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There Will Be Blood
Theatrical release poster
Directed by
Paul Thomas Anderson
Produced by
JoAnne Sellar
Paul Thomas Anderson
Daniel Lupi
Screenplay by
Paul Thomas Anderson
Based on
Oil!
by Upton Sinclair
Starring
Daniel Day-Lewis
Paul Dano
Kevin J. O'Connor
Ciarán Hinds
Dillon Freasier
Music by
Jonny Greenwood
Cinematography
Robert Elswit
Edited by
Dylan Tichenor
Production
company
Ghoulardi Film Company
Distributed by
Paramount Vantage
Miramax Films
Release date
September 27, 2007 (2007-09-27) (Fantastic Fest)
December 26, 2007 (2007-12-26) (United States)
Running time
158 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$25 million[1]
Box office
$76.2 million[1]
There Will Be Blood is a 2007 American drama film written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. It stars Daniel Day-Lewis and Paul Dano. The film was inspired by Upton Sinclair's novel Oil! It tells the story of a silver miner-turned-oilman (Day-Lewis) on a ruthless quest for wealth during Southern California's oil boom of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Kevin J. O'Connor, Ciarán Hinds, and Dillon Freasier are also featured in the film.
Fast Food Nation writer Eric Schlosser initially acquired the rights for the film from the Sinclair estate before Anderson took over the project. He wrote the script with Day-Lewis in mind for the role of Plainview. Principal photography began in June 2006 on a ranch in Marfa, Texas,[2] and took three months to complete. Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood composed the score for the film. The film was produced by Ghoulardi Film Company and distributed by Paramount Vantage and Miramax Films.
There Will Be Blood grossed $76.2 million worldwide against its $25 million budget. The film received significant critical praise, with the performance of Day-Lewis as Daniel Plainview receiving widespread acclaim. Other qualities of the film, such as its cinematography, direction, and screenplay, were also lauded and received numerous awards and nominations. It premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Silver Bear Award for Best Director and a Special Artistic Contribution Award for Greenwood's score. It also appeared on many critics' "top ten" lists for the year, notably the American Film Institute,[3] the National Society of Film Critics, the National Board of Review, and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association. Day-Lewis won Oscar, BAFTA, Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild, NYFCC and IFTA Best Actor awards for his performance, cementing his position as one of the most acclaimed actors of his generation. At the 80th Academy Awards, the film was nominated for eight Academy Awards (tying with another Paramount Vantage/Miramax co-production No Country for Old Men), including Best Picture and Best Director for Anderson; it won two for Best Actor for Day-Lewis and Best Cinematography for Robert Elswit.[4]
Considered to be one of the best films ever made[5], There Will Be Blood was among the highest-ranking 21st century films in the British Film Institute's 2012 Sight & Sound polls.[6] It was also named the "Best Film of the 21st Century So Far" in 2017 by The New York Times.[7] and was ranked by BBC in 2016 as the third-best film of the 21st Century.[8]
Contents
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production
3.1 Development
3.2 Filming
3.3 Music
4 Release
4.1 Critical reception
4.2 Themes and analysis
4.2.1 Top ten lists
4.2.2 Decade-end lists
4.3 Box office performance
4.4 Home media
5 Accolades
6 In popular culture
7 See also
8 References
9 External links
Plot[edit]
In 1898, Daniel Plainview, a prospector in New Mexico, mines a potentially precious ore vein from a pit mine hole. In the process of dynamiting the lode, he falls and breaks his leg. With the silver sample, he climbs out of the mine, drags himself to an assay office, and receives a silver and gold certificate claim. In 1902, he discovers oil near Los Angeles and establishes a drilling company. Following the death of a worker in an accident, Daniel adopts the man's orphaned son. He refers to the child, H. W., as his business partner, which allows him to present himself to potential investors as a family man.
In 1911, Daniel is approached by Paul Sunday, who tells him of an oil deposit under his family's property in Little Boston, California. Daniel attempts to buy the farm at a bargain price. However, Paul's twin brother, Eli, demands $10,000 for the church, of which he is pastor. An agreement is made for $5,000 after the well begins producing, and Daniel acquires all the available surrounding land, except for one holdout: William Bandy. Oil production begins, but an accident kills a worker and a gas blowout deafens H. W. Eli blames the disasters on the well not being properly blessed. When Eli demands the $5,000 that Daniel still owes, Daniel beats and humiliates him. At the dinner table, Eli berates his father for trusting Daniel.
A man arrives at Daniel's doorstep claiming to be his half-brother, Henry. Daniel hires Henry and the two grow close. H. W. sets fire to their house, intending to kill Henry. Angry, Daniel sends him away to a school for the deaf in San Francisco. A representative from Standard Oil offers to buy out Daniel's local interests, but Daniel strikes a deal with Union Oil and constructs a pipeline to the California coast, though the Bandy ranch remains an impediment.
While reminiscing about his childhood, Daniel becomes suspicious about Henry's story and one night quizzes him about it at gunpoint. "Henry" confesses that he was a friend of the real Henry's, who died from tuberculosis, and that he learned the details of Henry's life by reading his personal journal. In a fit of rage, Daniel murders the impostor and buries his body. The next morning, Daniel is awakened by Bandy, who knows of the previous night's events and wants Daniel to repent. At the church, as part of Daniel's baptism, Eli humiliates him, strikes him, and makes him confess to having abandoned his son, before announcing to the congregation that Daniel will be making a large donation to the church. With the pipeline underway, Daniel arranges for the still angry H. W. to return, while Eli leaves town for missionary work.
In 1927, H. W. marries Mary, Eli and Paul's sister. Daniel, now extremely wealthy but suffering from alcoholism, lives as a recluse in a large mansion. Through a sign language interpreter, H. W. asks Daniel to dissolve their partnership so that H. W. can establish his own oil company in Mexico. Daniel reacts brutally, mocks H. W.'s deafness, and reveals H.W.'s true origins as an orphan. H. W. thanks God he has "none of Daniel in him" and leaves.
Eli visits Daniel, who is drunk, in Daniel's private bowling alley. Eli, now a radio preacher, offers to sell Daniel drilling rights on the land of William Bandy, who has recently died. Daniel agrees on the condition that Eli denounce his faith and his own credibility. Eli reluctantly does so. Daniel reveals that the property is now worthless because he has already drained its oil by slant drilling from surrounding wells. Shaken, Eli confesses to being in dire financial straits and to having strayed morally. Daniel taunts him, chases him around the bowling alley, and beats him to death with a bowling pin.
Cast[edit]
Daniel Day-Lewis as Daniel Plainview
Paul Dano as Paul Sunday and Eli Sunday
Kevin J. O'Connor as Henry
Ciarán Hinds as Fletcher Hamilton
Dillon Freasier as H.W. Plainview
Russell Harvard as adult H.W. Plainview
Sydney McCallister as young Mary Sunday
Colleen Foy as adult Mary Sunday
David Willis as Abel Sunday
Hans Howes as William Bandy
Paul F. Tompkins as Prescott
Jim Downey as Al Rose
David Warshofsky as H.M. Tilford
Barry Del Sherman as H.B. Ailman
Production[edit]
Development[edit]
Paul Thomas Anderson and Daniel Day-Lewis in New York, December 2007.
