‘One Battle After Another’ Wins Best Picture at the 98th Academy Awards

LOS ANGELES — “One Battle After Another” won the Academy Award for best picture on Sunday, capping a dominant awards season for director Paul Thomas Anderson, whose film led the 98th Oscars with six wins.

Anderson won best director and best adapted screenplay, and the film also took home awards for supporting actor Sean Penn, film editing and casting, a category presented for the first time this year.

‘Sinners’ Wins Four

Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners,” which entered the night with a record 16 nominations, the most ever for a single film, won four Oscars. Michael B. Jordan was named best actor, and Coogler won his first Oscar for original screenplay. The film also won for original score and cinematography, with Autumn Durald Arkapaw becoming the first woman to win the cinematography award.

The record nomination tally surpassed the 14 shared by “All About Eve,” “Titanic” and “La La Land.”

Acting Winners

Jessie Buckley won best actress for “Hamnet,” her first Oscar, and Amy Madigan won best supporting actress for “Weapons.” Jordan’s best actor victory came over a field that included Timothée Chalamet for “Marty Supreme,” Leonardo DiCaprio for “One Battle After Another,” Ethan Hawke for “Blue Moon” and Wagner Moura for “The Secret Agent.”

Other Notable Wins

Guillermo del Toro’s “Frankenstein” won three awards, for production design, costume design and makeup and hairstyling. Netflix’s “KPop Demon Hunters” won best animated feature and best original song. “Mr. Nobody Against Putin” won best documentary feature.

A Two-Film Race

The ceremony at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, hosted for a second consecutive year by Conan O’Brien, concluded a season defined by competition between Anderson’s film and “Sinners.” “One Battle After Another” had already won best picture at the Critics Choice Awards and the Golden Globes, while “Sinners” gained late momentum after strong showings at other industry awards.

“Sinners,” an original film released in April 2025, became the highest-grossing original movie at the domestic box office in 15 years and was a rare commercial and critical success for an original story from a major studio.

Anderson’s First Best Picture

The win gives Anderson, one of the most acclaimed American filmmakers of his generation, his first best picture and directing Oscars after numerous nominations over a career that includes “Boogie Nights,” “There Will Be Blood” and “Phantom Thread.”

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences had brought back O’Brien and the previous year’s producers after the 2025 telecast drew the show’s highest ratings in five years.