Claim: Paul Thomas Anderson has done at most six films.
Evidence: In 1993 , he wrote and directed a short film titled Cigarettes & Coffee on a budget of $ 20,000.
After he attended the Sundance Institute , Anderson had a deal with Rysher Entertainment to direct his first feature film , a neo-noir crime thriller titled Hard Eight , in 1996.
Anderson received critical and commercial success for his film Boogie Nights -LRB- 1997 -RRB- , set during the Golden Age of Porn in the 1970s and 1980s.
His third feature , Magnolia -LRB- 1999 -RRB- , takes place over a single day in the San Fernando Valley , following the interconnected lives of several characters in search of happiness and resolution.
In 2002 , the romantic comedy-drama Punch-Drunk Love , Anderson 's fourth feature , was released to generally favorable reviews.
The epic drama There Will Be Blood -LRB- 2007 -RRB- , set in the late 19th and early 20th centuries , centers on a silver miner 's efforts to capitalize on the Southern California oil boom.
Anderson 's sixth film , the drama The Master -LRB- 2012 -RRB- , was released to critical acclaim.
His seventh film , the crime comedy-drama Inherent Vice , based on the novel of the same name by Thomas Pynchon , was released in 2014 , to general acclaim.
His eighth film , Junun , is a documentary about the making of an album of the same name.
His ninth film , Phantom Thread , which will reunite him with actor Daniel Day-Lewis , will be released on December 25 , 2017.