Three months after Sean Penn was noticeably absent after winning Best Supporting Actor for his turn as military colonel Steven J. Lockjaw in  One Battle After Another at this year’s Oscars, the actor shared why he had opted out of the ceremony. When appearing at the Tribeca Festival in New York on Friday for a Storytellers series with CNN anchor Kaitlan Collin, Penn said that he had deliberately timed his visit to Ukraine to overlap with the Academy Awards . According to USA Today , he said