Paul Thomas Anderson profile

Paul Thomas Anderson

Born: June 26, 1970

Known For: Directing

Movie Credits (14)

2007 | R | 2h 38m
WizRank: 84.63 (61.58% Above Average )

Ruthless silver miner, turned oil prospector, Daniel Plainview, moves to oil-rich California. Using his son to project a trustworthy, family-man image, Plainview cons local landowners into selling him their valuable properties for a pittance. However, local preacher Eli Sunday suspects Plainview's motives and intentions, starting a slow-burning feud that threatens both their lives.

Credits for Paul Thomas Anderson in There Will Be Blood
Crew Production (Producer)
Directing (Director)
Writing (Writer)
2025 | R | 2h 42m
WizRank: 82.51 (56.28% Above Average )

Washed-up revolutionary Bob exists in a state of stoned paranoia, surviving off-grid with his spirited, self-reliant daughter, Willa. When his evil nemesis resurfaces after 16 years and she goes missing, the former radical scrambles to find her, father and daughter both battling the consequences of his past.

Credits for Paul Thomas Anderson in One Battle After Another
Crew Directing (Director)
Writing (Writer)
Production (Producer)

Boogie Nights (1997)

1997 | R | 2h 36m
WizRank: 80.57 (51.43% Above Average )

Set in 1977, back when sex was safe, pleasure was a business and business was booming, idealistic porn producer Jack Horner aspires to elevate his craft to an art form. Horner discovers Eddie Adams, a hot young talent working as a busboy in a nightclub, and welcomes him into the extended family of movie-makers, misfits and hangers-on that are always around. Adams' rise from nobody to a celebrity adult entertainer is meteoric, and soon the whole world seems to know his porn alter ego, "Dirk Diggler". Now, when disco and drugs are in vogue, fashion is in flux and the party never seems to stop, Adams' dreams of turning sex into stardom are about to collide with cold, hard reality.

Credits for Paul Thomas Anderson in Boogie Nights
Crew Directing (Director)
Production (Producer)
Writing (Writer)

Magnolia (1999)

1999 | R | 3h 9m
WizRank: 78.70 (46.75% Above Average )

On one random day in the San Fernando Valley, a dying father, a young wife, a male caretaker, a famous lost son, a police officer in love, a boy genius, an ex-boy genius, a game show host and an estranged daughter will each become part of a dazzling multiplicity of plots, but one story.

Credits for Paul Thomas Anderson in Magnolia
Cast Man Confiscating Sign (uncredited) (Cast Order: 96)
Crew Directing (Director)
Production (Producer)
Writing (Writer)
2017 | R | 2h 10m
WizRank: 78.15 (45.38% Above Average )

In 1950s London, a renowned dressmaker's meticulous lifestyle begins drastically changing as his relationship with his young muse intensifies.

Credits for Paul Thomas Anderson in Phantom Thread
Crew Directing (Director)
Writing (Writer)
Production (Producer)
Camera (Director of Photography)
2002 | PG-13 | 2h 25m
WizRank: 77.53 (43.83% Above Average )

John Anderton is a top 'Precrime' cop in the late-21st century, when technology can predict crimes before they're committed. But Anderton becomes the quarry when another investigator targets him for a murder charge.

Credits for Paul Thomas Anderson in Minority Report
Cast Bus Passenger (uncredited) (Cast Order: 105)
2021 | R | 2h 13m
WizRank: 76.04 (40.1% Above Average )

The story of Gary Valentine and Alana Kane growing up, running around and going through the treacherous navigation of first love in the San Fernando Valley, 1973.

Credits for Paul Thomas Anderson in Licorice Pizza
Crew Camera (Director of Photography)
Writing (Writer)
Directing (Director)
Production (Producer)

The Master (2012)

2012 | R | 2h 17m
WizRank: 75.08 (37.7% Above Average )

Freddie, a volatile, heavy-drinking veteran who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, finds some semblance of a family when he stumbles onto the ship of Lancaster Dodd, the charismatic leader of a new "religion" he forms after World War II.

Credits for Paul Thomas Anderson in The Master
Crew Writing (Writer)
Directing (Director)
Production (Producer)
2002 | R | 1h 36m
WizRank: 73.61 (34.03% Above Average )

A socially awkward and volatile small business owner meets the love of his life after being threatened by a gang of scammers.

Credits for Paul Thomas Anderson in Punch-Drunk Love
Crew Production (Producer)
Directing (Director)
Writing (Writer)

Hard Eight (1997)

1997 | R | 1h 42m
WizRank: 71.74 (29.35% Above Average )

A stranger mentors a young Reno gambler who weds a hooker and befriends a vulgar casino regular.

Credits for Paul Thomas Anderson in Hard Eight
Crew Directing (Director)
Writing (Screenplay)

Inherent Vice (2014)

2014 | R | 2h 29m
WizRank: 68.77 (21.93% Above Average )

In Los Angeles at the turn of the 1970s, drug-fueled detective Larry "Doc" Sportello investigates the disappearance of an ex-girlfriend.

Credits for Paul Thomas Anderson in Inherent Vice
Crew Directing (Director)
Production (Producer)
Writing (Writer)

Napoleon (2023)

2023 | R | 2h 38m
WizRank: 62.53 (6.33% Above Average )

An epic that details the checkered rise and fall of French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and his relentless journey to power through the prism of his addictive, volatile relationship with his wife, Josephine.

Credits for Paul Thomas Anderson in Napoleon
Crew Writing (Script Consultant)
2018 | PG-13 | 1h 26m
WizRank: 59.93 (0.12% Below Average )

A famous writer's obsession leaves his relationships and marriage in shambles.

Credits for Paul Thomas Anderson in Waterlily Jaguar
Crew Production (Executive Producer)

Corky Romano (2001)

2001 | PG-13 | 1h 26m
WizRank: 40.17 (33.05% Below Average )

Corky Romano is a bumbling, simpleton, veterinarian and the youngest, outcast son of an aging gangster, named Pops Romano, who calls upon Corky to infiltrate the local FBI and retrieve and destroy evidence being used to incriminate Pops for racketeering charges.

Credits for Paul Thomas Anderson in Corky Romano
Crew Writing (Script Editor)