Paul Thomas Anderson

Not to be confused with Paul W.S. Anderson.

American film director, screenwriter, and producer

Paul Thomas Anderson
Anderson in December 2007
Born	(1970-06-26) June 26, 1970 (age 48) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Other names	P. T. Anderson, PTA
Education	Santa Monica College Emerson College
Occupation	Filmmaker
Years active	1988–present
Partner(s)	Maya Rudolph (2001–present)
Children	4
Parent(s)	Ernie Anderson (father)

Paul Thomas Anderson (born June 26, 1970), also referred to as P. T. Anderson or PTA,^[1][2] is an American filmmaker. His films have been nominated for 25 Academy Awards, winning three for cast and crew.

An alumnus of the Sundance Institute, Anderson directed his first feature film, Hard Eight, in 1996. He achieved critical and commercial success with Boogie Nights (1997), set during the Golden Age of Porn. His 2007 film There Will Be Blood, about an oil prospector during the Southern California oil boom, is often cited as one of the best films of the 2000s.^[3]

Anderson's other notable films include Magnolia (1999), Punch-Drunk Love (2002), The Master (2012), Inherent Vice (2014), and Phantom Thread (2017).

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  2 Career
  
  
  
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  4 Personal life
  


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    6.1 Academy Awards
    
  
  
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    6.8 Independent Spirit Awards
    
  
  
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  7 Awards received by Anderson movies
  
  
  
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    7.1 Directed Academy Award Performances
    
  
  
  
  


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  8 References
  


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Early life

Anderson's father, Ernie Anderson, in a 1961 advertisement.

Anderson was born on June 26, 1970, in Studio City, Los Angeles, to Edwina (née Gough) and Ernie Anderson.^[4][5] Ernie was an actor who was the voice of ABC and a Cleveland television late-night horror movie host known as "Ghoulardi" (after whom Anderson later named his production company).^[4][5] Anderson grew up in the San Fernando Valley.^[6] He is third youngest of nine children.^[7][8] He had a troubled relationship with his mother but was close with his father, who encouraged him to become a writer or director.^[9] Anderson attended a number of schools, including Buckley in Sherman Oaks, John Thomas Dye School, Campbell Hall School, Cushing Academy, and Montclair Prep.^[8]

Anderson was involved in filmmaking from a young age^[10][11] and never really had an alternative plan to directing films.^[12] He made his first film when he was eight years old^[7] and started making movies on a Betamax video camera that his dad bought in 1982 when he was 12 years old.^[11] He later started using 8 mm film but realized that video was easier.^[10] He began writing in adolescence, and at 17 years old he began experimenting with a Bolex sixteen millimeter camera.^[10][13] After years of experimenting with "standard fare", he wrote and filmed his first real production as a senior in high school at Montclair Prep using money he earned cleaning cages at a pet store.^[11][14] The film was a 30-minute mockumentary shot on video called The Dirk Diggler Story (1988), about a pornography star; the story was inspired by John Holmes, who also served as a major inspiration for Boogie Nights.^{[8][9][10][13]}

Career

Early career

Anderson attended Santa Monica College^[15] before enrolling and spending two semesters as an English major at Emerson College where he was taught by David Foster Wallace, and only two days at New York University before he began his career as a production assistant on television films, music videos and game shows in Los Angeles and New York City.^[8][16][17] Feeling that the material shown to him at film school turned the experience into "homework or a chore",^[18] Anderson decided to make a 20-minute film that would be his "college".^[16]

For $20,000, made up of gambling winnings, his girlfriend's credit card, and money his father set aside for him for college,^[16] Anderson made Cigarettes & Coffee (1993), a short film connecting multiple story lines with a twenty-dollar bill.^[8][13][19] The film was screened at the 1993 Sundance Festival Shorts Program.^[13] He decided to expand the film into a feature-length film and was subsequently invited to the 1994 Sundance Feature Film Program.^[8][13][19] At the Sundance Feature Film Program, Michael Caton-Jones served as Anderson's mentor; he saw Anderson as someone with "talent and a fully formed creative voice but not much hands-on experience" and gave him some hard and practical lessons.^[11]

1990s

While at the Sundance Feature Film Program, Anderson already had a deal with Rysher Entertainment to direct his first full-length feature, Sydney, retitled Hard Eight (1996).^[9][11] Upon completion of the film, Rysher re-edited it.^[11] Anderson, who still had the workprint of his original cut, submitted the film to the 1996 Cannes Film Festival,^[13] where it was accepted and screened in the Un Certain Regard section.^[20][21] Anderson managed to get his version released but only after he retitled the film, and raised the $200,000 necessary to finish it; Anderson and stars Philip Baker Hall, Gwyneth Paltrow and John C. Reilly contributed the funding.^[11][13] The version that was released was Anderson's and the acclaim from the film launched his career.^[13][8] The story concerns Sydney Brown (Hall), an experienced gambler who takes John Finnegan (Reilly) under his wing, while John becomes romantically involved with a troubled waitress (Paltrow). The film also featured Philip Seymour Hoffman as an arrogant gambler, beginning a five-film collaboration between the pair.^[22] In his review of the film, Chicago Sun-Times critic Roger Ebert wrote, "Movies like Hard Eight remind me of what original, compelling characters the movies can sometimes give us."^[23]

