Since we'd watch a 14-hour movie about a slowly-hardening eczema scab if Daniel Day-Lewis was in, we've come to the conclusion that he's probably a fairly decent actor.
And that's not just our opinion, either – all the film critics in Los Angeles seem to think so, too. Last night was the LA Film Critics Association's turn to heap their shovel of opinion onto an already-boring awards season, and it's named There Will Be Blood, the Paul Thomas Anderson drama starring Daniel Day-Lewis as a rich man who speaks slowly and leaves lots of pauses in sentences where you wouldn't really expect them to, as the best film of the year. All in all at the annual vote, There Will Be Blood won four awards and came runner-up in three other categories, blowing the competition out of the water.
Don't worry, I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry, we're sure you're still in with a chance somewhere, and we'll keep wearing your garish promotional baseball cap until you get the recognition you deserve.
Los Angeles is a city built on movies. Well, movies and the 90 billion photographers whose sole aim in life is to take a picture of Britney Spears' genitals. And since LA is a movie city, it's only right that the LA film critics should have their own awards ceremony where, say, the film critics of Cockermouth shouldn't. Cockermouth isn't a movie city. Cockermouth is a small town in Cumbria with two cycle shops and a slightly rude-sounding name.
And when better for the LA Film Critics Association to announce the winners of their awards than right at the start of awards season before the average citizen gets so overwhelmed by all the little groups and organisations deciding what films they like that they beat themselves around the head with a boot to kick-start some kind of self-induced coma?
So that's what's happened – the LA Film Critics Association announced the winners of its annual awards last night, and it was an incredible night for There Will Be Blood, the admittedly impressive-looking new movie by Paul Thomas Anderson. As well as winning Best Movie, There Will Be Blood also picked up Best Director, Best Production Design and Best Actor for Daniel Day-Lewis, whose role as a grumpy old oil baron is Very Important because he doesn't make many films any more and he leaves a lot of big pauses between his words in the trailer.
And There Will Be Blood could have won even more, getting second-place nods for cinematography, music and screenplay. All of this LA Film Critics Association love has shunted There Will Be Blood out to become an Oscar front-runner along with No Country For Old Men and, when some of the Academy see us in our natty baseball cap, I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry.
Other winners announced by the LA Film Critics Association included Romanian bag of fun 4 Months, 3 Weeks And 2 Days and buddy-cop movie The Diving Bell And The Butterfly. It might be that you're more used to these titles by the time the Oscars come around, it might be that you're not, or it might be that even the sound of someone saying the word 'Oscars' to you will literally make your brain explode because it's all you've heard for three months solid. Tenner says it's the latter.
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