Oscar Night Highlights: 'One Battle After Another' Takes Home Best Picture
Major Wins at the Oscars
At the recent Academy Awards held in Beverly Hills, California, Paul Thomas Anderson's film One Battle After Another was awarded Best Picture. The film triumphed over strong contenders such as Sinners by Ryan Coogler, The Secret Agent by Kleber Mendonca Filho, Hamnet by Chloe Zhao, and Marty Supreme by Josh Safdie.
Despite being a favorite, Sinners ended up with four awards after receiving a record 16 nominations, the highest for any film in Oscar history.
Anderson also secured the Best Director accolade, expressing gratitude and acknowledging the hard work that goes into achieving such recognition. He remarked, “There will always be some doubt in your heart that you deserve it, but there is no question at pleasure having it for myself.”
Overall, One Battle After Another garnered six Oscars, showcasing its dominance at the event.
The non-English film Sentimental Value received nine nominations and won the award for International Feature Film.
Hosted by Conan O’Brien, the 98th Academy Awards featured stirring speeches and a mix of entertaining moments. Presenters included Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Javier Bardem, who announced the winner for International Feature Film, with Bardem making a poignant statement against war.
Live performances included two of the nominated songs, with Golden from KPop Demon Hunters winning the Oscar for Best Original Song, marking a historic moment as the first KPop song to achieve this honor.
In a groundbreaking achievement, Autumn Durald Arkapaw became the first woman to win an Oscar for cinematography for her work on Sinners. In her acceptance speech, she emphasized the importance of women supporting each other in the industry.
Amy Madigan won her first Oscar for Actress in a Supporting Role for her performance in Weapons, delivering a memorable speech filled with surprise and joy.
Ryan Coogler took home the award for Original Screenplay for Sinners, while Anderson won for Adapted Screenplay for One Battle After Another.
In a rare occurrence, the Live Action Short Film category ended in a tie, adding a humorous touch to the evening.
Complete List of Winners:
Best Picture: One Battle After Another.
Other nominees included Sinners, Hamnet, F1, Marty Supreme, Frankenstein, Bugonia, The Secret Agent, Sentimental Value, and Train Dreams.
Directing: Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another.
Other nominees: Ryan Coogler (Sinners), Chloe Zhao (Hamnet), Josh Safdie (Marty Supreme), Joachim Trier (Sentimental Value).
Original Screenplay: Sinners, written by Ryan Coogler.
Other nominees: It Was Just an Accident (Jafar Panahi), Marty Supreme (Josh Safdie and Ronald Bronstein), Sentimental Value (Joachim Trier and Eskil Vogt), Blue Moon (Robert Kaplow).
Adapted Screenplay: One Battle After Another, Paul Thomas Anderson, adapted from Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland.
Other nominees: Bugonia (Will Tracy), Frankenstein (Guillermo del Toro), Hamnet (Chloe Zhao), and Train Dreams (Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar).
Actor in a Leading Role: Michael B Jordan, Sinners.
Other nominees: Leonardo DiCaprio (One Battle After Another), Timothee Chalamet (Marty Supreme), Ethan Hawke (Blue Moon), Wagner Moura (The Secret Agent).
Actress in a Leading Role: Jessie Buckley, Hamnet.
Other nominees: Renata Reinsve (Sentimental Value), Rose Byrne (If I Had Legs I’d Kick You), Kate Hudson (Song Sung Blue), Emma Stone (Bugonia).
Actor in a Supporting Role: Sean Penn, One Battle After Another.
Other nominees: Benicio del Toro (One Battle After Another), Jacob Elordi (Frankenstein), Delroy Lindo (Sinners), Stellan Skarsgard (Sentimental Value).
Actress in a Supporting Role: Amy Madigan, Weapons.
Other nominees: Elle Fanning (Sentimental Value), Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas (Sentimental Value), Wunmi Mosaku (Sinners), and Teyana Taylor (One Battle After Another).
International Feature Film: Sentimental Value, Joachim Trier (Norway).
Other nominees: The Voice Of Hind Rajab (Kaouther Ben Hania), The Secret Agent (Kleber Mendonca Filho), It Was Just An Accident (Jafar Panahi), Sirat (Oliver Laxe).
Cinematography: Autumn Durald Arkapaw, Sinners.
Other nominees: Dan Laustsen (Frankenstein), Darius Khondji (Marty Supreme), Michael Bauman (One Battle After Another), Adolpho Veloso (Train Dreams).
Editing: Andy Jurgensen, One Battle After Another.
Other nominees: Stephen Mirrione (F1), Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie (Marty Supreme), Olivier Bugge Coutte (Sentimental Value), Michael P Shawver (Sinners).
Casting: Cassandra Kulukundis, One Battle After Another.
