Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another — the most-nominated film at the 2026 Golden Globes — has taken home the award for Best Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy. Sara Murphy, who produced the film, accepted the award while surrounded by the film’s main cast.
“Thank you to the Golden Globes voters. This is an incredible honor, and also to be here amongst so many friends and amazing films this year,” Murphy said on stage. “I want to agree with Paul that this has been one of the most incredible filmmaking experiences, once in a lifetime, due largely in part to the person that we share this award with, the late Adam Somner, who we miss every day.” (Somner died of cancer in November 2024.)
“Thank you to this cast. What an embarrassment of riches and talent,” she added. “I want to say, I love you to my family… And finally, I want to say thank you to Paul Anderson, it is a privilege and a pleasure to work with you.”
One Battle After Another was nominated against Yorgos Lanthimos’ Bugonia, Park Chan-wook’s No Other Choice, Josh Safdie’s Marty Supreme, Richard Linklater’s Blue Moon, and Nouvelle Vague.
Earlier in the evening, Anderson won for both Best Director and Best Screenplay, while Teyana Taylor won a trophy for Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role — Motion Picture for her role as Perfidia Beverly Hills.
The movie scored additional nominations for Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy (Chase Infiniti). One Battle After Another earned nods in Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role — Motion Picture for both Benicio Del Toro and Sean Penn. Jonny Greenwood was nominated for Best Original Score — Motion Picture for his work.
One Battle After Another is loosely based on Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland, originally published in 1990. It follows DiCaprio as Pat Calhoun, a washed-up, paranoid revolutionary left to raise his daughter Willa (Infiniti) on his own after a series of betrayals made by her mother, Perfidia Beverly Hills (Taylor). When the past comes back to haunt them, as well as their former brothers and sisters in-arms, the stakes skyrocket.
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“Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another is a lot of things: a parable about fathers and daughters, a conspiracy thriller for the ICE age, an ensemble comedy that encourages all-stars to get their best eccentricity on, the single greatest film of 2025, a movie that’s less a VistaVision adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s 1990 novel Vineland than a passing nod to the author on the way to its own profound insights,” Rolling Stone’s David Fear wrote in a review of the film. “Above all, it’s an act of resistance, both the lower-case and capital-R type, that suggests it may have an answer as to how we battle through this onslaught against our better angels. But first, a few things need to get blown the fuck up.”
From Rolling Stone US
