ANAHEIM, Calif. — “One Battle After Another” won six Oscars, including best picture, best director and best writer for Paul Thomas Anderson, and best supporting actor for Sean Penn at the 98th annual Academy Awards in Hollywood on Sunday.

Close behind was “Sinners,” with four Oscars, including best actor for Michael B. Jordan and best original screenplay for director Ryan Coogler.

Jessie Buckley won the Academy Award for best actress for “Hamnet,” becoming the first-ever Irish actress to win that category. Amy Madigan opened the show with a win for best supporting actress for “Weapons.”

“You make a guy work hard for one of these,” said Paul Thomas Anderson, who before Sunday had been nominated 14 times with no wins, while accepting his Oscar for best director, one of three he won for “One Battle After Another.” “I really appreciate this.

“There will always be some doubt in your heart that you deserve it, but there is no question in my heart in the pleasure of having it,” he said to laughter from the audience inside the Dolby Theatre.

Buckley arrived on stage with her own laughter, the surprise of her win for “Hamnet,” in which she played Agnes Shakespeare, the wife of William Shakespeare, whose grief overwhelms her at the death of their son.

“To know this incandescent woman, and journey to understand the capacity of a mother’s love is the greatest collision of my life,” said Buckley, who had had her first child, an 8-month-old daughter, after finishing “Hamnet.”

“It’s Mother’s Day in the U.K. today, so I would like to dedicate this to the beautiful chaos of a mother’s heart,” she said. “We all come from a lineage of women who continue to create against all odds. Thank you for recognizing me in this role; this is the greatest honor.”

Where Buckley had been the front-runner throughout awards season, Michael B. Jordan overcame competition from Leonardo DiCaprio for “One Battle After Another” and Timothée Chalamet for “Marty Supreme” to take best actor for his work in “Sinners,” becoming the first actor to ever win an Oscar for playing twins.

“I stand here because of the people that came before me: Sidney Poitier, Denzel Washington, Halle Berry, Jamie Foxx, Forest Whitaker and Will Smith,” Jordan said in his acceptance speech. “To be amongst those giants, amongst those greats, amongst my ancestors, amongst my guys, thank you, everybody in this room and everybody at home, for supporting me over my career. I feel it.”

“One Battle After Another” also won the Academy Awards for best editing and best casting, the latter a new category added this year. “Sinners” also won best original score for Ludwig Göransson, his third Oscar in that category, and best cinematography for Autumn Durald Arkapaw, the first woman and first Black filmmaker ever to win the Oscar for cinematography.

Director Guillermo Del Toro’s “Frankenstein” won three Academy Awards including best costume design, best makeup and hairstyling and best production design. “KPop Demon Hunters” won a pair of Oscars for best animated feature and best original song for “Golden,” the first time a K-pop song has ever earned that honor.

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