Teyana Taylor Speaks Out After Being Shoved by Oscars Security

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After One Battle After Another’s Teyana Taylor was shoved outside the Oscars 2026 by a security guard, she addressed the incident. 

By Olivia Evans Mar 16, 2026 3:39 PM

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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...

Best Picture

Bugonia

F1

Frankenstein

Hamnet

Marty Supreme

WINNER: One Battle After Another

The Secret Agent

Sentimental Value

Sinners

Train Dreams

Actress in a Leading Role

WINNER: Jessie Buckley - Hamnet

Rose Byrne - If I Had Legs I'd Kick You

Kate Hudson - Song Sung Blue

Renate Reinsve - Sentimental Value

Emma Stone - Bugonia

Actor in a Leading Role

Timothée Chalamet - Marty Supreme

Leonardo DiCaprio - One Battle After Another

Ethan Hawke - Blue Moon

WINNER: Michael B. Jordan - Sinners

Wagner Moura - The Secret Agent

Actress in a Supporting Role

Elle Fanning - Sentimental Value

Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas - Sentimental Value

WINNER: Amy Madigan - Weapons

Wunmi Mosaku- Sinners

Teyana Taylor - One Battle After Another

Actor in a Supporting Role

Benecio Del Toro - One Battle After Another

Jacob Elordi - Frankenstein

Delroy Lindo - Sinners

WINNER: Sean Penn - One Battle After Another

Stellan Skarsgård - Sentimental Value

Director

Chloé Zhao - Hamnet

Josh Safdie - Marty Supreme

WINNER: Paul Thomas Anderson - One Battle After Another

Joachim Trier - Sentimental Value

Ryan Coogler - Sinners

Original Screenplay

Blue Moon

It Was Just An Accident

Marty Supreme

Sentimental Value

WINNER: Sinners

Costume Design

Avatar: Fire and Ash

WINNER: Frankenstein

Hamnet

Marty Supreme

Sinners

Original Song

"Dear Me" from Diane Warren: Relentless

WINNER: "Golden" from KPop Deamon Hunters

"I Lied to You" from Sinners

"Sweet Dreams of Joy" from Viva Verdii

"Train Dreams" from Train Dreams

International Feature Film

The Secret Agent

It Was Just an Accident

WINNER: Sentimental Value

Sirat

The Voice of Hind Rajab

Live Action Short Film

Butcher's Stain

A Friend of Dorothy

Jane Austen's Period Drama

WINNER (Tie): The Singers

WINNER (Tie): Two People Exchanging Saliva

Documentary Short Film

WINNER: All the Empty Rooms

Armed Only With A Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud

Children No More: "Were and Are Gone"

The Devil Is Busy

Perfectly a Strangeness

Original Score

Bugonia

Frankenstein

Hamnet

One Battle After Another

WINNER: Sinners

Visual Effects

WINNER: Avatar: Fire and Ash

F1

Jurassic World Rebirth

The Lost Bus

Sinners

Cinematography

Frankenstein

Marty Supreme

One Battle After Another

WINNER: Sinners

Train Dreams

Film Editing

F1

Marty Supreme

WINNER: One Battle After Another

Sentimental Value

Sinners

Production Design

WINNER: Frankenstein

Hamnet

Marty Supreme

One Battle After Another

Sinners

Adapted Screenplay

Bugonia

Frankenstein

Hamnet

WINNER: One Battle After Another

Train Dreams

Documentary Feature Film

The Alabama Solution

Come See Me in the Good Light

Cutting Through Rocks

WINNER: Mr. Nobody Against Putin

The Perfect Neighbor

Casting

Hamnet

Marty Supreme

WINNER: One Battle After Another

The Secret Agent

Sinners

Animated Short Film

Butterfly

Forevergreen

WINNER: The Girl Who Cried Pearls

Retirement Plan

The Three Sisters

Makeup & Hairstyling

WINNER: Frankenstein

Kokuho

Sinners

The Smashing Machine

The Ugly Stepsister

Animated Feature Film

Arco

Elio

WINNER: Kpop Demon Hunters

Little Amélie or the Character of Rain

Zootopia 2

Sound

WINNER: F1

Frankenstein

One Battle After Another

Sinners

Sirat

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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