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Acclaimed filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson’s blockbuster One Battle After Another bagged the Best Picture grant astatine the 31st yearly Critics Choice Awards connected Sunday night. The evening besides saw Anderson triumph the Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay awards.
The director, portion accepting the Best Picture honour, credited the formed and unit for the film’s success. “Does anybody person thing that they privation to say, to prevention me?” helium asked the formed astatine 1 point. “Because, OK, I’d accidental this is the champion clip I've ever had making a movie. And I consciousness similar it shows it’s conscionable a testament to being with radical that you love. Because, arsenic idiosyncratic said earlier, this is fine, and this is fun, but it truly is astir the radical that you enactment with it that’s each that determination is astatine the extremity of the day,” arsenic quoted by E! News.
Director Paul Thomas Anderson accepts the Best Picture Award for "One Battle After Another" adjacent to Benicio del Toro, Leonardo DiCaprio, Teyana Taylor, Cassandra Kulukundis, Chase Infiniti, astatine the 31st Annual Critics Choice Awards successful Santa Monica, California, U.S., January 4, 2026. | Photo Credit: MARIO ANZUONI
A achromatic drama enactment thriller movie written, besides co-produced by Anderson, is loosely based and inspired by the 1990 caller Vineland by Thomas Pynchon. The movie stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Benicio del Toro, Regina Hall, Teyana Taylor, and Chase Infiniti successful pb roles. It follows Pat Calhoun (DiCaprio), a low-level explosives antheral successful a extremist militant collective, arsenic helium attempts to prevention his girl (Chase Infinity) from an force unit that has reappeared aft 16 years.
The quality is hardly astonishing to many, arsenic One Battle After Another has already go a crowd-favourite arsenic a imaginable Oscar contender. On Sunday, the National Society of Film Critics named the revolutionary epic arsenic Best Picture. The movie besides won Best Director for Anderson, Best Supporting Actress for Teyana and Best Supporting Actor for del Toro.
In December, the movie dominated the National Board of Review’s 2025 honours with a sweep, collecting 5 large prizes. The movie is besides expected to marque a expanse astatine the 2026 Golden Globes as it is simply a cardinal contender with 9 nods.
