It is easy to label Daniel Plainview, the oil man at the center of Paul Thomas Anderson s American epic There Will Be Blood, as a villain. As he scowls, grumbles, glares, and slinks his way ...

Day-Lewis plays Daniel Plainview, a prospector introduced in ... serves as the last step on the path Blood started out on: drawing us slowly and with steadily increasing horror into the bitter ...

MISANTHROPIC turn-of-the-century oilman Daniel Plainview is the unstoppable, dark-smoke-emitting engine that powers “There Will Be Blood.” Writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson’s grim ...

particularly for the intense performance of Daniel Day-Lewis as Daniel Plainview, an oil wildcatter in early 20th-century California. It’s a fascinating portrait of a man selling his soul bit by ...

Drawing on his “Gangs of New York” role ... And his most recent best actor win, as Daniel Plainview in “There Will Be Blood” he invented a unique frontier accent that sounds like a hybrid ...

Oscar glory beckons for Daniel Day-Lewis, at his imperious, explosive best as turn-of-the-century oilman Daniel Plainview in Paul ... It's easy to draw parallels between the antagonists ...

Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day Lewis) is one of the greatest cinematic creations of the 21st century, a richly drawn, practically Shakespearean antihero flawlessly brought to life by Daniel Day ...

“There Will Be Blood” director Paul Thomas Anderson has said it was key to the portrayal of Daniel Plainview, the rapacious California oilman. Anderson’s longtime costume designer, Mark ...

The 2007 film features Day-Lewis in the role of Daniel Plainview, a silver miner turned oil tycoon who is on a relentless pursuit of wealth during Southern California's oil boom at the turn of the ...