10 People Who Deserve To Have Won Oscars

3. Paul Thomas Anderson

Nomination and Year: Best Director: There Will Be Blood (2008) Best Motion Picture of the Year: There Will Be Blood (2008) Best Adapted Screenplay: There Will Be Blood (2008) Best Original Screenplay: Magnolia (2000) Best Original Screenplay: Boogie Nights (1998) Though he only has six writing and directing credits to his name, Paul Thomas Anderson has emerged as one of the most innovative and stylish filmmakers in cinema today. The viewer immediately knows they are in a PTA film through his idiosyncratic use of a constantly moving camera, as it effortlessly navigates around the scene. Take this dexterous camerawork, add it to an expertly crafted screenplay, and you have the recipe for a top-notch film. Anderson broke onto the scene with Boogie Nights, a film about the life of ridiculously well-endowed swordsman Dirk Diggler, and his ventures into the porn industry. Despite the plotline being based around a rather risqué theme such as pornography, the screenplay is handled masterfully and is thoroughly deserving of its Oscar nomination. The Master is nominated for three awards at this year€™s Oscars, all of them in the Best Acting Performance categories.