Tune in to ABC this Sunday night at 8 PM ET to catch the 80th annual Academy Awards. The Tim Burton-directed adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd has been nominated for three Academy Awards. Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood shares the distinction, with No Country for Old Men, of being the most nominated film this year.

Jonny Greenwood picked up an Evening Standard British Film Award last night for Best Film Score for his contribution to There Will Be Blood. The film's star, Daniel Day-Lewis was named Best Actor. Helena Bonham Carter was recognized as Best Actress for her work both in Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd and in the small, independent film Conversations with Other Women.

Jonny Greenwood's score for There Will Be Blood has been praised by the New Yorker as a "revelatory" contribution to the world of film composition, and, says the Telegraph, it just may signal a "Belle Epoque" of British film music. The article signals out the score from Greenwood as "a giant step in his reinvention as an orchestral composer above and beyond his work as Radiohead's guitarist."

On the same day Alex Ross, the New Yorker music critic, enjoyed the Stephen Colbert treatment as a guest on the Colbert Report, Gothamist published an interview with Ross, in which he discusses his new book, The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the 20th Century. In the interview, Ross is asked what he would recommend to someone just learning to explore classical music. To get the full experience suggests both attending a live concert and buying a few representative CDs, including Lorraine Hunt Lieberson's album of Bach cantatas, BWV 82 and 199, and Steve Reich and Musicians playing Reich's Music for 18 Musicians. As for his current "soundtrack to the city," Ross cites two film scores: Jonny Greenwood's There Will Be Blood and Philip Glass's Koyaanisqatsi.

The nominations for the 80th Academy Awards have been announced. Congratulations go to There Will Be Blood and Sweeney Todd, which have received a combined 11 nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor for There Will Be Blood and Best Actor for Sweeney Todd. The Awards will be handed out in Hollywood on February 24.

The Sacramento News & Review calls There Will Be Blood "a real achievement" and says that with the film, director Paul Thomas Anderson "has achieved a bombastic breakthrough ... This is the best work he’s ever done." It is Daniel Day-Lewis, "a titan" in the lead acting role, and Jonny Greenwood as composer of the score "without whose contributions the movie almost certainly wouldn’t work," writes the News & Review's Jonathan Kiefer. He calls Greenwood an "essential performer" in the film and the music just "what this throbbing film needs."

The Bay Area Reporter says that Jonny Greenwood's score for There Will Be Blood "is nothing short of mind-blowing." Writes reviewer Gregg Shapiro: "Greenwood's stunning compositions and orchestration put this soundtrack in a class by itself."

Rolling Stone's Peter Travers, in his four-star review of Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood, writes that "in terms of excitement, imagination and rule-busting experimentation, it's a gusher ... There Will Be Blood hits with hurricane force." Travers says Greenwood's score "is revolutionary, a sonic explosion that reinvents what movie music can be."

The Broadcast Film Critics Association has honored There Will Be Blood with two Critics' Choice Awards: Best Actor for Daniel Day-Lewis and Best Composer for Jonny Greenwood. 

To say that Glide magazine's Martin Malloy wonders rhetorically how a collaboration on There Will Be Blood among three "masters of their domain"—Paul Thomas Anderson, Daniel Day-Lewis, and Jonny Greenwood—could possibly disappoint. "Well it can't!" he answers. "And it didn't." For the reviewer, "the most gratifying experience of the whole film was Jonny Greenwood's emergence as an incredible film composer ... Greenwood’s score gets under your skin and doesn’t leave for over two hours, yet it’s somehow still beautiful and enthralling."

The San Francisco Chronicle gives "Wild Applause" to Jonny Greenwood's score for There Will Be Blood, with writer David Wiegand saying the album fully stands up on its own, apart from the film for which it was written. "A richly haunting series of symphonic and chamber poems that show their influences (Britten, Stravinsky) and cut their own paths as well," Wiegand says of Greenwood's score. Exquisite performances by the BBC Concert Orchestra, Empire Quartet, Dale and pianist Michael Dussek," writes Wiegand, "showcase the dark brilliance of Greenwood's music."

In the San Jose Mercury News review of There Will Be Blood, film critic Mary F. Pols says "there will be no other film like it this year or next, nothing that sounds like it or looks like it or feels like it." And Jonny Greenwood's score, she writes, is "as primitive, ominous, and exciting as the movie itself."