Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2022

Cooper Hoffman had never wanted to act. In elementary school, he joined in the plays but only helped out backstage. When it was time for cast and crew to take a bow, he remembers staying as far out of view as he could, or hiding in the bathroom. 

But the very first time that Hoffman, son...

Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2021

Preparing to direct "A Journal for Jordan," a bittersweet love story opening on Christmas Day, Denzel Washington says he took a "master class."

That master class consisted of starring in a movie directed by Joel Coen, "The Tragedy of Macbeth," which opens the same day. "I steal from the...

Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021

The National Board of Review unveiled its 2021 honorees, with top awards including Licorice Pizza for Best Film; Paul Thomas Anderson for Best Director for Licorice Pizza; Will Smith for Best Actor for King Richard; and Rachel Zegler for Best Actress for West Side...

Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2021

When Paul Thomas Anderson first mentioned to Alana Haim that he wanted to put her in a movie, she assumed it would be as an extra walking through the frame, or something. And she thought that would be pretty great. 

They'd gotten to know one another's families over the years. Anderson...

Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2021

It's school picture day at a high school in Southern California's San Fernando Valley in the opening scene of Paul Thomas Anderson's 1970s-set "Licorice Pizza." 

The photographer's assistant, Alana (Alana Haim), strides up and down a long line of students waiting in the sunshine outside a...

Thursday, Jan. 25, 2018

The lion’s share of the time there is at least one difference between the Best Director Oscar and DGA Award nominee lineups. In only five of the 70 years of the DGA Awards have the Guild nominations exactly mirrored their Academy Award counterparts.

This time around Paul Thomas Anderson...

Wednesday, Dec. 27, 2017

With echoes of "Rebecca" and lavish Max Ophuls productions, writer and director Paul Thomas Anderson spins the tale of an obsessive fashion designer and his muse into a suspenseful and often funny parlor drama with all the trimmings in "Phantom Thread ."

Anderson is revered for his grand...

Saturday, Dec. 23, 2017

The day after last November's presidential election, Paul Thomas Anderson boarded a plane to London to go make a movie about love.

"Phantom Thread," which began shooting days after the inauguration, is a hushed chamber drama made amid a time of wall-to-wall cacophony. For his second — and...

Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2015

Robert Elswit, ASC, won a Best Cinematography Oscar and an ASC Award in 2008 for his work on Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood.  Elswit also earned a BAFTA Award nomination and won several critics associations’ awards for his cinematography on...

Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2014

An Oscar and BAFTA Film Award winner in 2012 for his costume design in Michel Hazanavicius’ The Artist, Mark Bridges now finds himself again in the awards conversation, this time for the Paul Thomas Anderson-directed...

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