After Eric Schlosser finished writing Fast Food Nation, reporters kept asking him about Upton Sinclair. Although he had read Sinclair's The Jungle, he did not know about his other works or anything about Sinclair himself. He decided to read most of Sinclair's works, and eventually read the novel Oil!, which he loved. Schlosser, who found the book to be exciting and thought it would make a great film, sought out the Sinclair estate and purchased the film rights. He thought that he would try to find a director who was as passionate about the book as he was, but director Paul Thomas Anderson approached him first.[9]
Anderson had been working on a screenplay about two fighting families. He struggled with the script and soon realized it was not working.[10] Homesick, he purchased a copy of Oil! in London, drawn to its cover illustration of a California oilfield.[11] As he read, Anderson became more fascinated with the novel. After contacting Schlosser, he adapted the first 150 pages to a screenplay. He began to get a real sense of where his script was going after making many trips to museums dedicated to early oilmen in Bakersfield.[2] Anderson changed the title from Oil! to There Will Be Blood because he felt "there's not enough of the book to feel like it's a proper adaptation".[10]
He said of writing the screenplay:
I can remember the way that my desk looked, with so many different scraps of paper and books about the oil industry in the early 20th century, mixed in with pieces of other scripts that I'd written. Everything was coming from so many different sources. But the book was a great stepping-stone. It was so cohesive, the way Upton Sinclair wrote about that period, and his experiences around the oil fields and these independent oilmen. That said, the book is so long that it's only the first couple hundred pages that we ended up using, because there is a certain point where he strays really far from what the original story is. We were really unfaithful to the book. That's not to say I didn't really like the book; I loved it. But there were so many other things floating around. And at a certain point, I became aware of the stuff he was basing it on. What he was writing about was the life of [oil barons] Edward Doheny and Harry Sinclair. So it was like having a really good collaborator, the book.[12]
Anderson, who had previously stated that he would like to work with Daniel Day-Lewis,[13] wrote the screenplay with Day-Lewis in mind and approached the actor when the script was nearly complete. Anderson had heard that Daniel Day-Lewis liked his earlier film Punch-Drunk Love, which gave him the confidence to hand Day-Lewis a copy of the incomplete script.[14] According to Day-Lewis, being asked to do the film was enough to convince him.[15] In an interview with The New York Observer, he elaborated that what drew him to the project was "the understanding that [Anderson] had already entered into that world, [he] wasn't observing it – [he'd] entered into it – and indeed [he'd] populated it with characters who [he] felt had lives of their own".[16]
Anderson has stated that the famous line in the final scene, "I drink your milkshake!", was paraphrased from a quote by former Secretary of the Interior and U.S. Senator from New Mexico, Albert Fall, speaking before a Congressional investigation into the 1920s oil-related Teapot Dome scandal. Anderson said he was fascinated "to see that word [milkshake] among all this official testimony and terminology" to explain the complicated process of oil drainage.[17] In 2013, an independent attempt to locate the statement in Fall's testimony proved unsuccessful—an article published in the Case Western Reserve Law Review suggested that the actual source of the paraphrased quote may instead have been remarks in 2003 by Sen. Pete Domenici of New Mexico during a debate over drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.[18] In those remarks, Domenici stated:[19]
The oil is underground, and it is going to be drilled and come up. Here is a giant reservoir underground. Just like a curved straw, you put it underground and maneuver it, and the 'milk shake' is way over there, and your little child wants the milk shake, and they sit over here in their bedroom where they are feeling ill, and they just gobble it up from way down in the kitchen, where you don't even have to move the Mix Master that made the ice cream for them. You don't have to take it up to the bedroom. This describes the actual drilling that is taking place.
According to Joanne Sellar, one of the film's producers, it was a hard film to finance because "the studios didn't think it had the scope of a major picture".[11] It took two years to acquire financing for the film.[2] For the role of Plainview's "son", Anderson looked at people in Los Angeles and New York City, but he realized that they needed someone from Texas who knew how to shoot shotguns and "live in that world".[10] The filmmakers asked around at a school and the principal recommended Dillon Freasier. They did not have him read any scenes and instead talked to him, realizing that he was the perfect person for the role.[10]
To build his character, Day-Lewis started with the voice. Anderson sent him recordings from the late 19th century to 1927 and a copy of the 1948 film The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, including documentaries on its director, John Huston, an important influence on Anderson's film.[11] According to Anderson, he was inspired by the fact that Sierra Madre is "about greed and ambition and paranoia and looking at the worst parts of yourself".[2] While writing the script, he would put the film on before he went to bed at night. To research for the role, Day-Lewis read letters from laborers and studied photographs from the time period. He also read up on oil tycoon Edward Doheny, upon whom Sinclair's book is loosely based.[20]
Filming[edit]
Principal photography began in June 2006 on a ranch in Marfa, Texas,[2] and took three months.[11] Other location shooting took place in Los Angeles. Anderson tried to shoot the script in sequence with most of the sets on the ranch.[2] Two weeks in, Anderson replaced the actor playing Eli Sunday with Paul Dano, who had originally only been cast in the much smaller role of Paul Sunday, the brother who tipped off Plainview about the oil on the Sunday ranch. A profile of Day-Lewis in The New York Times Magazine suggested that the original actor, Kel O'Neill, had been intimidated by Day-Lewis's intensity and habit of staying in character on and off the set.[2][20] Both Anderson and Day-Lewis deny this claim,[2][20] and Day-Lewis stated, "I absolutely don't believe that it was because he was intimidated by me. I happen to believe that—and I hope I'm right."[21]
Anderson first saw Dano in The Ballad of Jack and Rose and thought that he would be perfect to play Paul Sunday, a role he originally envisioned to be a 12- or 13-year-old boy. Dano only had four days to prepare for the much larger role of Eli Sunday,[22] but he researched the time period that the film is set in as well as evangelical preachers.[10] The previous two weeks of scenes with Sunday and Plainview had to be re-shot with Dano instead of O'Neill.[2] The interior mansion scenes were filmed at the Greystone Mansion in Beverly Hills, the former real-life home of Edward Doheny Jr., a gift from his father, Edward Doheny. Scenes filmed at Greystone involved the careful renovation of the basement's two-lane bowling alley.[23] Anderson said it was "a particular situation, because it was so narrow that there could only be a very limited number of people at any given time, maybe five or six behind the camera and then the two boys."[12]
Anderson dedicated the film to Robert Altman, who died while Anderson was editing it.[10]
There Will Be Blood was shot using Panavision XL 35 mm cameras outfitted primarily with Panavision C series and high-speed anamorphic lenses.[24]
Day-Lewis broke a rib in a fall during filming.[25]
Music[edit]
Further information: There Will Be Blood (album)
Anderson had been a fan of Radiohead's music and was impressed with Jonny Greenwood's scoring of the film Bodysong. While writing the script for There Will Be Blood, Anderson heard Greenwood's orchestral piece "Popcorn Superhet Receiver", which prompted him to ask Greenwood to work with him. After initially agreeing to score the film, Greenwood had doubts and thought about backing out, but Anderson's reassurance and enthusiasm for the film convinced him to stick with it.[26][27] Anderson gave Greenwood a copy of the film and three weeks later he came back with two hours of music recorded at Abbey Road Studios in London.[10] Concerning his approach to composing the soundtrack, Greenwood said to Entertainment Weekly:
