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LOS ANGELES — The darkly comic thriller “One Battle After Another” won best picture at the 98th annual Academy Awards, leading a haul of six trophies on a night when Hollywood handed its top movie honors to unconventional stories.
The Warner Bros movie, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, stars Leonardo DiCaprio as a one-time revolutionary who becomes a weed-smoking single father of a teenager.
The socially-conscious vampire story “Sinners” won four awards including a best actor trophy for Michael B. Jordan, who played twin brothers. Set in the Segregation-era US South, the movie was a celebration of blues and Black culture told with a…
