Watch: Nikki Glaser Reveals the One Celebrity She Can't Roast at Golden GlobesPaul Thomas Anderson's movies are all about dysfunctional relationships, egomaniacal artists, fizzling dreams and people caught in predicaments requiring drastic measures to get out of. So, no wonder home is a respite for the 55-year-old. The One Battle After Another writer-director, whose film leads all comers with nine nominations heading into the 2026 Golden Globes on Jan. 11, shares four children with longtime partner Maya Rudolph. In case you were wondering why she was his date to the Gotham Awards last month or anything like that. Because while they've collaborated here and there, the Saturday Night Live alum stealing a few scenes in Anderson's Inherent Vice and Licorice Pizza, they are the opposite of a Hollywood couple. In fact, hearing they had been dubbed celebrity royalty in 2018 made Anderson, as he told the Los Angeles Times, "quite nervous." Yet he had a big laugh at a paparazzi photo he was unaware had been taken when they were on their way to a doctor's appointment, calling it "horrifying...but hilarious." "I remember seeing that," he quipped, "thinking, 'Wow. There's no way we could look like that, is there?'"readTeyana Taylor Has Best Reaction to One Battle After Another's Critics Choice 2026 Win for Best PictureHe and Rudolph aren't against step-and-repeats, but they haven't attended tons of red carpet events together during the two-plus decades they've been a couple. But she has accompanied him to several Oscars ceremonies (and whenever she presents, the internet begs her to be next year's host) and that will likely be the case in March when Anderson inevitably earns his fourth Best Picture nomination for One Battle After Another.

Kristina Bumphrey/WWD via Getty ImagesPlus, at home in Southern California's San Fernando Valley, where Anderson grew up and plans to never leave, the couple are first and foremost parents to Pearl, 20, Lucille, 16, Jack, 14, and Minnie, 12, their youngest named after Rudolph's late mom, singer Minnie Riperton. "It's pretty Von Trapp," Anderson told the LA Times in 2018. "I don't know that movie that well. But there's a scene in You Can't Take It with You where a woman enters and there's 50 different family members all banging away on different things in different parts of the house. It's a little like that. This one's banging on the piano. This one's banging on the drum. This one's singing. It's very chaotic." As for staying put in the SFV for most of his life, he explained, "My memories are strong here and I like seeing my kids have memories here as well."David Livingston/Getty ImagesWhether or not their musically inclined brood pursue acting for the long run, all four kids made their big screen debut in 2021's Licorice Pizza, while Pearl also played Sister Coco (of the Brave Beaver order) in One Battle After Another. Rudolph, who's originally from Florida, left SNL when Pearl was 2, tired of commuting between New York and L.A. "It was too hard," the still-in-demand impressionist told the New York Times in 2018. "And nobody else understands or cares, when they don't have kids. They're like, 'Oh, that's cool...

What are you guys doing tonight?' They're like, 'We're going to see Justin Timberlake because Andy's doing "Dick in a Box" with him! What are you doing?' And I was like [faraway stare] 'My daughter's sick. I'm going home.'"photosGolden Globes 2026 Nominations: Snubs and Surprises As a mom of four, the idea of being able to be everywhere all at once became even more absurd, but the Loot actress eventually figured out that, so long as her kids were always loved and cared for, she could work and not feel too terrible about being away.

Jon Kopaloff/WireImage"I make sure that it's the best possible scenario," Rudolph told People in 2019. "And I [started] feeling less guilty because I'm proud of the family I created in order to raise healthy, incredible people." And count Rudolph and Anderson among the successful love matches that SNL has wrought, the pair meeting at an after-party in 2001. "He said he saw me in a sketch and said, 'That's the girl I'm going to marry,'" Rudolph told Town & Country in 2024. "But I don't know. I wasn't there. Maybe he just told me that to be sweet."photosCelebrity Couples Who Found Love on SetThat's basically the story, however. Anderson is a huge comedy fan and, when he got his chance to shoot his shot with the queen, he didn't miss. "I had met Molly Shannon," he said on a 2022 episode of Smartless, "and she said, 'You know, you could come and you can see how we do this.' And at the time I was writing Punch-Drunk Love and I was obsessed with the time that [Adam Sandler] had been there, so I accepted the offer to...watch behind the scenes." Anderson spent a week at SNL, also directing a short, and when he was getting ready to leave, "My head was spinning," he recalled. "That was great, but I don't want to f--king do that again because it was so much." But the