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 BAFTA Awards 1 8 Critics Choice Awards 3 12 Golden Globe Awards 2 3 Grammy Awards 0 1

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

Paul Thomas Anderson is an American filmmaker. He has received various accolades including, two Golden Globe Awards, a British Academy Film Award, and two Critics' Choice Awards as well as nominations for 11 Academy Awards and a Grammy Award. As a director-writer-producer, he has been nominated for 11 Academy Awards, making him one of the few filmmakers to earn more than ten Oscar nominations without a single win. His films have competed at the Berlin International Film Festival, the Cannes Film Festival, and the Venice International Film Festival.

Anderson made his directorial debut with the crime film Hard Eight (1998) which competed for the Caméra d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, and was nominated for two Independent Spirit Awards (Best First Feature, and Best First Screenplay). His next two films, the drama focusing on the porn industry during the 1970s Boogie Nights (1997), and the psychological drama Magnolia (1999) both earned nominations for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. His romantic dramedy Punch-Drunk Love (2002) earned him the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Director.

He gained critical acclaim for his epic period drama There Will Be Blood (2007) earning the Silver Bear for Best Director as well as nominations for three Academy Award nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay. His psychological drama The Master (2012) he won the Silver Lion for Best Director and was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay. For his psychedelic neo-noir Inherent Vice (2014) he won the Independent Spirit Robert Altman Award and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He directed the period romance drama Phantom Thread (2017) which earned nominations for two Academy Awards (Best Picture and Best Director).

For his coming-of-age comedy-drama Licorice Pizza (2021) he won the BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay and earned nominations for three Academy Award (Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay) and a Golden Globe Award (Best Screenplay). He was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Music Film for his work on the 15-minute Netflix film Anima (2019) which accompanied the Thom Yorke album. Anderson's tenth film, One Battle After Another , was released in 2025.

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

BAFTA Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
British Academy Film Awards
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		Licorice Pizza	Won	[9]
	Best Film		Nominated
	Best Director		Nominated

Critics' Choice Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
Critics' Choice Movie Awards
1998	Best Picture	Boogie Nights	Nominated
2000		Magnolia	Nominated
2008		There Will Be Blood	Nominated
2013		The Master	Nominated
	Best Original Screenplay		Nominated	[10]
2015	Best Adapted Screenplay	Inherent Vice	Nominated	[11]
2022	Best Picture	Licorice Pizza	Nominated
	Best Director		Nominated	[12]
	Best Original Screenplay		Nominated
2026	Best Picture	One Battle After Another	Won
	Best Director		Won	[13]
	Best Adapted Screenplay		Won

Golden Globe Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2022	Best Screenplay	Licorice Pizza	Nominated	[14]
2026		One Battle After Another	Won
	Best Director		Won

Grammy Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2020	Best Music Film	Anima	Nominated	[15]

Critics awards

Organizations	Year	Category	Work	Result	Ref.
Argentine Film Critics Association	2021	Best Foreign Film	Phantom Thread	Nominated
Astra Film Awards	2026	Best Director	One Battle After Another	Nominated	[16]
		Best Adapted Screenplay		Won
Boston Society of Film Critics Awards	1997	Best New Filmmaker	Boogie Nights	Won
	2012	Best Director	The Master	Runner-up
	2017		Phantom Thread	Won
	2025	Best Adapted Screenplay	One Battle After Another	Won
Chicago Film Critics Association Awards	1998	Best Director	Boogie Nights	Nominated
	2000		Magnolia	Nominated
		Best Screenplay		Nominated
	2003	Best Director	Punch-Drunk Love	Nominated
		Best Screenplay		Nominated
	2007	Best Director	There Will Be Blood	Nominated
		Best Adapted Screenplay		Nominated
	2012	Best Director	The Master	Nominated
		Best Original Screenplay		Nominated
	2014	Best Adapted Screenplay	Inherent Vice	Nominated
	2021	Best Director	Licorice Pizza	Nominated
		Best Original Screenplay		Won
	2025	Best Film	One Battle After Another	Won
		Best Director		Won
		Best Adapted Screenplay		Won
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards	1997	New Generation Award	Boogie Nights and Hard Eight	Won
	2007	Best Picture	There Will Be Blood	Won
		Best Screenplay		Runner-up
	2012	Best Adapted Screenplay	The Master	Runner-up
		Best Director		Won
	2021	Best Screenplay	Licorice Pizza	Runner-up
	2025	Best Film	One Battle After Another	Won
		Best Director		Won
National Board of Review	1997	Top Ten Films	Boogie Nights	Nominated
	1999	Top Ten Films	Magnolia	Nominated
	2014	Best Adapted Screenplay	Inherent Vice	Won
		Top Ten Films		Nominated
	2017	Best Original Screenplay	Phantom Thread	Won
		Top Ten Films		Nominated
	2021	Best Director	Licorice Pizza	Won
		Top Ten Films		Nominated
	2025	Best Film	One Battle After Another	Won	[17]
		Best Director		Won
National Society of Film Critics	2007	Best Picture	There Will Be Blood	Won
		Best Director		Won
	2025	Best Picture	One Battle After Another	Won
		Best Director		Won
New York Film Critics Circle	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
	2025	Best Film	One Battle After Another	Won	[18]

