'one Battle After Another' Wins Best Picture At 2026 Oscars

“One Battle After Another,” Paul Thomas Anderson’s governmental epic, took location nan award for champion picture astatine Sunday night’s Oscars, edging retired “Sinners,” which gained sizeable momentum precocious successful nan game, successful a tight and melodramatic title to nan decorativeness line.

Entering nan nighttime pinch 13 nominations, nan movie had been an early favourite aft sweeping astir of nan awesome manufacture prizes, including nan 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 nan film’s ensemble cast, astatine nan caller Actor Awards and created a tense run-up to nan Oscars. It each made for an unpredictable infinitesimal for nan Oscars’ main category, moreover arsenic Warner Bros., nan workplace down some movies, stood to person a uncommon and enviable nighttime immoderate nan result — while successful nan midst of a takeover woody that could stone nan industry.

“One Battle After Another” is simply a satirical action-thriller pinch 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 character for Sean Penn, who missed nan ceremony.

In nan champion image category, “One Battle After Another” defeated “Sinners” — which won 4 Oscars, including lead character and original 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 nan worldwide container office.