Oscars 2026: Sean Penn is best supporting actor for 'One Battle After Another', Amy Madigan is best supporting actress for 'Weapons'

Sean Penn won his third acting Oscar on Sunday for his supporting role as an obsessed military officer in the political thriller "One Battle After Another."

Penn, 65, plays Colonel Steven Lockjaw, a white nationalist who is in love with a Black revolutionary while hating everything she and her family stand for.

He "flexes his muscles, grits his teeth, and growls his lines, but somehow threads the needle between truth and caricature," Brian Tallerico wrote in his review on rogerebert.com.

The Hollywood veteran previously won best actor for "Mystic River" in 2004 and "Milk" in 2009. Friends with director Paul Thomas Anderson since the 1990s, he had only worked with him once before, in "Licorice Pizza."

"Because of Paul’s movie, I’m in a stage of liking acting," he told W magazine. "But I’ve always got carpentry to fall back on. And surfing."

This year's other supporting actor nominees were Benicio Del Toro, also for "One Battle After Another," Stellan Skarsgård for "Sentimental Value," Delroy Lindo for "Sinners," and Jacob Elordi for "Frankenstein."

Meanwhile, Amy Madigan was hailed the best supporting actress for her role as a nightmarish villain in the horror film "Weapons."

Madigan, 75, was previously nominated for the 1985 movie "Twice in a Lifetime." In "Weapons," she plays Aunt Gladys, a witch in outrageous clothing whose role in the disappearance of a classroom of kids only becomes clear at the end of the story.

Asked what was different about this Oscar nomination, which came 40 years after her first nomination for "Twice in a Lifetime," Madigan hefted the trophy and remarked, "what's different is I got a gold guy."

Madigan's other films include "Uncle Buck," "Field of Dreams" and "Streets of Fire." She and actor Ed Harris have been married since 1983.

Earlier, the Netflix sensation "Kpop Demon Hunters" won best animated feature. — Reuters