Robert Elswit Wins the ASC Outstanding Achievement Award

By Jennifer M. Wood
URL: http://www.moviemaker.com/cinematography/article/robert_elswit_wins_the_asc_outstanding_achievement_award_20080130/
Robert Elswit, ASC won the feature film competition for There Will Be Blood at the 22nd annual American Society of Cinematographers Outstanding Achievement Awards. The story opens in a small California town at the turn of the 20th century where Daniel Day-Lewis portrays a local citizen who prospects for oil and strikes it rich while vying with and manipulating his family, neighbors and industry moguls. It's an emotional story with dark overtones of greed and vengence. There Will Be Blood marks Elswit's sixth collaboration with director Paul Thomas Anderson.