# List of awards and nominations received by Paul Thomas Anderson

The following is a list of awards and nominations received by American filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson.
Paul Thomas Anderson is an American film director, producer, screenwriter and cinematographer. He has received eleven Academy Award nominations. He was nominated for the Best Original Screenplay for the drama focusing on the porn industry during the 1970s Boogie Nights (1997), and the psychological drama Magnolia (1999). He received three nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay for his epic period drama There Will Be Blood (2007). He also received nominations for psychedelic crime film Inherent Vice (2014), and costume drama Phantom Thread (2017). He also has received a Golden Globe Award nomination, eight British Academy Film Award nominations, and a Grammy Award nomination. He received a Independent Spirit Robert Altman Award for Inherent Vice in 2015.
As of 2022, Anderson is one of the few filmmakers to earn more than ten nominations without a win for the Academy Awards.

## Major associations
### Academy Awards

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 1998 | Best Original Screenplay | Boogie Nights | Nominated |
| 2000 | Best Original Screenplay | Magnolia | Nominated |
| 2008 | Best Picture | There Will Be Blood | Nominated |
| 2008 | Best Director | There Will Be Blood | Nominated |
| 2008 | Best Adapted Screenplay | There Will Be Blood | Nominated |
| 2015 | Best Adapted Screenplay | Inherent Vice | Nominated |
| 2018 | Best Picture | Phantom Thread | Nominated |
| 2018 | Best Director | Phantom Thread | Nominated |
| 2022 | Best Picture | Licorice Pizza | Nominated |
| 2022 | Best Director | Licorice Pizza | Nominated |
| 2022 | Best Original Screenplay | Licorice Pizza | Nominated |

### British Academy Film Awards

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 1998 | Best Original Screenplay | Boogie Nights | Nominated |
| 2008 | Best Film | There Will Be Blood | Nominated |
| 2008 | Best Director | There Will Be Blood | Nominated |
| 2008 | Best Adapted Screenplay | There Will Be Blood | Nominated |
| 2013 | Best Original Screenplay | The Master | Nominated |
| 2022 | Best Film | Licorice Pizza | Nominated |
| 2022 | Best Director | Licorice Pizza | Nominated |
| 2022 | Best Original Screenplay | Licorice Pizza | Won |

### Golden Globe Awards

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 2008 | Best Motion Picture – Drama | There Will Be Blood | Nominated |
| 2022 | Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy | Licorice Pizza | Nominated |
| 2022 | Best Screenplay | Licorice Pizza | Nominated |

### Grammy Awards

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
| 2020 | Best Music Film | Anima | Nominated | |

## Critics awards
### Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 1997 | New Generation Award | Boogie Nights and Hard Eight | Won |
| 2007 | Best Picture | There Will Be Blood | Won |
| 2007 | Best Screenplay | There Will Be Blood | Runner-up |
| 2012 | Best Picture | The Master | Runner-up |
| 2012 | Best Director | The Master | Won |
| 2021 | Best Screenplay | Licorice Pizza | Runner-up |

### National Board of Review

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 1997 | Top Ten Films | Boogie Nights | |
| 1999 | Top Ten Films | Magnolia | |
| 2014 | Best Adapted Screenplay | Inherent Vice | Won |
| 2014 | Top Ten Films | Inherent Vice | |
| 2017 | Best Original Screenplay | Phantom Thread | Won |
| 2017 | Top Ten Films | Phantom Thread | |
| 2021 | Best Director | Licorice Pizza | Won |
| 2021 | Top Ten Films | Licorice Pizza | |

### National Society of Film Critics

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
| 2007 | Best Film | There Will Be Blood | Won | |
| 2007 | Best Director | There Will Be Blood | Won | |

### New York Film Critics Circle

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 2007 | Best Film | There Will Be Blood | Runner-up |
| 2007 | Best Director | There Will Be Blood | Runner-up |
| 2012 | Best Picture | The Master | Runner-up |
| 2012 | Best Director | The Master | Runner-up |
| 2017 | Best Screenplay | Phantom Thread | Won |
| 2021 | Best Screenplay | Licorice Pizza | Won |

## Film festival awards
### Berlin International Film Festival

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 2000 | Golden Bear | Magnolia | Won |
| 2000 | Reader Jury of the "Berliner Morgenpost" | Magnolia | Won |
| 2008 | Golden Bear | There Will Be Blood | Nominated |
| 2008 | Silver Bear for Best Director | There Will Be Blood | Won |

### Cannes Film Festival

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 1996 | Caméra d'Or | Hard Eight | Nominated |
| 2002 | Palme d'Or | Punch-Drunk Love | Nominated |
| 2002 | Best Director | Punch-Drunk Love | Won |

### Venice Film Festival

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 2012 | Golden Lion | The Master | Nominated |
| 2012 | Silver Lion for Best Director | The Master | Won |
| 2012 | FIPRESCI Prize | The Master | Won |

## Other awards and nominations
### AACTA International Awards

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 2013 | Best Screenplay | The Master | Nominated |
| 2022 | Best Director | Licorice Pizza | Nominated |
| 2022 | Best Screenplay | Licorice Pizza | Nominated |

### Capri Hollywood International Film Festival

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
| 2021 | Producer of the Year | Licorice Pizza | Won | |

### Critics' Choice Movie Awards

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 2013 | Best Original Screenplay | The Master | Nominated |
| 2015 | Best Adapted Screenplay | Inherent Vice | Nominated |
| 2022 | Best Director | Licorice Pizza | Nominated |
| 2022 | Best Original Screenplay | Licorice Pizza | Nominated |

### Directors Guild of America Awards

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
| 2008 | Outstanding Directing – Feature Film | There Will Be Blood | Nominated | |
| 2022 | Outstanding Directing – Feature Film | Licorice Pizza | Nominated | |

### Independent Spirit Awards

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 1998 | Best First Feature | Hard Eight | Nominated |
| 1998 | Best First Screenplay | Hard Eight | Nominated |
| 2014 | Robert Altman Award | Inherent Vice | Won |

### Producers Guild of America Awards

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
| 2008 | Best Theatrical Motion Picture | There Will Be Blood | Nominated | |
| 2022 | Best Theatrical Motion Picture | Licorice Pizza | Nominated | |

### Writers Guild of America Awards

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 1998 | Best Original Screenplay | Boogie Nights | Nominated |
| 2002 | Best Original Screenplay | Magnolia | Nominated |
| 2008 | Best Adapted Screenplay | There Will Be Blood | Nominated |
| 2013 | Best Original Screenplay | The Master | Nominated |
| 2022 | Best Original Screenplay | Licorice Pizza | Nominated |

## Awards received by Anderson movies

| Year | Film | Academy Awards | Academy Awards | BAFTA Awards | BAFTA Awards | Golden Globe Awards | Golden Globe Awards |
| Year | Film | 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 | Total | 25 | 3 | 19 | 3 | 13 | 3 |

### Direction for Oscar-related 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 | Metacritic |
| 1996 | Hard Eight | 82% | 78% |
| 1997 | Boogie Nights | 94% | 86% |
| 1999 | Magnolia | 82% | 78% |
| 2002 | Punch-Drunk Love | 79% | 78% |
| 2007 | There Will Be Blood | 91% | 93% |
| 2012 | The Master | 85% | 86% |
| 2014 | Inherent Vice | 74% | 81% |
| 2017 | Phantom Thread | 91% | 90% |
| 2021 | Licorice Pizza | 90% | 90% |