Is Everybody Happy? ‘One Battle After Another,’ ‘Sinners’ Trade Awards at Satisfying Oscars

It seemed as if it was going to be a historically close Oscar night. It turned out to be something of a runaway — but a runaway that crowned a clear champion but left the runner-up feeling pretty good, too.

It might not have been a great Oscar show, with plenty of awkward moments and a trigger-happy approach to playing winners offstage. But in many ways, it was a richly satisfying one in the choices that voters made, which honored great and underappreciated filmmakers and spread the...