Question: Which film has the director who was born first, There Will Be Blood or The City Gone Wild?

Robert Christopher Elswit,( born April 22, 1950) is an American cinematographer. He has had multiple Oscar, BAFTA and Independent Spirit nominations for several films, including winning for" There Will Be Blood"( 2007). Elswit frequently works with director Paul Thomas Anderson. <SEP> His films have been nominated for 25 Academy Awards, winning three for cast and crew. An alumnus of the Sundance Institute, Anderson directed his first feature film," Hard Eight", in 1996. He achieved critical and commercial success with" Boogie Nights"( 1997), set during the Golden Age of Porn. His 2007 film" There Will Be Blood", about an oil prospector during the Southern California oil boom, is often cited as one of the best films of the 2000s. Paul Thomas Anderson( born June 26, 1970) is an American filmmaker. Anderson's other films include" Magnolia"( 1999)," Punch- Drunk Love"( 2002)," The Master"( 2012)," Inherent Vice"( 2014), and" Phantom Thread"( 2017). <SEP> The City Gone Wild( 1927) is a silent gangster film produced by Famous Players- Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The last known copy of this film was nearly saved in the late 1960s by preservationist David Shepard for deposit at AFI. Paramount had also contracted with junk men to haul off their old rusting reels with the film still wound on. The film starred Louise Brooks and was directed by James Cruze, and is now a lost film. Shepard arrived at the studio just as junkmen carted the film off for disposal. <SEP> Wale Adebanwi( born 1969) is a Nigerian- born first Black Rhodes Professor at St Antony's College, Oxford. <SEP> James Cruze( born Jens Vera Cruz Bosen, March 27, 1884 near Ogden, Utah – August 3, 1942 in Hollywood, California) was a silent film actor and film director. <SEP> It stars Daniel Day- Lewis as a silver miner- turned- oilman on a ruthless quest for wealth during Southern California's oil boom of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Paul Dano, Kevin J. O'Connor, Ciarán Hinds, and Dillon Freasier also feature in the film. The film was produced by Ghoulardi Film Company and distributed by Paramount Vantage and Miramax Films. 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 Jonny Greenwood's score. The film grossed$ 76.2 million worldwide against its$ 25 million budget. " There Will Be Blood" received significant critical praise for its cinematography, direction, screenplay, and particularly the performance of Day- Lewis, who won Oscar, BAFTA, Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild, NYFCC and IFTA Best Actor awards for the role. It appears on several lists of the greatest films of the 21st century, and appeared on many critics'" top ten" lists for the year, notably the American Film Institute, the National Society of Film Critics, the, and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association. At the 80th Academy Awards, the film was nominated for eight Oscars( tying with another Paramount Vantage/ Miramax co-production" No Country for Old Men"). There Will Be Blood is a 2007 American epic drama film written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, loosely based on the novel" Oil!" by Upton Sinclair. The nominations included the Best Picture and Best Director for Anderson. The film won two Oscars, the Best Actor for Day- Lewis and the Best Cinematography for Robert Elswit.