Paul Thomas Anderson’s “There Will Be Blood” won Saturday night the best picture from the National Society of Film Critics.

The movie also won the best actor, for Daniel-Day Lewis, best director for Anderson and best cinematography for Robert Elswit, according to Los Angeles Times.

The movie, a loose adaptation of Upton Sinclair’s 1927novel “Oil!” tells the story of a greedy man, Plainview, an oil prospector played by  Daniel-Day, at the turn of the century.

The movie was chosen last month by the Los Angeles Film Critics Assn. as the best movie of the 2007. The Los Angeles Film Critics, New York Film Critics Circle and Chicago Film Critics Assn paid honors to actor Daniel Day Lewis. At the Golden Globe awards “There Will Be blood” is nominated for “Best Motion Picture” and “Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture-Drama”- Daniel-Day Lewis.

The second best picture went to "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" by Julian Schnabel, and the third place was won by Joel and Ethan Coen's “No Country for Old Men.”

The Romanian film “"Four Months, Three Weeks and Two Days," took the award for the best foreign film. The film about an illegal abortion during the regime of Ceausescu won in May the Cannes Film Festival Award.

The National Society of Film Critics is formed out of 61 members from different newspapers in the country like Los Angeles, Boston, New York and Chicago. Forty-one voted this Saturday at what it was the 42nd annual meeting at Sardi's restaurant in New York City.

The best actress award went to Julie Christie for her role of a woman who suffers from Alzheimer's disease in "Away From Her.” This, along with other awards she received, places her as the runner up for the Oscars.

Casey Affleck won the best supporting actor for the role in “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.”

Best supporting actress award went to Cate Blanchett for her role in the movie “I’m Not There” which depicts and aspect of Bob Dylan’s life and work.

According to Reuters, the award for best nonfiction film was won by "No End in Sight," a documentary about Bush’s administration in Iraq.

Best screenplay honors went to Tamara Jenkins for "The Savages," the comic drama she also directed it.