One Battle After Another is a 2025 American black comedy action-thriller film produced, written, and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. It is inspired by the 1990 novel Vineland by Thomas Pynchon. The film's ensemble cast is led by Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Benicio del Toro, Regina Hall, Teyana Taylor, and Chase Infiniti in her film debut. The story follows an ex-revolutionary who is forced back into his former combative lifestyle when he and his daughter are pursued by a corrupt military officer.
Anderson had wanted to adapt Vineland since the early 2000s and, eventually, incorporated his own stories into the narrative while writing the screenplay. The film was shot in California between January and June 2024 using VistaVision, becoming one of the first films to use this format for principal photography since the 1960s.
One Battle After Another had its premiere at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles, California, on September 8, 2025, and was released in the United States by Warner Bros. Pictures on September 26. The film received critical acclaim. The most expensive film of Anderson's career, it became his highest-grossing film, though it underperformed at the box office, grossing $207million on a $130175million budget. One Battle After Another was nominated for nine awards at the 83rd Golden Globe Awards, receiving the most nominations of any film that year, winning four, including Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. It also made history at the 32nd Actor Awards by receiving seven nominations the most for any film in the awards' history, including Actor Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture, and at least one nomination in all other film categories.