'One Battle After Another' wins PGA Award for best film. Next stop: Oscars

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Paul Thomas Anderson’s darkly comedic action-thriller “One Battle After Another” won the apical prize astatine the Producers Guild Awards connected Saturday, continuing its dominating tally done awards season.

The PGA honor, presented astatine a ceremonial successful Beverly Hills, cements Anderson’s celebrated movie arsenic the front-runner for the champion representation Oscar. Since 2009, erstwhile some the Producers Guild and the question representation academy expanded their champion representation nominee slates from 5 to 10 and adopted a preferential ballot, the PGA victor has gone connected to triumph champion representation each but 3 times.

The past clip the groups diverged came six years agone erstwhile PGA victor “1917” mislaid the Oscar to Bong Joon Ho’s “Parasite,” a movie that surged successful momentum successful the weeks starring up to the 2020 Oscars.

No different movie this play has shown that benignant of spot different than Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners,” which scored a record-breaking 16 Oscar nominations successful January. However, “One Battle” has prevailed astatine the large ceremonies since then, winning champion representation astatine the British Academy Film Awards past week and Anderson taking the apical grant with the Directors Guild earlier this month.

“Sinners” has 1 much accidental to reverse the tide. It volition vie against “One Battle After Another” for the formed grant astatine the Actor Awards connected Sunday. That ensemble honor, the astir prestigious prize handed retired by SAG-AFTRA voters, isn’t arsenic beardown a precursor arsenic the PGA’s champion film. But “Parasite” did triumph it close earlier the 2020 Oscars.

Hope springs eternal. Oscar voting ends connected Thursday.

Read the afloat database of 2026 Producers Guild Award winners below.

Darryl F. Zanuck Award (outstanding theatrical question picture): “One Battle After Another”

Outstanding animated theatrical question picture: “KPop Demon Hunters”

Norman Felton Award (outstanding episodic tv — drama): “The Pitt”

Danny Thomas Award (outstanding episodic tv — comedy): “The Studio”

David L. Wolper Award (outstanding constricted oregon anthology series): “Adolescence”

Outstanding televised oregon streamed question picture: “John Candy: I Like Me”

Outstanding nonfiction television: “Pee-wee arsenic Himself”

Outstanding unrecorded entertainment, variety, sketch, standup and speech series: “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert”

Outstanding crippled and contention television: “The Traitors”

Outstanding documentary film: “My Mom Jayne”