THERE WILL BE BLOOD: Great To Be Nominated
by Andre Soares
Paul Thomas Anderson’s 2007 Best Picture nominee There Will Be Blood, the final feature in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences‘ "Great To Be Nominated" series, will be screened on Monday, August 25, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.
Considered by many film critics the best American production of 2007, There Will Be Blood centers on the life and times of an early 20th-century oil baron (Academy Award winner Daniel Day-Lewis). Anderson himself adapted Upton Sinclair’s novel Oil!.
There Will Be Blood received eight Academy Award nominations, winning Oscars for Actor in a Leading Role (Day-Lewis) and Cinematography (Robert Elswit). Its other nominations were for Best Picture (JoAnne Sellar, Anderson and Daniel Lupi, producers), Art Direction (Jack Fisk; Set Decoration: Jim Erickson), Directing (Anderson), Film Editing (Dylan Tichenor), Sound Editing (Christopher Scarabosio and Matthew Wood) and Writing — Adapted Screenplay (Anderson).
Josh Raskin’s Oscar-nominated animated short I Met the Walrus, about a teenager’s 1969 interview with John Lennon, will be screened prior to the feature.
There Will Be Blood is the final film in the five-year series. Tickets are $5 for the general public and $3 for Academy members and students with a valid ID. Tickets may be purchased online at www.oscars.org, by mail, in person at the Academy during regular business hours or, depending on availability, on the night of the screening when the doors open at 6:30 p.m.
Curtain time for the feature is 7:30 p.m., and pre-show elements will begin at 7 p.m. The Academy is located at 8949 Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills. For more information, call (310) 247-3600.
Photos: Courtesy of the Margaret Herrick Library
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