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The darkly comic thriller “One Battle After Another” won best picture at the Academy Awards, leading a haul of six trophies on a Sunday night when Hollywood handed its top movie honors to unconventional stories.
The offbeat tale of political resistance traded wins with the vampire story “Sinners,” setting up a fight to the end at the Dolby Theatre.
“Let’s have a martini! This is pretty amazing,” director Paul Thomas Anderson said on stage after his “One Battle” was announced the recipient of the top award.
The Warner Bros. movie stars Leonardo DiCaprio as a one-time revolutionary who becomes a weed-smoking single father of a teenager.
