The Year in Film: 2007

Best Picture
#1: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (dir: Julian Schnabel)
#2: Superbad (dir: Gret Mottola)
#3: Zodiac (dir: David Fincher)
#4: There Will Be Blood (dir: Paul Thomas Anderson)
#5: Atonement (dir: Joe Wright)
#6: No Country for Old Men (dir: Joel Coen)
#7: 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (dir: Cristian Mungiu)
#8: Once (dir: John Carney)
#9: Grindhouse (dir: Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino)
#10: Control (dir: Anton Corbijn)

Honorable Mentions: This Is England (dir: Shane Meadows), Eastern Promises(dir: David Croenenberg), Black Book (dir: Paul Verhoeven), I’m Not There (dir: Todd Haynes), Brand Upon the Brain! (dir: Guy Maddin), Ratatouille (dir: Brad Bird), Ocean’s Thirteen (dir: Steven Soderbergh), The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema(dir: Sophie Fiennes), The Lives of Others (dir: Florian Henchel von Donnersmarck), and Gone Baby Gone (dir: Ben Affleck).

Best Director
#1: David Fincher (Zodiac)
#2: Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino (Grindhouse)
#3: Julian Schnabel (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly)
#4: Paul Thomas Anderson (There Will Be Blood)
#5: David Cronenberg (Eastern Promises)

Best Actor
#1: Daniel Day Lewis (There Will Be Blood)
#2: Viggo Mortensen (Eastern Promises)
#3: Glen Hansard (Once)
#4: Jonah Hill (Superbad)
#5: Philip Seymour Hoffman (The Savages)

Best Actress
#1: Anamaria Marinca (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days)
#2: Carice van Houten (Black Book)
#3: Cate Blanchett (Elizabeth: The Golden Years)
#4: Naomi Watts (Eastern Promsies)
#5: Keira Knightley (Atonement)

Best Supporting Actor
#1: Robert Downey, Jr. (Zodiac)
#2: Philip Seymour Hoffman (Charlie Wilson’s War)
#3: Tommy Lee Jones (No Country for Old Men)
#4: Kurt Russell (Grindhouse)
#5: Vlad Ivanov (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days)

Best Supporting Actress
#1: Vanessa Redgrave (Atonement)
#2: Zoe Bell (Grindhouse)
#3: Cate Blanchett (I’m Not There)
#4: Laura Vasiliu (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days)
#5: Saoirse Ronan (Atonement)

Best Original Screenplay
#1: Superbad (Seth Rogan and Evan Goldberg)
#2: This Is England (Shane Meadows)
#3: 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days(Cristian Mungiu)
#4: Once (John Carney)
#5: Eastern Promises (Steven Knight)

Best Adapted Screenplay
#1: No Country for Old Men (Joel and Ethan Coen)
#2: Atonement (Christopher Hampton)
#3: There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson)
#4: Zodiac (James Vanderbilt)
#5: Into the Wild (Sean Penn)

Best Cinematography
#1: Harris Savides (Zodiac)
#2: Robert Elswit (There Will Be Blood)
#3: Roger Deakins (The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford)
#4: Roger Deakins (No Country for Old Men)
#5: Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino (Grindhouse)

Best Film Editing
#1: Grindhouse
#2: There Will Be Blood
#3: No Country for Old Men
#4: Brand Upon the Brain!
#5: Eastern Promises

Best Original Score
#1: Atonement (Dario Marianelli)
#2: The Lives of Others (Stéphane Moucha and Gabriel Yared)
#3: Black Book (Anne Dudley)
#4: Eastern Promises (Howard Shore)
#5: Zodiac (David Shire)

Best Original Song
#1: “Falling Slowly” (Once)
#2: “If You Want Me” (Once)
#3: “Hard Sun” (Into the Wild)
#4: “Beautiful Ride” (Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story)
#5: “Lies” (Once)

Best Production Design
#1: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Butcher of Fleet Street
#2: Atonement
#3: There Will Be Blood
#4: Grindhouse
#5: Brand Upon the Brain!

Best Costume Design
#1: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Butcher of Fleet Street
#2: Atonement
#3: There Will Be Blood
#4: Stardust
#5: Black Book

Best Makeup
#1: Grindhouse
#2: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Butcher of Fleet Street
#3: There Will Be Blood
#4: The Golden Compass
#5: Eastern Promises

Best Sound
#1: Grindhouse
#2: There Will Be Blood
#3: No Country for Old Men
#4: Control
#5: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Butcher of Fleet Street