Anderson began working on the script for his next feature film during his troubles with Hard Eight,^[11] completing the script in 1995.^[13] The result was Anderson's breakout for the drama film Boogie Nights (1997),^[24][25][26] which is based on his short film The Dirk Diggler Story and is set in the Golden Age of Porn. The film follows a nightclub dishwasher (Mark Wahlberg) who becomes a popular pornographic actor under his stage name Dirk Diggler.^[8][13][27] The script was noticed by New Line Cinema's president, Michael De Luca, who felt "totally gaga" reading it.^[11] It was released on October 10, 1997 and was a critical and commercial success.^[9] The film revived the career of Burt Reynolds,^[28][29] and provided breakout roles for Wahlberg and Julianne Moore.^[30][31][32] After the film's production, Reynolds refused to star in Anderson's third film Magnolia.^[33] At the 70th Academy Awards, the film was nominated for three Academy Awards, including for Best Supporting Actor (Burt Reynolds), Best Supporting Actress (Julianne Moore) and Best Original Screenplay.^[34]

After the success of Boogie Nights, New Line told Anderson that he could do whatever he wanted for his next film and granted him creative control.^[9] Though Anderson initially wanted to make a film that was "intimate and small-scale", the script "kept blossoming". The resulting film was the ensemble piece Magnolia (1999), which tells the story of the peculiar interaction of several individuals in the San Fernando Valley.^[35][36] Anderson used the music of Aimee Mann as a basis and inspiration for the film,^[37] commissioning her to write eight new songs.^[38] At the 72nd Academy Awards, the film was nominated for three Academy Awards, including for Best Supporting Actor (Tom Cruise), Best Original Song for "Save Me" by Aimee Mann and Best Original Screenplay.^[39] Anderson stated after the film's release that "what I really feel is that Magnolia is, for better or worse, the best movie I'll ever make."^[40]

2000s

Adam Sandler, Paul Thomas Anderson, Emily Watson and Philip Seymour Hoffman at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival

After the release of Magnolia, Anderson stated that he would like to work with Adam Sandler in the future and that he was determined to make his next film a comparatively shorter length of just 90 minutes.^[25][35] The resulting feature was the romantic comedy-drama film Punch-Drunk Love (2002), starring Sandler, with Emily Watson portraying his love interest.^[41] The story centers on a beleaguered small-business owner with anger issues and seven emasculating sisters. A subplot in the film was partly based on David Phillips (also called The Pudding Guy).^[41] Sandler received critical praise for his role in his first major departure from the mainstream comedies that had made him a star.^[42][43] At the 2002 Cannes Film Festival, Anderson won the Best Director Award and was nominated for the Palme d'Or.^[44]

There Will Be Blood (2007) was loosely based on the Upton Sinclair novel Oil!.^[45] It follows Daniel Plainview, a ruthless silver miner exploiting the Southern California oil boom of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.^[46] Against a budget of $25 million, the film earned $76.1 million worldwide.^[47]There Will Be Blood received eight Academy Award nominations, tying with No Country for Old Men for the most nominations that year.^[48] Anderson was nominated for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay, losing all three to the Coen Brothers for No Country for Old Men.^[49]Daniel Day-Lewis won the Oscar for Best Actor.^[49]Paul Dano received a BAFTA nomination for Best Supporting Actor.^[50] Anderson was nominated for Best Director from the Directors Guild of America.^[51]There Will Be Blood was regarded by some critics as one of the greatest films of the decade, some parties further declaring it one of the most accomplished American films of the modern era. David Denby of The New Yorker wrote "the young writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson has now done work that bears comparison to the greatest achievements of Griffith and Ford", while Richard Schickel proclaimed it "one of the most wholly original American movies ever made".^[52] In 2017, New York Times film critics A. O. Scott and Manohla Dargis named it the "Best Film of the 21st Century So Far".^[53]

2010s

In December 2009, Anderson was working on a new project about a "charismatic intellectual" who starts a new religion in the 1950s.^[54] An associate of Anderson stated that the idea for the film had been in Anderson's head for about 12 years.^[55]The Master was released on September 14, 2012 by The Weinstein Company in the United States and Canada^[56] to critical acclaim.^[57][58] The film stars Joaquin Phoenix as Freddie Quell, an alcoholic World War II veteran who meets Lancaster Dodd, played by Philip Seymour Hoffman, the leader of a religious movement known as "The Cause". Though the film makes no reference to the movement, it has "long been widely assumed to be based on Scientology."^[59]The Master received three nominations at the 85th Academy Awards: Joaquin Phoenix for Best Leading Actor, Philip Seymour Hoffman for Best Supporting Actor, and Amy Adams for Best Supporting Actress.^[60]

