'One Battle After Another' wins best picture at 2026 Oscars

“One Battle After Another,” Paul Thomas Anderson’s governmental epic, took location the grant for champion representation astatine Sunday night’s Oscars, edging retired “Sinners,” which gained sizeable momentum precocious successful the game, successful a choky and melodramatic contention to the decorativeness line.

Entering the nighttime with 13 nominations, the movie had been an aboriginal favourite aft sweeping astir of the large manufacture prizes, including the PGA Award — a cardinal bellwether successful this category. But “Sinners” picked up steam aft claiming apical prizes for “Sinners” prima Michael B. Jordan, arsenic good arsenic the film’s ensemble cast, astatine the caller Actor Awards and created a tense run-up to the Oscars. It each made for an unpredictable infinitesimal for the Oscars’ main category, adjacent arsenic Warner Bros., the workplace down some movies, stood to person a uncommon and enviable nighttime immoderate the result — portion successful the midst of a takeover woody that could stone the industry.

“One Battle After Another” is simply a satirical action-thriller with an aggravated and timely exploration of American extremism that stars Leonardo DiCaprio arsenic a retired revolutionary forced backmost into action. Overall, it took location six Oscars, including directing and adapted screenplay for Anderson and supporting histrion for Sean Penn, who missed the ceremony.

In the champion representation category, “One Battle After Another” defeated “Sinners” — which won 4 Oscars, including pb histrion and archetypal screenplay — “Hamnet,” “Sentimental Value,” “The Secret Agent,” “Bugonia,” “Marty Supreme,” “Frankenstein,” “F1” and “Train Dreams.”

Now disposable to watercourse connected HBO Max, “One Battle After Another” collected $209.4 cardinal astatine the worldwide container office.