Robert Elswit: Blood, Sweat and Oscar

By Bob Fisher
URL: http://www.moviemaker.com/cinematography/article/robert_elswit_talks_there_will_be_blood_20080206/
There Will Be Blood earned both Oscar and American Society of Cinematographers Outstanding Achievement Award nominations for Robert Elswit, ASC—and he claimed top honors in both competitions. It is an encore performance for Elswit, who earned plaudits from his peers in both the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the ASC in 2005 for George Clooney's Good Night, and Good Luck. MM caught up with Elswit right before the Oscar ceremony to discuss There Will Be Blood, his fifth collaboration with writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson in 10 years.