Critics love 'Blood'

Now there is more "Blood."

The National Society of Film Critics, comprised of America's elite movie critics, Saturday selected Paul Thomas Anderson's epic tragedy "There Will Be Blood" as the best picture of 2007.

The Society, numbering 61 of the country's leading movie critics, held its 42nd annual awards meeting at Sardi's Restaurant in New York City.

Forty-one members voted, using a weighted ballot system. Scrolls will be sent to the winners. The vote was dedicated to the memory of film critic and author Hollis Alpert, one of the co-founders of the Society in 1966.

Its members include critics from major newspapers in Los Angeles, Atlanta, Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Chicago and includes Windy City critics Michael Wilmington, Roger Ebert and Jonathan Rosenbaum.

List of National Society winners:

BEST PICTURE: "There Will Be Blood"

BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM: "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days"

BEST DIRECTOR: Paul Thomas Anderson for "There Will Be Blood"

BEST NONFICTION FILM: "No End in Sight"

BEST ACTOR: Daniel Day-Lewis in "There Will Be Blood"

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Casey Affleck for "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford"

BEST ACTRESS: Julie Christie for "Away from Her"

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Cate Blanchett for "I'm Not There"

BEST SCREENPLAY: "The Savages" by Tamara Jenkins

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: "There Will Be Blood" by Robert Elswit BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM: "Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind" by John Gianvito

FILM HERITAGE AWARD: "Ford at Fox," a 21-disc box set from Fox Home Video. FILM HERITAGE AWARD: Ross Lipman of the UCLA Film and Television Archive for the restoration of Charles Burnett's "Killer of Sheep" and other independent films.