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  • Birth Place: Studio City, CA
  • Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: 01/01/1970, Capricorn
  • Profession: Director; producer; screenwriter
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Paul Thomas Anderson Fast Facts:
  • Father was voice-over actor Ernie Anderson, best known for narrating The Love Boat (ABC, 1977-86).
  • Father gave him a Betamax camera when he was 12; he and his friends used it to make amateur films.
  • As a child, engaged his friends in a pie-making contest and filmed it. The resulting pies were so bad they ended up having the family's Shetland pony sample them.
  • Made The Dirk Diggler Story, the forerunner to Boogie Nights, when he was a senior in high school.
  • Attended NYU film school for only two days; dropped out because one professor panned Terminator 2, while another gave him a C on an assignment he copied from a David Mamet work.
  • Once worked as a production assistant on a children's game show called Quiz Kid Challenge.
  • First gained attention with the short film Cigarettes & Coffee, which was screened at the Sundance Film Festival in 1993.
  • Paul Thomas Anderson Relationships:
  • Amanda - Sister
  • Edwina Anderson - Mother
  • Elizabeth - Sister
  • Ernie Anderson - Father
  • Fiona Apple - Ex-significant Other
  • Kathryn - Sister
  • Maya Rudolph - Significant Other
  • Pearl - Daughter
  • Paul Thomas Anderson Awards:
  • 1997 Oscar: Best Writing (Original Screenplay) - Nominee
  • 1999 Oscar: Best Writing (Original Screenplay) - Nominee
  • 2007 Oscar: Best Achievement in Directing - Nominee
  • 2007 Oscar: Best Motion Picture of the Year - Nominee
  • 2007 Oscar: Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay) - Nominee
  • College:
  • Attended Emerson College, Boston, MA; attended New York University, New York, NY
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