Production of Anderson's adaptation of Thomas Pynchon's 2009 novel Inherent Vice began in May 2013, and ended in August of the same year.^[61] The film marked the first time that Pynchon allowed his work to be adapted for the screen^[62][63], and saw Anderson work with Phoenix for a second time.^[64][65] The supporting cast includes Owen Wilson, Reese Witherspoon, Jena Malone, Martin Short, Benicio Del Toro, Katherine Waterston, Josh Brolin, Peter McRobbie, Michael K. Williams, and Eric Roberts. Following its release in December 2014, the film received two nominations at the 87th Academy Awards: Anderson for Best Adapted Screenplay and Mark Bridges for Best Costume Design.^[66]

Mehrangarh Fort in Jodhpur, in the Indian state of Rajasthan, where Junun was filmed

In 2015, Anderson directed Junun, a 54-minute documentary about the making of the album of the same name by Jonny Greenwood, Israeli composer Shye Ben Tzur, and a group of Indian musicians.^[67] Most of the performances were recorded at the 15th-century Mehrangarh Fort in the Indian state of Rajasthan.^[68]Junun premiered at the 2015 New York Film Festival.^[69]

Anderson's ninth film, Phantom Thread, set in the London fashion industry in 1954, was released in late 2017.^[70] The film stars Daniel Day-Lewis in his first acting role since Lincoln in 2012, and his self-proclaimed final performance in a film, following four decades in the profession.^[71] The cast also includes Lesley Manville, Vicky Krieps, and Richard Graham.^[70]Focus Features distributed the film in the U.S., with Universal handling international distribution.^[72] Principal photography began in January 2017. Anderson's regular cinematographer Robert Elswit was unavailable during production,^[73] and despite claims of Anderson acting as his own cinematographer on the film, there is no official credit.^[74]

Other work

In 2000, Anderson wrote and directed a segment for Saturday Night Live with Ben Affleck, "SNL FANatic", based on the MTV series FANatic.^[75] He was a standby director during the 2005 filming of Robert Altman's A Prairie Home Companion for insurance purposes, as Altman was 80 years old at the time.^[76] In 2008, Anderson co-wrote and directed a 70-minute play at the Largo Theatre, comprising a series of vignettes starring Maya Rudolph and Fred Armisen, with a live score by Jon Brion.^[77]

Anderson has also directed music videos, usually for artists with whom he has collaborated on films, including Fiona Apple, Radiohead, HAIM, Joanna Newsom, Aimee Mann, Jon Brion, and Michael Penn.^[78][79][80]Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead, Mann, Brion, and Penn have scored or contributed music to his films, while Newsom acted in Inherent Vice.^[78] Anderson directed a short film for HAIM in 2017, Valentine, featuring three musical performances from the band.^[81]

Influences and style

Influences

Anderson only attended film school for two days, preferring to learn the craft by watching films by the filmmakers he liked, as well as watching films accompanied by director's audio commentary.^[6][12][13] He has cited Martin Scorsese, Robert Altman, Jonathan Demme, Stanley Kubrick, Orson Welles, Max Ophüls and Robert Downey, Sr., as his main influences.^{[82][10][26][83]}

Themes and style

Anderson is known for films set in the San Fernando Valley with realistically flawed and desperate characters.^[12][84] Among the themes dealt with in Anderson's films are dysfunctional familial relationships,^[26][83][85]alienation,^[83] surrogate families,^[86] regret,^[83] loneliness,^[26] destiny,^[8] the power of forgiveness,^[7] and ghosts of the past.^[26] Anderson makes frequent use of repetition to build emphasis and thematic consistency. In Boogie Nights, Magnolia, Punch Drunk Love and The Master, the phrase "I didn't do anything" is used at least once, developing themes of responsibility and denial.^{[87][88][89][90]} Anderson's films are known for their bold visual style^[84] which includes stylistic trademarks such as constantly moving camera,^[40][84]steadicam-based long takes,^[24][26][91] memorable use of music,^[24][40][84] and multilayered audiovisual imagery.^[24][91] Anderson also tends to reference the Book of Exodus, either explicitly or subtly, such as in recurring references to Exodus 8:2 in Magnolia,^[92] which chronicles the plague of frogs, culminating with the literal raining of frogs in the film's climax, or the title and themes in There Will Be Blood, a phrase in Exodus 7:19, which details the plague of blood.^[93][94]

