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The 2026 Oscar for Greatest Image went to … the film everyone knew was going to win! One Battle After One other received Greatest Image at this 12 months’s Academy Awards, following a remarkably dominant awards-season run. The movie received on the Golden Globes, the Producers Guild Awards, the Critics Alternative Awards, and the Administrators Guild Awards. It marked the third Oscar in only one evening for filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson — notable, on condition that he started the evening with zero Oscars.
“In 1975 the Oscar nominees for Greatest Image had been Canine Day Afternoon, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Jaws, Nashville, and Barry Lyndon,” Anderson mentioned after profitable the award. “There isn’t a finest amongst them. It’s simply what the temper could be that day. However we’re completely satisfied to be a part of this, an exquisite, great journey with our fellow nominees, our fellow filmmakers that even weren’t acknowledged by the Academy.” Positive, but when there was a finest, it might be the one which received the award, proper?
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