CORRECTION 98th Academy Awards - Show

Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another” has been crowned best picture at the 98th Academy Awards. Jessie Buckley won best actress and Michael B. Jordan won best actor at the 98th Academy Awards. After a lionized career stretching back three decades, Paul Thomas Anderson won his first Oscar for best director, a long-in-coming coronation for the “One Battle After Another” filmmaker. “Sinners” cinematographer Autumn Durald Arkapaw has made Oscar history, becoming the first female director of photography to win the award in the 98 year history of the Academy Awards. Paul Thomas Anderson and Ryan Coogler won their first Oscars and moving tributes were paid to Robert Redford, Diane Keaton and Rob Reiner at the 98th Academy Awards.

The in memoriam at the Oscars honoring those in the film industry who have died spotlighted Rob Reiner and Robert Redford with personal tributes from Billy Crystal and Barbra Streisand. Crystal opened the longer than usual segment by recalling meeting Reiner on “All in the Family” in 1975. Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, died in December. Their son, Nick Reiner, has been charged with their deaths and has pleaded not guility. Streisand honored Redford by singing a snippet from “The Way We Were.” She praised his acting and activism. Redford died in September at 89.