US Edition'Battle,' 'Pitt,' 'Studio' win big at Critics' Choice Awards
Paul Thomas Anderson won Best Director and Adapted Screenplay while One Battle After Another took Best Picture at the Critics Choice Awards, with Sinners leading film nominations at 17.
- On Sunday, One Battle After Another was named Best Picture at the 31st annual Critics Choice Awards as the ceremony posted results from Barker Hangar, Santa Monica, California.
- Nominations showed that Sinners led with 17 nods, One Battle After Another followed with 14 including four acting nods, and the Critics Choice Awards honored achievements with Chelsea Handler, host.
- Paul Thomas Anderson won Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay and credited the cast and crew while accepting Best Picture on January 4, 2026.
- The win positions the film with awards-season momentum after a National Board of Review 2025 sweep and as it eyes nine Golden Globes 2026 nominations, while Frankenstein and Sinners won four awards each.
- On television, The Pitt won Best Drama Series, The Studio Best Comedy Series, Adolescence Best Limited Series, while The Naked Gun and KPop Demon Hunters won Best Comedy Film and Best Animated Feature plus Best Song 'Golden'.
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One Battle After Another wins big at Critics Choice Awards 2026 - The Tribune
One Battle After Another, a subversive comedy centred on radical politics, was named Best Picture at the 31st annual Critics Choice Awards. The film also won Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay for Paul Thomas Anderson.
‘One Battle After Another’ wins Critics Choice honors
What happened“One Battle After Another” won best picture at the 31st Critics Choice Awards Sunday, becoming only the fourth film to win the “Big Four” critics’ awards, after earning top honors from the New York Film Critics Circle, National Board of Review and Los Angeles Film Critics Association. Director Paul Thomas Anderson also won best director and best adapted screenplay awards for the film.Timothée Chalamet won best actor for “Marty Supre…
It was a night of celebration for Paul Thomas Anderson and company. This Sunday, at the 31st version of the Critics Choice Awards gala held in Los Angeles, USA, one battle after another raised the awards for Best Film, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay.For any film, it would be a great triumph to start the award season (six of the last winners to Best Film have coincided with the Oscars). But, in the case of the film that has Leonardo Di…
The film “One Battle for Another” by Paul Thomas Anderson was declared the best film.
The US National Society of Film Critics has named Paul Thomas Anderson's action film "One Fight After Another" as the best film of the year.
The Critics Choice Awards 2026 gala launched the awards season in Hollywood, where tonight Mexican Guillermo del Toro did not reach the award for best director, which was awarded to Paul Thomas Anderson for the film One Battle after Another, starring Leonardo Di Caprio, and who also won the awards for best film and best adapted script.
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