Who was a posthumous Best Picture co-winner for One Battle After Another?

Adam Somner was a posthumous Best Picture co-winner for One Battle After Another.

At the 98th Academy Awards, Somner shared the Best Picture Oscar with fellow producers Sara Murphy and Paul Thomas Anderson. The Academy’s Best Picture award is presented to the credited producers, so Somner’s name appears among the official winners even though he had died before the ceremony.

The recognition was especially notable because Somner became only the second producer to win the Best Picture Oscar posthumously. The earlier example was Sam Zimbalist, who received the award after his death for Ben-Hur, which won Best Picture at the 1960 ceremony.

Somner was a longtime film producer and a frequent collaborator on major productions. One Battle After Another was directed and written by Anderson, who also co-produced it. The film won six Oscars in total, including Best Picture, Director, Adapted Screenplay, Supporting Actor, Film Editing, and the first-ever Casting Oscar. The other listed producers were nominees for different films, not co-winners for this picture.