Three Warner Bros. films took home 11 golden statues at the 98th Academy Awards, including 6 for ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER, 4 for SINNERS and one for WEAPONS.
ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER won Best Picture, Best Director, Paul Thomas Anderson, Best Adapted Screenplay, Paul Thomas Anderson – Based on the novel Vineland by Thomas Pynchon, Best Supporting Actor, Sean Penn, and Best Film Editing, Andy Jurgensen. It also included the first-time Casting Oscar for Cassandra Kulukundis.
SINNERS took home 4 Academy Awards after being nominated for a record 16 Oscar nominations. THIS was the TRUE win of Sunday night!
Ryan Coogler won for Best Original Screenplay, Best Actor went to Michael B. Jordan, Autumn Durald Arkapaw became the first woman in history to win Best Cinematography, and Ludwig Göransson won his third Oscar for the film’s score.
And Amy Madigan won Best Supporting Actress for her role as Aunt Gladys in WEAPONS.
Guillermo del Toro’s FRANKENSTEIN won 3 for Best Production Design, Best Costume Design and Best Makeup and Hairstyling,
It was remarkable night for these three horror films.
Actor in a Leading Role
Timothée Chalamet Marty Supreme
Leonardo DiCaprio One Battle after Another
Ethan Hawke Blue Moon
Michael B. Jordan Sinners – WINNER
Wagner Moura The Secret Agent
Listen to the cheering in the pressroom!
Actor in a Supporting Role
Benicio Del Toro One Battle after Another
Jacob Elordi Frankenstein
Delroy Lindo Sinners
Sean Penn One Battle after Another – WINNER
Stellan Skarsgård Sentimental Value
Actress in a Leading Role
Jessie Buckley Hamnet – WINNER
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 Weapons – WINNER
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 Maggie Kang, Chris Appelhans and Michelle L.M. Wong – WINNER
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 Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski – WINNER
Retirement Plan John Kelly and Andrew Freedman
The Three Sisters Konstantin Bronzit
Casting
Hamnet Nina Gold
Marty Supreme Jennifer Venditti
One Battle after Another Cassandra Kulukundis – WINNER
The Secret Agent Gabriel Domingues
Sinners Francine Maisler
Cinematography
Frankenstein Dan Laustsen
Marty Supreme Darius Khondji
One Battle after Another Michael Bauman
Sinners Autumn Durald Arkapaw – WINNER
Train Dreams Adolpho Veloso
Costume Design
Avatar: Fire and Ash Deborah L. Scott
Frankenstein Kate Hawley – WINNER
Hamnet Malgosia Turzanska
Marty Supreme Miyako Bellizzi
Sinners Ruth E. Carter
Directing
Hamnet Chloé Zhao
Marty Supreme Josh Safdie
One Battle after Another Paul Thomas Anderson – WINNER
Sentimental Value Joachim Trier
Sinners Ryan Coogler
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 David Borenstein, Pavel Talankin, Helle Faber and Alžběta Karásková – WINNER
The Perfect Neighbor Geeta Gandbhir, Alisa Payne, Nikon Kwantu and Sam Bisbee
Documentary Short Film
All the Empty Rooms Joshua Seftel and Conall Jones – WINNER
WAMG asked the filmmakers about their film…
Q: Congratulations on your win. As a human being and a parent, this film was beautiful and devastating. So how did you navigate making it just that, and not a pity party, or making it seem like exploitive of what these parents went through?
A: [Joshua Seftel] Yeah, that was a big thing. Do you want to start that one?
[Conall Jones] You can. [Joshua Seftel] One of the things that helped us was that all the parents that participated in our film, which were four families, they all very much wanted to tell the stories of their children. And so we were working together as collaborators in a sense, in that we wanted to tell their stories and they wanted to, the parents wanted to share their stories because they do not want their children to be forgotten. That’s the most important thing in their lives. And so by focusing on the kids and on the empty bedrooms, and on the absence of these children, we felt that that could be a powerful way to talk about gun violence. We don’t mention the word gun in this film, not once, but we didn’t think we needed to because you learn about these children, and you feel how wrong this is, what’s happening in our society. And ideally, people will do things to try to create change, and we’ve already seen that as a result of the film.
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 Andy Jurgensen – WINNER
Sentimental Value Olivier Bugge Coutté
Sinners Michael P. Shawver
International Feature Film
Brazil The Secret Agent
France It Was Just an Accident
Norway Sentimental Value – WINNER
Spain Sirāt
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 Sam A. Davis and Jack Piatt – WINNER
Two People Exchanging Saliva Alexandre Singh and Natalie Musteata – WINNER
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 Max Richter
One Battle after Another Jonny Greenwood
Sinners Ludwig Goransson – WINNER
Read our interview with the composer from 2015 during his work on CREED. https://www.wearemoviegeeks.com/2015/12/ludwig-goransson-discusses-his-score-for-ryan-cooglers-creed/
Music (Original Song)
Dear Me from Diane Warren: Relentless; Music and Lyric by Diane Warren
Golden 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 – WINNER
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
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 Adam Somner, Sara Murphy and Paul Thomas Anderson, Producers – WINNER
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
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
It Was Just an Accident 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
Contributed by Michelle McCue and Melissa Thompson