The academy has recognized “One Battle After Another” filmmaker PaulThomasAnderson’s prodigious talents with plenty of nominations over the years. But Oscar voters seem to have been waiting for frogs to rain from the sky to give him an award ... .
Yet it is PaulThomasAnderson’s Pynchon semi-adaptation One Battle After Another, leading the field with nine nominations, that looks as if it’s going to pull off an Oppenheimer-level sweep after having won at the various critics’ awards so far ... .