{"id":348320,"date":"2026-03-16T01:31:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T01:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/348320\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T01:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T01:31:08","slug":"oscars-live-sinners-takes-first-award-as-no-show-sean-penn-wins-best-supporting-actor-ents-arts-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/348320\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscars live: Sinners takes first award, as no-show Sean Penn wins best supporting actor | Ents &#038; Arts News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/author\/gemma-peplow-751\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Gemma Peplow<\/a>, culture and entertainment reporter<\/p>\n<p>The weight of the Oscars has come up in the winners room thanks to Sam A Davis and Jack Piatt,\u00a0 who are the joint winners of the Oscar for best live action short, for The Singers, after that surprise tie announced earlier on.<\/p>\n<p>Davis says the statuette is heavy, while Piatt says it would be good to use for a work-out, getting a laugh.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m in the first row of journalists and just a few feet away, but still haven&#8217;t managed to hold one yet.<\/p>\n<p>However, I&#8217;ve done my research and can confirm the statuettes are 13.5ins tall and weigh 8.5lb.<\/p>\n<p>One for the fact fans: The design itself is a stylised figure of a knight holding a crusader&#8217;s sword and standing on a reel of film, with five spokes signifying the five original branches of the Academy (actors, directors, producers, technicians and writers).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By\u00a0Gemma Peplow, culture and entertainment reporter The weight of the Oscars has come up in the winners room&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348321,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,61,60,282],"class_list":["post-348320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}