About the Movie There Will Be Blood
Daniel Day-Lewis won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in this drama, which was written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. The story is based very loosely on Upton Sinclair's novel Oil! The film takes place in California from 1898 to 1927 and is a character study of Henry Plainview (Day-Lewis), an anti-social man of humble origin who becomes rich and powerful through petroleum. Along the way, he has strange relationships with a drifter claiming to be his half-brother and an adoptive son. His nemesis is a charismatic preacher (Paul Dano).
Daniel Day-Lewis won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in this drama, which was written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. The story is based very loosely on Upton Sinclair's novel Oil! The film takes place in California from 1898 to 1927 and is a character study of Henry Plainview (Day-Lewis), an anti-social man of humble origin who becomes rich and powerful through petroleum. Along the way, he has strange relationships with a drifter claiming to be his half-brother and an adoptive son. His nemesis is a charismatic preacher (Paul Dano).
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