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The director has won the Oscar for his critically-acclaimed film based loosely on Thomas Pynchon’s novel Vineland

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Paul Thomas Anderson has won his first Oscar, for best adapted screenplay for One Battle After Another.

Also directed by Anderson, One Battle After Another is a loose adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s 1990 novel Vineland; it stars Leonardo DiCaprio as a former revolutionary living under a new name with his teenage daughter, played by Chase Infiniti.