American filmmaker. His films include "Magnolia", "The Master" and "Phantom Thread". He adapted Thomas Pynchon's "Inherent Vice" into a film in 2014.
In 2026 his film "One Battle After Another" won six awards at the Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director. The film, loosely adapted from Pynchon's "Vineland", portrays a revolutionary cell in a slightly distorted America and the aftermath 16 years later. It stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Teyana Taylor, Sean Penn and Benicio del Toro. The film mixes genres—action, caper, buddy movie and pastiche Western—while addressing themes of migration, militarisation and idealism.
WHENEVER ANYBODY SAYS he's struggling to become a human being I have to laugh because the apes beat him to it by about a million years. Struggle to become a parrot or something.