“One Battle After Another” director Paul Thomas Anderson received high honors on the Directors Guild of America Awards in Los Angeles on Saturday, solidifying his movie’s place as a powerful favourite for the Oscars.
Anderson, whose film follows a former revolutionary who tries to guard his teenage daughter when the previous comes again to hang-out him, received the feature-film prize — the award thought-about a key indicator of what would possibly occur on the Academy Awards, which cap off the Hollywood awards season.
“It’s a tremendous honor to be given this,” Anderson stated upon accepting the award on the gala held in Beverly Hills.
“We’re going to take it with the love that it’s given and the appreciation of all our comrades in this room,” he added.
Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, the movie, which depicts a timeless America the place white supremacists plot behind the scenes, immigration raids sweep via communities and revolutionary teams take up arms, additionally received recognition in January on the Critics’ Choice Awards and the Golden Globes.
“One Battle After Another” will enter the Oscars because the second-most-nominated movie, with 13 nominations. It is behind solely the vampire movie “Sinners” directed by Ryan Coogler, which garnered 16 nominations, a document for the Academy Awards.
Coogler was additionally nominated for the feature-film prize on the Directors Guild Awards.
Anderson obtained the statuette from Sean Baker, who received final 12 months together with his darkish comedy “Anora,” which went on to be an Oscar winner.
Twenty of the 22 winners of the Directors Guild Awards have subsequently received the Oscar for finest director, together with the winners of the final three years: “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” “Oppenheimer” and “Anora.”
Also on Saturday, Oscar-winning Ukrainian filmmaker and journalist Mstyslav Chernov received the award for finest documentary movie. His movie “2000 Meters to Andriivka” follows a Ukrainian platoon on a marketing campaign to liberate a Russian-occupied village and gives a glimpse into the tough realities of warfare.
“It’s scary to live in a world where, instead of a camera, you have to get a gun to defend your home, to defend what you believe in,” Chernov stated on the occasion hosted by comic Kumail Nanjiani.
“I want to thank… every soldier, every civilian, every filmmaker who made a choice to leave the camera for now and get a gun and go and fight so I have a chance,” he added.
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