I think it was about not necessarily just making period music, which very traditionally you would do. But because they were traditional orchestral sounds, I suppose that's what we hoped was a little unsettling, even though you know all the sounds you're hearing are coming from very old technology. You can just do things with the classical orchestra that do unsettle you, that are sort of slightly wrong, that have some kind of undercurrent that's slightly sinister.[28]
In December 2008, Greenwood's score was nominated for a Grammy in the category of "Best Score Soundtrack Album for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media" for the 51st Grammy Awards.[29] It features classical music. Brahms' Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 77, 3rd movement, "Vivace ma non troppo" can be heard in the ending titles and during the film Arvo Pärt's Fratres for cello and piano.[30]
Release[edit]
Critical reception[edit]
Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gives a score of 91% based on reviews from 216 critics, with an average rating of 8.4/10. The consensus reads, "Widely touted as a masterpiece, this sparse and sprawling epic about the underhanded 'heroes' of capitalism boasts incredible performances by leads Daniel Day-Lewis and Paul Dano, and is director Paul Thomas Anderson's best work to date."[31] On Metacritic, the film has an average score of 93/100, based on 42 reviews indicating "universal acclaim".[32]
Andrew Sarris called the film "an impressive achievement in its confident expertness in rendering the simulated realities of a bygone time and place, largely with an inspired use of regional amateur actors and extras with all the right moves and sounds."[33] In Premiere, Glenn Kenny praised Day-Lewis's performance: "Once his Plainview takes wing, the relentless focus of the performance makes the character unique."[34] Manohla Dargis wrote, in her review for The New York Times, "the film is above all a consummate work of art, one that transcends the historically fraught context of its making, and its pleasures are unapologetically aesthetic."[35] Esquire also praised Day-Lewis' performance: "what's most fun, albeit in a frightening way, is watching this greedmeister become more and more unhinged as he locks horns with Eli Sunday … both Anderson and Day-Lewis go for broke. But it's a pleasure to be reminded, if only once every four years, that subtlety can be overrated."[36] Richard Schickel in Time praised There Will Be Blood as "one of the most wholly original American movies ever made."[37] Critic Tom Charity, writing about CNN's ten-best films list, calls the film the only "flat-out masterpiece" of 2007.[38]
Roger Ebert gave There Will Be Blood a positive review but in comparing it to No Country for Old Men he found the McCarthy script for No Country to be better.
Schickel also named the film one of the Top 10 Movies of 2007, ranking it at #9, calling Daniel Day-Lewis' performance "astonishing", and calling the film "a mesmerizing meditation on the American spirit in all its maddening ambiguities: mean and noble, angry and secretive, hypocritical and more than a little insane in its aspirations."[39] James Christopher, chief film critic for The Times, published a list in April 2008 of his top 100 films, placing There Will Be Blood in second place, behind only Casablanca.[40]
Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle, however, challenged the film's high praise by saying "there should be no need to pretend There Will Be Blood is a masterpiece just because Anderson sincerely tried to make it one."[41] Some critics were positive toward the work but less laudatory, often criticizing its ending. Roger Ebert assigned the film three and a half out of four stars and wrote, "There Will Be Blood is the kind of film that is easily called great. I am not sure of its greatness. It was filmed in the same area of Texas used by No Country for Old Men, and that is a great film, and a perfect one. But There Will Be Blood is not perfect, and in its imperfections (its unbending characters, its lack of women or any reflection of ordinary society, its ending, its relentlessness) we may see its reach exceeding its grasp."[42] Carla Meyer of the Sacramento Bee, who gave the film the same star rating as Ebert, opined that the final confrontation between Daniel and Eli marked when the work "stops being a masterpiece and becomes a really good movie. What was grand becomes petty, then overwrought."[43] In 2014, Peter Walker of The Guardian likewise argued that the scene "might not be the very worst scene in the history of recent Oscar-garlanded cinema [...] but it’s perhaps the one most inflated with its own delusional self-importance."[44]
Several months after LaSalle's initial review of the film, he reiterated that while he still did not consider There Will Be Blood to be a masterpiece, he wondered if its "style, an approach, an attitude... might become important in the future."[45] Since 2008, the film has been included in the book 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die and every revised edition released afterwards.[46] Total Film placed it at number three in their list of the 50 best movies of Total Film's lifetime,[47] while The Guardian ranked it the 17th best arthouse film of all time.[48]
Themes and analysis[edit]
Many have seen the film as a commentary on the nature of capitalism and greed, and its inherent national presence.[49] Daniel Plainview's "I have a competition in me" speech has been looked at as key when analyzing the film from this angle.[50] David Denby of the New Yorker described the film as being about "...the driving force of capitalism as it both creates and destroys the future..." and goes on to say that "this movie is about the vanishing American frontier. The thrown-together buildings look scraggly and unkempt, the homesteaders are modest, stubborn, and reticent, but, in their undreamed-of future, Wal-Mart is on the way."[51]
Others have noted themes of faith, religion, and family.[52] Many feel that the contrast between Daniel and Eli highlights the disparity between faith and avarice. James Christopher of The Times viewed the film as "...a biblical parable about America's failure to square religion and greed."[53] Others have noted how the absence of family and resulting isolation in Daniel's life plays a large role in his eventual descent into madness.[54] By the film's end, having felt betrayed by both Henry (his false brother) and H.W (his non-biological son), he reacts by murdering Eli. Critics and essayists also argue that these killings and rejections are Daniel's way of eliminating any possible source of competition in the oil industry.[55]
Top ten lists[edit]
The film was on the American Film Institute's 10 Movies of the Year; AFI's jury said:
There Will Be Blood is bravura film-making by one of American film's modern masters. Paul Thomas Anderson's epic poem of savagery, optimism and obsession is a true meditation on America. The film drills down into the dark heart of capitalism, where domination, not gain, is the ultimate goal. In a career defined by transcendent performances, Daniel Day-Lewis creates a character so rich and so towering, that "Daniel Plainview" will haunt the history of film for generations to come.[56]
The film appeared on many critics' top ten lists of the best films of 2007.[57][58]
1st – Ethar Alter, Giant[58]
1st – Marjorie Baumgarten, The Austin Chronicle[57]
1st – Tom Charity, CNN[38]
1st – Manohla Dargis, The New York Times[58]
1st – David Fear, Time Out New York[59]
1st – Scott Foundas, LA Weekly[57]
1st – Stephen Holden, The New York Times[57]
1st – Tod Hill, Staten Island Advance[58]
1st – Glenn Kenny, Premiere[57]
1st – Craig Outhier, Orange County Register[58]
1st – Keith Phipps, The A.V. Club[57]
1st – Ray Pride, Salon.com[58]
1st – Mike Russell, The Oregonian[57]
1st – Hank Sartin, Chicago Reader[58]
1st – Marc Savlov, The Austin Chronicle[57]
1st – Mark Slutsky, Montreal Mirror[58]
1st – Nick Schager, Slant Magazine[58]
1st – Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly[57]
1st – Jan Stuart, Newsday[58]
1st – Ella Taylor, LA Weekly[57]
2nd – David Ansen, Newsweek[57]
2nd – Nathan Rabin, The A.V. Club[57]
2nd – Rene Rodriguez, The Miami Herald[57]
2nd – Scott Tobias, The A.V. Club[57]
3rd – A.O. Scott, The New York Times (tied with Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street)[57]
3rd – Ann Hornaday, The Washington Post[57]
3rd – Joe Morgenstern, The Wall Street Journal[57]
4th – Desson Thomson, The Washington Post[57]
4th – Ty Burr, The Boston Globe[57]
5th – J. Hoberman, The Village Voice[57]
5th – Shawn Levy, The Oregonian[57]
6th – Christy Lemire, Associated Press[60]
7th – Peter Travers, Rolling Stone[57]
9th – Claudia Puig, USA Today[57]
9th – Richard Schickel, TIME magazine[57]
10th – Lou Lumenick, New York Post[57]
Top 10 (listed alphabetically, not ranked) – Dana Stevens, Slate[57]
Decade-end lists[edit]
Review aggregator site Metacritic, when comparing over 40 'top ten of the decade' lists from various notable publications, found There Will Be Blood to be the most mentioned, appearing on 46% of critics' lists and being ranked the decade's best film on five of them.
