Paul Thomas Anderson

American film director, screenwriter and producer, often considered one of the foremost directors of his generation; his films have consistently garnered critical acclaim.

Interested in film-making at a young age, Anderson was encouraged by his father Ernie Anderson (a disc jockey, and television and radio announcer/voiceover artist) to become a filmmaker.

Anderson received critical and commercial success for his film Boogie Nights (1997), set during the Golden Age of Porn in the 1970s and 1980s. His third feature, Magnolia (1999), received strongly positive reviews despite struggling at the box office. The epic drama There Will Be Blood was released to wide acclaim from critics in 2007.

Anderson has been nominated for six Academy Awards over the course of his career, while his films have earned a further fourteen Academy Award nominations for cast and crew. There Will Be Blood has been named by several critics as the best film of the 2000s.