{"id":2333585,"date":"2026-03-17T18:51:47","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T18:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2333585"},"modified":"2026-03-17T18:51:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T18:51:47","slug":"warner-bros-basks-in-one-battle-after-another-and-sinners-oscar-wins-but-a-paramount-sale-may-mean-the-end-of-its-auteur-friendly-reputation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/warner-bros-basks-in-one-battle-after-another-and-sinners-oscar-wins-but-a-paramount-sale-may-mean-the-end-of-its-auteur-friendly-reputation\/","title":{"rendered":"Warner Bros. Basks in \u2018One Battle After Another\u2019 and \u2018Sinners\u2019 Oscar Wins, but a Paramount Sale May Mean the End of Its Auteur-Friendly Reputation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">This time last year, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0006894\/\">Michael De Luca<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0008330\/\">Pam Abdy<\/a> were battling persistent reports that they were on the way out as heads of Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group, having made too many pricey bets on risky films. That made the studio\u2019s triumph at the 98th Academy Awards on Sunday all the sweeter, as <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm3363032\/\">Ryan Coogler<\/a>\u2019s \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt31193180\/\">Sinners<\/a>\u201d and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000759\/\">Paul Thomas Anderson<\/a>\u2019s \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt30144839\/\">One Battle After Another<\/a>,\u201d two of the films that had the Hollywood rumor mill buzzing, dominated the ceremony. \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt30144839\/\">One Battle After Another<\/a>\u201d scored six prizes, including best picture and best director for <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm12525362\/\">Anderson<\/a>, while \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt31193180\/\">Sinners<\/a>\u201d picked up four statuettes, including best original screenplay for Coogler and a lead actor Oscar for <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0430107\/\">Michael B. Jordan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the greatest night of my life,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2566406\/\">De Luca<\/a> exclaimed at the Governors Ball following the awards show. \u201cPaul was very overdue. He\u2019s made so many masterpieces. And Ryan will be back.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This time last year, Michael De Luca and Pam Abdy were battling persistent reports that they were on the way out as heads of Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group, having made too many pricey bets on risky films. That made the studio\u2019s triumph at the 98th Academy Awards on Sunday all the sweeter, as Ryan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2333586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2333585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Warner-Bros-Basks-in-\u2018One-Battle-After-Another-and-\u2018Sinners.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2333585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2333585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2333585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2333587,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2333585\/revisions\/2333587"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2333586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2333585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2333585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2333585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}