Paul Thomas Anderson Paul Thomas Anderson (born June 26, 1970) is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. He has written and directed five feature films: Hard Eight (1996), Boogie Nights (1997), Magnolia (1999), Punch-Drunk Love (2002) and There Will Be Blood (2007). He has been nominated for five Academy Awards — There Will Be Blood for Best Achievement in Directing, Best Motion Picture of the Year, and Best Adapted Screenplay; Magnolia for Best Original Screenplay; and Boogie Nights for Best Original Screenplay.

Anderson has been hailed as being "one of the most exciting talents to come along in years" and as being "among the supreme talents of today." In 2004, Anderson was ranked 21st on The Guardian's list of the 40 best directors. In 2007, Total Film named him the 20th-greatest director of all time. In 2011, Entertainment Weekly named him the 11th-greatest working director calling h

User Comments You must Log in or Register to post comments. thaklos Whalberg is brilliant, charming, and most importantly hilarious. His purposeful naiveté is the perfect punctuation for the sharp dialogue of this tight, well paced adventure. Brilliant characters from a host of talented players including Guzman, Cheadle, Macy, and Reilly round out this delightful experience. magb Whoa, what a ride. The amazingly colorful cast of characters is as varied as life itself, and the experience of watching them living out their frenzied existences can be both entertaining, hilarious, harrowing and maddening. The movie moves around at a miraculous pace. Music is used to brilliant effect. Some sequences manage to work their way into an almost hypnotic state of being, and they usually give way to yet more, equally vibrant scenes. It never really stops. And I love it. FitFortDanga I like Anderson, but pretty much everything he's done has been overrated. This is the only one I want to have in my collection. It's not perfect... PTA's a little too enamored with the tracking shots (although I like the I Am Cuba homage) and as good as the soundtrack is, it tends to overwhelm the film too often. But it's a gloriously fun movie, with memorable performances of memorable characters, and a lot of flashy style. There are so many scenes and snatches of dialogue that stick with you. Stain Very good ensemble piece. Beneath all the drugs and wild sex, all these porn guys want is a real family... which, of course, they're never going to get Derekstar Quite good. It really reminded me of Magnolia, for obvious reasons. I wouldn't go as far as others and call it a masterpiece, especially since I enjoyed both Magnolia and There Will Be Blood more, but I would say that it deserves a second viewing some day.