LOS ANGELES:
Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After One other” was named finest image by Hollywood producers on Saturday, persevering with its awards season streak earlier than the Oscars.
The Producers Guild Awards (PGA) win cements the movie, concerning the rise of extremism in america, as a frontrunner for the highest prizes on the Academy Awards, which cap off the Hollywood awards season.
Anderson’s movie, which depicts the hunt for former far-left revolutionaries by a white supremacist, appears destined for the most effective image Oscar, having already secured quite a few awards.
Since early January, it has gained prime prizes from American movie critics and Hollywood administrators, and acquired the Golden Globe for finest comedy.
“It is a great honor, thanks very a lot,” Anderson mentioned in his acceptance speech.
The director then addressed executives at Warner Bros., the distinguished studio that distributed the movie and is about to be acquired by Paramount Skydance.
“Lengthy might you wave, regardless of the future holds. It’s one battle after one other,” he mentioned.
The Producers Guild Awards are offered yearly by the commerce union, which has greater than 8,000 members.
They’re thought-about a dependable indicator for the Oscars, with winners occurring to seal finest image on the Oscars many instances.
13 Oscar nominations
“One Battle After One other” boasts an all-star forged.
Leonardo DiCaprio performs an explosives skilled concerned in a far-left motion the place he falls in love with a revolutionary firebrand performed by Teyana Taylor.
However years later, a white supremacist soldier (Sean Penn) who beforehand hunted them resurfaces, forcing the previous bomb skilled to return to motion to rescue his youngster.
In his quest, he crosses paths with a Zen-like karate grasp (Benicio Del Toro), who’s delighted to assist the previous revolutionary.
Tailored from Thomas Pynchon’s novel “Vineland,” the movie depicts an irreconcilable America, torn aside by the political legacies of the Ku Klux Klan and the Black Energy motion, the place every thing is resolved via violence.
Acclaimed for its potential to seize the up to date fractures in america, the movie acquired 13 Oscar nominations, together with one for every of its lead actors.
However that was fewer than its principal Oscars rival, Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners,” which acquired 16 nominations.
The winners can be introduced on March 15 on the 98th Academy Awards ceremony in Hollywood.
