List of awards and nominations received by Paul Thomas Anderson

Paul Thomas Anderson awards and nominations

Anderson in 2022

Awards and nominations Award Wins Nominations Academy Award 0 11 British Academy Film Awards 1 8 Golden Globe Awards 0 3 Grammy Awards 0 1

The following is a list of awards and nominations received by filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson.

Paul Thomas Anderson is an American film director, producer, screenwriter and cinematographer. He has received eleven Academy Award nominations. He was nominated for the Best Original Screenplay for the drama focusing on the porn industry during the 1970s Boogie Nights (1997), and the psychological drama Magnolia (1999). He received three nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay for his epic period drama There Will Be Blood (2007). He also received nominations for psychedelic crime film Inherent Vice (2014), and costume drama Phantom Thread (2017). He also has received a Golden Globe Award nomination, eight British Academy Film Award nominations, and a Grammy Award nomination. He received a Independent Spirit Robert Altman Award for Inherent Vice in 2015.

As of 2022, Anderson is one of the few filmmakers to earn more than ten nominations without a win for the Academy Awards.

Major associations

Academy Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1998	Best Original Screenplay	Boogie Nights	Nominated	[1]
2000		Magnolia	Nominated	[2]
2008	Best Picture	There Will Be Blood	Nominated	[3]
	Best Director		Nominated
	Best Adapted Screenplay		Nominated
2015		Inherent Vice	Nominated	[4]
2018	Best Picture	Phantom Thread	Nominated	[5]
	Best Director		Nominated
2022	Best Picture	Licorice Pizza	Nominated	[6]
	Best Director		Nominated
	Best Original Screenplay		Nominated

British Academy Film Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1998	Best Original Screenplay	Boogie Nights	Nominated
2008	Best Film	There Will Be Blood	Nominated	[7]
	Best Director		Nominated
	Best Adapted Screenplay		Nominated
2013	Best Original Screenplay	The Master	Nominated	[8]
2022	Best Film	Licorice Pizza	Nominated	[9]
	Best Director		Nominated
	Best Original Screenplay		Won

Golden Globe Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2008	Best Motion Picture – Drama	There Will Be Blood	Nominated	[10]
2022	Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy	Licorice Pizza	Nominated	[11]
	Best Screenplay		Nominated

Grammy Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2020	Best Music Film	Anima	Nominated	[12]

Critics awards

Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1997	New Generation Award	Boogie Nights and Hard Eight	Won
2007	Best Picture	There Will Be Blood	Won
	Best Screenplay		Runner-up
2012	Best Picture	The Master	Runner-up
	Best Director		Won
2021	Best Screenplay	Licorice Pizza	Runner-up

National Board of Review

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1997	Top Ten Films	Boogie Nights
1999	Top Ten Films	Magnolia
2014	Best Adapted Screenplay	Inherent Vice	Won
	Top Ten Films
2017	Best Original Screenplay	Phantom Thread	Won
	Top Ten Films
2021	Best Director	Licorice Pizza	Won
	Top Ten Films

National Society of Film Critics

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2007	Best Film	There Will Be Blood	Won
	Best Director		Won

New York Film Critics Circle

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2007	Best Film	There Will Be Blood	Runner-up
	Best Director		Runner-up
2012	Best Picture	The Master	Runner-up
	Best Director		Runner-up
2017	Best Screenplay	Phantom Thread	Won
2021	Best Screenplay	Licorice Pizza	Won

Film festival awards

Berlin International Film Festival

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2000	Golden Bear	Magnolia	Won
	Reader Jury of the "Berliner Morgenpost"		Won
2008	Golden Bear	There Will Be Blood	Nominated
	Silver Bear for Best Director		Won

Cannes Film Festival

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1996	Caméra d'Or	Hard Eight	Nominated
2002	Palme d'Or	Punch-Drunk Love	Nominated
	Best Director		Won

Venice Film Festival

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2012	Golden Lion	The Master	Nominated
	Silver Lion for Best Director		Won
	FIPRESCI Prize		Won

Other awards and nominations

AACTA International Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2013	Best Screenplay	The Master	Nominated
2022	Best Director	Licorice Pizza	Nominated
	Best Screenplay		Nominated

Capri Hollywood International Film Festival

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2021	Producer of the Year	Licorice Pizza	Won	[13]

Critics' Choice Movie Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2013	Best Original Screenplay	The Master	Nominated	[14]
2015	Best Adapted Screenplay	Inherent Vice	Nominated	[15]
2022	Best Director	Licorice Pizza	Nominated	[16]
	Best Original Screenplay		Nominated

Directors Guild of America Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2008	Outstanding Directing – Feature Film	There Will Be Blood	Nominated
2022		Licorice Pizza	Nominated

Independent Spirit Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1998	Best First Feature	Hard Eight	Nominated	[17]
	Best First Screenplay		Nominated
2014	Robert Altman Award	Inherent Vice	Won	[18]

Producers Guild of America Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2008	Best Theatrical Motion Picture	There Will Be Blood	Nominated
2022		Licorice Pizza	Nominated

Writers Guild of America Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1998	Best Original Screenplay	Boogie Nights	Nominated
2002		Magnolia	Nominated
2008	Best Adapted Screenplay	There Will Be Blood	Nominated
2013	Best Original Screenplay	The Master	Nominated
2022		Licorice Pizza	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
2021	Licorice Pizza	3		5	1	4
Total		25	3	19	3	13	3

Direction for Oscar-related performances

Anderson has directed multiple Oscar 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

Critical reception

Year	Title	Rotten Tomatoes	Metacritic
1996	Hard Eight	82%	78%
1997	Boogie Nights	94%	86%
1999	Magnolia	83%	78%
2002	Punch-Drunk Love	79%	78%
2007	There Will Be Blood	91%	93%
2012	The Master	85%	86%
2014	Inherent Vice	74%	81%
2017	Phantom Thread	91%	90%
2021	Licorice Pizza	90%	90%

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