In December 2009, Peter Travers of Rolling Stone chose the film as the #1 film of the decade, saying:
Two years after first seeing There Will Be Blood, I am convinced that Paul Thomas Anderson's profound portrait of an American primitive—take that, Citizen Kane—deserves pride of place among the decade's finest. Daniel Day-Lewis gave the best and ballsiest performance of the past 10 years. As Daniel Plainview, a prospector who loots the land of its natural resources in silver and oil to fill his pockets and gargantuan ego, he showed us a man draining his humanity for power. And Anderson, having extended Plainview's rage from Earth to heaven in the form of a corrupt preacher (Paul Dano), managed to "drink the milkshake" of other risk-taking directors. If I had to stake the future of film in the next decade on one filmmaker, I'd go with PTA. Even more than Boogie Nights and Magnolia—his rebel cries from the 1990s—Blood let Anderson put technology at the service of character. The score by Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood was a sonic explosion that reinvented what film music could be. And the images captured by Robert Elswit, a genius of camera and lighting, made visual poetry out of an oil well consumed by flame. For the final word on Blood, I'll quote Plainview: "It was one goddamn hell of a show."[61]
Chicago Tribune and At the Movies critic Michael Phillips named There Will Be Blood the decade's best film. Phillips stated:
This most eccentric and haunting of modern epics is driven by oilman Daniel Plainview, who, in the hands of actor Daniel Day-Lewis, becomes a Horatio Alger story gone horribly wrong. Writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson's camera is as crucial to the films hypnotic pull as the performance at its center. For its evocation of the early 1900s, its relentless focus on one man's fascinating obsessions, and for its inspiring example of how to freely adapt a novel—plus, what I think is the performance of the new century—There Will Be Blood stands alone. The more I see it, the sadder, and stranger, and more visually astounding it grows—and the more it seems to say about the best and worst in the American ethos of rugged individualism. Awfully good![62]
Entertainment Weekly critic Lisa Schwarzbaum named There Will Be Blood the decade's best film as well. In her original review, Schwarzbaum stated:
Anyhow, a fierce story meshing big exterior-oriented themes of American character with an interior-oriented portrait of an impenetrable man (two men, really, including the false prophet Sunday) is only half Anderson's quest, and his exciting achievement. The other half lies in the innovation applied to the telling itself. For a huge picture, There Will Be Blood is exquisitely intimate, almost a collection of sketches. For a long, slow movie, it speeds. For a story set in the fabled bad-old-days past, it's got the terrors of modernity in its DNA. Leaps of romantic chordal grandeur from Brahms' Violin Concerto in D Major announce the launch of a fortune-changing oil well down the road from Eli Sunday's church—and then, much later, announce a kind of end of the world. For bleakness, the movie can't be beat—nor for brilliance.[63]
In December 2009, the website Gawker.com determined that There Will Be Blood is film critics' consensus best film of the decade when aggregating all Best of the Decade lists, stating: "And when the votes were all in, by a nose, There Will Be Blood stood alone at the top of the decade, its straw in the whole damn cinema's milkshake."[64]
The list of critics who lauded There Will Be Blood in their assessments of films from the past decade include:
The A.V. Club[65]
The Daily Telegraph[66]
The Guardian[67]
Slant Magazine[68]
Time Out New York[69]
David Denby, The New Yorker[70]
Scott Foundas, SF Weekly[71]
David Germain and Christy Lemire, The Associated Press[72]
Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic[73]
Ann Hornaday, The Washington Post[74]
Wesley Morris, The Boston Globe[75]
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune[76]
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly[77]
Dana Stevens, Slate Magazine[78]
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone[79]
Chris Vognar, The Dallas Morning News[80]
In 2016, it was voted the #3 best film of the 21st century as picked by 177 film critics from around the world.[81]
Box office performance[edit]
The first public screening of There Will Be Blood was on September 29, 2007, at Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas. The film was released on December 26, 2007, in New York City and Los Angeles where it grossed US$190,739 on its opening weekend. The film then opened in 885 theaters in selected markets on January 25, 2008, grossing $4.8 million on its opening weekend. The film went on to make $40.2 million in North America and $35.9 million in the rest of the world, with a worldwide total of $76.1 million, well above its $25 million budget.[1] But the prints and advertising cost for the film's United States release was about $40 million.[82]
Home media[edit]
The film was released on DVD on April 8, 2008. It was released with one and two-disc editions, both are packaged in a cardboard case. Anderson has refused to record an audio commentary for the film.[83] A HD DVD release was announced, but later canceled due to the discontinuation of the format. A Blu-ray edition was released on June 3, 2008. The film has grossed $23,604,823 through DVD sales.[84]
Accolades[edit]
Date of ceremony
Award
Category
Recipient(s)
Result
February 24, 2008 Academy Awards[85]
Best Picture Daniel Lupi
JoAnne Sellar
Paul Thomas Anderson Nominated
Best Director Paul Thomas Anderson Nominated
Best Actor Daniel Day-Lewis Won
Best Adapted Screenplay Paul Thomas Anderson Nominated
Best Art Direction Jack Fisk, Jim Erickson Nominated
Best Cinematography Robert Elswit Won
Best Film Editing Dylan Tichenor Nominated
Best Sound Editing Matthew Wood, Christopher Scarabosio Nominated
December 16, 2007 American Film Institute[86] Top 10 Films
Won
2007 Austin Film Critics Association Awards[87] Top 10 Films
1st Place
Best Film
Won
Best Director Paul Thomas Anderson Won
Best Actor Daniel Day-Lewis Won
Best Cinematography Robert Elswit Won
Best Score Jonny Greenwood Won
January 22, 2008 Australian Film Critics Association Awards[88] Best Overseas Film
Won
February 10, 2008 BAFTA Awards[89] Best Film
Nominated
Best Direction Paul Thomas Anderson Nominated
Best Adapted Screenplay Paul Thomas Anderson Nominated
Best Actor in a Leading Role Daniel Day-Lewis Won
Best Actor in a Supporting Role Paul Dano Nominated
Best Film Music Jonny Greenwood Nominated
Best Production Design Jack Fisk, Jim Erickson Nominated
Best Cinematography Robert Elswit Nominated
Best Sound Matthew Wood Nominated
January 10, 2009 Belgian Syndicate of Cinema Critics[90] Grand Prix
Nominated
January 7, 2008 Broadcast Film Critics Association[91] Best Film
Nominated
Best Actor Daniel Day-Lewis Won
Best Composer Jonny Greenwood Won
January 26, 2008 Directors Guild of America[92] Outstanding Directing – Feature Film Paul Thomas Anderson Nominated
January 13, 2008 Golden Globe Awards[93] Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama Daniel Day-Lewis Won
Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama
Nominated
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Best Actor Daniel Day-Lewis Won
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Best Music Jonny Greenwood Runner-up
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Best Actor Daniel Day-Lewis Won
Best Screenplay Paul Thomas Anderson Nominated
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The line, "I drink your milkshake!", used by Daniel Plainview to explain his technique has been used in other media repeatedly. For example:
In season 24 of Jeopardy!, "I Drink Your Milkshake" was the title of a category about milkshakes.[102]
Jon Stewart, host of The Daily Show and the 80th Academy Awards (for which There Will Be Blood was nominated for eight Oscars), has referenced the phrase "I drink your milkshake" several times on his show in response to news involving oil drilling, including during interviews with Ted Koppel[103] and Nancy Pelosi.[104]
In February 2008, a Saturday Night Live skit featured a Food Network show called I Drink Your Milkshake, in which Daniel Plainview (Bill Hader) and H.W. (Amy Poehler) travel from state to state looking for the perfect milkshake.[105]
The South Park episode "Breast Cancer Show Ever" (October 15, 2008) parodies the final scene of the film: after Wendy beats up Cartman, Mr. Mackey approaches and says, "Wendy!", to which she replies, "I'm finished," as Cartman lies face down in blood.[106]
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Saturday Night Live cast members
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The original cast (l to r): Laraine Newman, John Belushi, Jane Curtin, Gilda Radner, Dan Aykroyd, Garrett Morris, and Chevy Chase
As of September 2017, the late night live variety series Saturday Night Live (SNL) has featured 150 cast members. The ensemble was originally referred to as the "Not Ready For Prime Time Players."
