One Battle After One other is getting into the house stretch of awards season in nice place. Thus far, it has been a precursor juggernaut, successful the highest prizes on the Critics Selection Awards and Golden Globes whereas additionally turning into the fourth movie ever to be named Greatest Image by all 4 main critics associations: New York Movie Critics Circle; Los Angeles Movie Critics Affiliation; Nationwide Board of Overview; and Nationwide Society of Movie Critics. It is the second-most nominated movie on the Academy Awards, behind Sinners, however because of its efficiency to this point, most think about it the Greatest Image frontrunner anyway.
In a single class, nevertheless, that reward is a curse. OBAA has a wealth of high quality supporting performances, to the extent that a lot of the early debate about it from awards pundits was which ones would rise to the highest. In Greatest Supporting Actress, the narrative coalesced round Teyana Taylor, whereas Regina Corridor fell off the radar; Taylor is at the moment the seemingly winner of her hotly contested class. However in Greatest Supporting Actor, each Sean Penn and Benicio del Toro ended up Oscar nominees.
An excellent downside to have? Possibly. But it surely additionally leaves the marketing campaign with a probably troublesome choice to make, if One Battle After One other needs to really win this class.
WB Cannot Push Each Sean Penn And Benicio del Toro And Win
Yearly, campaigns go to nice lengths to keep away from the state of affairs that Penn and del Toro at the moment discover themselves in. It is why “class fraud” is such a standard observe. Studios will contort themselves to run an actor in both lead or supporting once they clearly belong within the different as a result of letting two performers from the identical movie compete in the identical class dangers splitting the vote.
One Battle After One other has such an acclaimed ensemble that they had been left with little selection right here. Chase Infiniti, who owns a 3rd of the movie in a lot the identical approach Teyana Taylor does, was run in Greatest Actress to keep away from stepping on Taylor, however Leonardo DiCaprio was already the plain Greatest Actor candidate. That Penn and del Toro each solidified their spots so early in awards season got here as considerably of a shock, however as soon as they’d, there was nothing to be accomplished.
Now, nevertheless, the studio must put their weight behind solely one of many candidates in the event that they need to have a hope of successful. The movie clearly has many supporters, but when they break up their votes between the 2, they supply a gap for one more contender to high them. Presently, Jacob Elordi seems to be the probably to learn. As famous by Subsequent Greatest Image‘s Matt Neglia, Elordi is the one Supporting Actor nominee other than the 2 OBAA stars to have been nominated on the Oscars, Critics Selection Awards, Golden Globes, Actor Awards (previously SAG Awards), and BAFTAs. That is lots of momentum to be competing in opposition to when divided.
Then once more, maybe neither star is motivated to drag forward of the opposite. Each Penn and del Toro have Oscars already; Elordi, Delroy Lindo, and Stellan Skarsgård don’t. In the event that they’d want to let the nomination be their recognition, then they need to proceed precisely as they’re. But when WB needs One Battle After One other to take this residence, they should let voters know the place to pay attention their assist.
- Launch Date
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September 26, 2025
- Runtime
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162 minutes