Paul Dano got slammed by Tarantino. Now, he's 'grateful that the world spoke up for me'

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After Paul Dano came under unexpected fire from filmmaker Quentin Tarantino in December, the “There Will Be Blood” star received support from fellow artists including Daniel Day-Lewis and Ben Stiller.A month after the drama, he is now returning the love.

Dano finally publicly addressed Tarantino’s controversial comments at the Sundance Film Festival during a 20th anniversary screening of “Little Miss Sunshine.” Speaking to Variety, he said the groundswell of support “was really nice.”Tarantino appeared on Bret Easton Ellis’ podcast in December to rank his top 10 films of the century.The “Django Unchained” and “Pulp Fiction” filmmaker placed Paul Thomas Anderson’s oil drama “There Will Be Blood” at No.

5 on his list, and said specifically Dano — not his performance — was the “big, giant flaw” in the Oscar-winning film.“There Will Be Blood” stars Dano as fiery preacher Eli Sunday and Day-Lewis as oil tycoon Daniel Plainview.

Even as attendees feel the nostalgic pull of Park City, the fest’s first weekend supplies confrontational fare such as Casper Kelly’s “Buddy” and Charli XCX in “The Moment.”When the movie was released in 2007, former Times film critic Kenneth Turan praised Dano as “smoothly effective” and gifted.Clearly, Tarantino thought otherwise.

“He is weak sauce, man.He’s a weak sister,” Tarantino said, adding that he thought “Elvis” star Austin Butler (who was a teenager launching his career on Disney Channel and Nickelodeon when the movie came out) would have been a better actor for the part.

“He’s just such a weak, weak, uninteresting guy,” he said.Tarantino added: “You put [Day-Lewis] with the the weakest f— actor in SAG?” A handful of Dano’s collaborators immediately defended him.

“Escape at Dannemora” executive producer Stiller praised him as “brilliant” and Reese Wither...