Paul Thomas Anderson’s comedy thriller named best film by Gotham awards and New York Film Critics Circle
Paul Thomas Anderson’s acclaimed comedy thriller One Battle After Another has emerged as an early best picture frontrunner as the awards season kicks off.
The Thomas Pynchon adaptation, starring Leonardo DiCaprio as an ex-revolutionary searching for his daughter, was named best feature at Monday’s Gotham awards. “I didn’t expect this, actually,” Anderson said on stage. “I started to think I didn’t know what was going on.”
The writer-director has been nominated for 11 Oscars, for films including Phantom Thread and Licorice Pizza, but has yet to win.
The Gothams, which had been created to celebrate independent film, recently removed its $35m budget cap allowing for studio films such as Barbie, Challengers and Poor Things to compete.
