Leonardo DiCaprio joined his One Battle After Another co-stars in Mexico City on Friday as the film is backed to scoop Best Picture at the Oscars.
The action-thriller has received phenomenal praise and generated buzz among critics who also believe Leo could secure the Best Actor gong for the second time.
Attending a photocall at Monumento a la Revolución on Thursday, the actor, 50, joined his co-stars Chase Infiniti and Benicio del Toro.
He wore a grey suede jacket with a blue polo and smart black trousers, shielding his eyes with a pair of sunglasses.
Chase, 25, looked stunning in a leather mini dress that featured a keyhole cut-out and a dropped puff ball hem.
They were joined by Benicio, 58, who opted for a smart black shirt with trousers and a pair of trainers.
Leonardo DiCaprio joined his One Battle After Another co-stars in Mexico City on Friday as the film is backed to scoop Best Picture at the Oscars
The action-thriller has received phenomenal praise and generated buzz among critics who also believe Leo could secure the Best Actor gong for the second time
Bookmaker Coral currently has One Battle After Another at 4-5 to win the Best Picture at the Oscars 2026, following strong reviews.
Leo is also odds-on at 1-2 to win the gong for the Best Actor at the Ceremony in 2026.
Coral’s John Hill said: ‘After glowing reviews, One Battle After Another has been heavily backed to win the Best Picture at next year’s Oscars. It is now odds-on in our betting for the award.
‘Leonardo DiCaprio is the star name in One Battle After Another, and he is odds-on to win the Best Actor gong for the second time in his career.’
Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest movie offering, based loosely on Thomas Pynchon’s 1990 novel Vineland, has been greeted with five-star reviews across the board and even deemed ‘the defining film of a generation’.
The Standard’s Nick Howells, awarding the movie five stars, wrote: ‘Anderson has directed the coolest, most consummately masterful movie you’re likely to see all year. And it’s got Oscars glory just oozing out of every frame.’
While Leonardo is typically the draw of blockbusters, Paul Thomas Anderson’s ‘electrifyingly improbable’ work was the topic on critics’ lips, with many echoing back to previous ‘masterpieces’ Boogie Nights, There Will Be Blood and Phantom Thread.
It is not only critics raving about the film but also bookmakers, as Ladbrokes has taken the odds of the movie winning the 2026 Academy Award for Best Picture from 12/1 last week, to a remarkable and rare evens.
Attending a photocall at Monumento a la Revolución on Thursday, the actor, 50, joined his co-stars Chase Infiniti (pictured) and Benicio del Toro
Leo wore a grey suede jacket with a blue polo and smart black trousers, shielding his eyes with a pair of sunglasses (pictured with Benicio del Toro)
Bookmaker Coral currently has One Battle After Another at 4-5 to win the Best Picture at the Oscars 2026, following strong reviews
The film sees Leo playing Bob Ferguson, a dishevelled and distraught revolutionary who lives in a state of stoned paranoia off-grid with his daughter Willa
The film follows Bob as he reconnects with a group of old allies on a mission to track down his daughter, with Benicio playing his sensei, guiding him through a life without fear (pictured in film)
One Battle After Another sees Leo playing Bob Ferguson, a dishevelled and distraught revolutionary who lives in a state of stoned paranoia off-grid with his daughter Willa, whom he shares with Teyana Taylor’s character Perfidia.
The film follows Bob as he reconnects with a group of allies on a mission to track down his daughter, with Benicio Del Toro playing his sensei, guiding him through a life without fear.
The high-stakes thriller and black comedy also sees Sean Penn starring as Bob’s evil nemesis, Col. Steven J. Lockjaw, and Regina Hall playing revolutionary Deandra.
Winning praise from the top, Steven Spielberg gushed: ‘What an insane movie, oh my God. There is more action in the first hour of this than every other film you’ve ever directed put together. Everything, it is really incredible…
‘This is such a concoction of things that are so bizarre and at the same time so relevant, that I think have become increasingly more relevant than perhaps even when you finished the screenplay and assembled your cast and crew and began production.’
In a five star rating from The Daily Mail, Brian Viner writes: ‘DiCaprio’s is not even the most eye-catching performance in Paul Thomas Anderson’s irresistibly funny, thunderously exhilarating film.
‘Sean Penn pinches every scene he’s in as an unhinged army officer, driven first by lust and later by loathing, whose downfall, when it comes, is one of the most startling things you will see in the cinema this year.
‘Anderson has already made one of the best pictures of the 21st century, in 2007’s There Will be Blood. This one, loosely inspired by Thomas Pynchon’s novel Vineland, is comparably fine.’
He added: ‘He knows he’s made something special, indeed the next time we hear him might be when he holds aloft an Academy Award.’
