And 3 Oscars for Sean Penn, who enters a very closed circle

Honored Sunday evening with the prize for best supporting actor for One Battle After Another, the 65-year-old actor was not present to collect his trophy.

And three.

Sean Penn enters a little more into the history of the Oscars. The American actor has just won the statuette for Best Supporting Actor at the 98th ceremony, for One Battle after anotherby Paul Thomas Anderson, thus winning the third Oscar of his career. An extremely rare feat.

The trophy was presented by Kieran Culkin, who humorously said at the time of the announcement:

“Sean Penn was unable to be present tonight. Or did not wish to be… So I will accept the award on his behalf.”

An absence which is not entirely surprising: according to the New York Timesthe actor was possibly in Ukraine this weekend, he who has been very involved in the country since the Russian invasion and had already filmed the documentary there Superpower in 2022.

In the meantime, with this third statuette, Sean Penn joins an extremely closed club: that of male actors having won at least three Oscars for acting. Before him, only Jack Nicholson, Daniel Day-Lewis and Walter Brennan had achieved such a feat.

Sean Penn’s two previous Oscars came in the Best Actor category: in 2004 for Mystic Riverwhere he played an ex-convict obsessed with revenge, then in 2009 for Harvey Milkin which he slipped into the skin of the activist and politician.

The fact remains that Sean Penn has long had a relationship with the Oscars that is, to say the least, ambivalent. The actor had publicly declared that he planned to melt his first two statuettes to make bullets for the Ukrainian war effort…

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