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: Nominated for three Academy Awards (Best Original Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Supporting Actress).

Paul Thomas Anderson's (1997) is a sprawling, empathetic masterpiece that chronicles the rise and fall of Eddie Adams (Mark Wahlberg), a busboy who transforms into adult film sensation Dirk Diggler. Set in Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley, the film captures the transition from the "Golden Age of Porn" in the late 1970s to the gritty, drug-fueled excess and technical shift to video in the 1980s. Critical Perspective & Style boogie nights

(In the filming of the first sex scene, for example, the action takes place in an office set that has been built in Jack's garage. Roger Ebert Boogie Nights movie review & film summary - Roger Ebert : Nominated for three Academy Awards (Best Original

: An elaborate tracking shot that introduces the primary characters and establishes the decade's decadent glamour. Critical Perspective & Style (In the filming of