There Will Be Blood is a movie.
Ciarán Hinds . He has built a reputation as a versatile character actor appearing in such high-profile films as Road to Perdition , The Sum of All Fears , The Phantom of the Opera , Munich , There Will Be Blood , Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows -- Part 2 , The Woman in Black , Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy , Ghost Rider : Spirit of Vengeance and Frozen . There Will Be Blood is a 2007 American epic historical drama film written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson and starring Daniel Day-Lewis and Paul Dano . It premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival , where it won the Silver Bear Award for Best Director and a Special Artistic Contribution Award for Jonny Greenwood 's score . There Will Be Blood is now widely regarded as one of the greatest films of the 2000s , and was among the highest-ranking 21st century films in the British Film Institute 's 2012 Sight & Sound polls .