{"id":43949,"date":"2026-03-16T11:27:33","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T11:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=43949"},"modified":"2026-03-16T11:27:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T11:27:34","slug":"why-sean-penn-didnt-attend-the-academy-awards-as-he-wins-third-oscar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=43949","title":{"rendered":"Why Sean Penn didn\u2019t attend the Academy Awards as he wins third Oscar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sean Penn, 65, won his third Oscar for his performance in Paul Thomas Anderson\u2019s film One Battle After Another. In the movie, he plays Colonel Steven J. Lockjaw, and the win came in the Best Supporting Actor category, adding another statue to a career that has already earned him two Academy Awards: one for Mystic River in 2003 and another for Milk in 2008, along with several other nominations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite the milestone, Penn chose not to attend the ceremony. Kieran Culkin addressed the reason behind Sean Penn\u2019s absence from the stage, saying: \u201cSean Penn couldn\u2019t be here this evening \u2013 or didn\u2019t want to,\u201d according to VT.Sean Penn\u2019s Oscar winPenn\u2019s absence was not entirely surprising. Over the years, he has been openly critical of award ceremonies in general, and the Oscars in particular.\u201cThe Academy have exercised really extraordinary cowardice\u2026 limiting the imagination and different cultural expressions,\u201d he said at one point, according to VT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sean Penn, 65, won his third Oscar for his performance in Paul Thomas Anderson\u2019s film One Battle After Another. In the movie, he plays Colonel Steven J&#8230;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43950,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":133,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43951,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43949\/revisions\/43951"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}