Biography
Paul William Scott Anderson (born 4 March 1965), also known as Paul WS Anderson or Paul Anderson, is an English film director who regularly works in science fiction movies and video game adaptations.
Known For
Complete Filmography

In the Lost Lands
2025
Screenstory, Story, Director
A queen sends the powerful and feared sorceress Gray Alys to the ghostly wilderness of the Lost Lands in search of a magical power, where she and her ...

George A. Romero's Resident Evil
2025
as Self (archive footage)
A documentary that brings to light the vision that director George A. Romero had for an adaptation of Resident Evil, using newly filmed interviews wit...

Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City
2021
Executive Producer
Once the booming home of pharmaceutical giant Umbrella Corporation, Raccoon City is now a dying Midwestern town. The company’s exodus left the city a ...

Here Are the Young Men
2021
Executive Producer
Dublin teenagers Matthew, nihilistic Rez, and the deranged Kearney, leave school to a social vacuum of drinking and drugs, falling into shocking acts ...

Roger Corman, the Pope of Pop Cinema
2021
as Self
Documentary on the life of legendary filmmaker Roger Corman, often referred to as the "Pope of Pop Cinema"

Monster Hunter
2020
Director, Screenplay, Producer
A portal transports Cpt. Artemis and an elite unit of soldiers to a strange world where powerful monsters rule with deadly ferocity. Faced with relent...

Insert Coin
2020
as Self
The oral history of a team of geeks and misfits in the back of a Chicago factory creating the biggest video games of all time. Midway Games pioneered ...

Action Women
2020

Death Race: Beyond Anarchy
2018
Story, Characters, Executive Producer
Black Ops specialist Connor Gibson infiltrates a maximum security prison to take down legendary driver Frankenstein in a violent and brutal car race.

Retaliation Mode: Making 'Resident Evil: The Final Chapter'
2017
as Self
Join Milla Jovovich, Paul W.S. Anderson, the cast and crew of 'Resident Evil: The Final Chapter' as they discuss the making of the film.

Retaliation Mode: Making 'Resident Evil: The Final Chapter'
2017
Director, Writer, Producer
Join Milla Jovovich, Paul W.S. Anderson, the cast and crew of 'Resident Evil: The Final Chapter' as they discuss the making of the film.

Resident Evil: The Final Chapter
2016
Director, Producer, Writer
Picking up immediately after the events in Resident Evil: Retribution, Alice is the only survivor of what was meant to be humanity's final stand again...

Pompeii
2014
Director, Producer
In 79 A.D., Milo, a slave turned gladiator, finds himself in a race against time to save his true love Cassia, the beautiful daughter of a wealthy mer...

Death Race: Inferno
2013
Producer, Story, Characters
Carl Lucas / Frankenstein has won four of his races and needs to win one more to win his freedom. Before his final race, Lucas and his team, car and a...

Back from the Afterlife: Making 'Resident Evil: Retribution'
2012
as Self
Cast comes back and returns. Featuring footage/segments from Resident Evil Afterlife.

Resident Evil: Retribution
2012
Director, Producer, Writer
The Umbrella Corporation’s deadly T-virus continues to ravage the Earth, transforming the global population into legions of the flesh eating Undead. T...

Corman's World
2011
as Self - Filmmaker
A chronicle of the long career of American filmmaker Roger Corman, the most tenacious and ingenious low-budget producer and director in the US film in...

The Three Musketeers
2011
Director, Producer
The hot-headed young D'Artagnan along with three former legendary but now down on their luck Musketeers must unite and defeat a beautiful double agent...
Program Alice: Activated
2010
as Self
Resident Evil: Afterlife featurette.

Undead Evolution: Making 'Resident Evil: Afterlife'
2010
as Self
Resident Evil: Afterlife featurette.

Death Race 2
2010
Producer, Characters, Story
In the world's most dangerous prison, a new game is born: Death Race. The rules of this adrenaline-fueled blood sport are simple, drive or die. When r...

Resident Evil: Afterlife
2010
Director, Producer, Writer
In a world ravaged by a virus infection, turning its victims into the Undead, Alice continues on her journey to find survivors and lead them to safety...

Pandorum
2009
Producer
Two crew members wake up on an abandoned spacecraft with no idea who they are, how long they've been asleep, or what their mission is. The two soon di...

Death Race
2008
Director, Screenstory, Screenplay
Terminal Island, New York: 2020. Overcrowding in the US penal system has reached a breaking point. Prisons have been turned over to a monolithic Weyla...
Resident Road Map: Reflections on the Future of the Series
2008
as Self
Resident Evil: Extinction featurette.

Beyond Raccoon City: Unearthing 'Resident Evil: Extinction'
2008
as Self
Resident Evil: Extinction featurette.

Resident Evil: Extinction
2007
Producer, Writer
Years after the Racoon City catastrophe, survivors travel across the Nevada desert, hoping to make it to Alaska. Alice joins the caravan and their fig...

DOA: Dead or Alive
2006
Producer
Four beautiful rivals at an invitation-only martial-arts tournament join forces against a sinister threat. Princess Kasumi is an aristocratic warrior ...

The Making of 'Event Horizon'
2006
as Self
The Making of Event Horizon, a five-part documentary: Into the Jaws of Darkness, The Body of the Beast, Liberate Tutume Ex Infernis, The Scale to Hell...

The Dark
2005
Producer
In an attempt to pull her family together, Adèlle travels with her young daughter Sarah to Wales to visit her father. The morning after they arrive, S...

Game Over: Resident Evil Reanimated
2004
as Self
Resident Evil: Apocalypse featurette.

Resident Evil: Apocalypse
2004
Producer, Writer
As the city is locked down under quarantine, Alice finds out that the people that died from the previous incident at the Umbrella Corporation have tur...

AVP: Alien vs. Predator
2004
Director, Screenstory, Writer
When scientists discover something near Antarctica that appears to be a buried Pyramid, they send a research team out to investigate. Little do they k...

Scoring Resident Evil
2002
as Self
Resident Evil featurette.

Playing Dead: Resident Evil from Game to Screen
2002
as Self
Resident Evil featurette.

The Making of Resident Evil
2002
as Self
A behind the scenes look into the making of resident evil where the cast and crew breaks down the process.

Resident Evil
2002
Director, Producer, Writer
When a virus leaks from a top-secret facility, turning all resident researchers into ravenous zombies and their lab animals into mutated hounds from h...

The Sight
2000
Director, Writer, Executive Producer
The American successful architect Michael Lewis travels to London with his partner and friend, the builder Jake, to refurbish an old hotel. Michael is...

Soldier
1998
Director
Sergeant Todd is a veteran soldier for an elite group of the armed forces. After being defeated by a new breed of genetically engineered soldiers, he ...

Event Horizon
1997
Director
In 2047, a group of astronauts are sent to investigate and salvage the starship Event Horizon which disappeared mysteriously seven years before on its...

Mortal Kombat
1995
Director
For nine generations an evil sorcerer has been victorious in hand-to-hand battle against his mortal enemies. If he wins a tenth Mortal Kombat tourname...

Shopping
1994
Director, Writer
A dark, hip, urban story of a barren and anonymous city where the underclass' sport of choice is ram-raiding. An exciting game in which stolen cars ar...
The House of the Dead
N/A
Director, Producer, Writer
Follows agents attempting to stop a mutant outbreak caused by a sinister organization. They must rescue a woman's father and confront the mastermind, ...