'One Battle After Another' takes best picture at the Oscars
Amidst conflict in the Middle East, Oscar awards get handed out.
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In this article NFLX WBD Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT Hollywood star and founder of CORE (Community Organized Relief Effort) Sean Penn holds a press conference at a building housing refugees from Ukraine after signing an agreement with authorities to help refugees from Ukraine on March 25, 2022 in Rzeszow, Poland. Darek Puchala/ | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images The darkly comic thriller "One Battle After Another" won best picture at the Academy Awards, leading a haul of six trophies on a Sunday night when Hollywood handed its top movie honors to unconventional stories. The offbeat tale of political resistance traded wins with the vampire story "Sinners," setting up a fight to the end at the Dolby Theatre. "Let's have a martini! This is pretty amazing," director Paul Thomas Anderson said on stage after his "One Battle" was announced the recipient of the top award. The Warner Bros. movie stars Leonardo DiCaprio as a one-time revolutionary who becomes a weed-smoking single father of a teenager. Before this year Anderson had 11 career Oscar nominations and no wins. In addition to best picture, he won best director and best adapted screenplay on Sunday. "I wrote this movie for my kids to say sorry for the housekeeping mess that we left in this world," Anderson said while accepting the screenplay honor. "But also with the encouragement that they will be the generation that hopefully brings us some common sense and decency." Sean Penn a winner but a no-show "One Battle" star Sean Penn, who plays an obsessed military officer in "One Battle," was named best supporting actor. It was the third Oscar for Penn, who frequently skips movie industry awards shows and was not in the Dolby Theatre audience. "Sean Penn couldn't be here, or didn't want to, so I'll accept the award on his behalf," said presenter Kieran Culkin, last year's supporting actor winner. "Sinners" had entered the ceremony with 16 nominations, more than any other film in the nearly 100-year-old ...
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