LOS ANGELES >> The darkly comic thriller \u201cOne Battle After Another\u201d 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.<\/p>\n
The offbeat tale of political resistance traded wins with the vampire story \u201cSinners,\u201d setting up a fight to the end at the Dolby Theatre.<\/p>\n
\u201cLet\u2019s have a martini! This is pretty amazing,\u201d director Paul Thomas Anderson said on stage after his \u201cOne Battle\u201d was announced the recipient of the top award.<\/p>\n
The Warner Bros movie stars Leonardo DiCaprio as a one-time revolutionary who becomes a weed-smoking single father of a teenager.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wrote this movie for my kids to say sorry for the housekeeping mess that we left in this world,\u201d Anderson said while accepting the screenplay honor. \u201cBut also with the encouragement that they will be the generation that hopefully brings us some common sense and decency.\u201d<\/p>\n
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SEAN PENN A WINNER BUT A NO-SHOW<\/p>\n
\u201cOne Battle\u201d star Sean Penn, who plays an obsessed military officer in \u201cOne Battle,\u201d 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.<\/p>\n
\u201cSean Penn couldn\u2019t be here, or didn\u2019t want to, so I\u2019ll accept the award on his behalf,\u201d said presenter Kieran Culkin, last year\u2019s supporting actor winner.<\/p>\n
\u201cSinners\u201d had entered the ceremony with 16 nominations, more than any other film in the nearly 100-year-old history of the Oscars. The movie finished with four awards including a best actor trophy for Michael B. Jordan, who played the dual roles of twin brothers Smoke and Stack. Set in the Segregation-era U.S. South, the movie was a celebration of blues and Black culture told with a supernatural twist.<\/p>\n
\u201cI stand here because of the people that came before me,\u201d Jordan said as he named previous Black Oscar winners including Sidney Poitier, Denzel Washington and Halle Berry. \u201cI\u2019m going to keep stepping up and I\u2019m going to keep being the best version of myself.\u201d<\/p>\n
Autumn Durald Arkapaw became the first woman and first Black cinematographer to win the cinematography honor for \u201cSinners.\u201d<\/p>\n
Irish actor Jessie Buckley landed the best actress accolade for playing William Shakespeare\u2019s wife, Agnes Hathaway, in \u201cHamnet.\u201d The movie explores how the couple navigates the death of their 11-year-old son \u201cHamnet.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI would like to dedicate this to the beautiful chaos of a mother\u2019s heart,\u201d Buckley said.<\/p>\n
The 75-year-old Amy Madigan was named best supporting actress for her role as the wacky Aunt Gladys in horror film \u201cWeapons.\u201d She earned her first Oscar 40 years after her first nomination.<\/p>\n
\u2018KPOP DEMON HUNTERS\u2019 TAKES BEST ANIMATED FEATURE<\/p>\n
\u201cKPop Demon Hunters,\u201d a Netflix movie that became a global phenomenon, was named best animated feature. Its catchy song, \u201cGolden,\u201d won the award for best original song.<\/p>\n
Amid the celebration, the Oscars took on a serious tone to honor two major losses in the film world \u2013 the deaths of directors Robert Redford and Rob Reiner.<\/p>\n
Billy Crystal, star of \u201cWhen Harry Met Sally,\u201d said Reiner\u2019s films including \u201cA Few Good Men\u201d and \u201cThis Is Spinal Tap\u201d would \u201clast for lifetimes.\u201d He was joined on stage by Demi Moore, Meg Ryan and other cast members from Reiner classics.<\/p>\n
Barbra Streisand, who played opposite Redford in \u201cThe Way We Were,\u201d called Redford a \u201cbrilliant, subtle actor\u201d and an \u201cintellectual cowboy.\u201d She finished her remarks by singing a few lines from the movie\u2019s well-known title song.<\/p>\n
\u201cSentimental Value,\u201d directed by Joachim Trier, won for best international feature film on Sunday, the first Norwegian film to win in this category after six previous nominations.<\/p>\n
Host Conan O\u2019Brien opened the festivities by joking that he was honored to be \u201cthe last human host\u201d of the awards at a time when Hollywood is worried about artificial intelligence taking over jobs.<\/p>\n
The glitzy celebration, Hollywood\u2019s most over-the-top gala of the year, took place as the U.S. wages war on Iran.<\/p>\n
Security was tight in and around the ceremony after a federal warning of a possible Iranian threat against California.<\/p>\n
The festivities masked the unease in the film business over where movies are being made as studios chase tax incentives and lower costs elsewhere in the U.S. and overseas, weakening Hollywood\u2019s grip on production.<\/p>\n
Warner Bros., the biggest winner of the night with 11 Oscars, is in the process of being sold to Paramount Skydance in a deal that will narrow the ranks of major film distributors. A media watchdog group, Free Press, circulated a roving billboard around Hollywood over the weekend airing its opposition to the merger.<\/p>\n
Winners of the gold Oscar statuettes are chosen by the roughly 10,000 actors, producers, directors and film craftspeople who make up the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. (Reporting by Lisa Richwine; Editing by Howard Goller)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES >> The darkly comic thriller \u201cOne Battle After Another\u201d won best picture at the Academy Awards,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":526529,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,206],"class_list":["post-526528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}