Miscellaneous awards

Organizations	Year	Category	Work	Result	Ref.
AACTA International Awards	2013	Best Screenplay	The Master	Nominated
	2022	Best Director	Licorice Pizza	Nominated
		Best Screenplay		Nominated
AARP Movies for Grownups Awards	2025	Best Director	One Battle After Another	Nominated	[19]
		Best Screenwriter		Won
Berlin International Film Festival	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	1996	Caméra d'Or	Hard Eight	Nominated
	2002	Palme d'Or	Punch-Drunk Love	Nominated
		Best Director		Won
Capri Hollywood International Film Festival	2021	Capri Producer Award [a]	Licorice Pizza	Won	[20]
	2025	Best Director	One Battle After Another	Won	[21]
Directors Guild of America Awards	2008	Outstanding Directing – Feature Film	There Will Be Blood	Nominated
	2022		Licorice Pizza	Nominated
	2026		One Battle After Another	Pending
David di Donatello	2008	Best Foreign Film	There Will Be Blood	Nominated
	2012		Phantom Thread	Nominated
	2014		Licorice Pizza	Nominated
Gotham Awards	2012	Best Feature	The Master	Nominated	[22]
	2025		One Battle After Another	Won	[23]
		Best Director		Nominated
		Best Adapted Screenplay		Nominated
Independent Spirit Awards	1998	Best First Feature	Hard Eight	Nominated	[24]
		Best First Screenplay		Nominated
	2014	Robert Altman Award	Inherent Vice	Won	[25]
Nastro d'Argento	2000	Best Foreign Film	Magnolia	Nominated
	2008		There Will Be Blood	Nominated
Producers Guild of America Awards	2008	Best Theatrical Motion Picture	There Will Be Blood	Nominated
	2022		Licorice Pizza	Nominated
	2026		One Battle After Another	Pending
Satellite Awards	1998	Best Film – Drama	Boogie Nights	Nominated
		Best Director		Nominated
		Best Original Screenplay		Nominated
	2000	Best Film – Drama	Magnolia	Nominated
		Best Director		Nominated
	2012	Best Film – Drama	The Master	Nominated
	2014	Best Adapted Screenplay	Inherent Vice	Nominated
	2022	Best Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical	Licorice Pizza	Nominated
		Best Original Screenplay		Nominated
	2026	Best Motion Picture – Drama	One Battle After Another	Pending
		Best Director		Pending
		Best Adapted Screenplay		Pending
Venice Film Festival	2012	Golden Lion	The Master	Nominated
		Silver Lion for Best Director		Won
		FIPRESCI Prize		Won
Writers Guild of America Awards	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
2025	One Battle After Another					9	4
Total		25	3	19	3	26	7

Academy Award nominated 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 [26]	Metacritic [27]
1996	Hard Eight	83% (52 reviews)	78% (14 reviews)
1997	Boogie Nights	94% (77 reviews)	86% (28 reviews)
1999	Magnolia	82% (219 reviews)	78% (34 reviews)
2002	Punch-Drunk Love	79% (203 reviews)	78% (37 reviews)
2007	There Will Be Blood	91% (246 reviews)	93% (42 reviews)
2012	The Master	85% (258 reviews)	86% (43 reviews)
2014	Inherent Vice	73% (252 reviews)	81% (43 reviews)
2017	Phantom Thread	91% (357 reviews)	90% (51 reviews)
2021	Licorice Pizza	90% (325 reviews)	90% (55 reviews)
2025	One Battle After Another	96% (319 reviews)	95% (54 reviews)

Notes

1. Shared with Sara Murphy and Adam Somner

See also

• Paul Thomas Anderson filmography

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