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One Battle After Another has beaten Sinners at this year's Oscars, winning six awards, including the coveted statuette for Best Picture.
The film tells the story of an ex-revolutionary turned pot-smoking single dad, who struggles to remember passphrases in a battle of wits against the terrifying Colonel Lockjaw, played by Sean Penn, who took out best supporting actor.
It won Best Editing, and the inaugural award for Casting, with director Paul Thomas Anderson also personally winning three Oscars, including Best Director.
"I want to thank the Academy for finding my work worthy of this highest honour, and my classmates, Chloe, Ryan, Joachim and Josh. I couldn't ask for a better class. "
Ryan Coogler directed Sinners, which entered the awards with the record for most Oscar nominations for a single film, at 16.
In the end it won four, celebrating the story of twin brother gangsters seeking their fortune in the segregated American south.
Coogler won Best Original Screenplay, Autumn Durald Arkapaw for Cinematography, Ludwig Göransson for Score, and Michael B. Jordan for Lead Actor.
"I stand here for because of the people that came before me. Sidney Poitier, Denzel Washington, Halle Berry, Jamie Foxx, Forest Whitaker, Will Smith, and to be amongst those giants, amongst those great greats, amongst my ancestors, amongst my guys. Thank you, everybody in this room and everybody at home for supporting me over my career. I feel it. I know you guys want me to do well and I want to do that because you guys bet on me."
True to the odds, Jessie Buckley bagged her first win in the Best Actress category, for her performance in the Shakespearean drama Hamnet.
Frankenstein, from director Guillermo del Toro, won three technical categories, including Best Production Design, Best Hairstyling and Makeup and Best Costume.
KPop Demon Hunters won the two categories it had been nominated for: Best Animation and Best Original Song.
That was directed by Maggie Kang.
''Thank you to the Academy and to all the fans who got us here. And for those of you who look like me, I am so sorry that it took us so long to see us in a movie like this. But it is here. And that means that the next generations don't have to go longing. This is for Korea and for Koreans everywhere.''
Amy Madigan took home the Oscar for best supporting actress - playing a demented witch in the horror film Weapons, while Norwegian family drama Sentimental Value won Best International Feature.
A lengthy In Memoriam segment paid emotional tribute to director Rob Reiner, who was stabbed to death in his home last December, and to Robert Redford, which included a rare stage performance from Barbra Streisand.
