{"id":2330316,"date":"2026-03-16T01:52:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T01:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2330316"},"modified":"2026-03-16T01:52:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T01:52:23","slug":"sean-penn-wins-supporting-actor-oscar-for-one-battle-after-another","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/sean-penn-wins-supporting-actor-oscar-for-one-battle-after-another\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean Penn wins supporting actor Oscar for &#8216;One Battle After Another&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-element=\"story-body\" data-subscriber-content=\"\">\n<p>Sean Penn won the supporting actor Oscar on Sunday night for his performance as the ruthless, racist Col. Steven J. Lockjaw in Paul Thomas Anderson\u2019s \u201cOne Battle After Another.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, Penn was not present for the ceremony, which became the subject of jokes from Kieran Culkin and Conan O\u2019Brien.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a \u2018no show\u2019 from Sean Penn,\u201d O\u2019Brien said. \u201cStay tuned.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/03\/15\/movies\/sean-penn-oscars.html?smid=url-share\" target=\"_blank\">a report by the New York Times<\/a>, Penn left to Europe, where his plan was to visit Ukraine. Penn has notably supported Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, even <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/oscar-sean-penn-zelensky-1236526558\/\" target=\"_blank\">giving him one of his Oscars statuettes<\/a> in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The win marks the third Academy Award for the 65-year-old Penn and his first in the supporting category. He previously  earned lead actor Oscars for \u201cMystic River\u201d (2003) and \u201cMilk\u201d (2008), and had been nominated three other times in leading roles before this year. He beat out fellow nominees Benicio Del Toro for \u201cOne Battle After Another,\u201d Jacob Elordi for \u201cFrankenstein,\u201d Delroy Lindo for \u201cSinners\u201d and Stellan Skarsg\u00e5rd for \u201cSentimental Value.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With his victory, Penn joins Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson, Ingrid Bergman, Daniel Day-Lewis, Frances McDormand and Walter Brennan as three-time Oscar winners for acting. Katharine Hepburn is the only four-time acting winner.<\/p>\n<p>Penn, who delivers a volatile, darkly comic performance in Anderson\u2019s sprawling political thriller, emerged as the race\u2019s front-runner after a surprise victory at the BAFTA Awards and the Actor Awards, whose voting body overlaps heavily with the motion picture academy.<\/p>\n<p> Presenter Culkin accepted the award on Penn\u2019s behalf. \u201cSean Penn couldn\u2019t be here this evening \u2014 or didn\u2019t want to, so I\u2019ll be accepting on his behalf.\u201d Culkin said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.latimes.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sean Penn won the supporting actor Oscar on Sunday night for his performance as the ruthless, racist Col. Steven J. Lockjaw in Paul Thomas Anderson\u2019s \u201cOne Battle After Another.\u201d However, Penn was not present for the ceremony, which became the subject of jokes from Kieran Culkin and Conan O\u2019Brien. \u201cWe have a \u2018no show\u2019 from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2330317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2330316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Sean-Penn-wins-supporting-actor-Oscar-for-One-Battle-After.com2F252F792Fb9000e404b1fb7770e98f50b.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2330316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2330316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2330316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2330318,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2330316\/revisions\/2330318"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2330317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2330316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2330316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2330316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}