Within his first three films, Hard Eight, Boogie Nights and Magnolia, Anderson explored themes of dysfunctional families, alienation and loneliness.^[26][83]Boogie Nights and Magnolia were noted for their large ensemble casts,^[25][84] which Anderson returned to in Inherent Vice.^[95][96] In Punch-Drunk Love, Anderson explored similar themes but expressed a different visual style, shedding the influences and references of his earlier films, being more surreal and having a heightened sense of reality.^[83][91] It was also short, compared to his previous two films, at 90 minutes.^[25]

There Will Be Blood stood apart from his first four films but shared similar themes and style such as flawed characters, moving camera, memorable music, and a lengthy running time.^[84] The film was more overtly engaged with politics than his previous films had been,^[25] examining capitalism and themes such as savagery, optimism, and obsession.^[97]The Master dealt with "ideas about American personality, success, rootlessness, master-disciple dynamics, and father-son mutually assured destruction."^[98] All of his films deal with American themes with business versus art in Boogie Nights, ambition in There Will Be Blood, self-reinvention in The Master.^[99]

Frequent collaborators

Philip Seymour Hoffman appeared in five of Anderson's films.

Anderson frequently collaborates with many actors and crew, carrying them over from film to film.^[100] Anderson has referred to his regular actors as "my little rep company" that has included John C. Reilly, Philip Baker Hall, Julianne Moore, William H. Macy, Melora Walters, and most prominently, the late
Philip Seymour Hoffman.^[101]Luis Guzmán is also considered Anderson's regular.^[102] Hoffman acted in Anderson's first four films^[103] as well as The Master.^[104] Except for Paul F. Tompkins, Kevin Breznahan and Jim Meskimen, who all had equally minor roles in Magnolia,^[105]There Will Be Blood had an entirely new cast. Anderson is one of three directors – the others being Jim Sheridan and Martin Scorsese – with whom Daniel Day-Lewis has collaborated more than once.^[106]Robert Elswit has been cinematographer for all of Anderson's films except The Master, which was shot by Mihai Mălaimare Jr.^[107] and Phantom Thread which has no credited cinematographer. Jon Brion served as composer for Hard Eight, Magnolia and Punch-Drunk Love,^[108] and Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead for every film since.^[109]Dylan Tichenor edited Boogie Nights, Magnolia, There Will Be Blood, and Phantom Thread.^[110][111] Anderson also regularly works with producing partners, JoAnne Sellar, Scott Rudin, Michael De Luca and Daniel Lupi,^[112] as well as casting director Cassandra Kulukundis.^[104]

Collaborator	Hard Eight	Boogie Nights	Magnolia	Punch-Drunk Love	There Will Be Blood	The Master	Inherent Vice	Junun	Phantom Thread	Total
Jon Brion	Y		Y	Y						3
Mark Bridges	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y		Y		Y	7
Robert Elswit	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y		Y			6
Jonny Greenwood					Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	5
Luis Guzmán		Y	Y	Y						3
Philip Baker Hall	Y	Y	Y							3
Philip Seymour Hoffman	Y	Y	Y	Y		Y				5
Leslie Jones				Y		Y	Y			3
Daniel Lupi	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y		Y	8
John C. Reilly	Y	Y	Y							3
JoAnne Sellar		Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y		Y	7
Dylan Tichenor	Y	Y	Y		Y				Y	5
Melora Walters	Y	Y	Y			Y				4

Personal life

Anderson dated Fiona Apple in the late 1990s and early 2000s.^[113]

He has been in a long-term relationship with actress and comedian Maya Rudolph since 2001.^[114][115] They live in the San Fernando Valley^[7][104] with their daughters Pearl Minnie (born October 2005),^{[116][117][118]} Lucille (born November 2009),^[119] and Minnie Ida (born August 2013),^[120] and son Jack (born July 2011).^[121]

Filmography

Main article: Paul Thomas Anderson filmography

Awards and recognition

Anderson has been called "one of the most exciting talents to come along in years"^[122] and "among the supreme talents of today."^[123] After the release of Boogie Nights and Magnolia, Anderson was praised as a wunderkind.^[124] In 2007, the American Film Institute regarded him as "one of American film's modern masters."^[97] In 2012, The Guardian ranked him number one on its list of "The 23 Best Film Directors in the World," writing "his dedication to his craft has intensified, with his disdain for PR and celebrity marking him out as the most devout filmmaker of his generation."^[125] In 2013, Entertainment Weekly named him the eighth-greatest working director, calling him "one of the most dynamic directors to emerge in the last 20 years."^[126]Peter Travers of Rolling Stone wrote that "The Master, the sixth film from the 42-year-old writer-director, affirms his position as the foremost filmmaking talent of his generation. Anderson is a rock star, the artist who knows no limits."^[127]

Other directors have also praised him. In an interview with Jan Aghed, Ingmar Bergman referenced Magnolia as an example of the strength of American cinema.^[128]Sam Mendes referred to Anderson as "a true auteur – and there are very few of those who I would classify as geniuses".^[129] In his acceptance speech for the Golden Globe Award for Best Director, Ben Affleck said "Paul Thomas Anderson, who I think is like Orson Welles."^[130]

As of 2016, Anderson is the only person to win all three director prizes from the three major international film festivals (Cannes, Berlin, Venice).