Contents
1 All cast members
1.1 Timeline
2 Notable tenures
2.1 Longest tenures
2.2 Shortest tenures
2.3 Youngest cast members
2.4 Oldest cast members
2.5 President of the United States impressionists
3 Emmy Awards
4 Both cast and hosts
5 "SNL Curse"
6 See also
7 Notes
8 References
All cast members[edit]
The list below includes both repertory and featured players past and present, but omits SNL writers and others who were not listed as cast members during the show's credits. The dates given are those of the years they were part of the cast. The chart also shows whether the cast member has served as a guest host, appeared as the anchorperson of the "Weekend Update" segment (by any of its titles), or has been the subject of their own "Best of" home video collection. Many of the cast members were writers as well.
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Performer
Years active
No. of seasons
Repertory player
Featured player only
"Weekend Update" anchor
Hosted
Best of...
Writer
Fred Armisen 2002–2013 11 Y Y
Dan Aykroyd 1975–1979 4 Y Y Y Y Y
Peter Aykroyd 1979–1980 1 Y Y
Morwenna Banks 1994–1995 1 Y
Vanessa Bayer 2010–2017 7 Y
Jim Belushi 1983–1985 2 Y Y
John Belushi 1975–1979 4 Y Y Y
Beck Bennett 2013–present 5 Y
Jim Breuer 1995–1998 3 Y
Paul Brittain 2010–2012 2 Y
A. Whitney Brown 1985–1991 6 Y Y
Aidy Bryant 2012–present 6 Y
Beth Cahill 1991–1992 1 Y
Dana Carvey 1986–1993 7 Y Y Y
Chevy Chase 1975-1977 2 Y Y Y Y Y
Michael Che 2014–present 4 Y Y Y
Ellen Cleghorne 1991–1995 4 Y
George Coe 1975–1976 1 Y
Billy Crystal 1984–1985 1 Y Y Y Y
Jane Curtin 1975–1980 5 Y Y
Joan Cusack 1985–1986 1 Y
Pete Davidson 2014–present 4 Y
Tom Davis 1977–1980 3 Y Y
Mikey Day 2016–present 2 Y Y
Denny Dillon 1980–1981 1 Y
Jim Downey 1979–1980 1 Y Y
Robert Downey Jr. 1985–1986 1 Y Y
Brian Doyle-Murray 1979–1980
1981–1982 2 Y Y Y
Rachel Dratch 1999–2006 7 Y
Robin Duke 1980–1984 4 Y Y
Nora Dunn 1985–1990 5 Y
Christine Ebersole 1981–1982 1 Y Y
Dean Edwards 2001–2003 2 Y
Abby Elliott 2008–2012 4 Y
Chris Elliott 1994–1995 1 Y
Jimmy Fallon 1998–2004 6 Y Y Y Y
Siobhan Fallon 1991–1992 1 Y
Chris Farley 1990–1995 5 Y Y Y
Will Ferrell 1995–2002 7 Y Y Y
Tina Fey 2000–2006 6 Y Y Y Y
Will Forte 2002–2010 8 Y
Al Franken 1977–1980
1985–1986
1988–1995 11 Y Y
Heidi Gardner 2017–present 1 Y
Janeane Garofalo 1994–1995 1 Y
Ana Gasteyer 1996–2002 6 Y
Gilbert Gottfried 1980–1981 1 Y
Mary Gross 1981–1985 4 Y Y Y
Christopher Guest 1984–1985 1 Y Y Y
Bill Hader 2005–2013 8 Y Y
Anthony Michael Hall 1985–1986 1 Y
Brad Hall 1982–1984 2 Y Y
Rich Hall 1984–1985 1 Y Y
Darrell Hammond 1995–2009 14 Y
Phil Hartman 1986–1994 8 Y Y Y Y
Jan Hooks 1986–1991 5 Y
Yvonne Hudson 1980–1981 1 Y
Melanie Hutsell 1991–1994 3 Y
Victoria Jackson 1986–1992 6 Y
Leslie Jones 2014–present 4 Y Y
Colin Jost 2013–present 5 Y Y Y
Chris Kattan 1995–2003 8 Y Y
Tim Kazurinsky 1980–1984 4 Y Y
Laura Kightlinger 1994–1995 1 Y Y
Taran Killam 2010–2016 6 Y
David Koechner 1995–1996 1 Y
Gary Kroeger 1982–1985 3 Y
Matthew Laurance 1980–1981 1 Y
Julia Louis-Dreyfus 1982–1985 3 Y Y
Jon Lovitz 1985–1990 5 Y Y Y
Norm Macdonald 1993–1998 5 Y Y Y Y
Gail Matthius 1980–1981 1 Y Y
Michael McKean 1993–1995 2 Y Y
Mark McKinney 1994–1997 3 Y
Kate McKinnon 2012–present 7 Y
Tim Meadows 1990–2000 10 Y Y Y
Laurie Metcalf 1980–1981 1 Y
Seth Meyers 2001–2014 13 Y Y Y
John Milhiser 2013–2014 1 Y
Dennis Miller 1985–1991 6 Y Y Y
Jerry Minor 2000–2001 1 Y Y
Finesse Mitchell 2003–2006 3 Y
Alex Moffat 2016–present 2 Y
Jay Mohr 1993–1995 2 Y Y
Kyle Mooney 2013–present 5 Y
Tracy Morgan 1996–2003 7 Y Y Y
Garrett Morris 1975–1980 5 Y Y
Bobby Moynihan 2008–2017 9 Y
Eddie Murphy 1980–1984 4 Y Y Y Y
Bill Murray 1976–1980 4 Y Y Y Y
Mike Myers 1988–1995 7 Y Y Y Y
Kevin Nealon 1986–1995 9 Y Y Y
Laraine Newman 1975–1980 5 Y
Don Novello 1979–1980
1985–1986 2 Y Y Y
Luke Null 2017–present 1 Y
Mike O'Brien 2013–2014 1 Y Y
Michael O'Donoghue 1975–1978 3 Y Y
Cheri Oteri 1995–2000 5 Y Y
Chris Parnell 1998–2006 8 Y
Nasim Pedrad 2009–2014 5 Y
Jay Pharoah 2010–2016 6 Y
Joe Piscopo 1980–1984 4 Y Y
Amy Poehler 2001–2009 8 Y Y Y Y
Emily Prager 1980–1981 1 Y
Randy Quaid 1985–1986 1 Y
Colin Quinn 1995–2000 5 Y Y Y
Gilda Radner 1975–1980 5 Y Y
Chris Redd 2017–present 1 Y
Jeff Richards 2001–2004 3 Y
Rob Riggle 2004–2005 1 Y
Ann Risley 1980–1981 1 Y
Tim Robinson 2012–2013 1 Y Y
Chris Rock 1990–1993 3 Y Y Y
Charles Rocket 1980–1981 1 Y Y
Tony Rosato 1980–1982 2 Y Y
Jon Rudnitsky 2015–2016 1 Y
Maya Rudolph 1999–2008 9 Y Y
Andy Samberg 2005–2012 7 Y Y Y
Adam Sandler 1990–1995 5 Y Y Y
Horatio Sanz 1998–2006 8 Y Y
Tom Schiller 1979–1980 1 Y Y
Rob Schneider 1990–1994 4 Y Y
Paul Shaffer 1979–1980 1 Y Y
Molly Shannon 1994–2001 7 Y Y Y
Harry Shearer 1979–1980
1984–1985 2 Y Y
Martin Short 1984–1985 1 Y Y Y
Sarah Silverman 1993–1994 1 Y Y Y
Jenny Slate 2009–2010 1 Y
