Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another won Best Picture at the Oscars that were held on Sunday in Beverly Hills, California. One Battle After Another beat nominees that included Ryan Coogler’s Sinners, Kleber Mendonca Filho’s The Secret Agent, Chloe Zhao’s Hamnet and Josh Safdie’s Marty Supreme.
Sinners had been widely tipped to win the biggest prize at the annual event organised by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Anderson also won the Best Director Award. “ You make a guy work hard for one of these,” Anderson said. Addressing his fellow nominees, he added, “There will always be some doubt in your heart that you deserve it, but there is no question at pleasure having it for myself.”
In all, One Battle After Another won six Oscars.
Sinners landed 16 nominations – a first ever for a single title in the history of the Academy Awards, known informally as the Oscars. At the end of the ceremony, the film won four awards.
Sentimental Value, which was the most nominated non-English-language film with nine nods, won a single award, for International Feature Film.
The event was hosted by talk show host Conan O’Brien. Stirring speeches and mediocre writing for the presenters marked the event, the 98th in the Academy’s history.
The presenters included Priyanka Chopra Jonas, who along with Javier Bardem announced the winner of International Feature Film.
Bardem declared “No to war and Free Palestine” as Chopra Jonas looked on. The winner was Sentimental Value from Norway.
Two of the five tracks nominated for best original song were performed live: I Lied to You from Sinners, and Golden from KPop Demon Hunters.
Golden won the Oscar later in the evening. KPop Demon Hunters also won the Animated Feature Film award. Golden is the first KPop song to win an Oscar.
Academy Award voters made history this year, giving the first ever Oscar for cinematography to a woman – Autumn Durald Arkapaw for Sinners – and defying predictions in several categories.
Arkapaw, who is part Filipino and part African American Creole, is also the first woman of colour to win the Oscar. “I really want all the women in this room to stand up,” she said in her acceptance speech. “I feel like I don’t get here without you guys. I’ve felt so much love from all the women on this whole campaign and gotten to meet so many people. And I just feel like moments like this happened because of you guys.”
Among the prominent winners was Amy Madigan, who won her first Oscar for Actress in a Supporting Role for Zach Cregger’s horror hit Weapons. Madigan gave an evil cackle, like her creepy character Gladys, on the stage and a heartfelt speech about her surprise at her triumph. Madigan has been nominated only once before, for Twice in a Lifetime in 1986.
The writing awards for original and adapted screenplays went to Ryan Coogler for Sinners and Paul Thomas Anderson for One Battle After Another respectively.
If speeches alone could win Oscars, Anderson was ahead of the pack. Accepting his Oscar for Adapted Screenplay, Anderson said, “I wrote this movie for my kids to say sorry for the housekeeping mess we left in this world we’re handing off to them, but also with encouragement that they will be the generation that brings us some common sense and decency.”
There was a rare tie in the Live Action Short Film category, between Two People Exchanging Saliva by Natalie Musteata and Alexandre Singh and The Singers, Sam A Davis. “Ironic that the Short Film Oscar is going to take twice as long,” presenter Kumail Nanjiani joked.
Here is the full list of winners (in bold).
Best Picture: One Battle after Another.
The other nominees: Sinners, Hamnet, F1, Marty Supreme, Frankenstein, Bugonia, The Secret Agent, Sentimental Value and Train Dreams.
Directing: Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another.
The other nominees: Ryan Coogler (Sinners), Chloe Zhao (Hamnet), Josh Safdie (Marty Supreme), Joachim Trier (Sentimental Value).
Original Screenplay: Sinners, written by Ryan Coogler.
The 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 novel Vineland.
The 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.
The other nominees: Leonardo Di Caprio (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.
The 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.
The 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.
The 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).
The 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.
The 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.
The 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.
The 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.
The 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.
The 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.
The 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.
The 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.
The 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.
The 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.
The 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.
The 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.
The 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.
The 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.
The 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.
The 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).
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