One Battle After Another wins Best Feature Film at the Gotham Awards, boosting its Oscar chances

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One Battle After Another wins Best Feature Film at the Gotham Awards, boosting its Oscar chances

After winning a major award, One battle after another is officially one step closer to winning Best Picture at the Oscars. Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest film is widely considered one of the best films of 2025, making it a leading contender for the Academy Awards’ most coveted prize.

Now, at the annual Gotham Awards, One battle after another won the award for best feature film. Other nominees included Bugonia, East of the wall, Familiar touch, Hamnet, If I had legs I’d kick you, Lurker, Sorry, baby, Ann Lee’s willAnd Form dreams.

While an outstanding achievement in its own right, winning Best Feature Film at the Gotham Awards also bodes well for the film’s chances of winning Best Picture at the Academy Awards. Six of the last 16 Best Picture winners have won Best Feature Film at the Gotham Awards.

This includes The injury record (2009), Birdman (2014), Highlight (2015), Moonlight (2016), Nomadic country (2020), and Everything everywhere at the same time (2022). One battle after another could become the seventh film to win both major awards and continue what has become an increasingly common trend.

As for who the other nominees for Best Picture will be, some will likely be the same as for Best Gotham Feature, with Hamnet And One battle after another as the big favorites to be nominated. Sinners, Marty Supreme, Sentimental value, Frankenstein, Villain: for goodAnd Avatar: Fire and Ash are other possible nominees for Best Picture that One battle after another didn’t face the Gotham Awards.

Winning Best Picture would be a significant achievement for Anderson, who has never won the award before. There will be blood (2007), Ghost wire (2017), and Licorice pizza (2021) have all received Best Picture nominations before, but none of them won. He received nominations for best director but no wins for There will be blood, Ghost wire, Licorice pizzawhich makes it another category where One battle after another could offer him a historic first.

In addition to praise for the film as a whole and Anderson’s exceptional direction, many One battle after anotherCritics celebrated the performances of Leonardo DiCaprio, Chase Infiniti, Sean Penn, Benicio del Toro and Teyana Taylor. All are considered serious Oscar contenders in the various acting categories, even in the midst of a particularly competitive year.

For the best image, Hamnet is widely predicted to win, but it is far from guaranteed, particularly after Chloé Zhao’s film lost to One battle after another at the Gotham Awards.