One Battle After Another wins best picture as Sinners takes four Oscars

One Battle After Another won six Academy Awards, including Best Picture. It also won the inaugural Achievement in Casting award. Sinners won four Academy Awards after a record 16 nominations. The prizes were handed out at the 98th Academy Awards.

The Academy Awards, known as the Oscars, are the film prizes given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Best Picture is the award for the outstanding film of the year. Six wins made One Battle After Another the leader on the night by the count reported. Inaugural means Achievement in Casting was given for the first time.

Sinners entered with 16 nominations, a record, and won four. Ryan Coogler won original screenplay and Michael B. Jordan won lead actor. Autumn Durald Arkapaw won cinematography and Ludwig Göransson won score. Those four names match the four awards assigned to the film.

Original screenplay is the prize for a script not based on previously published material. Lead actor is the top performance award for a man in a leading role, as this result recorded it. Cinematography honors the director of photography, and score honors the music written for the film. The report paired each winner with that craft.

A record 16 nominations means no film had previously been nominated in so many Oscar categories, according to the account. Winning four from that slate is a different statistic from the nomination mark. One Battle After Another's six included the top prize and the new casting prize. The report did not list its other four categories.

The 98th Academy Awards gave Best Picture and five other Oscars to One Battle After Another, including the first Achievement in Casting. Sinners took four, for Coogler's screenplay, Jordan's lead performance, Arkapaw's cinematography, and Göransson's score, after 16 nominations. Those wins were the night's headline results.