‘One Battle After Another’ Wins Golden Globe for Best Screenplay — Motion Picture

“One Battle After Another” and writer Paul Thomas Anderson has won the Golden Globe for Best Screenplay — Motion Picture at the 83rd Annual Golden Globes ceremony. It makes it the second award for the film on Sunday night so far.

PTA beat out a field of nominees that included Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie for “Marty Supreme,” Ryan Coogler for “Sinners,” Jafar Panahi for “It Was Just an Accident,” Eskil Vogt and Joachim Trier for “Sentimental Value,” and Chloé Zhao and Maggie O’Farrell for “Hamnet.”

Anderson was previously nominated in the Screenplay category for his prior film “Licorice Pizza,” and Zhao was previously nominated for “Nomadland.” This is Anderson’s first Golden Globe.

Anderson thanked his cast, including Regina Hall, who he said was absent this evening after not feeling well, but whom he said was among the first people he gave the screenplay to. Anderson said writers are “magpies,” frequently stealing bits and pieces from others to make something great. In his acceptance speech shouted out author Thomas Pynchon, whose book “Vineland” was a loose inspiration for “One Battle After Another,” but also Nina Simone, who Anderson said was once asked, “What’s freedom? No fear.”

“Pretty good line,” he said.

Earlier in the evening, Teyana Taylor won the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress, and “One Battle After Another” figures to be a frontrunner in other categories as well.

2025’s winner in the Best Screenplay category, “Conclave,” did not go on to win in its respective Best Motion Picture category. But the Globes did line up with “Conclave” becoming the eventual Oscar winner for Best Adapted Screenplay.

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