“One Battle After Another” & “Sinners” Shine at an Oscars Filled With Historic Wins and Long‑Awaited Triumphs
The 98th Academy Awards were held last night at the Dolby Theatre, and they were historic. Autumn Durald Arkapaw became the first woman to win Best Cinematography for her lush, lyrical work in Ryan Coogler‘s Sinners. Coogler himself won his first Oscar, for Best Original Screenplay, while his star, Michael B. Jordan, won Best Actor for playing twins, Smoke and Stack. Coogler’s film finished the night with four awards, thanks to another win for composer Ludwig Goransson.
The Best Picture went to Paul Thomas Anderson’s feverish, ferociously enjoyable One Battle After Another. The win capped a long-deserved coronation for Anderson, who also won for Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Director, delivering a pair of moving acceptance speeches in the process. In the first, Anderson said his epic film was dedicated to his children: “I wrote this movie to say sorry for the housekeeping mess that we left them in this world.” His wife, Maya Rudolph, beamed as Anderson said he wrote his film “with the encouragement that they will be the generation that hopefully brings us some common sense and decency,” he concluded. “My Pearl, Lucille, Jack, and Ida, I love you.”
One Battle‘s victorious night totaled in six wins, including Sean Penn’s for Best Supporting Actor (Penn wasn’t at the ceremony), editor Andy Jurgensen, and, in a first for the Academy, one for casting director Cassandra Kulukundis.
Jessie Buckley took home the Best Actress award for her performance in Hamnet, while Amy Madigan won for Best Supporting Actress for her dark turn in Weapons.
The live performance of “I Lied to You” from Sinners, one of only two on the night, along with “Golden” from Kpop Demon Hunters, was one of the great musical moments from any Oscars in the last decade.
Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein lit up a lot of the craft awards, winning for Kate Hawley‘s costume design, Mike Hill, Jordan Samuel, and Cliona Furey makeup and hairstyling, and production design from Tamara Deverell and set decorator Shane Vieau.
The live-action short category ended in a rare tie, a moment that was at first baffling, then wild, and ultimately charming and incredible live TV, including the bizarre sequence in which a technical glitch led to another crack at Timothée Chalamet’s opera-and-ballet comment in the run-up to the Oscars.
Carl Reiner, Catherine O’Hara, Robert Duvall, and Robert Redford were among the late, great legends honored at the ceremony, with moving speeches on Reiner’s behalf by Billy Crystal and on Redford’s behalf by Barbra Streisand.
Conan O’Brien led a blissfully brief, buoyant evening, his second hosting duty in a row.
Here’s the full list of winners:
BEST PICTURE
BUGONIA
Ed Guiney & Andrew Lowe, Yorgos Lanthimos, Emma Stone, and Lars Knudsen, Producers
F1
Chad Oman, Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Joseph Kosinski, and Jerry Bruckheimer, Producers
FRANKENSTEIN
Guillermo del Toro, J. Miles Dale, and Scott Stuber, Producers
HAMNET
Liza Marshall, Pippa Harris, Nicolas Gonda, Steven Spielberg, and Sam Mendes, Producers
MARTY SUPREME
Eli Bush, Ronald Bronstein, Josh Safdie, Anthony Katagas, and Timothée Chalamet, Producers
ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER – WINNER
Adam Somner, Sara Murphy, and Paul Thomas Anderson, Producers
THE SECRET AGENT
Emilie Lesclaux, Producer
SENTIMENTAL VALUE
