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Sean Penn gained his third Oscar, however he didn’t attend the 98th Academy Awards ceremony, and lots of had been left questioning what the explanation for his absence may very well be. Properly, not less than these unaware of the actor’s emotions in direction of the ceremony.
Penn was nominated for Finest Supporting Actor for the position of Colonel Steven J. Lockjaw in Paul Thomas Anderson’s movie One Battle After One other and gained however he wasn’t there to just accept the award. As a substitute, it was final 12 months’s Finest Supporting Actor winner Kieran Culkin who was presenting this 12 months’s class who accepted the Oscar on Penn’s behalf. “Sean Penn couldn’t be right here this night, or didn’t need to,” he joked.
Aside from failing to attend the Dolby Theater ceremony, Penn additionally missed the BAFTAs and the Actor Awards over the previous month to select up his wins.
Whereas Penn didn’t launch any official assertion concerning his absence, sources near the actor instructed The New York Instances that he had deliberate to go to Ukraine as of final week. Whether or not he did journey to Ukraine or not hasn’t been confirmed.
Ghosting the Oscars isn’t something new for Penn, 65. He additionally missed the ceremony in 1996 for his nomination for Lifeless Man Strolling, in 2000 for Candy and Lowdown, and in 2002 for I Am Sam, based on The Related Press.
Expressing his emotions for the ceremony, Penn mentioned at one level, “The Academy have exercised actually extraordinary cowardice… limiting the creativeness and completely different cultural expressions,” based on VT.
In one other interview, he mentioned: “I don’t get very enthusiastic about what we’ll name the Academy Awards.”
He has additionally raised doubts about how a lot the awards ought to matter when judging inventive work, saying, “Ceremonies just like the Oscars ought to greatest be seen as tv exhibits first and fewer as barometers of inventive advantage.”
In 2023, Penn instructed Selection that he would even contemplate melting down his Oscar trophies to assist reduction efforts in Ukraine.
“I’ll give them to Ukraine. They are often melted right down to bullets they’ll shoot on the Russians,” he mentioned of giving one in every of his Oscar statuettes to Zelenskyy on the time.
Penn had already been in Ukraine whereas co-directing the 2023 documentary Superpower, the place he traveled to the nation to discover the profession journey of Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
This years’s Academy Award is his first Oscar in the very best supporting actor class. He had beforehand gained greatest actor for his performances in Mystic River and Milk. He attended each of these Oscar ceremonies.
Penn has now joined an elite group of three-time performing Oscar winners that features Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson, Daniel Day-Lewis, Ingrid Bergman, Frances McDormand and Walter Brennan.
Katharine Hepburn nonetheless holds the file for probably the most performing Oscars, with 4 wins throughout her profession for Morning Glory, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, The Lion in Winter and On Golden Pond.
At this 12 months’s Academy Awards, One Battle After One other claimed greatest image and greatest director as a part of a six-award sweep. The film additionally gained for greatest modifying, greatest tailored screenplay and the primary Oscar ever introduced for greatest casting.
Leonardo DiCaprio was nominated for Finest Actor for a similar movie, starring alongside Sean Penn however misplaced to Michael B. Jordan who gained Finest Actor for Sinners.
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