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So how do you follow up eight Oscar nominations for your most current film that most people think is a horror flick? I guess the next logical step would be to actually direct a horror film.

The biggest winner in the 80th Annual Nominations? Norbit, which was nominated for Achievement in Make Up.

Though set around the turn of the 20th Century, There Will Be Blood is, in its pitting of capitalism against revivalism, conspicuously more about the state of the union at the turn of the 21st.

The DGA has been giving out awards since 1949 and have a great track record for predicting who will win Best Director come Oscar season.

The title sets up some expectations of what is to come. That being said, there is blood, but there’s also much, much more.