Academy Awards

Year	Nominated Work	Category	Result
1998	Boogie Nights	Best Original Screenplay	Nominated
2000	Magnolia		Nominated
2008	There Will Be Blood	Best Picture	Nominated
		Best Director	Nominated
		Best Adapted Screenplay	Nominated
2015	Inherent Vice		Nominated
2018	Phantom Thread	Best Picture	Nominated
		Best Director	Nominated

Golden Globe Awards

Year	Nominated Work	Category	Result
2008	There Will Be Blood	Best Motion Picture - Drama	Nominated

BAFTA Awards

Year	Nominated Work	Category	Result
1998	Boogie Nights	Best Original Screenplay	Nominated
2008	There Will Be Blood	Best Film	Nominated
		Best Director	Nominated
		Best Adapted Screenplay	Nominated
2013	The Master	Best Original Screenplay	Nominated

Critics Choice Movie Awards

Year	Nominated Work	Category	Result
2013	The Master	Best Original Screenplay	Nominated
2015	Inherent Vice	Best Adapted Screenplay	Nominated

Directors Guild of America Awards

Year	Nominated Work	Category	Result
2008	There Will Be Blood	Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures	Nominated

Producers Guild of America Awards

Year	Nominated Work	Category	Result
2008	There Will Be Blood	Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures	Nominated

Writers Guild of America Awards

Year	Nominated Work	Category	Result
1998	Boogie Nights	Best Original Screenplay	Nominated
2000	Magnolia		Nominated
2008	There Will Be Blood	Best Adapted Screenplay	Nominated
2013	The Master	Best Original Screenplay	Nominated

Independent Spirit Awards

Year	Nominated Work	Category	Result
1998	Hard Eight	Best First Feature	Nominated
		Best First Screenplay	Nominated
2015	Inherent Vice	Robert Altman Award	Won

