#one-battle-after-another

#one-battle-after-another

One Battle After Another, Paul Thomas Anderson's counterculture comedy about a washed-up revolutionary trying to protect his daughter from a ruthless military officer, has dominated the Baftas, taking home six awards including best film, best director, best cinematography, best editing, best supporting actor and best adapted screenplay. The film, inspired by Thomas Pynchon's Vineland, was nominated for 14 awards going into Sunday's ceremony, the most of any contender including nods for stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Benicio del Toro, Chase Infiniti and Teyana Taylor.

The politically charged thriller One Battle After Another took six prizes, including best picture, at the British Academy Film Awards on Sunday, building momentum ahead of the Oscars next month. Blues-steeped vampire epic Sinners and gothic horror story Frankenstein won three awards each, while Shakespearean family tragedy Hamnet was named best British film. Jessie Buckley, as widely predicted, also won the best actress prize for her role in Hamnet.

The Paddington actor-animatronic hybrid from the West End run of Paddington: The Musicalpresented an award! To whom? Does it matter. Bear on stage! Of course it matters who won a BAFTA off Paddington. Congratulations to Boong. Sinners is also have a good night, though not quite as good as anyone who gets to meet Paddington. The film has already won Editing, Original Screenplay and Supporting actress at the 2026 BAFTA Film Awards.

Paul Thomas Anderson's politically charged action thriller One Battle After Another leads the race for the British Academy Film Awards, securing 14 nominations Tuesday including acting nods for five of its cast. Ryan Coogler's blues-steeped vampire epic Sinners is close behind with 13 nominations for Britain's equivalent of the Oscars, while Chloe Zhao's Shakespearean family tragedy Hamnet and Josh Safdie's ping-pong odyssey Marty Supreme have 11 apiece.

To quote Teyana Taylor's own song "WTP": "I believe that there's a big future out there with a lot of beautiful things." Oh, like winning a nationally televised acting award? Taylor won Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture for her work in One Battle After Another at this year's Golden Globe awards, making her the presumptive front-runner at this year's Oscars.

Paul Thomas Anderson's "One Battle After Another" scored a leading nine nominations to the 83rd Golden Globe Awards on Monday, adding to the Oscar favorite's momentum and handing Warner Bros. a victory amid Netflix's acquisition deal. In nominations announced from Beverly Hills, California, "One Battle After Another" landed nods for its cast-Leonardo DiCaprio, Teyana Taylor, Sean Penn, and Chase Infiniti-and for Anderson's screenplay and direction.

I didn't expect this, actually, Anderson said on stage. I started to think I didn't know what was going on.

Regina Hall's inherent Regina Hall-ness - her magnetic fusion of poise and charisma - never shows in One Battle After Another. Instead of that usual charm, Hall is sober-minded and serious. As Deandra, a guerilla involved with a revolutionary sect called the French 75, she's waging war against oppression, whether that's militarized police, migrant detention camps, Christmas-worshipping white nationalists, or fascism at large.

If the experience of watching One Battle is so propulsive that you leave the theater feeling like you haven't taken a breath in hours, Vineland is far more digressive, switching genres by the page, with a plot that's more varied than the relatively simple man-tries-to-rescue-daughter story of One Battle. For one thing, Vineland has significant supernatural elements, including the existence of a class of person called a Thanatoid-souls caught between life and death.