Golden Globes give four awards to Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another

At the Golden Globes ceremony Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another won four awards, including best musical or comedy and best director for Anderson. Leonardo DiCaprio stars in the film as a clueless, dishevelled ex-revolutionary, and Teyana Taylor won best supporting actress.

The piece said the film "inhales and intuits both the current febrile mood of reactionary hysteria and the tension and depression of those opposing it." Sean Penn was not up for any Globes for his role as Col Lockjaw, a character the writer said he saw echoes of in Pete Hegseth and Marco Rubio.

Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet won best drama and Jessie Buckley won best actress for her portrayal of William Shakespeare’s wife, a performance the article described as the film’s heart and soul and as speculatively linking the couple’s bereavement to the creation of Hamlet. Josh Safdie’s Marty Supreme brought Timothée Chalamet his first Globe for actor in a musical or comedy "after years of losing out," and Rose Byrne won best actress in a comedy or musical for If I Had Legs I’d Kick You.

Kleber Mendonça Filho’s The Secret Agent was named best non-English language film and Wagner Moura won best actor in a drama. The piece noted that the Globes have been tarnished by past scandals over membership non-diversity and bribes, while observing that the evening’s winners were not obviously different from other awarding bodies and were sometimes more diverse.

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