Sean Penn has received the Oscar for greatest supporting actor for One Battle After Another, on the 98th Academy Awards now beneath means in Los Angeles.
With this win, Penn has joined an elite firm of male actors to win three appearing Oscars, becoming a member of Daniel Day-Lewis, Jack Nicholson and Walter Brennan. Penn beforehand received greatest actor Oscars for Mystic River in 2004 and Milk in 2009.
Penn defeated a robust area of nominees to take the prize, together with Benicio del Toro (additionally for One Battle After Another), Delroy Lindo for Sinners and Stellan Skarsgård for Sentimental Value.
In One Battle After Another, written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson and starring Leonardo DiCaprio as a former revolutionary, Penn performs Colonel Steven J Lockjaw, a navy officer who’s sexually humiliated by after which obsessive about Teyana Taylor’s Perfidia.
Penn, whose disdain for the Oscars is well-known, has featured strongly on this yr’s award circuit, successful greatest supporting actor on the Baftas and Actor awards, and selecting up nominations on the Golden Globes and Critics Choice awards.
The actor didn’t attend the ceremony to just accept his award, which was accepted for him by presenter Kieran Culkin.