Robert Smigel 1991–1993 2 Y Y
David Spade 1990–1996 6 Y Y Y Y
Pamela Stephenson 1984–1985 1 Y
Ben Stiller 1988–1989 1 Y Y
Cecily Strong 2012–present 6 Y Y
Jason Sudeikis 2004–2013 9 Y Y
Julia Sweeney 1990–1994 4 Y
Terry Sweeney 1985–1986 1 Y Y
Kenan Thompson 2003–present 15 Y
Danitra Vance 1985–1986 1 Y
Melissa Villaseñor 2016–present 2 Y
Dan Vitale 1985–1986 1 Y
Nancy Walls 1995–1996 1 Y
Michaela Watkins 2008–2009 1 Y
Damon Wayans 1985–1986 1 Y Y
Patrick Weathers 1980–1981 1 Y
Noël Wells 2013–2014 1 Y
Brooks Wheelan 2013–2014 1 Y
Kristen Wiig 2005–2012 7 Y Y
Casey Wilson 2007–2009 2 Y
Fred Wolf 1995–1997 2 Y Y
Sasheer Zamata 2014–2017 4 Y
Alan Zweibel 1979–1980 1 Y Y
Timeline[edit]
Lighter colors denote "featured players" versus repertory cast members.

Notable tenures[edit]
Longest tenures[edit]
These are the cast members who have spent at least ten seasons on the show.
Performer
No. of seasons
Notes
Kenan Thompson 15 Thompson holds the record of being the longest-tenured cast member in the show's history, having been a cast member since 2003. He is also the first person born after SNL's premiere in 1975 to have joined the cast (he was born in 1978). Thompson is also the only current cast member who was hired in the 2000s to still be on the show.
Darrell Hammond 14 Hired after a cast overhaul in 1995, he is the last cast member hired in the 1990s to leave the show, and the oldest cast member to leave the show (age 53 when he left the show in 2009). In 2014, Hammond returned to the show where he replaced Don Pardo as the show's announcer after Pardo's death, and often appears in sketches, reprising old roles such as Donald Trump and Bill Clinton.
Seth Meyers 13 He joined the show in 2001. In 2006, he starting anchoring Weekend Update and in 2012, his tenure on Weekend Update reached its seventh season, making him the longest-serving Weekend Update anchor (breaking the records held by Dennis Miller and Tina Fey). He continued to anchor Update until he left the show in February 2014 to take over hosting duties for Late Night.
Fred Armisen 11 Armisen joined the show in 2002, and left at the end of season 38 in 2013.
Al Franken Hired as a writer in the beginning of the series, as the show progressed, he and Tom Davis were allowed to perform material on-air sporadically, starting in 1977. He left the show in 1980, but returned to the show when Lorne Michaels came back in 1985, regaining his writing and on-air featured status, and came back in the finale episode of season 11 in 1986, and after a few years off, he came back for on-and-off featured status in 1988 and stayed until 1995. Later elected the junior United States Senator from Minnesota in 2009, and then he resigned in Jan. 2018.
Tim Meadows 10 Meadows joined the show in early 1991. He left the show at the end of the season 25, which ended in 2000, after ten seasons on the show.
Shortest tenures[edit]
These cast members spent less than a full 20-episode season on the show.[1]
Performer
No. of episodes
Notes
Emily Prager 0 Hired by Dick Ebersol to be a featured player, she appeared in a few sketches at dress rehearsal in what would be the final episode of season six, due to the Writers' Guild of America going on strike in 1981. She did not return to the SNL cast in season seven. This technically makes her the shortest tenured SNL cast member. Although she did not appear in the single episode for which she was credited as a featured player, she had appeared uncredited in five previous episodes.[2]
Laurie Metcalf 1 She also was hired as part of Ebersol's temporary season six cast following the termination of Jean Doumanian, and appeared on-camera in a Weekend Update piece. When the show was put on hiatus for retooling, she was not chosen to return to the show for the season seven cast.
Dan Vitale 3 Hired as an on-and-off featured player for season 11, he was only credited with appearing in three episodes throughout the season.
Morwenna Banks 4 She was hired as a repertory player for the last four episodes of season 20, but was let out of her contract as part of a major cast overhaul Lorne Michaels had planned for season 21.
Ben Stiller 4 Before becoming a cast member, he submitted a short film – a parody of the film The Color of Money – that was shown on the season 12 episode hosted by Charlton Heston. He was hired during season 14, but quit after four episodes due to creative differences. Despite this, he returned to host in 1998 and 2011.
Fred Wolf 4 He's been a writer since 1992. However, he became a featured player in near the end season 21 for the last four episodes, however, he only appeared and was credited for episodes 17, 18, and 20. His last episode was in the 3rd episode of the 22nd season. After that episode, he decided to leave the show for good.
