The Master

…of a spiritual leader in The Master (2012), which netted her another Oscar nomination. She subsequently appeared as the determined daughter of a baseball scout in Trouble with the Curve (2012) and a character based on William S. Burroughs’s wife, Joan Vollmer, in a screen adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s On…

…of the title character in The Master (2012) and starred as a self-destructive woman in the HBO series Enlightened (2011 and 2013). Dern received her second Oscar nomination for her performance as the mother of the lead character (Reese Witherspoon) in Wild (2014).

…similar sense of grandeur to The Master (2012), which was partially inspired by the life of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. The film depicts the complex relationship between a charismatic guru (played by Hoffman) and one of his disciples (Joaquin Phoenix) in the years after World War II.

His performance in Anderson’s The Master (2012), as a charismatic self-made guru in the years after World War II, won much acclaim and another Oscar nomination.

and Paul Thomas Anderson’s acclaimed The Master; the latter centers on a WWII veteran (Joaquin Phoenix) and a charismatic guru (Philip Seymour Hoffman). Malek also had supporting roles in two Spike Lee films: Oldboy (2013), a revenge drama about a man kidnapped and locked in a windowless room for 20…

…himself with Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master (2012). His performance as a tormented World War II veteran with alcoholism who is enthralled by a character, played by Philip Seymour Hoffman, loosely based on Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard was highly praised and won him an award for best actor at…

…2010s was Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master (2012), an acclaimed drama centering on a charismatic self-made guru (played by Philip Seymour Hoffman).