It’s Oscar night, and the Academy Awards are being awarded in the Dolby Theater in Hollywood. After Amy Madigan and Sony Pictures Animation stunned the crowd with their historic wins for Weapons and KPop Demon Hunters respectively, another key award has been handed out. This year’s Best Supporting Actor trophy went to Sean Penn for the massively acclaimed film from Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another. It is Sean Penn’s 6th nomination and 3rd win. The film has a whopping 13 nominations, and this is its 2nd win so far tonight, after making history as the first movie to win the Oscars’ first category in 24 years. Penn was not in attendance at the Awards show tonight,
Who Are the Other Nominees for Best Supporting Actor?
One Battle After Another claimed two of the Best Supporting Actor nominations, with Benicio del Toro, as community activist and martial arts sensei Sergio St. Carlos, in addition to Penn, as white supremacist officer with a big secret, Steven J. Lockjaw, both earning nods. Sinners added another nomination to its glittering haul, with Delroy Lindo nominated for his performance as bluesman Delta Slim. Stellan Skarsgård was nominated for his role as Norwegian film director Gustav Borg, who reunites with his estranged daughters in Sentimental Value. Jacob Elordi became the first actor ever to earn an Oscar nomination for playing Frankenstein’s monster in Guillermo del Toro‘s Frankenstein. Benicio del Toro has been nominated for Best Supporting Actor two times before; he won in 2001 for his role in Traffic, and was subsequently nominated for 21 Grams in 2004. Penn, meanwhile, has won Best Actor twice (for Milk and Mystic River), and has been nominated three other times (for Dead Man Walking, Sweet and Lowdown, and I Am Sam); this is his first nomination for Best Supporting Actor. It is the first Oscar nomination in any category for Lindo, Skarsgård, and Elordi.
Penn seemed to be the front-runner going into tonight, as he took home both the Supporting Actor BAFTA and Golden Globe trophies.
The Academy Awards are happening right now, with One Battle After Another currently leading the pack with 2 Oscar wins. Stay tuned to Collider for future updates.
- Release Date
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September 26, 2025
- Runtime
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162 minutes
- Director
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Paul Thomas Anderson
- Writers
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Paul Thomas Anderson, Thomas Pynchon
- Producers
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Adam Somner, Paul Thomas Anderson, Sara Murphy