Paul Thomas Anderson

Known for DirectingBorn 1970-06-26 (age 55)Studio City, California, USA

Paul Thomas Anderson (born June 26, 1970), also known by his initials PTA, is an American filmmaker. Often described as one of the preeminent filmmakers of his generation, he is the recipient of three Academy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, four BAFTAs, three Critics Choice Awards, and nominations for a Grammy. He is the only person to have won the Academy Award for Best Director, as well as the Best Director Awards at the Cannes Film Festival, Venice Film Festival, and the Berlin International Film Festival. In addition to those accolades, he won the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival. Many of Anderson's films are psychological dramas characterized by depictions of desperate characters and explorations of dysfunctional families, alienation, loneliness, and redemption, alongside a bold visual style that uses constantly moving cameras and long takes. After his directorial debut, Hard Eight (1996), Anderson had critical and commercial success with Boogie Nights (1997), and received further accolades with Magnolia (1999) and Punch-Drunk Love (2002). There Will Be Blood (2007), Anderson's fifth film, is regarded as one of the greatest films of the 21st century. It was followed by The Master (2012) and Inherent Vice (2014), an adaptation of the 2009 novel by Thomas Pynchon. Anderson's next three films, Phantom Thread (2017), Licorice Pizza (2021) and One Battle After Another (2025) were all nominated for the Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Director, while the last earned him wins for both and Best Adapted Screenplay and became his highest-grossing film. Anderson is noted for his collaborations with the cinematographer Robert Elswit, the costume designer Mark Bridges, the composers Jon Brion and Jonny Greenwood, and actors including Philip Seymour Hoffman, Daniel Day-Lewis, John C. Reilly, and Joaquin Phoenix. He has directed music videos for artists including Fiona Apple, Haim, Aimee Mann, Joanna Newsom, Michael Penn, Radiohead, and the Smile. He also directed a 2015 documentary about Greenwood's album Junun, and the short music film Anima (2019) for the Radiohead singer Thom Yorke. Description above from the Wikipedia article Paul Thomas Anderson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

Learning, Studying… Always Perfecting: The Making of One Battle After Another

Escape Room

There Will Be Blood

That Moment: Magnolia Diary

Magnolia

Boogie Nights

One Battle After Another

Anima

Phantom Thread

Minority Report

Junun

Adam Sandler: 100% Fresh

The Master

HAIM / Valentine

Licorice Pizza

A Christmas Eve Conversation With Quentin Tarantino & Paul Thomas Anderson

Punch-Drunk Love

"Sr."

Mattress Man Commercial

Leçon de Cinéma

Beau Is Afraid

Altman

Hard Eight

Inherent Vice

Saturday Night Live

Cigarettes & Coffee

Napoleon

The Oscars

Golden Globe Awards

Flagpole Special

Chryskylodon Blues

Wadd: The Life & Times of John C. Holmes

The Dead Don't Die

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

The Dirk Diggler Story

Ballchewer

The Truth About Charlie

Couch

Corky Romano

Waterlily Jaguar

Production Assistant

Art-House America: Austin Film Society

Final Transmission

The Jon Brion Show

Untitled Paul Thomas Anderson Western Musical Project

Cameron Winter at Carnegie Hall

What Happens at Night