{"id":348399,"date":"2026-03-16T02:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T02:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/348399\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T02:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T02:44:11","slug":"oscars-2026-live-one-battle-after-another-wins-best-picture-at-98th-oscars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/348399\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscars 2026 live: One Battle After Another wins best picture at 98th Oscars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Train Dreams completes the best picture nomineespublished at 02:14 GMT<\/p>\n<p>02:14 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-5adjh7-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/65c2cdf8-e325-46cc-8b03-b794ec607fa7.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Emma Saunders<br \/>Culture reporter<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Train Dreams forest scene - Joel Edgerton with his on-screen baby daughter, he is showing her a yellow flower\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/f98d000a-a013-4c77-a426-e694c9841ce9.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"2986\" height=\"1679\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, NetflixImage caption, <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The film follows the life story of Robert Grainger, played by Joel Edgerton (right)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Train Dreams is the tenth and final nominee for best picture. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The film is set in the Pacific North West in the early 20th Century, at a time of huge change industrially and socially.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An American railroad<br \/>\nworker and logger lives an itinerant existence before marrying and having a<br \/>\ndaughter but returns home from a work trip only to be confronted by tragedy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Based on the<br \/>\nnovella of the same name by Denis Johnson, Train Dreams a quiet and contemplative<br \/>\njourney through one unassuming man\u2019s life, starring Joel Edgerton as leading<br \/>\nman Robert Grainger.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Directed by<br \/>\nClint Bentley, it also stars Felicity Jones and Kerry Condon. Condon, best known for The Banshees of Inisherin, also stars in another of this year&#8217;s best picture nominee, F1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Many critics have<br \/>\nhighlighted the influence of enigmatic US filmmaker Terrence Malick on Train Dreams, with its<br \/>\nhuge painterly American landscapes, narrative voiceover and poetic style. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Train Dreams completes the best picture nomineespublished at 02:14 GMT 02:14 GMT Emma SaundersCulture reporter Image source, NetflixImage&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348400,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,61,60,282],"class_list":["post-348399","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\/348399","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=348399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}