One Battle After Another wins top producer award before Oscars

The PGA are considered a reliable indicator for the Oscars, with winners going on to seal Best Picture at the Oscars many times. Read more at straitstimes.com.

LOS ANGELES - American film-maker Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another was named best picture by Hollywood producers on Feb 28, continuing its awards season streak before the Oscars.

The Producers Guild Awards (PGA) win cements the film, about the rise of extremism in the United States, as a frontrunner for the top prizes at the Academy Awards, which cap off the Hollywood awards season.

Anderson’s film, which depicts the hunt for former far-left revolutionaries by a white supremacist, seems destined for the Best Picture Oscar, having already secured numerous awards.

Since early January, it has won top prizes from American film critics and Hollywood directors, and received the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy.

“This is a tremendous honour, thank you very much,” Anderson said in his acceptance speech.

The 55-year-old director then addressed executives at Warner Bros, the prestigious studio that distributed the film and is about to be acquired by Paramount Skydance.