{"id":274666,"date":"2026-02-09T02:57:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T02:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/274666\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T02:57:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T02:57:16","slug":"paul-thomas-anderson-wins-at-directors-guild-awards-for-one-battle-after-another","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/274666\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Thomas Anderson wins at Directors Guild Awards for ‘One Battle After Another’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paul Thomas Anderson<\/a> won the top prize at the 78th Directors Guild Awards, putting the \u201cOne Battle After Another\u201d filmmaker on course to potentially win his first Oscar.<\/p>\n

The DGA Awards, held Saturday night at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California, is among the most reliable Academy Awards precursors. In the last 10 years, nine DGA winners have gone on to win best director at the Oscars. In the guild\u2019s nearly eight-decade history, only eight times has the guild not predicted the Oscar winner.<\/p>\n

The award adds to a virtual awards-season sweep for \u201cOne Battle After Another,\u201d which has won with critics groups, the Gotham Awards and the Golden Globes. It\u2019s considered the favorite for best picture at the March 15 Oscars. Academy voting begins Feb. 26.<\/p>\n

The other nominees were Ryan Coogler (\u201cSinners\u201d), Guillermo Del Toro (\u201cFrankenstein\u201d), Josh Safdie (\u201cMarty Supreme\u201d) and Chlo\u00e9 Zhao (\u201cHamnet\u201d).<\/p>\n

As he\u2019s often done through awards season, Anderson in his brief speech paid tribute to late assistant director Adam Somner, who died in 2024. \u201cObviously,\u201d he said, \u201cwe are up here minus one.\u201d<\/p>\n

The awards, hosted by Kumail Nanjiani, were the first presided over by new Directors Guild of America president Christopher Nolan.<\/a> He began the ceremony acknowledging \u201cvery hard times\u201d for filmmakers.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn 2024, our employment in our guild was down about 40%, and that was followed by another decline in \u201925,\u201d said Nolan. \u201cThe amount of money that people spend on our work, on entertainment, is very, very stable. Audiences are invested in us, we have to be sure that we\u2019re able to repay that investment.\u201d<\/p>\n

Other winners Saturday included \u201cThe Plague\u201d filmmaker Charlie Polinger for first-time director, \u201c2000 Meters to Andriivka\u201d director Mstyslav Chernov for best documentary filmmaking and \u201cThe Studio\u201d directors Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg for comedy series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paul Thomas Anderson won the top prize at the 78th Directors Guild Awards, putting the \u201cOne Battle After…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274667,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-274666","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}