscars moments that you didn't see on TV, 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.
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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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