Sean Penn won Best Supporting Actor at the 2026 Oscars and, unsurprisingly, didn't turn up

Sean Penn has taken home the gold for Best Supporting Actor at the 98th Academy Awards for his role as corrupt military officer Col. Steven J. Lockjaw in One Battle After Another.The award was accepted on his behalf by Kieran Culkin, who won the award the previous year for Jesse Eisenberg's A Real Pain. "Sean Penn couldn't be here this evening, or didn't want to," Culkin humorously said. Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson and loosely based on Thomas Pynchon's Vineland, the black comedy follows an