Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After One other” has received the Golden Globe for Greatest Image, Comedy or Musical, cementing itself as a real Oscar frontrunner because the race heats up.
The win comes one week after the movie took Greatest Image on the Critics Alternative Awards, and on an evening that additionally noticed it win Greatest Screenplay and Greatest Director for Anderson and Greatest Supporting Actress for Teyana Taylor.
Whereas the movie was an awesome crucial success (IndieWire named it one of the best movie of 2025), it wasn’t way back that it was thought of an enormous threat for Warner Bros. and studio heads Pamela Abdy and Michael de Luca. The nine-figure price range was by far the best of Anderson’s profession, and inserting such a giant wager on a beloved auteur who had by no means been seen as a field workplace juggernaut prompted hypothesis about Abdy and de Luca’s job safety. However like nearly all the pieces else Warner Bros. launched in 2025, it paid off in droves. The movie is now firmly within the pole place for the Oscars, and Abdy and de Luca signed an extension to proceed working the studio.
“Vaguely abstracted from Thomas Pynchon’s 1984-set ‘Vineland’ however wanting to replicate quite a lot of post-Reaganite developments in ethno-fascism (the motion begins in a recognizable at this time earlier than leaping 16 years ahead right into a pointedly unchanged tomorrow), this propulsive, hilarious, and overwhelmingly tender paranoid comedy-thriller automobile chase blockbuster no matter doesn’t simply stare a damaged nation within the face with its already prescient story of immigrant detention facilities, white nationalist caricatures, and bullshit pretenses for deploying the navy into sanctuary cities,” IndieWire’s David Ehrlich wrote in his Critic’s Choose evaluation of the movie. “It’s additionally the primary film of its measurement to precisely crystallize how fucking anxious it feels to be alive proper now — to seize the IMAX cartoonishness of our actuality and supply a convincing roadmap as to how we would survive it.”
The Comedy or Musical class is at all times loosely outlined on the Golden Globes, with many motion pictures that audiences may label as dramas slipping into the class for a greater shot at profitable. This yr was no exception, with a various subject that included each Richard Linklater’s “Blue Moon” and “Nouvelle Imprecise,” Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Bugonia,” Josh Safdie’s “Marty Supreme,” and Park Chan-wook’s “No Different Alternative.”
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