Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another wins Golden Globe for best comedy

Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another won the Golden Globe for best motion picture, musical or comedy. The victory followed the film’s Critics Choice Award earlier this month and top prizes from groups like the National Board of Review in December, and the Globe win was described in the article as cementing the picture’s front‑runner status heading into the Oscars.

The film triumphed over Blue Moon, Bugonia, Marty Supreme, No Other Choice and Nouvelle Vague. The sprawling film is loosely based on Thomas Pynchon’s novel Vineland, with Anderson updating the text to tell a 21st‑century story. Leonardo DiCaprio portrays Bob Ferguson, formerly the bomb maker Ghetto Pat, who raised his teenage daughter Willa (Chase Infiniti) after the mother and fellow revolutionary Perfidia Beverly Hills (Teyana Taylor) fled following a death during an operation gone wrong.

Benicio Del Toro plays a Zen sensei, and Colin Penn’s Col. Steven J. Lockjaw re‑enters their lives as part of a plan to join a group called the Christmas Adventurers. In accepting the prize, producer Sara Murphy said, "Thank you to this cast. What an embarrassment of riches and talent." DiCaprio told The Times, "This movie, it's politically charged, but I think it has a lot to do with how tribal we've all become.

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Culture, Paul Thomas Anderson, Leonardo Dicaprio, Golden Globes, Vineland, Thomas Pynchon