On the way to collecting six total statues on the evening, One Battle After Another netted our man, at long last, the first three Oscars of his career!
Best Adapted Screenplay:
Best Director:
Best Picture:
PTA's long-time casting director Cassandra Kulukundis was also recognized for her work on One Battle After Another in the first ever presentation of the Best Casting Award:
Andy Jurgensen also took home an Oscar for his exceptional work in the editing room:
Last but not least, Sean Penn received his third Academy Award for his performance as Steven J. Lockjaw, but was not in attendance.
What can you even say? If you've followed this site for as long as we've been running it, odds are you were as resigned to this day never coming as a lot of us have also been. There's something to be said about the folly of comparing art. As the man said, there is no best. We've watched this man make classic after classic after classic for decades and yet, somehow, One Battle After Another and its reception has felt like a revelation. A new strata that it barely seems fair he can reach.
At the risk of sentimentality, it never ceases to be an absolute privilege to have eyeballs at the same time that Paul Thomas Anderson is making movies.
He did not need the gold to prove that, but thank god the gold found him anyway.
C&RV
At the risk of sentimentality, it never ceases to be an absolute privilege to have eyeballs at the same time that Paul Thomas Anderson is making movies.
He did not need the gold to prove that, but thank god the gold found him anyway.
C&RV
