Overview
- Una battaglia dopo l’altra topped the night with six awards, including Best Picture, Best Director and Adapted Screenplay, marking Anderson’s first career Oscar after 11 prior nominations.
- Sinners, which led with a record 16 nominations, took four awards, including Best Actor for Michael B. Jordan, Original Screenplay for Ryan Coogler, Original Score for Ludwig Göransson and Best Cinematography for Autumn Durald Arkapaw.
- Jessie Buckley won Best Actress for Hamnet and Amy Madigan took Supporting Actress for Weapons, rounding out the major acting categories.
- Sean Penn won Supporting Actor for Una battaglia dopo l’altra but did not attend; presenter Kieran Culkin accepted onstage as reports, citing anonymous New York Times sources, said Penn was traveling in Europe and likely headed to Ukraine, which has not been confirmed by his representatives.
- The Academy introduced a permanent Best Casting category, awarded to Cassandra Kulukundis for Una battaglia dopo l’altra, and the live-action short race produced a rare tie between The Singers and Two People Exchanging Saliva.