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Paul Thomas Anderson earns a long-awaited Oscar coronation as One Battle After Another wins six awards, including Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Picture, marking a late-career milestone that mirrors Scorsese’s patience and Nolan’s impact while validating a career spanning Boogie Nights, The Master, Phantom Thread, and more.
At the 2026 Oscars, Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another defeated Sinners, winning Best Picture, Director and Adapted Screenplay among six awards (including Editing and Casting) while Sinners, despite a record 16 nominations and domestic buzz—driven by SAG support—could not close the overseas gap, as BAFTA-friendly international voters leaned toward One Battle After Another. Michael B. Jordan earned Best Actor for Sinners, Jessie Buckley won Best Actress for Hamnet, and Autumn Durald Arkapaw made history as the first woman of color to win Best Cinematography; Netflix took seven Oscars overall, underscoring a night shaped by extended voting windows and shifting momentum across the industry.
At the Oscars, Paul Thomas Anderson acknowledged ongoing critique of One Battle After Another’s depiction of Black women, noting that Teyana Taylor’s Perfidia is presented as a flawed, non-heroic character in a deliberately complex, generational story that ties into current events; he said the film’s approach isn’t heroic and that the discussion around race and politics remains unresolved.
Paul Thomas Anderson finally wins major Oscars—Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Director, and Best Picture—for One Battle After Another, while Amy Madigan takes Best Supporting Actress after a 40-year wait; Autumn Durald Arkapaw makes history as the first woman and Black person to win cinematography for Sinners. The night includes two standout musical performances, Conan O’Brien’s hosting, and an In Memoriam segment honoring Rob Reiner and others.
Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another won Best Director and Best Picture, beating Ryan Coogler's Sinners for the top Oscars prizes, while Sinners collected several technical awards and Michael B. Jordan won Best Actor for his dual role; Coogler also earned Best Original Screenplay.
The Hollywood Reporter’s awards-season overview by Mikey O’Connell catalogs the ongoing race’s highs and lows—from festive ovations in Europe and sharp emcee moments to relentless campaign energy around Timothée Chalamet and strategic moves by studios—while calling out overused tropes (like dead-children trauma) and weighing frontrunners amid a crowded field as the Oscars approach.
Colin Anderson won the Society of Camera Operators’ Camera Operator of the Year for One Battle After Another, PTA’s war-on-the-border epic that moves from armed border zones to desert chases; the award adds to a string of technical prizes for the film from groups including ACE, ADG, and the British Society of Cinematographers as SOC’s livestream announced the winners. On the TV side, Mark Goellnicht won for The Studio’s The Oner, and SOC president Matthew Moriarty praised the camera community’s resilience amid industry challenges like AI.
Teyana Taylor discusses her Oscar-nominated Supporting Actress turn as Perfidia in Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another, detailing the character’s postpartum journey and revolutionary drive, her continued awards-season campaign amid the film’s 13 nominations, and the possibility of PTA revisiting the role in a future project.
Benicio Del Toro discusses his quiet, influential presence as Sensei in Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another, the film’s Oscar buzz after 13 nominations, and his on-set bond with Leonardo DiCaprio. He explains his method as interpreting the writer and reshaping Sensei into a protector amid migrant-crisis drama, while reflecting on his Puerto Rican upbringing and his mother’s death—experiences that inform his choices and make his collaboration with non-actors and fellow stars a defining part of this return to Oscar conversation.
At the 2026 BAFTA Film Awards in London, Paul Thomas Anderson led wins with Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Film as host Alan Cumming navigated Tourette's disclaimer moments; Paddington Bear presented the Best Children and Family Film award, and Netflix hosted a star-studded afterparty at Twenty Two with guests like Machine Gun Kelly, Pete Davidson and Ted Sarandos, making for a night of glitz, jokes and cinematic triumph.
Guillermo del Toro and Paul Thomas Anderson posed with “jazz hands” at the Oscar nominee luncheon to mimic The Shining’s iconic final shot; the image ties back to Kubrick’s edited group photo, sourced from a 1921 dance photograph in the Hulton archive, with Nicholson’s head later swapped in, a lineage traced in a 2025 New York Times piece by Aric Toler.
Marc Beckman, a longtime adviser and producer of Melania Trump’s documentary, rejected claims that the film used Phantom Thread’s score without authorization, saying Universal did consult the composer and that legally binding contracts authorize the music. He called the accusations a “blatant lie” and said the film followed proper protocol and compensated artists, while the piece also notes the film’s ongoing controversy and soft box-office performance.
Jonny Greenwood and Paul Thomas Anderson are asking for the Phantom Thread score used in Brett Ratner's Melania to be removed, alleging Universal breached their contract by licensing it without Greenwood’s consent. Separately, the film suffered a 67% second-weekend drop, grossing about $2.4 million over the Super Bowl frame as Amazon touts its rights and marketing strategy after paying $40 million for the rights and $35 million for marketing.
Paul Thomas Anderson and Jonny Greenwood condemned Universal for using the Phantom Thread score in the Melania documentary without Greenwood’s consultation, saying it breaches his composer agreement and requesting its removal; the doc has drawn attention despite a modest global box office and limited viewership.
Jonny Greenwood and Paul Thomas Anderson have demanded that a Phantom Thread cue, ‘Barbara Rose,’ be removed from the Melania documentary after Universal Pictures licensed it without consulting Greenwood, citing a breach of his composer agreement; Universal has yet to comment.