One Battle After Another is the year's best movie, according to the 2026 Critics Choice Awards.
The film won Best Picture over fellow nominees Bugonia, Frankenstein, Hamnet, Jay Kelly, Marty Supreme, Sentimental Value, Sinners, Train Dreams and Wicked: For Good on Sunday.
Paul Thomas Anderson, who also won Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay earlier in the evening, accepted the honor.
"This is really fantastic, fantastic news. We'll take it," said Anderson, 55, onstage. "A lot of great films. It's great to be in this room. It's great to be a part of all of this. It's great to have this cast behind me."
Elsewhere in the speech, the filmmaker said, "I'd say this is the best time I ever had making a movie, and I feel like it shows. It's just a testament to being with people that you love. Because as somebody said earlier, this is fine and this is fun, but it really is about the people that you work with. That's all that there is at the end of the day."
One Battle After Another, which is now streaming on HBO Max, is Leonardo DiCaprio's latest movie and Anderson's first film since 2021's Licorice Pizza. The movie is a sprawling tale of political revolution and father-daughter bonding starring DiCaprio, Teyana Taylor, Regina Hall, Sean Penn and Chase Infiniti.
DiCaprio received a nomination for Best Actor, and his costar Infiniti was also nominated for Best Actress. Both Benicio del Toro and Penn were nominated for Best Supporting Actor, and Taylor was nominated for Best Supporting Actress.
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