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Leonardo DiCaprio's near-perfect thriller from 2025 is available for streaming, and it is the perfect time to check it out.
Only once in a few years, Leonardo DiCaprio shows up as the leading man in a movie. However, more often than not, these movies are considered cinematic events because he treats every role like a career-defining performance. The Oscar-winning star pulls off something similar in his 2025 thriller, which, unsurprisingly, is the number 1 movie on HBO Max right now.
With the awards season starting to heat up, it is the right time to watch the Leonardo DiCaprio movie because it is almost guaranteed to land some big nominations and wins.
Make Sure To Watch One Battle After Another As The 2026 Awards Season Ramps Up
Although no opportunity to watch a good movie should ever be missed, the award season evokes a sense of emergency in every movie lover to check out everything they have missed. Owing to this, since the Golden Globes are already around the corner, it seems like the best time to pull out the checklist of every film one missed in 2025 and finally catch up with the year's most talked-about and award-worthy films.
If there is one movie that deserves to be among the top choices on this checklist, it is Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another.
The Paul Thomas Anderson movie boasts an almost perfect Rotten Tomatoes score of 95% and is leading the Golden Globes' catalog with 9 nominations. It is hard not to believe that this is just the beginning of One Battle After Another's award-season domination, making it the ideal time for viewers to watch it on HBO Max if they missed it in theaters.
There Are High Expectations For One Battle After Another During Awards Season
Loosely inspired by Thomas Pynchon's 1990 novel, Vineland, One Battle After Another has already landed among the American Film Institute and National Board of Review's top films of 2025. Apart from being the most nominated film at the 83rd Golden Globe Awards, One Battle After Another has also been shortlisted for five Oscar categories for the 98th Academy Awards.
Here are all the nominations One Battle After Another has received at the 83rd Golden Globes:
- Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
- Best Director – Motion Picture: Paul Thomas Anderson
- Best Screenplay – Motion Picture: Paul Thomas Anderson
- Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy: Leonardo DiCaprio
- Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy: Chase Infiniti
- Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role in any Motion Picture: Benicio del Toro
- Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role in any Motion Picture: Sean Penn
- Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in any Motion Picture: Teyana Taylor
- Best Original Score – Motion Picture: Jonny Greenwood
One Battle After Another has also managed to achieve the rare feat of winning Best Picture in the "Big Four" critics' awards: Los Angeles Film Critics Association, National Board of Review, National Society of Film Critics and New York Film Critics Circle. It is the fourth film to accomplish this massive milestone.
With so many nominations and wins already under its belt, One Battle After Another's imminent future in the award season seems fiery and bright. To know what the hype behind the Leonardo DiCaprio film is all about, viewers must check it out on HBO Max.
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