Other Awards

Year	Award	Category	Title	Result
1996	Deauville Film Festival Award	Grand Special Prize	Hard Eight	Nominated
1997	Boston Society of Film Critics Award	Best New Filmmaker	Hard Eight and Boogie Nights	Won
	Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award	New Generation Award	Boogie Nights	Won
	Toronto International Film Festival Award	Metro Media Award		Won
1998	Online Film Critics Society Award	Best Director		Nominated
		Best Screenplay		Nominated
	Online Film & Television Association	Best First Feature Film		Nominated
	Satellite Award	Best Director		Nominated
		Best Film		Nominated
		Best Original Screenplay		Nominated
	European Film Award	Screen International		Nominated
1999	Toronto Film Critics Association Award	Best Director	Magnolia	Won
		Best Film		Won
		Best Screenplay		Won
2000	Chicago Film Critics Association Award	Best Director		Nominated
		Best Original Screenplay		Nominated
	Online Film Critics Society Award	Best Screenplay		Nominated
	Satellite Award	Best Director		Nominated
		Best Original Screenplay		Nominated
	Berlin International Film Festival Award	Golden Bear		Won
		Reader Jury of the "Berliner Morgenpost" Award		Won
	Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists Award	Best Foreign Director		Nominated
	San Sebastián International Film Festival	Film of the Year		Won
2001	London Critics Circle Film Award	Screenwriter of the Year		Nominated
	Empire Award	Best Director		Nominated
	Bodil Award	Best American Film		Nominated
	Guldbagge Award	Best Foreign Film		Won
2002	Cannes Film Festival Award	Best Director	Punch-Drunk Love	Won
	Cannes Film Festival	Palme d'Or		Nominated
	Gijón International Film Festival Award	Best Screenplay		Won
		Best Feature Film		Nominated
	Toronto Film Critics Association Award	Best Director		Won
2003	Chicago Film Critics Association Award	Best Director		Nominated
		Best Original Screenplay		Nominated
	Online Film Critics Society Award	Best Original Screenplay		Nominated
	Phoenix Film Critics Society Award	Best Screenplay		Nominated
	Motovun Film Festival Award	Propeller of Motovun Award		Won
2007	Austin Film Critics Association	Best Director	There Will Be Blood	Won
	Chicago Film Critics Association Award	Best Director		Nominated
		Best Adapted Screenplay		Nominated
	Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award	Best Director		Nominated
	Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award	Best Director		Won
	New York Film Critics Circle Award	Best Director		Nominated
	San Diego Film Critics Society Award	Best Director		Won
		Best Screenplay		Won
	AFI Award	AFI Movie of the Year		Won
2008	National Society of Film Critics Award	Best Director		Won
		Best Screenplay		Nominated
	Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award	Best Director		Won
	London Critics Circle Film Award	Director of the Year		Won
	London Critics Circle Film Award	Screenwriter of the Year		Nominated
	Online Film Critics Society Award	Best Director		Nominated
		Best Adapted Screenplay		Nominated
	USC Scripter Award			Nominated
	Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award	Best Director		Nominated
	Berlin International Film Festival	Best Director		Won
		Golden Berlin Bear		Nominated
	Golden Eagle Award	Best Foreign Film		Won
	Amanda Award	Best Foreign Film		Won
	David di Donatello Award	Best Foreign Film		Nominated
	Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists	Best Non-European Director		Nominated
	Russian Guild of Film Critics	Best Foreign Film		Nominated
	San Sebastián International Film Festival	Film of the Year		Won
2009	Bodil Award	Best American Film		Won
	César Award	Best Foreign Film		Nominated
	Empire Award	Best Director		Nominated
	Film Critics Circle of Australia Award	Best Foreign Film		Nominated
	Guldbagge Award	Best Foreign Film		Nominated
2012	Venice International Film Festival	Golden Lion	The Master	Nominated
		Silver Lion		Won
	Boston Society of Film Critics Award	Best Director		Nominated
	Chicago Film Critics Association Award	Best Director		Nominated
		Best Original Screenplay		Nominated
	Gotham Awards	Best Feature		Nominated
	International Federation of Film Critics Award	Best Film		Won
	Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award	Best Director		Won
		Best Film		Nominated
	Satellite Awards	Best Original Screenplay		Nominated
	Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association	Best Director		Nominated
		Best Original Screenplay		Nominated
2013	AACTA Awards	Best International Screenplay		Nominated
	National Society of Film Critics Award	Best Film		Nominated
		Best Director		Nominated
		Best Screenplay		Nominated
2014	National Board of Review	Best Adapted Screenplay	Inherent Vice	Won
	San Francisco Film Critics Circle Award	Best Adapted Screenplay		Won[131]
2015	Central Ohio Film Critics Association Award	Best Adapted Screenplay		Nominated
	Georgia Film Critics Association Award	Best Adapted Screenplay		Nominated
	USC Scripter Award			Nominated
	Satellite Award	Best Adapted Screenplay		Nominated
2017	National Board of Review	Best Original Screenplay	Phantom Thread	Won
	Boston Society of Film Critics Award	Best Director		Won
	Chicago Film Critics Association Award	Best Original Screenplay		Nominated
	Detroit Film Critics Society Award	Best Director		Nominated
	London Critics Circle Film Award	Screenplay of the Year		Nominated
	New York Film Critics Circle Award	Best Screenplay		Won
	Toronto Film Critics Association Award	Best Director		Nominated
	Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award	Best Director		Won
	Online Film Critics Society Award	Best Director		Nominated
		Best Original Screenplay		Nominated
2018	National Society of Film Critics Award	Best Screenplay		Nominated
		Best Director		Nominated
	New York Film Critics Circle Award	Best Screenplay		Won
	London Film Critics' Circle Award	Screenwriter of the Year		Nominated

Awards received by Anderson movies

Year	Film	Academy Awards		BAFTA Awards		Golden Globe Awards
		Nominations	Wins	Nominations	Wins	Nominations	Wins
1997	Boogie Nights	3		2		2	1
1999	Magnolia	3				2	1
2002	Punch-Drunk Love					1
2007	There Will Be Blood	8	2	9	1	2	1
2012	The Master	3		4		3
2014	Inherent Vice	2				1
2017	Phantom Thread	6	1	4	1	2
Total		25	3	19	2	13	3

Directed Academy Award Performances

Anderson has directed multiple Oscar winning and nominated performances.

Year	Performer	Film	Result
Academy Award for Best Actor
2007	Daniel Day-Lewis	There Will Be Blood	Won
2012	Joaquin Phoenix	The Master	Nominated
2017	Daniel Day-Lewis	Phantom Thread	Nominated
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
1997	Burt Reynolds	Boogie Nights	Nominated
1999	Tom Cruise	Magnolia	Nominated
2012	Philip Seymour Hoffman	The Master	Nominated
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
1997	Julianne Moore	Boogie Nights	Nominated
2012	Amy Adams	The Master	Nominated
2017	Lesley Manville	Phantom Thread	Nominated

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v t e Films directed by Paul Thomas Anderson
Feature films	Hard Eight (1996) Boogie Nights (1997) Magnolia (1999) Punch-Drunk Love (2002) There Will Be Blood (2007) The Master (2012) Inherent Vice (2014) Phantom Thread (2017)
Short films	The Dirk Diggler Story (1988) Cigarettes & Coffee (1993)
Documentaries	Junun (2015)