Tom Schiller 7 One of the show writers who was upgraded to cast member status during season five, he left the show at the end of the season.
Patrick Weathers 7 Hired as a featured cast member for season six, he was fired along with many of Doumanian's cast.
George Coe 8 He was one of the original "Not-Ready-for-Primetime Players", because NBC wanted someone older in the cast. He was credited for only the first three episodes, though he continued to make several uncredited appearances throughout the first season. He was later known for voicing the valet Woodhouse in the animated series Archer.
Yvonne Hudson 8 She was a recurring extra during season five, and became the first black female cast member in season six. Like many of Doumanian's cast, she was fired mid-season.
Jim Downey 9 He was hired as one of many writers-turned-feature players in season five, and though he left the cast after the season, he returned to the show as a writer in the mid-1980s and has remained with it.
Matthew Laurance 10 Hired as a feature player during season six, he was fired as part of the mid-season overhaul.
Alan Zweibel 11 A writer for the show before joining the cast in season five, he left after the season finale.
Gilbert Gottfried 12 He joined the cast for season six and was fired as part of the mid-season overhaul.
Michael O'Donoghue 12 One of the original "Not Ready for Primetime Players" and the show's first head writer, he was dropped as a cast member after a few episodes. He remained with the show as a writer (leaving and returning twice) and occasional on-screen performer.
Ann Risley 12 She joined the cast for season six and was fired as part of the mid-season overhaul.
Charles Rocket 12 He joined the cast for season six and was fired as part of the mid-season overhaul, after having dropped an f-bomb one episode prior.
Damon Wayans 12 Hired for season 11 as a featured player, he was fired mid-season for improvising on the air. He returned as a guest to perform stand-up comedy on season 11's last episode and hosted SNL in 1995.
Beth Cahill 13 She joined the show during season 17 as an off-and-on featured player. She did not return the following season, as she was fired along with castmate Siobhan Fallon.
Denny Dillon 13 She joined the cast for season six and was let go after the finale as part of the cast overhaul. She auditioned for the show's first season, but did not make the cut.
Gail Matthius 13 She joined the cast for season six and was let go after the season ended.
Paul Shaffer 13 After being the band's pianist for the first five seasons, he joined the cast during season five, but left after the finale. He hosted SNL in 1987, making him the only member of the house band to do so.
Janeane Garofalo 14 She joined the cast during season 20, but quit mid-season due to creative differences.
Michaela Watkins 15 She joined the show on the first episode after the 2008 United States presidential election, then was let go before the start of season 35.
Peter Aykroyd 16 He joined the show midway through season five, but left at the end of the season, after only 16 episodes.
Youngest cast members[edit]
Performer
Age when joined show
Tenure
Anthony Michael Hall 17 years old 1985–1986
Eddie Murphy 19 years old 1980–1984
Robert Downey Jr. 20 years, 5 months 1985–1986
Pete Davidson 20 years, 10 months 2014–present
Abby Elliott 21 years, 5 months 2008–2012
Julia Louis-Dreyfus 21 years, 8 months 1982–1985
Sarah Silverman 22 years, 9 months 1993–1994
Jay Pharoah 22 years, 11 months 2010–2016
Oldest cast members[edit]
Performer
Age when joined show
Tenure
Leslie Jones 47 years old 2014–present
George Coe 46 years, 155 days 1975
Michael McKean 46 years, 147 days 1994–1995
Darrell Hammond 39 years old 1995–2009
Garrett Morris 38 years, 8 months 1975–1980
Phil Hartman 38 years, 1 month 1986–1994
Mike O'Brien 37 years old 2013–2014
Michaela Watkins 36 years, 11 months 2008–2009
Colin Quinn 36 years, 9 months 1996–2000
Christopher Guest 36 years, 8 months 1984–1985
Mikey Day 36 years, 7 months 2016-present
After 14 seasons, Hammond left as the show's oldest active cast member, ending his tenure at 53 years old during his final season in 2009.
President of the United States impressionists[edit]
Portraying the sitting President of the United States is considered "about as high [...] an honor that can be bestowed upon a cast member."[3]
President
Performer (years)
Gerald Ford Chevy Chase (1975–76)
Jimmy Carter Dan Aykroyd (1977–79)
Joe Piscopo (1980–81)
Ronald Reagan Charles Rocket (1981)
Joe Piscopo (1981–84)
Harry Shearer (1984)
Randy Quaid (1985–86)
Phil Hartman (1986–89)
George H. W. Bush Dana Carvey (1989–93)
President
Performer (years)
Bill Clinton Phil Hartman (1993–94)
Michael McKean (1994–95)
Darrell Hammond (1995–2001)
George W. Bush Will Ferrell (2001–2002)
Chris Parnell (2002–2003)
Darrell Hammond (2003)
Will Forte (2004–2006)
Jason Sudeikis (2006–2008)
Barack Obama Fred Armisen (2009–12)
Jay Pharoah (2012–16)
Donald Trump Alec Baldwin[n 1] (2017–present)
Darrell Hammond had the longest tenure portraying a U.S. president, with Bill Clinton from 1995–2001, and George W. Bush during 2003. Hammond also portrayed Richard Nixon in season 34, episode 12.
Michael McKean portrayed Bill Clinton during a brief period after Phil Hartman's departure. There was also a sketch featuring Chris Farley, David Spade, Chris Elliott, Adam Sandler, and Tim Meadows auditioning for the role of Clinton. There was also a gag in a 2001 sketch with Tracy Morgan filling in for Will Ferrell as George W. Bush.
Another noteworthy presidential portrayal was that of Dan Aykroyd as former president Richard Nixon from 1975–79.
Jim Carrey, while never having been an SNL cast member, portrayed Ronald Reagan in Funny or Die's Presidential Reunion of SNL Presidents (which reunited Chase as Ford, Aykroyd as Carter, Carvey as George H. W. Bush, Hammond as Clinton, Ferrell as George W. Bush, and Armisen as Obama), because two of the actors who previously portrayed Reagan had died since and the other three had declined to appear in the reunion. Carrey did, however, audition to be a cast member for the 1980–81 season; he hosted the show in May 1996, January 2011, and October 2014.
Donald Trump, having been a public figure before being president, was portrayed by several cast members over the years. He was portrayed by Phil Hartman (1988–90), Darrell Hammond (1999–11, 2015–16), Jason Sudeikis (2012) and Taran Killam (2015).
Emmy Awards[edit]
The Primetime Emmy Awards are presented by the American Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. These are the cast members who won or were nominated for an Emmy for their work while in the cast.
Year
Performer
Category
Result
Ref.
1976 Chevy Chase Performance in a Variety or Music Program - Supporting Actor Won
1977 Nominated
John Belushi Nominated
Gilda Radner Performance in a Variety or Music Program - Supporting Actress Nominated
1978 Dan Aykroyd Performance in a Variety or Music Program - Supporting Actror Nominated
John Belushi Nominated
Jane Curtin Performance in a Variety or Music Program - Supporting Actress Nominated
Gilda Radner Won
1984 Eddie Murphy Performance in a Variety or Music Program Nominated
Joe Piscopo Nominated
1985 Billy Crystal Nominated
1986 Jon Lovitz Nominated
1987 Nominated
1989 Dana Carvey Nominated
1990 Nominated
1991 Nominated
1992 Nominated
1993 Won
1994 Phil Hartman Nominated
Mike Myers Nominated
2000 Molly Shannon Nominated
2001 Will Ferrell Nominated
Year
Performer
Category
Result
Ref.
