Iconic filmmaker Quentin Tarantino of Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill fame labels Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood as a near-perfect movie, but calls out one actor's performance. The epic period drama follows a prospector who becomes an oilman, played by the legendary Daniel Day-Lewis; it narrowly lost a historic Best Picture race to No Country for Old Men .

Day-Lewis did take home the Oscar for Best Lead Actor, one of his three wins in this category. PTA's career-defining feature also stars Paul Dano, Kevin J. O'Connor, Ciarán Hinds, and Dillon Freasier. There Will Be Blood remains a landmark piece of cinema, making it unsurprising that Tarantino named it one of his favorite movies of the 21st century on The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast .

Daniel Plainview

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