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Nominations for the 83rd annual Golden Globes arrived before dawn on Friday and in a crowded awards season full of early feints and false starts, one film came away having clearly won the morning\u2019s skirmish: \u201cOne Battle After Another.\u201d<\/p>\n
Paul Thomas Anderson<\/a>\u2019s ambitious movie \u2014 about former political radicals reckoning with middle age, compromise and the ideals they once wore more proudly \u2014 showed up nearly everywhere the Globes could put it, leading the field with nine nominations. It landed nods for best motion picture (musical or comedy), director, screenplay and several actors, marking the broadest show of support for any film and giving a still-unsettled Oscar race something resembling a focal point.<\/p>\n \u201cOne Battle After Another\u201d has already been on a steady roll with critics, collecting top prizes from the Los Angeles Film Critics Assn., the New York Film Critics Circle, the Gotham Awards and the National Board of Review \u2014 an unusually consistent run that has begun to separate it from the pack even before industry groups weigh in.<\/p>\n Elsewhere, the drama picture category underscored just how international \u2014 and fluid \u2014 the race remains. The lineup leaned heavily toward filmmakers with strong global followings, including Jafar Panahi\u2019s tightly coiled political drama \u201cIt Was Just an Accident,\u201d Kleber Mendon\u00e7a Filho\u2019s Brazilian espionage thriller \u201cThe Secret Agent\u201d and Joachim Trier\u2019s emotionally precise family drama \u201cSentimental Value.\u201d They were joined by Guillermo del Toro\u2019s long-gestating gothic passion project \u201cFrankenstein,\u201d Chlo\u00e9 Zhao\u2019s literary adaptation \u201cHamnet\u201d and Ryan Coogler\u2019s muscular, genre-bending period film \u201cSinners.\u201d<\/p>\n The comedy or musical race leaned more openly into the Globes\u2019 eclectic instincts. Alongside Anderson\u2019s film were Josh Safdie\u2019s frenetic ping-pong dramedy \u201cMarty Supreme,\u201d Yorgos Lanthimos\u2019 latest curveball \u201cBugonia,\u201d Park Chan-wook\u2019s South Korean satire \u201cNo Other Choice\u201d and two films directed by Richard Linklater \u2014 the cinephile homage \u201cNouvelle Vague\u201d and the quietly old-fashioned character study \u201cBlue Moon\u201d starring Ethan Hawke.<\/p>\n The acting nominations blended seriousness and star power in familiar Globes fashion. Leonardo DiCaprio landed a nod for \u201cOne Battle After Another\u201d in the musical or comedy category, while the drama actor lineup included Michael B. Jordan (\u201cSinners\u201d), Oscar Isaac (\u201cFrankenstein\u201d) and Dwayne Johnson (\u201cThe Smashing Machine\u201d).<\/p>\n On the actress side, Jessie Buckley (\u201cHamnet\u201d), Renate Reinsve (\u201cSentimental Value\u201d) and Julia Roberts (\u201cAfter the Hunt\u201d) anchored the field.<\/p>\n Anderson\u2019s film also showed strength in the supporting categories, earning nominations for Benicio del Toro, Sean Penn, Chase Infiniti and Teyana Taylor. \u201cSentimental Value,\u201d meanwhile, emerged as a quiet force, collecting three supporting acting nods among its eight nominations.<\/p>\n The director category offered one of the morning\u2019s clearer Oscar readings, pairing Anderson with Coogler, Del Toro, Zhao, Trier and Panahi \u2014 a lineup that closely mirrors the season\u2019s broader critical conversation.<\/p>\n