Written by Kevin Crust, Los Angeles Times
LOS ANGELES — It was a big night for Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another,” which won six Oscars at the 98th Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay. The film also won Best Supporting Actor, Best Film Editing, and Best Casting for Sean Penn, his first win in this category.
Earning a record 16 nominations, Sinners won four awards, including Best Actor for Michael B. Jordan, Best Original Screenplay for Ryan Coogler, Best Film Score, and Best Cinematography for Autumn Durald Arkapaw, making history as the first woman to win an Oscar in this category.
Jessie Buckley also won her first Best Actress Oscar for her leading role in “Hamnet.” Amy Madigan won Best Supporting Actress for “Weapons.”
South Korean musical fantasy “KPop Demon Hunters” won two Academy Awards for Best Animated Feature and Best Original Song. “Frankenstein” also won two awards for costume design, makeup, and hairstyling.
The winners are:
Best work
“Next Battle” | Winner
“Bugonia”
“F1”
“Frankenstein”
“Hamnet”
“Marty Supreme”
“Secret Agent”
“Emotional value”
“Sinners”
“Train Dream”
Leading actress
Jesse Buckley “Hamnet” | Winner
Rose Byrne: “If I had legs, I’d kick you.”
Kate Hudson “Son San Bleu”
Renate Rheinwe “Sentimental Value”
Emma Stone “Bugonia”
Leading actor
Michael B. Jordan “Sinners” | Winner
Timothée Chalamet “Marty Supreme”
Leonardo DiCaprio “One Battle After Another”
Ethan Hawke “Blue Moon”
Wagner Moura “The Secret Agent”
supporting actress
Amy Madigan “Weapons” | Winner
Elle Fanning “Sentimental Value”
Inga Ebsdotter Lilias “Sentimental Value”
Shigesaku Kumomi “Sinners”
Teyana Taylor “One Battle After Another”
supporting actor
Sean Penn “One Battle After Another” | Winner
Benicio Del Toro “One Battle After Another”
Jacob Elordi “Frankenstein”
Delroy Lindo “Sinners”
Stellan Skarsgård “Sentimental Value”
director
Paul Thomas Anderson “One Battle After Another” | Winner
Chloe Zhao “Hamnet”
Josh Safdie “Marty Supreme”
Joachim Trier “Sentimental Value”
Ryan Coogler “Sinners”
adapted screenplay
“Battle after Battle” Paul Thomas Anderson | Winner
“Bugonia” Will Tracy
“Frankenstein” Guillermo del Toro
“Hamnet” Chloe Zhao and Maggie O’Farrell
“Train Dreams” Clint Bentley, Greg Kweder
original script
“The Sinner” Ryan Coogler | Winner
“Blue Moon” Robert Kaprow
“It was just an accident” Jafar Panahi
“Marty Supreme” Josh Safdie and Ronald Bronstein
“Sentimental Value” by Joachim Trier and Eskil Vogt
Documentary feature
“Mr. Nobody Against Putin” | Winner
“The Alabama Solution”
“Please come and meet me in a bright place.”
“Cut the rock”
“The perfect neighbor”
short documentary
“All rooms are vacant” |Winner
“With Only a Camera as a Weapon: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud.”
“Children No More: ‘Were and Are Gone'”
“The devil is busy”
“Totally strange”
Animation feature
“KPop Demon Hunter” | Winner
“Arco”
“Elio”
“Little Amelie, or the rain character”
“Zootopia 2”
short animation
“The Girl Who Ringed the Pearl” | Winner
“butterfly”
“Forever Green”
“Retirement allowance system”
“Three Sisters”
Cinematography
“Sinners” Autumn Durald Arkapaw | Winner
“Frankenstein” Dan Laustsen
“Marty Supreme” Darius Khondji
“The battles come one after the other” Michael Bauman
Adolfo Veloso “Dream Train”
costume design
“Frankenstein” Kate Hawley | Winner
Avatar: Fire and Ashes by Deborah L. Scott
“Hamnet” by Malgosia Trzanska
“Marty Supreme” Miyako Bellizzi
“The Sinner” Ruth E. Carter
movie editing
“One Battle After Another” Andy Jurgensen | Winner
“F1” Steven Milione
“Marty Supreme” Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie
“Sentimental Value” Olivier Bouge Coutet
“The Sinner” Michael P. Shober
International feature
“Sentimental Value” (Norway) | Winner
“It was just an accident” (France)
“The Secret Agent” (Brazil)
“Sirato” (Spain)
“Voice of Hind Rajab” (Tunisia)
live-action short story
“The Singers” | Winner
“Two people exchanging saliva” | Winner
“Butcher’s Stain”
“Dorothy’s Friend”
“Jane Austen’s historical drama”
makeup and hair styling
Frankenstein Mike Hill, Jordan Samuel, Cliona Fury | Winner
“National Treasure” Kyoko Toyokawa, Naomi Hibino, Tadashi Nishimatsu
“Sinners” Ken Diaz, Mike Fontaine, Shunica Terry
“The Smashing Machine” Kazu Hiro, Glenn Griffin, Bjorn Levine
“The Ugly Sister-in-Law” Thomas Foldberg and Anne-Katherine Sauerberg
original score
“The Sinner” Ludwig Göransson | Winner
“Bugonia” Jerskin Fendrix
“Frankenstein” Alexandre Desplat
“Hamnet” Max Richter
“The battles come one after the other” Jonny Greenwood
original song
“Golden” from “KPop Demon Hunters” | Winner
“Dear Me” from “Diane Warren: Relentless”
“I Lied to You” from “Sinners”
“Sweet Dreams of Joy” from “Viva Verdi!”
“Train Dreams” from “Train Dreams”
production design
“Frankenstein” | Winner
“Hamnet”
“Marty Supreme”
“One battle after another”
“Sinners”
sound
“F1” | Winner
“Frankenstein”
“One battle after another”
“Sinners”
“Silaat”
visual effects
“Avatar: Fire and Ashes” | Winner
“F1”
“Jurassic World Rebirth”
“The Lost Bus”
“Sinners”
casting
“Next Battle” | Winner
“Hamnet”
“Marty Supreme”
“Secret Agent”
“Sinners”
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