Other nominees: Nina Gold (Hamnet), Jennifer Venditti (Marty Supreme), Francine Maisler (Sinners), Gabriel Dominigues (The Secret Agent).
Sound: F1, Gareth John, Al Nelson, Gwendolyn Yates Whittle, Gary A. Rizzo and Juan Peralta.
Other nominees: Sirat (Amanda Villavieja, Laia Casanovas and Yasmina Praderas), Frankenstein (Greg Chapman, Nathan Robitaille, Nelson Ferreira, Christian Cooke and Brad Zoern), One Battle after Another (Jose Antonio García, Christopher Scarabosio and Tony Villaflor), Sinners (Chris Welcker, Benjamin A. Burtt, Felipe Pacheco, Brandon Proctor and Steve Boeddeker).
Music (Original Score): Ludwig Goransson, Sinners.
Other nominees: Jonny Greenwood (One Battle After Another), Max Richter (Hamnet), Jerskin Fendrix (Bugonia), Alexandre Desplat (Frankenstein).
Music (Original Song): Golden, KPop Demon Hunters; Music and Lyric by EJAE, Mark Sonnenblick, Joong Gyu Kwak, Yu Han Lee, Hee Dong Nam, Jeong Hoon Seon and Teddy Park.
Other nominees: Dear Me (Diane Warren), Relentless; I Lied To You (Raphael Saadiq and Ludwig Goransson), Sinners; Sweet Dreams Of Joy (Nicholas Pike), Viva Verdi!; Train Dreams, (Nick Cave and Bryce Dessner), Train Dreams.
Documentary Feature Film: Mr. Nobody against Putin, directed by David Borenstein and co-directed by Pavel Talankin.
Other nominees: The Perfect Neighbor (Geeta Gandbhir), The Alabama Solution (Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman), Come See Me in the Good Light (Ryan White), Cutting through Rocks (Sara Khaki and Mohammadreza Eyni).
Documentary Short Film: All the Empty Rooms, Joshua Seftel.
Other nominees: Armed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud (Craig Renaud and Brent Renaud), Children No More: Were and Are Gone (Hilla Medalia), The Devil Is Busy (directed by Christalyn Hampton and Geeta Gandbhir), Perfectly a Strangeness (Alison McAlpine).
Animated Feature Film: KPop Dream Hunters, directed by Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans.
Other nominees: Arco, Elio, Little Amelie or the Character of Rain, and Zootopia 2.
Animated Short Film: The Girl Who Cried Pearls, directed by Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski.
Other nominees: Butterfly, Forevergreen, Retirement Plan, and The Three Sisters.
Live Action Short Film: A tie between Two People Exchanging Saliva by Natalie Musteata and Alexandre Singh and The Singers, Sam A Davis.
Other nominees: Butchers Stain (Meyer-Levinson Blount), A Friend Of Dorothy (Lee Knight), Jane Austen’s Period Drama, Julie Aks and Steve Pinder.
Production Design: Frankenstein, Production Design: Tamara Deverell; Set Decoration: Shane Vieau.
Other nominees: Hamnet (Production Design: Fiona Crombie; Set Decoration: Alice Felton), Marty Supreme (Production Design: Jack Fisk; Set Decoration: Adam Willis), One Battle after Another (Production Design: Florencia Martin; Set Decoration: Anthony Carlino), Sinners (Production Design: Hannah Beachler; Set Decoration: Monique Champagne).
Visual Effects: Avatar: Fire and Ash, Joe Letteri, Richard Baneham, Eric Saindon and Daniel Barrett.
Other nominees: Sinners (Michael Ralla, Espen Nordahl, Guido Wolter and Donnie Dean), F1 (Ryan Tudhope, Nicolas Chevallier, Robert Harrington and Keith Dawson), Jurassic World Rebirth (David Vickery, Stephen Aplin, Charmaine Chan and Neil Corbould), The Lost Bus (Charlie Noble, David Zaretti, Russell Bowen and Brandon K McLaughlin).
Costume Design: Kate Hawley, Frankenstein.
Other nominees: Deborah L Scott (Avatar: Fire and Ash), Malgosia Turzanska (Hamnet), Miyako Bellizzi (Marty Supreme), Ruth E Carter (Sinners).
Makeup and Hairstyling: Frankenstein, Mike Hill, Jordan Samuel and Cliona Furey.
Other nominees: Kokuho (Kyoko Toyokawa, Naomi Hibino and Tadashi Nishimatsu), Sinners (Ken Diaz, Mike Fontaine and Shunika Terry), The Smashing Machine (Kazu Hiro, Glen Griffin and Bjoern Rehbei), The Ugly Stepsister (Thomas Foldberg and Anne Cathrine Sauerberg).