Paul Thomas Anderson

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Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007

Paul Thomas Anderson (born June 26, 1970 in Studio City , California ) is an American film director , screenwriter and film producer .

Life

Paul Thomas Anderson was born on June 26, 1970 to Edwina and Ernie Anderson in Studio City , California . His father was a DJ , actor and voice actor. Anderson grew up in the San Fernando Valley and had a difficult relationship with his mother, but a close relationship with his father, who encouraged him to become a writer or director. He attended several schools, including the Buckley School in Sherman Oaks, as well as the John Thomas Dye School, Campbell Hall School, Cushing Academy and Montclair College Preparatory School.

Anderson started filmmaking at a young age and never really had an alternative plan to becoming a film director. He first made films with a Betamax - Video camera , which bought him his father in 1982, when Paul Thomas Anderson was twelve years old. He later used 8mm film but found video film much easier to work with. He started writing as a teenager and at the age of 17 he experimented with a Bolex 16mm camera. After a few years he wrote and filmed his first real production with the money he made as a high school student cleaning cages in a pet shop. The film was a thirty minute mockumentary , filmed on video, called The Dirk Diggler Story (1988), about a male porn actor (inspired by John Holmes , who was also a very big inspiration for Anderson's film Boogie Nights ).

Career

Anderson's films often feature large numbers of characters and complex, layered plots, and are well received by critics and audiences alike. Considered one of Hollywood's great talents, he was hailed as a child prodigy after the release of Boogie Nights and Magnolia . During his liaison with singer Fiona Apple , he also directed her music videos .

Anderson never attended film school and learned his craft by watching his favorite directors 'films, reading books and magazines on the technical side of filmmaking, and watching films with directors' audio commentary . He believes film schools are "a complete hoax" because "the information is there when you want it". He names Martin Scorsese , Robert Altman , Jonathan Demme , Stanley Kubrick , Orson Welles and Max Ophüls as his greatest inspirations as a director.

Actors who appear more frequently in his films include Philip Seymour Hoffman , Philip Baker Hall , Julianne Moore , William H. Macy , Luis Guzmán, and John C. Reilly . Other actors in Anderson's films include Gwyneth Paltrow , Samuel L. Jackson , Mark Wahlberg , Daniel Day-Lewis , Burt Reynolds , Tom Cruise , Adam Sandler and Joaquin Phoenix .

Early career

After studying English for two semesters at Emerson College and only two days at New York University , Anderson began his career as a production assistant for television films, music videos and game shows in Los Angeles and New York . With some money he won at gambling, his girlfriend's credit card, and $ 10,000 his father put aside for college, Anderson made a twenty-minute film he called his "college".

The film he made was Cigarettes & Coffee (1993), a short film about a twenty dollar bill that linked several storylines. The film was shown at the 1993 Sundance Film Festival and Anderson decided to expand the short film into a full-length feature film and was consequently invited by the Sundance Institute to a kind of filmmaking workshop in 1994 . There Michael Caton-Jones acted as his mentor and saw Anderson as someone with "talent and a fully formed creative voice but little practical experience" and gave him some useful advice.

1990s

During the Sundance Film Festival, Anderson had already reached an agreement with Rysher Entertainment to direct his first feature film, which was released in 1996 under the title Last Exit Reno . The recognition for the film opened the door for Anderson to his further career.

Anderson began work on the script for his next film during the production of Last Exit Reno and finished it in the summer of 1995. The result was Anderson's breakthrough Boogie Nights (1997), a feature film based on his short film The Dirk Diggler Story . The script landed on New Line Cinema's CEO, Michael De Luca , who called it "totally gaga" after reading it. The film was released in the US in 1997 and was a huge success both commercially and artistically. The film revived the career of Burt Reynolds and marked the breakthrough for Mark Wahlberg and Julianne Moore . The film received three Academy Award nominations, for Best Supporting Actor (Burt Reynolds), Best Supporting Actress (Julianne Moore), and Best Original Screenplay.

After the success of Boogie Nights , Anderson received assurances from New Line that he could do whatever he wanted on his next film and would have full creative control without them even knowing the idea for his next project. Although he originally wanted to make a film that would be “intimate and minimalist”, the script grew as he wrote it, resulting in the ensemble work Magnolia (1999), which is the story of the peculiar interaction between the lives of several people in San Fernando Valley, California tells. Anderson used Aimee Mann's music as the basis and inspiration for the film and commissioned her to write eight more songs. Magnolia received three Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actor ( Tom Cruise ), Best Original Song for Aimee Mann's Save Me, and Best Original Screenplay. In a post-release interview, Anderson was quoted as saying, "... what I really feel is that Magnolia, for better or worse, is the best movie I will ever make."

