One Battle After Another Wins Best Picture and Five Other Oscars

One Battle After Another won Best Picture at the 98th Academy Awards on Sunday night, taking six awards in all, according to ABC News and ABC7. The film also won for director, adapted screenplay, film editing, casting and supporting actor, ABC News reported.

Paul Thomas Anderson won Best Director and the adapted screenplay award, and Sean Penn won Best Supporting Actor for the film, according to ABC7’s list of winners. Andy Jurgensen won for film editing and Cassandra Kulukundis for casting, ABC7 reported. Finestre sull’Arte credited the film’s producers as Adam Somner, Sara Murphy and Anderson. The finalists in the category, listed by Finestre sull’Arte, were One Battle After Another, Bugonia, F1, Frankenstein, Hamnet, Marty Supreme, The Secret Agent, Sentimental Value, Sinners and Train Dreams.

In his speech, Anderson listed the Best Picture nominees of 1975 and said “There is no best among them,” ABC News reported. He thanked fellow nominees and filmmakers, including those the Academy did not recognize, and said he “blew it” by not thanking his cast when he won Best Director earlier in the evening, calling out Chase Infiniti: “You are the heart of this movie.”

Sinners won four awards, according to ABC7 and Finestre sull’Arte: Michael B. Jordan for Best Actor, Ryan Coogler for original screenplay, Ludwig Goransson for original score and Autumn Durald Arkapaw for cinematography. Jessie Buckley won Best Actress for Hamnet and Amy Madigan won Best Supporting Actress for Weapons, the two outlets reported.

Frankenstein won three craft awards, for costume design, makeup and hairstyling, and production design, both outlets reported. Sentimental Value, from Norway, won Best International Feature, ABC7 said. KPop Demon Hunters won the animated feature award, and its song “Golden” won Best Original Song, according to ABC7. F1 won for sound, and Avatar: Fire and Ash won for visual effects, ABC7 reported.

In the documentary categories, ABC7 reported that Mr. Nobody Against Putin won Best Documentary Feature and All the Empty Rooms won Best Documentary Short. The short-film awards included a tie in live action between The Singers and Two People Exchanging Saliva, and The Girl Who Cried Pearls won animated short, per ABC7.

ABC7 said the ceremony was hosted by Conan O’Brien. Finestre sull’Arte noted that the Oscars honored films released in 2025.