Maria Ekerhovd and Andrea Berentsen Ottmar, Producers
SINNERS
Zinzi Coogler, Sev Ohanian, and Ryan Coogler, Producers
TRAIN DREAMS
Marissa McMahon, Teddy Schwarzman, Will Janowitz, Ashley Schlaifer, and Michael Heimler, Producers
ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
TIMOTHÉE CHALAMET
Marty Supreme
LEONARDO DICAPRIO
One Battle after Another
ETHAN HAWKE
Blue Moon
MICHAEL B. JORDAN – WINNER
Sinners
The Secret Agent
ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
BENICIO DEL TORO
One Battle after Another
JACOB ELORDI
Frankenstein
DELROY LINDO
Sinners
SEAN PENN– WINNER
One Battle after Another
STELLAN SKARSGÅRD
Sentimental Value
ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
JESSIE BUCKLEY– WINNER
Hamnet
ROSE BYRNE
If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
KATE HUDSON
Song Sung Blue
RENATE REINSVE
Sentimental Value
EMMA STONE
Bugonia
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
ELLE FANNING
Sentimental Value
INGA IBSDOTTER LILLEAAS
Sentimental Value
AMY MADIGAN– WINNER
Weapons
WUNMI MOSAKU
Sinners
TEYANA TAYLOR
One Battle after Another
ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
ARCO
Ugo Bienvenu, Félix de Givry, Sophie Mas, and Natalie Portman
ELIO
Madeline Sharafian, Domee Shi, Adrian Molina, and Mary Alice Drumm
KPOP DEMON HUNTERS- WINNER
Maggie Kang, Chris Appelhans, and Michelle L.M. Wong
LITTLE AMÉLIE OR THE CHARACTER OF RAIN
Maïlys Vallade, Liane-Cho Han, Nidia Santiago, and Henri Magalon
ZOOTOPIA 2
Jared Bush, Byron Howard, and Yvett Merino
ANIMATED SHORT FILM
BUTTERFLY
Florence Miailhe and Ron Dyens
FOREVERGREEN
Nathan Engelhardt and Jeremy Spears
THE GIRL WHO CRIED PEARLS- WINNER
Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski
RETIREMENT PLAN
John Kelly and Andrew Freedman
THE THREE SISTERS
Konstantin Bronzit
CASTING
HAMNET
MARTY SUPREME
Jennifer Venditti
ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER
THE SECRET AGENT
SINNERS
Francine Maisler
CINEMATOGRAPHY
FRANKENSTEIN
MARTY SUPREME
Darius Khondji
ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER
SINNERS
TRAIN DREAMS
COSTUME DESIGN
AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH
FRANKENSTEIN
HAMNET
MARTY SUPREME
Miyako Bellizzi
SINNERS
DIRECTING
HAMNET
Chloé Zhao
MARTY SUPREME
Josh Safdie
ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER
Paul Thomas Anderson– WINNER
SENTIMENTAL VALUE
Joachim Trier
SINNERS
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE FILM
THE ALABAMA SOLUTION
Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman
COME SEE ME IN THE GOOD LIGHT
Ryan White, Jessica Hargrave, Tig Notaro, and Stef Willen
CUTTING THROUGH ROCKS
Sara Khaki and Mohammadreza Eyni
MR. NOBODY AGAINST PUTIN- WINNER
David Borenstein, Pavel Talankin, Helle Faber, and Alžběta Karásková
THE PERFECT NEIGHBOR
Geeta Gandbhir, Alisa Payne, Nikon Kwantu, and Sam Bisbee
DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM
ALL THE EMPTY ROOMS- WINNER
Joshua Seftel and Conall Jones
ARMED ONLY WITH A CAMERA: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF BRENT RENAUD
Craig Renaud and Juan Arredondo
CHILDREN NO MORE: “WERE AND ARE GONE”
Hilla Medalia and Sheila Nevins
THE DEVIL IS BUSY
Christalyn Hampton and Geeta Gandbhir
PERFECTLY A STRANGENESS
Alison McAlpine
FILM EDITING
F1
Stephen Mirrione
MARTY SUPREME
Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie
ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER
SENTIMENTAL VALUE
SINNERS
INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM
BRAZIL
FRANCE
