Paul Thomas Anderson was born June 26, 1970, in Studio City, California, to Edwina and Ernie Anderson. Anderson received critical and commercial success for his film Boogie Nights (1997), set during the Golden Age of Porn in the 1970s and 1980s. His third feature, Magnolia (1999), takes place over a single day in the San Fernando Valley, following the interconnected lives of several characters in search of happiness and resolution. It received strongly positive reviews despite struggling at the box office. 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 (2007), set in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, centers on an oil prospector's efforts to capitalize on the Southern California oil boom. Released after a five year absence, it garnered wide acclaim from critics. Anderson's sixth film, the drama The Master (2012), 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 somewhat polarized reviews, but acclaim from some critics. His eighth film, Junun, is a documentary about the making of an album of the same name. Anderson's ninth film, Phantom Thread, is set in London. The film was released in 2017.

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