Oscar-winning drama about family, greed, religion, and oil, starring Daniel Day-Lewis and Paul Dano. Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, adapted from the novel Oil! by Upton Sinclair. The sprawling Oscar-winning epic of family, faith, power and oil, set on the incendiary frontier of California’s turn-of-the-century petroleum boom. The story chronicles the life and times of one Daniel Plainview, who transforms himself from a down-and-out silver miner raising a son on his own into a self-made oil tycoon.