Paul Thomas Anderson

Paul Thomas Anderson is someone on my field that I admire a lot. He is an american film director, writer and cinematographer. Being young, Anderson studied at the Sundance Institute, founded by Robert Redford. In 1996, PTA wrote and directed his first feature film, Hard Eight, that had a lot of problems while being produced, because of the creative differences between Paul Thomas Anderson and the executive producers and distributors, so the film was not as good as was expected to be. But one year after this, PTA writes and directs the movie that made him one of the best young filmmakers in the world, Boogie Nights, that had three Academy Awards nominations. Then, he continued this way of success, creating critically acclaimed movies such as Magnolia (1999), Punch Drunk Love (2002), There Will Be Blood (2007), The Master (2012), Inherent Vice (2014) and Phantom Thread (2017).The reason why I love PTA, is because of his genius and style of creating films, and especially very interesting characters. One example of this, is that in There Will Be Blood, the main character is one my favorite characters in the history of cinema, especially because of the performance of Daniel Day Lewis. Furthermore, Anderson always collaborates with people that I admire a lot, such as Philip Seymour Hoffman, Daniel Day Lewis, Joaquin Phoenix, and Johnny Greenwood that makes beautiful music for his films. And, as Greenwood is the lead guitar player of Radiohead, PTA even has directed one video clip of Radiohead (Daydreaming) which is my all time favorite band!