Sean Penn skipped the Academy Awards—not because he lost… but because he had somewhere else to be. Penn actually won Best Supporting Actor for One Battle After Another, making it Oscar number three. Problem? He wasn’t in the building. While Kieran Culkin cracked a joke onstage about accepting it for him, Penn was across the world walking the streets of Kyiv. Turns out, he chose to be in Ukraine showing support during the ongoing war instead of attending Hollywood’s biggest night. And this isn’t a one-off—Penn’s been all-in on Ukraine for years. He even handed Volodymyr Zelenskyy one of his own Oscars back in 2022 after Russia invaded.