Oscar gala celebrated without Sean Penn, whereabouts unknown

Hollywood the big night was without one great actor this year. Sean Pennwhich won the third Academy Award of his career by Paul Thomas Anderson from the movie One Battle After Another, didn’t show up to celebrate his victory.

Awarded by Kieran Culkin stated the reason on stage laconically: “Sean Penn couldn’t, or didn’t want to be here tonight, so I’m accepting the award on his behalf.”

The actor’s absence was no surprise to Penn’s acquaintances, and the host of the gala Conan O’Brien I even joked about it on stage.

“This turned out to be a real spectacle,” the comedian stated ironically.

Even so, the veteran actor’s absence became the most talked about moment of the evening. In particular, it was speculated where Penn watched the gala, if at all.

Penny the reason for the absence was not known for sure, but several media reported on his plans for Ukraine. The New York Times cited two sources that Penn was already in Europe. However, the sources did not specify what the actor-director intended to do in Ukraine this time.

At the time of writing this, there has been no better clarity on his whereabouts.

That’s about it wouldn’t be from the first timewhen Penn would have chosen Ukraine over Hollywood. He even gave up Zelenskyille Mystic River – His Oscar in Kyiv in 2022. At that time, Penn was angry when the Oscar producers had not allowed Zelensky’s speech to be shown on the air.

Later, he stated that he would be ready to “melt down his Oscar” into bullets for Ukraine. He also said, “If we let Ukraine fight alone, our soul as America will be lost.”

Supervisor by Aaron Kaufman Ukraine documentary made with Superpower completed in 2023 after years of work.

Penny and the Oscar gala’s relationship has been painful for a long time. He has publicly criticized the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which distributes the awards, for “restricting cultural expressions” and called the award ceremony “as a television program, not as a real art institution”.

On the other hand, Penn also missed, for example, the Bafta gala, where he won for the same One Battle After Another – an award for the supporting role in the film.

With his win this year, Penn became the fourth male actor to win three acting Oscars. Previously, they only did the same trick Jack Nicholson, Daniel Day-Lewis and Walter Brennan.

Penn’s chilling triumphant role as Colonel Lockjaw is one of the most intense of his career. His character, the epitome of authoritarian rule in an alternate America, has garnered praise. According to the comments, Penn dared to play a politically charged role in a way that was simultaneously grotesque, terrifying and tragic.

If anythingthat’s what Penn dares: for decades, the 65-year-old filmmaker has angered the US administration, authoritarian leaders, and other power-hungry people with his activism.

In 2002, for example, he published an ad in The Washington Post in which he appealed to the president George W. Bushiinso that this would end military operations in Iraq. Penn visited Iraq just before the war to protest the invasion. In 2005, he traveled to Iran in the role of a journalist, angering conservative circles in both countries.

In 2012, Penn enraged the British administration by criticizing the situation in the Falkland Islands as a “demonstration of colonialism”. In addition to numerous countries suffering from distress, he has also offered his support to sexual minorities and victims of disasters.

More conflicting feelings have been caused by Penn’s friendship with the late president of Venezuela Hugo Chávezin and Cuba Raul Castron with, as well as a Mexican cartel boss El Chapon interviewing him before his arrest. His criticism of the cancel culture, on the other hand, has raised eyebrows in some liberal circles.

Although Sean Penn’s gala protest has already experienced inflation, and some credit him, many find Penn’s idealism encouraging. Award-winning star after award-winner attends events when he feels it’s meaningful, but withdraws if the ceremony goes against his moral compass.

Or as he himself told The Boston Globe magazine in 2005: “I don’t really think of myself as a political person. For me, acting is above all human work, and those things that look like political positions are basically just human concerns.”