2008 Amy Poehler Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series Nominated
2009 Nominated
Kristen Wiig Nominated
2010 Nominated
2011 Nominated
2012 Nominated
Bill Hader Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series Nominated
2013 Nominated
2014 Kate McKinnon Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series Nominated
2015 Nominated
2016 Won
2017 Won [4]
Vanessa Bayer Nominated
Leslie Jones Nominated
Both cast and hosts[edit]
As of May 2016, there are 33 SNL hosts who, at one point in their careers, were either a repertory or featured member of the SNL cast.
Host
Number of
episodes
First hosted
Last hosted
Fred Armisen 1 May 21, 2016
Dan Aykroyd 1 May 17, 2003
Dana Carvey 4 October 22, 1994 February 5, 2011
Chevy Chase 8[5] February 18, 1978 February 15, 1997
Billy Crystal 2 March 17, 1984 May 12, 1984
Robert Downey Jr. 1 November 16, 1996
Jimmy Fallon 3 December 17, 2011 April 15, 2017
Chris Farley 1 October 25, 1997
Will Ferrell 4 May 14, 2005 January 27, 2018
Tina Fey 6 February 23, 2008 May 19, 2018
Bill Hader 2 October 11, 2014 March 17, 2018
Phil Hartman 2 March 23, 1996 November 23, 1996
Julia Louis-Dreyfus 3 May 13, 2006 April 16, 2016
Jon Lovitz 1 November 8, 1997
Norm Macdonald 1 October 23, 1999
Michael McKean 1 November 3, 1984
Tracy Morgan 2 March 14, 2009 October 17, 2015
Eddie Murphy 2 December 11, 1982 December 15, 1984
Bill Murray 5 March 7, 1981 February 20, 1999
Mike Myers 1 March 22, 1997
Don Novello 2 January 14, 1984 May 12, 1984
Amy Poehler 2 September 25, 2010 December 19, 2015
Chris Rock 2 November 2, 1996 November 1, 2014
Maya Rudolph 1 February 18, 2012
Andy Samberg 1 May 17, 2014
Paul Shaffer 1 January 31, 1987
Molly Shannon 1 May 12, 2007
Martin Short 3 December 6, 1986 December 15, 2012
Sarah Silverman 1 October 4, 2014
David Spade 2 November 7, 1998 March 12, 2005
Ben Stiller 2 October 24, 1998 October 8, 2011
Damon Wayans 1 April 8, 1995
Kristen Wiig 2 May 11, 2013 November 19, 2016
"SNL Curse"[edit]
Although SNL is best known as the launchpad for many successful careers, nine former cast members have died before the age of 60. This has given rise to a superstition known as the "Saturday Night Live Curse".[6][7][8]
Cast member
Age
Date of death
Cause of death
John Belushi 33 March 5, 1982 Belushi died of a drug overdose from a speedball injection (cocaine and heroin). His death led to the conviction of Cathy Smith for administering the fatal injection.
Gilda Radner 42 May 20, 1989 Radner died from ovarian cancer. She was originally scheduled to host the season 13 finale, a first for a former female cast member. However, SNL was canceled due to a Writer's Guild of America (WGA) strike. Radner's health worsened the following year. Moments before the season 14 finale, news broke of Radner's death. In lieu of the opening monologue Steve Martin, visibly shaken, introduced a replay of the "Dancing in the Dark" sketch he and Radner had performed in a 1978 episode;[9] her ex-husband G. E. Smith performed a musical tribute to Radner with the SNL band.
Danitra Vance 40 August 21, 1994 Vance died of breast cancer, which had returned after a remission three years earlier.
Michael O'Donoghue 54 November 8, 1994 O'Donoghue died from cerebral hemorrhage after suffering from severe chronic migraine headaches for most of his life. Bill Murray honored O'Donoghue's memory in an appearance on a season 20 episode[10] (hosted by Sarah Jessica Parker with musical guest R.E.M.) by replaying his sketch "Mr. Mike's Least Loved Bedtime Stories: The Soiled Kimono" from 1977.[11]
Chris Farley 33 December 18, 1997 Similar to Belushi, Farley died of a drug overdose from a speedball. His death occurred less than two months after he came back to host SNL, which turned out to be his final television appearance.
Phil Hartman 49 May 28, 1998 Hartman was murdered by his wife, Brynn, while he slept in his Encino, California home. Before committing this crime, Brynn had allegedly consumed a combination of cocaine, alcohol, and the antidepressant drug Zoloft, and later killed herself. During SNL's 25th anniversary special in 1999, several of Hartman's peers honored his memory by replaying his sketch "Love is a Dream" from 1988.
Charles Rocket 56 October 7, 2005 Rocket was found dead in his Canterbury, Connecticut backyard. Local police concluded his death a suicide; Rocket had allegedly taken his own life by slashing his throat with a box cutter.
Tom Davis 59 July 19, 2012 Davis died from head and neck cancer.
Jan Hooks 57 October 9, 2014 Hooks died of throat cancer after a long illness.[12]
See also[edit]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Not Ready For Prime Time Players.
Saturday Night Live Band
List of Saturday Night Live guests
List of Saturday Night Live writers
Notes[edit]
Jump up ^ Alec Baldwin performed the impersonation on a recurring guest basis, and not as a member of the cast.
References[edit]
Jump up ^ Graham, Mark. "The Michaela Watkins Club: 21 Other SNL Cast Members Who Only Lasted a Season (or Less) – Vulture". Nymag.com. Retrieved 2011-05-16.
Jump up ^ Specifically, 21 May 1977 Archived October 2, 2013, at the Wayback Machine., 19 Nov 1977 Archived October 2, 2013, at the Wayback Machine., 10 Dec 1977 Archived October 2, 2013, at the Wayback Machine., 22 Apr 1978 Archived October 2, 2013, at the Wayback Machine., and 10 Oct 1981 Archived October 2, 2013, at the Wayback Machine..
Jump up ^ "SNL Presidents". Movieline.com. Retrieved 2011-05-16.
Jump up ^ Fair, Vanity. "Kate McKinnon's Emmy Speech Abruptly Cut Off as She Thanks Hillary Clinton". Vanity Fair.
Jump up ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on October 29, 2012. Retrieved August 15, 2013.
Jump up ^ "Is There A 'Saturday Night Live' Curse?". Archived from the original on October 20, 2013.
Jump up ^ Caroline Donnelly. "7 Tragic SNL Deaths".
Jump up ^ Robert Rorke. "9 'SNL' stars we lost too soon".
Jump up ^ "Saturday Night Live Transcripts, 77r: Steve Martin / The Blues Brothers, Dancing in the Dark".
Jump up ^ "Michael O'Donoghue Tribute". snltranscripts.jt.org.
Jump up ^ "SNL Transcripts: Miskel Spillman: 12/17/77: Least-Loved Bedtime Tale: The Soiled Kimono". snltranscripts.jt.org.
Jump up ^ Thomas, Mike (October 20, 2015). "The Laughs, Pathos, and Overwhelming Talent of Jan Hooks". Grantland. Retrieved January 8, 2016.
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