Entertainment from Monday, March 16th, 2026

Film star Sean Penn stepped out of a train carriage in central Kyiv on Monday, thousands of miles away from the glitz of Hollywood's Dolby Theatre where he had failed to turn up to receive his third acting Oscar hours earlier.

The darkly comic thriller “One Battle After Another” has won best picture at the Academy Awards, leading a haul of six trophies on a Sunday night when Hollywood’s top honors went to unconventional fare.