Watch The Sinners & KPop Demon Hunters Performances At The 2026 Oscars

With a whopping 16 nominations this year, including for Best Original Score and Best Original Song, Ryan Coogler's Sinners is the most nominated film in Academy Awards history. Tonight as part of the 2026 Oscars, Miles Caton and Raphael Saadiq performed Sinners soundtrack highlight “I Lied To You.”

The set featured appearances from special guests Brittany Howard, Shaboozey, Eric Gales, Buddy Guy (who made a cameo in the film), Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, Jayme Lawson, Li Jun Li, Bobby Rush, and Alice Smith, many of whom also appeared on Sinners' star-studded soundtrack. And Misty Copeland came out of retirement to dance with them.

Later on during tonight's Oscars, Ejae, Audrey Nuna, and Rei Ami — aka the voices of HUNTR/X — sang "Golden," their smash KPop Demon Hunters hit with a traditional Korean spin. Audience members had been handed light-up bracelet to wear for the performance.

In the show's opening, Conan O'Brien made an epic entrance to Beastie Boys' "Sabotage" that inserted him into each of this year's Best Picture nominees (in makeup and a wig like Best Supporting Actress winner Amy Madigan's in Weapons); the second-time host's monologue included a requisite dig at Chalamet's opera and ballet comments. Then, Josh Groban also performed a Shakespearean-themed song about O'Brien receiving the vague, inaugural "Best Achievement" Oscar.

During a particularly loaded In Memoriam segment, Barbra Streisand made an appearance to eulogize and honor her late The Way We Were co-star Robert Redford, briefly singing the theme song from the 1973 film.