Overview
- One Battle After Another won six Oscars including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay, giving Paul Thomas Anderson his first Academy Awards.
- Sean Penn took Best Supporting Actor for One Battle After Another in absentia, while Cassandra Kulukundis won the Academy’s first Best Casting award for the film.
- Sinners earned four trophies with Michael B. Jordan winning Best Actor, Ryan Coogler taking Best Original Screenplay for his first Oscar, Ludwig Göransson winning score and Autumn Durald Arkapaw becoming the first woman to win cinematography.
- Jessie Buckley won Best Actress for Hamnet, becoming the first Irish woman to receive the honor.
- The telecast delivered a rare tie in Best Live Action Short for The Singers and Two People Exchanging Saliva, with a show marked by heightened security and pointed political notes.