"There Will Be Blood" is awarded several prizes · 2008-01-06 14:51
"There Will Be Blood" was named best picture and its helmsman Paul Thomas Anderson was named best director by the National Society of Film Critics, which met in New York to choose its annual film awards.
The collection of critics from around the country also hailed Daniel Day-Lewis, who stars in the film as a ruthless oil baron, as best actor of 2007 and awarded cinematography honors to the film's Robert Elswit.
Julie Christie was named best actress for her portrait of a woman drifting into Alzheimer's in "Away From Her." And supporting actor nods went to Cate Blanchett for "I'm Not There" and Casey Affleck for "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford."
Tamara Jenkins captured best screenplay honors for "The Savages," Hollywood Reporter informs.
"4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days," Cristian Mungiu's abortion drama from Romania, was chosen as best foreign-language film.
Charles Ferguson's Iraq War study "No End in Sight" was selected best nonfiction film.
Forty-one of the group's 61 critics voted, using a weighted balloting system.
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