2000s

Adam Sandler , Paul Thomas Anderson, Emily Watson and Philip Seymour Hoffman in Cannes 2002

After the release of Magnolia , Anderson said he would like to work with Adam Sandler in the future. He made his announcement come true by directing the romantic comedy Punch-Drunk Love with Adam Sandler and Emily Watson in 2002 . The story is about a small business owner (Sandler) with anger problems and seven dominant sisters. Sandler received many positive reviews for his first serious role outside of the mainstream comedies that made him a star. Roger Ebert wrote that “Sandler reveals unexpected depth as an actor. When you see this film, you can imagine him playing Dennis Hopper roles. He has gloom, obsession and strength. ”At the Cannes Film Festival 2002 the film won the award for best director and was nominated for the Palme d'Or for best film.

There Will Be Blood (2007) was loosely based on the novel Oil! by Upton Sinclair . The film was budgeted for $ 25 million and grossed $ 76.1 million worldwide. Anderson previously expressed a desire to work with Daniel Day-Lewis , who played the leading role here and won an Oscar for it. Paul Dano received a BAFTA nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Anderson wasnominated for Best Directorby the Directors Guild of America . The film also received eight Academy Award nominations, along with No Country for Old Men, most of that year. Anderson received nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay, but lost to the Coen brothers in all three categoriesfor No Country For Old Men. There Will Be Blood has been widely considered one of the greatest films of the decade and some declared it one of the best American films ever made.

2010s

In December 2009, Variety reported that Anderson was working on a new script, tentatively titled The Master , about a "charismatic intellectual" who started a new religion in the 1950s. Although the film has no reference to this movement, it has long been suggested that the story was based on Scientology . Anderson's longtime work partner Philip Seymour Hoffman has been reported to star. Reese Witherspoon and Jeremy Renner were under discussion to play alongside Hoffman, but the roles ultimately went to Joaquin Phoenix and Amy Adams . The Master was released on September 14, 2012 by The Weinstein Company in the United States and Canada. In Germany, the film opened in cinemas on February 21, 2013.

Anderson's next project was an adaptation of Thomas Pynchon's novel Inherent Vice from 2009. This is the first time Pynchon has agreed to have his work adapted for the big screen. The film premiered at the New York Film Festival in October 2014 .

In 2015, Anderson directed the 54-minute documentary Junun , which depicts the production of the music album of the same name by Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood , Israeli composer Shye Ben Tzur and the Indian music group Rajasthan Express. Most of the titles were recorded in the Meherangarh fortress built in the 15th century in the Indian state of Rajasthan . Junun premiered at the 2015 New York Film Festival .

2016 found three of his films ( There Will Be Blood , The Master , Inherent Vice ) in the BBC -Choice of the 100 most important films of the 21st century into account. His film The Silk Thread received six nominations for an Oscar in 2018 .

Filmography

Feature films

Short films

  • 1987: The Dirk Diggler Story
  • 1993: Cigarettes and Coffee
  • 1998: Flagpole Special
  • 2002: couch

Private

Paul Thomas Anderson lives with former SNL actress Maya Rudolph . They have four children together, three daughters (* 2005, 2009 and 2013) and one son (* 2011). The couple currently resides in the San Fernando Valley with their children.

Awards and nominations

He received an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay for Boogie Nights in 1998 and for Magnolia in 2000 . For Punch-Drunk Love 2002 he won the Best Director Award of the Film Festival of Cannes . For There Will Be Blood he received three Academy Award nominations for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay in 2008. He was awarded a Silver Bear for “Best Director” at the Berlinale . At the Chlotrudis Awards , he won the award for best director twice (2003 and 2008) . He was nominated for Best Film and Best Director in 2018 for Der silkene Faden .

In 2004, Anderson was ranked 24th on The Guardian's list of Forty Best Directors . In 2007, Total Film voted him the 20th greatest director of all time, while the American Film Institute named him "one of America's modern filmmakers." In 2011, Entertainment Weekly ranked him the tenth largest director currently working and called him "one of the most dynamic directors in the past twenty years". The following year, The Guardian ranked him # 1 on their list of The World's Top 23 Current Directors, stating , “His dedication to his art has intensified and, with his disdain for PR and fame, it makes him the most compelling filmmaker of his generation. "

Web links

Footnotes

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  40. ^ Ed Pilkington: Church of Scientology snaps up Hollywood film studio. In: The Guardian . April 26, 2011, accessed October 23, 2012 .
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  45. ↑ Jeff Sneider: Plemons joins PT Anderson drama. (No longer available online.) In: Variety . July 27, 2012, formerly in the original ; Retrieved October 23, 2012 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.variety.com  
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personal data
SURNAME Anderson, Paul Thomas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Anderson, PT; Anderson, Paul; (Other names); PTA (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Studio City , California, United States