This summer came and went with decidedly few awards contenders, especially compared to the last few years’ yield of summer Oscar fare like Oppenheimer , Barbie , Top Gun: Maverick, and Elvis . Sinners established its case for Oscar consideration back in April, but since then, anything with a pedigree — be it Celine Song’s Materialists or the TIFF People’s Choice award winner The Life of Chuck — revealed itself to be a nonstarter in the awards conversation.

Into this relative void steps Paul Thomas Anderson, whose films have been nominated for 28 Academy Awards over the course of his career. His latest, One Battle After Another , is loosely based on Thomas Pynchon’s 1990 novel, Vineland, and was described half-jokingly by the director during a post-screening Q&A on Monday

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