Paul Thomas Anderson won his first three Oscars for One Battle After Another at Sunday’s Oscars, but the way the director has addressed—or not addressed—the politically charged themes of his film during awards season is rubbing fans the wrong way.
Anderson took home Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Director, and shared the Best Picture award as a producer of the film. But what could have been a celebratory moment for the director turned into a pile-on after he deliberately dodged opportunities to speak about the film’s political themes.
During a backstage interview Sunday night, a reporter asked him, “They say that winning Best Picture, it tells the temper of our times. So how does this one reflect where we are or where we’re going in society?” Anderson let out a deep sigh and then replied, “I thought we were supposed to be partying.”
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