With 11 Academy Award nominations, three Golden Globe wins and a historic sweep of prizes at Cannes, Venice and Berlin film festivals, Paul Thomas Anderson boasts a career that most filmmakers only dream of. Landing his first feature deal for Hard Eight at just 24, the San Fernando Valley native has since gone on to deliver one mind-addling, gut-wrenching, soul-searching masterpiece after another.

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