It Was Just an Accident
NORWAY
SPAIN
TUNISIA
The Voice of Hind Rajab
LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM
BUTCHER’S STAIN
Meyer Levinson-Blount and Oron Caspi
A FRIEND OF DOROTHY
Lee Knight and James Dean
JANE AUSTEN’S PERIOD DRAMA
Julia Aks and Steve Pinder
THE SINGERS- WINNER
Sam A. Davis and Jack Piatt
TWO PEOPLE EXCHANGING SALIVA- WINNER
Alexandre Singh and Natalie Musteata
MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
FRANKENSTEIN
Mike Hill, Jordan Samuel, and Cliona Furey– WINNER
KOKUHO
Kyoko Toyokawa, Naomi Hibino, and Tadashi Nishimatsu
SINNERS
Ken Diaz, Mike Fontaine, and Shunika Terry
THE SMASHING MACHINE
Kazu Hiro, Glen Griffin and Bjoern Rehbein
THE UGLY STEPSISTER
Thomas Foldberg and Anne Cathrine Sauerberg
MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE)
BUGONIA
Jerskin Fendrix
FRANKENSTEIN
Alexandre Desplat
HAMNET
ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER
Jonny Greenwood
SINNERS
Ludwig Goransson– WINNER
MUSIC (ORIGINAL SONG)
DEAR ME
from Diane Warren: Relentless; Music and Lyric by Diane Warren
GOLDEN– WINNER
from KPop Demon Hunters; Music and Lyric by EJAE, Mark Sonnenblick, Joong Gyu Kwak, Yu Han Lee, Hee Dong Nam, Jeong Hoon Seo and Teddy Park
I LIED TO YOU
from Sinners; Music and Lyric by Raphael Saadiq and Ludwig Goransson
SWEET DREAMS OF JOY
from Viva Verdi!; Music and Lyric by Nicholas Pike
TRAIN DREAMS
from Train Dreams; Music by Nick Cave and Bryce Dessner; Lyric by Nick Cave
PRODUCTION DESIGN
FRANKENSTEIN
Production Design: Tamara Deverell; Set Decoration: Shane Vieau – WINNER
HAMNET
Production Design: Fiona Crombie; Set Decoration: Alice Felton
MARTY SUPREME
Production Design: Jack Fisk; Set Decoration: Adam Willis
ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER
Production Design: Florencia Martin; Set Decoration: Anthony Carlino
SINNERS
Production Design: Hannah Beachler; Set Decoration: Monique Champagne
SOUND
F1
Gareth John, Al Nelson, Gwendolyn Yates Whittle, Gary A. Rizzo, and Juan Peralta – WINNER
FRANKENSTEIN
Greg Chapman, Nathan Robitaille, Nelson Ferreira, Christian Cooke, and Brad Zoern
ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER
José Antonio García, Christopher Scarabosio, and Tony Villaflor
SINNERS
Chris Welcker, Benjamin A. Burtt, Felipe Pacheco, Brandon Proctor, and Steve Boeddeker
SIRĀT
Amanda Villavieja, Laia Casanovas and Yasmina Praderas
VISUAL EFFECTS
AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH
Joe Letteri, Richard Baneham, Eric Saindon, and Daniel Barrett – WINNER
F1
Ryan Tudhope, Nicolas Chevallier, Robert Harrington, and Keith Dawson
JURASSIC WORLD REBIRTH
David Vickery, Stephen Aplin, Charmaine Chan, and Neil Corbould
THE LOST BUS
Charlie Noble, David Zaretti, Russell Bowen and Brandon K. McLaughlin
SINNERS
Michael Ralla, Espen Nordahl, Guido Wolter, and Donnie Dean
WRITING (ADAPTED SCREENPLAY)
BUGONIA
Screenplay by Will Tracy
FRANKENSTEIN
Written for the Screen by Guillermo del Toro
HAMNET
Screenplay by Chloé Zhao & Maggie O’Farrell
ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER
Written by Paul Thomas Anderson- WINNER
TRAIN DREAMS
Screenplay by Clint Bentley & Greg Kwedar
WRITING (ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY)
BLUE MOON
Written by Robert Kaplow
Written by Jafar Panahi; Script collaborators – Nader Saïvar, Shadmehr Rastin, Mehdi Mahmoudian
MARTY SUPREME
Written by Ronald Bronstein & Josh Safdie
SENTIMENTAL VALUE
Written by Eskil Vogt, Joachim Trier
SINNERS
Written by Ryan Coogler– WINNER