Awards for Paul Thomas Anderson

v t e Cannes Film Festival Best Director Award René Clément (1946) René Clément (1949) Luis Buñuel (1951) Christian-Jaque (1952) Jules Dassin / Sergei Vasilyev (1955) Sergei Yutkevich (1956) Robert Bresson (1957) Ingmar Bergman (1958) François Truffaut (1959) Yuliya Solntseva (1961) Liviu Ciulei (1965) Sergei Yutkevich (1966) Ferenc Kósa (1967) Glauber Rocha / Vojtěch Jasný (1969) John Boorman (1970) Miklós Jancsó (1972) Michel Brault / Costa-Gavras (1975) Ettore Scola (1976) Nagisa Oshima (1978) Terrence Malick (1979) Werner Herzog (1982) Robert Bresson / Andrei Tarkovsky (1983) Bertrand Tavernier (1984) André Téchiné (1985) Martin Scorsese (1986) Wim Wenders (1987) Fernando Solanas (1988) Emir Kusturica (1989) Pavel Lungin (1990) Joel Coen (1991) Robert Altman (1992) Mike Leigh (1993) Nanni Moretti (1994) Mathieu Kassovitz (1995) Joel Coen (1996) Wong Kar-wai (1997) John Boorman (1998) Pedro Almodóvar (1999) Edward Yang (2000) Joel Coen / David Lynch (2001) Im Kwon-taek / Paul Thomas Anderson (2002) Gus Van Sant (2003) Tony Gatlif (2004) Michael Haneke (2005) Alejandro González Iñárritu (2006) Julian Schnabel (2007) Nuri Bilge Ceylan (2008) Brillante Mendoza (2009) Mathieu Amalric (2010) Nicolas Winding Refn (2011) Carlos Reygadas (2012) Amat Escalante (2013) Bennett Miller (2014) Hou Hsiao-hsien (2015) Olivier Assayas / Cristian Mungiu (2016) Sofia Coppola (2017) Paweł Pawlikowski (2018) v t e London Film Critics' Circle Award for Director of the Year Nicolas Roeg (1980) Andrzej Wajda (1981) Costa-Gavras (1982) Andrzej Wajda (1983) Neil Jordan (1984) Roland Joffé (1985) Akira Kurosawa (1986) Stanley Kubrick (1987) John Huston (1988) Terence Davies (1989) Woody Allen (1990) Ridley Scott (1991) Robert Altman (1992) James Ivory (1993) Steven Spielberg (1994) Peter Jackson (1995) Joel Coen (1996) Curtis Hanson (1997) Peter Weir (1998) Sam Mendes (1999) Spike Jonze (2000) Alejandro González Iñárritu (2001) Phillip Noyce (2002) Clint Eastwood (2003) Martin Scorsese (2004) Ang Lee (2005) Paul Greengrass (2006) Paul Thomas Anderson (2007) David Fincher (2008) Kathryn Bigelow (2009) David Fincher (2010) Michel Hazanavicius (2011) Ang Lee (2012) Alfonso Cuarón (2013) Richard Linklater (2014) George Miller (2015) László Nemes (2016) Sean Baker (2017) Alfonso Cuarón (2018) v t e Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Director Sidney Lumet (1975) Sidney Lumet (1976) Herbert Ross (1977) Michael Cimino (1978) Robert Benton (1979) Roman Polanski (1980) Warren Beatty (1981) Steven Spielberg (1982) James L. Brooks (1983) Miloš Forman (1984) Terry Gilliam (1985) David Lynch (1986) John Boorman (1987) David Cronenberg (1988) Spike Lee (1989) Martin Scorsese (1990) Barry Levinson (1991) Clint Eastwood (1992) Jane Campion (1993) Quentin Tarantino (1994) Mike Figgis (1995) Mike Leigh (1996) Curtis Hanson (1997) Steven Spielberg (1998) Sam Mendes (1999) Steven Soderbergh (2000) David Lynch (2001) Pedro Almodóvar (2002) Peter Jackson (2003) Alexander Payne (2004) Ang Lee (2005) Paul Greengrass (2006) Paul Thomas Anderson (2007) Danny Boyle (2008) Kathryn Bigelow (2009) Olivier Assayas / David Fincher (2010) Terrence Malick (2011) Paul Thomas Anderson (2012) Alfonso Cuarón (2013) Richard Linklater (2014) George Miller (2015) Barry Jenkins (2016) Guillermo del Toro / Luca Guadagnino (2017) Debra Granik (2018) v t e National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Director Michelangelo Antonioni (1966) Ingmar Bergman (1967) Ingmar Bergman (1968) François Truffaut (1969) Ingmar Bergman (1970) Bernardo Bertolucci (1971) Luis Buñuel (1972) François Truffaut (1973) Francis Ford