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There Will Be Blood

2007 film by Paul Thomas Anderson
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There Will Be Blood

Summary

There Will Be Blood is a film[1]. It ranks in the top 0.23% of film entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (26,805 views/month, #212 of 94,065).[2]

Key Facts

  • There Will Be Blood received the Amanda Award for Best Foreign Feature Film[3].
  • There Will Be Blood received the Academy Award for Best Actor[4].
  • There Will Be Blood received the Academy Award for Best Cinematography[5].
  • There Will Be Blood's instance of is recorded as film[6].
  • There Will Be Blood was directed by Paul Thomas Anderson[7].
  • Paul Thomas Anderson wrote the screenplay for There Will Be Blood[8].
  • There Will Be Blood's composer is recorded as Jonny Greenwood[9].
  • There Will Be Blood's genre is drama film[10].
  • There Will Be Blood's genre is epic film[11].
  • There Will Be Blood's genre is period drama film[12].
  • There Will Be Blood's genre is Western film[13].
  • There Will Be Blood's genre is thriller film[14].
  • There Will Be Blood's genre is historical drama film[15].
  • There Will Be Blood's genre is Revisionist Western[16].
  • There Will Be Blood's genre is historical film[17].
  • There Will Be Blood's genre is independent film[18].
  • There Will Be Blood's based on is recorded as Oil![19].
  • A cast member of There Will Be Blood was Daniel Day-Lewis[20].
  • A cast member of There Will Be Blood was Paul Dano[21].
  • A cast member of There Will Be Blood was Kevin J. O'Connor[22].
  • A cast member of There Will Be Blood was Ciarán Hinds[23].
  • A cast member of There Will Be Blood was Jim Meskimen[24].
  • A cast member of There Will Be Blood was Russell Harvard[25].
  • A cast member of There Will Be Blood was David Warshofsky[26].
  • A cast member of There Will Be Blood was Kevin Breznahan[27].

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Authorship and Creation

Producers include Paul Thomas Anderson[28], JoAnne Sellar[29], and Daniel Lupi[30]. There Will Be Blood was directed by Paul Thomas Anderson[7]. Paul Thomas Anderson wrote the screenplay for it[8]. Cast members include Daniel Day-Lewis[20], Paul Dano[21], Kevin J. O'Connor[22], Ciarán Hinds[23], Jim Meskimen[24], and Russell Harvard[25].

Publication

Publication dates include December 26, 2007[31], January 4, 2008[32], February 14, 2008[33], and February 28, 2008[34]. The original language of There Will Be Blood was English[35]. Genres include drama film[10], epic film[11], period drama film[12], Western film[13], thriller film[14], and historical drama film[15]. Its part of the series is recorded as BBC's 100 Greatest Films of the 21st Century[36]. It was distributed by video on demand[37].

Subject and Themes

There Will Be Blood's part of the series is recorded as BBC's 100 Greatest Films of the 21st Century[36].

Reception

Awards received include Amanda Award for Best Foreign Feature Film[3], a class of award[38], founded in 1985[39]; Academy Award for Best Actor[4], an award for best leading actor[40], in United States[41], founded in 1929[42]; and Academy Award for Best Cinematography[5], an Academy Awards[43], in United States[44], founded in 1929[45]. Reviews include 8.5/10[46], 8.2/10[47], 91%[48], 4.5/5[49], and 93/100[50].

Why It Matters

There Will Be Blood ranks in the top 0.23% of film entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (26,805 views/month, #212 of 94,065).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[51] It is known by 39 alternative names across languages and contexts.[52]

FAQs

What awards did There Will Be Blood receive?

Honors received include Amanda Award for Best Foreign Feature Film[3], Academy Award for Best Actor[4], and Academy Award for Best Cinematography[5].

Related Entities

California Ciarán Hinds Daniel Day-Lewis film Jim Meskimen Jonny Greenwood New Mexico Paul Dano Paul F. Tompkins Paul Thomas Anderson Scott Rudin United States Upton Sinclair

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  1. [38] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
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  3. [40] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [51] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [52] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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