There was a tough competition between Paul Thomas Anderson’s ‘One Battle After Another’ and ‘Sinners’ in the Best Picture category at the 98th Oscars. Both the films were included in the top-2 list of nominations, but ‘One Battle After Another’ got the Best Picture award. The special thing is that ‘One Battle After Another’ has won 6 awards in different categories, and the film was nominated in 14 categories.
Inspired by Thomas Pynchon’s ‘Vineland’, this big budget comedy thriller received the Best Picture Award and also won the first Oscar Award for Best Director, Best Supporting Actor Award (Sean Penn), Adapted Screenplay, Best Editing and Casting. This is a big achievement for any film.
What did the film’s director Paul Thomas Anderson say on the victory?
The film’s director Paul Thomas Anderson said in his speech, ‘I wrote this film for my children to apologize for the chaos in the world we are handing over to them.’ He also said he hoped the younger generation would help bring back ‘common sense and decency’ in society.
Let us tell you that director Paul Thomas Anderson has already been nominated for Oscar for films like ‘Boogie Nights’, ‘There Will Be Blood’ and ‘Phantom Thread’, but this is the first time that he has been awarded the award after being nominated. Sean Penn of ‘One Battle After Another’ won the Best Supporting Actor award, but due to some reasons he could not be a part of the award show.
However, upon his absence, presenter Kieran Culkin also joked that ‘Sean Penn could not come here tonight or did not want to come.’ This is because Sean Penn won the title by defeating his co-star Benicio del Toro. ‘One Battle After Another’ is a crime-thriller film, which is the story of a former revolutionary Bob. Bob faces a dangerous struggle to save his daughter Willa from his old enemy, Colonel Lockjaw, who has returned after 16 years.