Teyana Taylor Speaks Out After Being Shoved by Oscars Security

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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...

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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.

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Teyana Taylor & Cassandra Kulukundis

While fellow attendees started ripping into their snacks, Taylor celebrated One Battle After Another's casting director for winning the first-ever Oscar for Best Casting.

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Jacob Elordi

The Frankenstein star made the rounds in between awards.

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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.

Watch the Oscars 2026 Sunday, March 15, at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT on ABC and streaming on Hulu.