'One Battle After Another' Scores 3rd Oscar With Best Adapted Screenplay Win

Paul Thomas Anderson won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for One Battle After Another, completing a sweep of the major precursor awards that included the Critics' Choice, Golden Globes, BAFTAs and the WGA Awards. On Sunday night, Anderson snagged the writing prize for the darkly comic political action thriller inspired by Thomas Pynchon's Vineland.

The Adapted Screenplay category was crowded, with Bugonia by Will Tracy, Frankenstein by Guillermo del Toro, Hamnet by Chloé Zhao and Maggie O'Farrell, and Train Dreams by Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar also nominated. All four films were also competing in the Best Picture race alongside One Battle.

One Battle After Another follows washed-up French 75 revolutionary Bob Ferguson (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his daughter Willa (Chase Infiniti) 16 years after they went into hiding.

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