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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 a British Academy Film Award as well as nominations for 11 Academy Awards, four Critics' Choice Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, 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 completed 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 two Golden Globe Awards (Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, and 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 , will be released in 2025.
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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1997 | Best Original Screenplay | Boogie Nights | Nominated | [1] |
1999 | Best Original Screenplay | Magnolia | Nominated | [2] |
2007 | Best Picture | There Will Be Blood | Nominated | [3] |
Best Director | Nominated | |||
Best Adapted Screenplay | Nominated | |||
2014 | Best Adapted Screenplay | Inherent Vice | Nominated | [4] |
2017 | Best Picture | Phantom Thread | Nominated | [5] |
Best Director | Nominated | |||
2021 | Best Picture | Licorice Pizza | Nominated | [6] |
Best Director | Nominated | |||
Best Original Screenplay | Nominated | |||
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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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 | Best Film | Licorice Pizza | Nominated | [9] |
Best Director | Nominated | |||
Best Original Screenplay | Won | |||
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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Critics' Choice Movie Awards | ||||
2013 | Best Original Screenplay | The Master | Nominated | [10] |
2015 | Best Adapted Screenplay | Inherent Vice | Nominated | [11] |
2022 | Best Director | Licorice Pizza | Nominated | [12] |
Best Original Screenplay | Nominated | |||
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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2008 | Best Motion Picture – Drama | There Will Be Blood | Nominated | [13] |
2022 | Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy | Licorice Pizza | Nominated | [14] |
Best Screenplay | Nominated | |||
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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2020 | Best Music Film | Anima | Nominated | [15] |
Organizations | Year | Category | Work | Result | Ref. |
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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 Picture | The Master | Runner-up | ||
Best Director | Won | ||||
2021 | Best Screenplay | Licorice Pizza | Runner-up | ||
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 | ||||
National Society of Film Critics | 2007 | Best Film | There Will Be Blood | 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 | ||
Year | Film | Academy Awards | BAFTA Awards | Golden Globe Awards | |||
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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 |
Anderson has directed multiple Oscar nominated performances.
Year | Performer | Film | Result | ||||
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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 | ||||
Year | Title | Rotten Tomatoes [19] | Metacritic [20] |
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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) |