Editing Boogie Nights (section)

{{Short description|1997 film by Paul Thomas Anderson}}
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{{Infobox film
| name           = Boogie Nights
| image          = Boogie Nights poster.png
| alt            = 
| caption        = Theatrical release poster
| director       = [[Paul Thomas Anderson]]
| producer       = {{Plainlist|
* [[Lloyd Levin]]
* John Lyons
* Paul Thomas Anderson
* [[JoAnne Sellar]]
}}
| writer         = Paul Thomas Anderson<!-- The Dirk Diggler Story isn't officially the film's basis -->
| starring       = {{Plainlist|
* [[Mark Wahlberg]]
* [[Julianne Moore]]
* [[Burt Reynolds]]
* [[Don Cheadle]]
* [[John C. Reilly]]
* [[William H. Macy]]
* [[Heather Graham]]
* [[Nicole Ari Parker|Nicole Parker]]
* [[Philip Seymour Hoffman]]
}}
| music          = [[Michael Penn]]
| cinematography = [[Robert Elswit]]
| editing        = [[Dylan Tichenor]]
| studio         = {{Plainlist|
* Lawrence Gordon Productions
* Ghoulardi Film Company
}}
| distributor    = [[New Line Cinema]]
| released       = {{Film date|1997|09|11|[[1997 Toronto International Film Festival|TIFF]]|1997|10|10|United States}}
| runtime        = 155 minutes<!--Theatrical runtime: 155:35--><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bbfc.co.uk/releases/boogie-nights-1970 |title=''Boggie Nights'' (18) |date=October 28, 1997 |work=[[British Board of Film Classification]] |access-date=July 5, 2013 |archive-date=March 5, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305072818/http://www.bbfc.co.uk/releases/boogie-nights-1970 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
| country        = United States
| language       = English
| budget         = $15 million<ref name="BoxOfficeMojo" />
| gross          = $43.1 million<ref name="BoxOfficeMojo">{{Cite web |url=http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=boogienights.htm |title=Box Office Mojo: ''Boogie Nights'' |access-date=September 27, 2008 |archive-date=September 18, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120918020132/http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=boogienights.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>
}}

'''''Boogie Nights''''' is a 1997 American [[Drama (film and television)|drama]] film written, directed, and co-produced by [[Paul Thomas Anderson]].<ref>{{cite news |last=O'Connor |first=Kyrie |date=March 26, 1998 |title=BOOGIE NIGHTS |url=https://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-xpm-1998-03-26-9803260044-story.html |work=Hartford Courant |location=Hartford, Connecticut |access-date=June 13, 2022 |archive-date=June 13, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220613192418/https://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-xpm-1998-03-26-9803260044-story.html |url-status=live }}</ref> It is set in [[Los Angeles]]'s [[San Fernando Valley]] and focuses on a young [[nightclub]] dishwasher who becomes a popular star of [[pornographic film]]s, chronicling his rise in the [[Golden Age of Porn]] of the 1970s through his fall during the excesses of the 1980s. The film is an expansion of Anderson's [[mockumentary]] [[short film]] ''[[The Dirk Diggler Story]]'' (1988),<ref name=latimes>{{cite news |last=McKenna |first=Kristine |title=Knows It When He Sees It |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=October 12, 1997 |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-oct-12-ca-41788-story.html |access-date=June 25, 2012 |archive-date=January 3, 2013 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130103142038/http://articles.latimes.com/print/1997/oct/12/entertainment/ca-41788 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=rebels115>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aQRM1yBVkjAC&pg=PA115 |last=Waxman |first=Sharon R. |page=115 |title=Rebels on the backlot: six maverick directors and how they conquered the Hollywood studio system |publisher=[[HarperCollins]] |year=2005 |isbn=978-0-06-054017-3 |access-date=October 5, 2018 |archive-date=August 26, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210826110533/https://books.google.com/books?id=aQRM1yBVkjAC&pg=PA115 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=nytimes2>{{cite news |last=Hirshberg |first=Lynn |title=His Way |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=December 19, 1999 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/12/19/magazine/his-way.html |access-date=June 25, 2012 |archive-date=June 2, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130602232739/http://www.nytimes.com/1999/12/19/magazine/his-way.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=sundancekids>{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/sundancekidshowm0000mott|url-access=registration|quote=cigarettes & coffee.| last = Mottram | first = James | title =The Sundance Kids: how the mavericks took back Hollywood |publisher=Faber & Faber, Inc |location=NY |year=2006 |isbn=9780865479678 |page=[https://archive.org/details/sundancekidshowm0000mott/page/129 129]}}</ref> and stars [[Mark Wahlberg]], [[Julianne Moore]], [[Burt Reynolds]], [[Don Cheadle]], [[John C. Reilly]], [[William H. Macy]], [[Philip Seymour Hoffman]], and [[Heather Graham]].

''Boogie Nights'' premiered at the [[1997 Toronto International Film Festival|Toronto International Film Festival]] on September 11, 1997, and was theatrically released by [[New Line Cinema]] on October 10, 1997, garnering critical acclaim. It was nominated for three [[Academy Awards]], including [[Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay|Best Original Screenplay]] for Anderson, [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress|Best Supporting Actress]] for Moore, and [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor|Best Supporting Actor]] for Reynolds. The [[#Music|film's soundtrack]] also received acclaim. It has since been considered one of Anderson's best works and one of the [[List of films voted the best|best films of all time]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://variety.com/lists/best-movies-of-all-time/boogie-nights-1997-3/ | title=The 100 Greatest Movies of All Time | date=December 21, 2022 | access-date=June 18, 2023 | archive-date=June 18, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230618225706/https://variety.com/lists/best-movies-of-all-time/boogie-nights-1997-3/ | url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://movieweb.com/boogie-nights-at-25-paul-thomas-andersons-best-film/ | title=Boogie Nights at 25: Why it Might be Paul Thomas Anderson's Best Film | date=October 19, 2022 | access-date=June 18, 2023 | archive-date=June 18, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230618225703/https://movieweb.com/boogie-nights-at-25-paul-thomas-andersons-best-film/ | url-status=live }}</ref>