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 (WBD.O), opens new tab 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.”
Full List of Winners:
Best supporting actress
Winner- Amy Madigan, Weapons
Best animated feature film
Winner- KPop Demon Hunters
Best animated short film
Winner- The Girl Who Cried Pearls
Best costume design
Winner- Frankenstein (Kate Hawley)
Best makeup and hairstyling
Winner- Frankenstein
Best casting
Winner- One Battle After Another (Cassandra Kulukundis)
Best live action short film
Joint Winner- The Singers
Joint Winner- Two People Exchanging Saliva
Best supporting actor
Winner- Sean Penn, One Battle After Another
Best adapted screenplay
Winner- One Battle After Another (Paul Thomas Anderson)
Best original screenplay
Winner- Sinners (Ryan Coogler)
Best production design
Winner- Frankenstein
Best visual effects
Winner- Avatar: Fire and Ash
Best documentary short film
Winner- All the Empty Rooms
Best documentary feature film
Winner- Mr Nobody Against Putin
Best original score
Winner- Sinners (Ludwig Göransson)
Best sound
Winner- F1
Best film editing
Winner- One Battle After Another
Best Cinematography
Winner- Sinners
Best international feature film
Winner- Sentimental Value
Best Original Song
Winner- Golden, KPop Demon Hunters
Best directing
Winner- Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another
Best actor
Winner- Michael B Jordan, Sinners
Best actress
Winner- Jessie Buckley, Hamnet
Best picture
Winner- One Battle After Another
(Reuters/The Guardian)
