Cinema-Scene

—Movie Reviews by David L. Blaylock—

12th Annual Cinema-Scene Awards

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


Best Visual Effects
#1: Beowulf
#2: Grindhouse
#3: The Golden Compass
#4: I Am Legend
#5: Transformers

 

--The Honorary Awards--

Best Breakthrough Performance - Male
Glen Hansard (Once)


Best Breakthrough Performance - Female
Anamaria Marinca
(4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days)


Best First Feature
Anton Corbijn
(Control)


Worst Film of the Year
The Hills Have Eyes II (dir: Martin Weisz)
 
by David L. Blaylock