Day-Lewis impresses LA film critics

Critics in the US have awarded their top prize to a film starring Daniel Day-Lewis.

The oil-boom epic 'There Will Be Blood' was chosen as 2007’s best film by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, one of the first key groups to weigh in during the build-up to the Academy Awards.

Based on the novel 'Oil!' by Upton Sinclair, the film received three other honours.

Day-Lewis won best actor for his role as a California petroleum baron who clashes with his son and a local preacher in the early 1900s.

Best director went to Paul Thomas Anderson and production design to Jack Fisk.

The best actress prize went to Marion Cotillard as singer Edith Piaf in the French film 'La Vie En Rose', while Anamaria Marinca was runner-up for '4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days', a Romanian drama in which she plays a woman who helps to arrange a friend’s illegal abortion.