“One Battle After One other” director Paul Thomas Anderson gained high honors on the Administrators Guild of America Awards in Los Angeles on Saturday, solidifying his movie’s place as a robust 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, gained the feature-film prize the award thought of a key indicator of what would possibly occur on the Academy Awards, which cap off the Hollywood awards season.
“It is a great honor to be given this,” Anderson mentioned upon accepting the award on the gala held in Beverly Hills.
“We’ll take it with the love that it is given and the appreciation of all our comrades on 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 gained recognition in January on the Critics’ Selection Awards and the Golden Globes.
“One Battle After One other” will enter the Oscars because the second-most-nominated movie, with 13 nominations. It’s behind solely the vampire movie “Sinners” directed by Ryan Coogler, which garnered 16 nominations, a report for the Academy Awards.
Coogler was additionally nominated for the feature-film prize on the Administrators Guild Awards.
Anderson obtained the statuette from Sean Baker, who gained final yr along with his darkish comedy “Anora,” which went on to be an Oscar winner.
Twenty of the 22 winners of the Administrators Guild Awards have subsequently gained the Oscar for greatest director, together with the winners of the final three years: “Every little thing In every single place All at As soon as,” “Oppenheimer” and “Anora.”
Additionally on Saturday, Oscar-winning Ukrainian filmmaker and journalist Mstyslav Chernov gained the award for greatest documentary movie. His movie “2000 Meters to Andriivka” follows a Ukrainian platoon on a marketing campaign to liberate a Russian-occupied village and provides a glimpse into the tough realities of battle.
“It is scary to stay in a world the place, as a substitute of a digital camera, you must get a gun to defend your property, to defend what you consider in,” Chernov mentioned on the occasion hosted by comic Kumail Nanjiani.
“I wish to thank… each soldier, each civilian, each filmmaker who made a selection to go away the digital camera for now and get a gun and go and combat so I’ve an opportunity,” he added.
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