Counterculture comedy One Battle After Another wins four awards, including best picture, director, screenplay and supporting actor for Sean Penn
Paul Thomas Anderson’s counterculture comedy One Battle After Another continued its march to Oscars glory at the London Critics’ Circle film awards on Sunday evening, taking four awards, including best picture, director, screenplay and supporting actor for Sean Penn.
In his speech to pick up the screenplay award, Anderson said he wanted to share the award with the Guardian’s Xan Brooks for his review of Brett Ratner’s Melania, which was published on Friday. “It was one of the best pieces of writing,” said Anderson. “Pretty damn good.”
Elsewhere, category frontrunners Timothée Chalamet and Jessie Buckley won the leading actor and actress prizes for Marty Supreme and Hamnet, while Amy Madigan took best supporting actress for Weapons.
The supporting acting gongs were the slight upsets in an evening which – where applicable – adhered to the awards narrative already mapped out this year.
