One Battle After Another is a 2025 American action-comedy-thriller film that garnered numerous awards and nominations in a wide assortment of categories, with recognition for its direction, screenplay, performances, cinematography, editing, score and sound design, among others. The film is written, directed, and co-produced by Paul Thomas Anderson, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Benicio del Toro, Regina Hall, Teyana Taylor, and Chase Infiniti. Loosely based on and inspired by Thomas Pynchon's novel Vineland (1990), it follows a group of ex-revolutionaries who reunite to rescue the daughter of one of their own when their enemy resurfaces after sixteen years.
The film had its premiere at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles on September 8, 2025, and was released in the United States by Warner Bros. Pictures on September 26. It received critical acclaim and grossed over $200 million worldwide, becoming Anderson's highest-grossing film.
At the 31st Critics' Choice Awards, it won three awards, including Best Picture and Best Director. It was also nominated for nine awards at the 83rd Golden Globes, receiving the most nominations of any film that year and winning four, including Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy. The film also became the most-nominated film in the history of the Screen Actors Guild at the 32nd Actor Awards, with a record-breaking seven nominations and winning one. At the 79th British Academy Film Awards, it led the nominations with fourteen overall, winning six, including Best Film and Best Director.
Furthermore, the film received thirteen nominations at the 98th Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay and four acting nominations (for del Toro, DiCaprio, Penn, and Taylor), the second-most of any film that year, winning six: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor (Penn), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Casting, and Best Film Editing.
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