Coppola (1974) Robert Altman (1975) Martin Scorsese (1976) Luis Buñuel (1977) Terrence Malick (1978) Woody Allen / Robert Benton (1979) Martin Scorsese (1980) Louis Malle (1981) Steven Spielberg (1982) Paolo Taviani and Vittorio Taviani (1983) Robert Bresson (1984) John Huston (1985) David Lynch (1986) John Boorman (1987) Philip Kaufman (1988) Gus Van Sant (1989) Martin Scorsese (1990) David Cronenberg (1991) Clint Eastwood (1992) Steven Spielberg (1993) Quentin Tarantino (1994) Mike Figgis (1995) Lars von Trier (1996) Curtis Hanson (1997) Steven Soderbergh (1998) Mike Leigh (1999) Steven Soderbergh (2000) Robert Altman (2001) Roman Polanski (2002) Clint Eastwood (2003) Zhang Yimou (2004) David Cronenberg (2005) Paul Greengrass (2006) Paul Thomas Anderson (2007) Mike Leigh (2008) Kathryn Bigelow (2009) David Fincher (2010) Terrence Malick (2011) Michael Haneke (2012) Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (2013) Richard Linklater (2014) Todd Haynes (2015) Barry Jenkins (2016) Greta Gerwig (2017) Alfonso Cuarón (2018) v t e Silver Bear for Best Director Robert Aldrich (1956) Mario Monicelli (1957) Tadashi Imai (1958) Akira Kurosawa (1959) Jean-Luc Godard (1960) Bernhard Wicki (1961) Francesco Rosi (1962) Nikos Koundouros (1963) Satyajit Ray (1964) Satyajit Ray (1965) Carlos Saura (1966) Živojin Pavlović (1967) Carlos Saura (1968) Jean-Pierre Blanc (1972) Sergei Solovyov (1975) Mario Monicelli (1976) Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón (1977) Georgi Djulgerov (1978) Astrid Henning-Jensen (1979) István Szabó (1980) Mario Monicelli (1982) Éric Rohmer (1983) Costas Ferris / Ettore Scola (1984) Robert Benton (1985) Georgiy Shengelaya (1986) Oliver Stone (1987) Norman Jewison (1988) Dušan Hanák (1989) Michael Verhoeven (1990) Jonathan Demme / Ricky Tognazzi (1991) Jan Troell (1992) Andrew Birkin (1993) Krzysztof Kieślowski (1994) Richard Linklater (1995) Yim Ho / Richard Loncraine (1996) Eric Heumann (1997) Neil Jordan (1998) Stephen Frears (1999) Miloš Forman (2000) Lin Cheng-sheng (2001) Otar Iosseliani (2002) Patrice Chéreau (2003) Kim Ki-duk (2004) Marc Rothemund (2005) Michael Winterbottom / Mat Whitecross (2006) Joseph Cedar (2007) Paul Thomas Anderson (2008) Asghar Farhadi (2009) Roman Polanski (2010) Ulrich Köhler (2011) Christian Petzold (2012) David Gordon Green (2013) Richard Linklater (2014) Radu Jude / Małgorzata Szumowska (2015) Mia Hansen-Løve (2016) Aki Kaurismäki (2017) Wes Anderson (2018) Angela Schanelec (2019) v t e Silver Lion for Best Director 1990-2000 Martin Scorsese (1990) Emir Kusturica (1998) Zhang Yuan (1999) Buddhadeb Dasgupta (2000) 2001-2010 Babak Payami (2001) Lee Chang-dong (2002) Takeshi Kitano (2003) Kim Ki-duk (2004) Philippe Garrel (2005) Alain Resnais (2006) Brian De Palma (2007) Aleksei German Jr. (2008) Shirin Neshat (2009) Álex de la Iglesia (2010) 2011-2020 Cai Shangjun (2011) Paul Thomas Anderson (2012) Alexandros Avranas (2013) Andrei Konchalovsky (2014) Pablo Trapero (2015) Amat Escalante / Andrei Konchalovsky (2016) Xavier Legrand (2017) Jacques Audiard (2018) v t e Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director Steven Soderbergh (2000) Baz Luhrmann (2001) Stephen Daldry (2002) Peter Jackson (2003) Clint Eastwood (2004) Ang Lee (2005) Alfonso Cuarón (2006) Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (2007) David Fincher (2008) Kathryn Bigelow (2009) David Fincher (2010) Terrence Malick (2011) Kathryn Bigelow (2012) Alfonso Cuarón (2013) Alejandro González Iñárritu (2014) George Miller (2015) Kenneth Lonergan (2016) Paul Thomas Anderson (2017) Paul Schrader (2018)

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