There Will Be Blood
Synopsis
Paul Thomas Anderson (Boogie Nights, Punch-Drunk Love) directs this loose adaptation of an Upton Sinclair novel about a ruthless turn of the century oilman, ferociously played by Daniel Day-Lewis.
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Awards & Festivals
Berlin International Film Festival
2008 | 3 wins including: Best Director (Silver Bear)
Academy Awards
2008 | 2 wins including: Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
2008 | 6 nominations including: Best Motion Picture of the Year
San Sebastián International Film Festival
2008 | Winner: FIPRESCI Film of the Year
Village Voice Film Poll
2007 | 2 wins including: Best Film
2007 | Nominee: Best Supporting Actor
If the Preston Sturges-penned The Power and the Glory inspired a more terrible account of America’s brutal capitalist striving in Welles’s Citizen Kane, that classic gave rise to Anderson’s still more savage rendering in There Will Be Blood.
Jonathan Stevenson
March 02, 2016
Grand in theme yet simple in execution, like the script itself, Elswit’s images fit, glove-like, the mood, tone and atmosphere demanded by Plainview’s onslaughts of emotion. Canted angles signal a loss of control. Quiet, sharp articulation signals a rarer moment of something like tenderness, as when Plainview cradles the infant H.W. soothingly soon after the death of the boy’s father.
John Fidler
March 14, 2015
Moving Image Source
In addition to being the most visually striking of Anderson’s six movies to date,There Will Be Blood might be the most visually striking American feature of the last decade. Or two, or three: the money shots here are all big spenders, splashing across the widescreen frame like gushers or else slow-burning themselves into the viewer’s brain…
Adam Nayman
July 22, 2013
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