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2007 Oscar Awards
Nomination ballots were mailed 26 December 2007; nominations were announced 22 January 2008;
polls closed 19 February; the 80th Academy Awards show was televised 24 February 2008 on A.B.C.
complete listings of 2008 Academy Awards for films of 2007
A.M.P.A.S. site •
Internet Movie Database
And the winner is...
"No Country For Old Men"
[Miramax / Paramount Vantage Oct 2007]
  | Filmed in the Albuquerque, New Mexico area. A down-on-his-luck Texan finds the money left after a drug-deal shootout in the desert, and a psychopathic killer sets out to get the money back. Co-produced, co-written, co-directed & co-edited by Joel & Ethan Coen; based on the novel by Cormac McCarthy; starring Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin, Javier Bardem, Woody Harrelson, Kelly Macdonald, Garret Dillahunt, Tess Harper, Barry Corbin & Gene Jones; listed #1 on TIME Top Ten Best Movies of The Year (12/2007); won Oscars for Best Picture, Best Directing, Best Script Adaptation, Best Supporting Actor {Bardem}; Oscar noms for Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Sound, Best Sound Editing; won DGA Award, WGA Award, PGA Award, 3 BAFTA Awards, 2 SAG Awards, Italy's David di Donatello Award for Best Foreign Film & USC's Scripter Award
Disney Video widescreen color Blu-Ray [3/2008] for $19.95 Miramax widescreen color DVD [3/2008] for $15.99 40"x17" poster from Amazon for $19.99 full credits from IMDb • Buena Vista official movie site | |
 | "No Country For Old Men" [2005 novel] by Pulitzer-winner Cormac McCarthy Vintage Intl. movie tie-in 8x5 pb [10/2007] for $11.20 Vintage 8x5 pb [7/2006] for $12.35 Knopf 8x5¾ hardcover [7/2005] for $17.79 |
"Across The Universe" [Revolution/Sony Sept 2007]
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PREDICTION 10/2007: Oscar nominations for Best Director & Best Visual Effects Strikingly visionary teen love story set in the turbulent 1960s using 33 Beatles songs & psychedelic graphics. Co-written & directed by Julie Taymor; co-written by Dick Clement & Ian La Frenais; starring Jim Sturgess, Joe Anderson, Evan Rachel Wood, Dana Fuchs, Martin Luther, T.V. Carpio & Spencer Liff, with cameos by Joe Cocker, Salma Hayek, Eddie Izzard & Bono; one Oscar nomination for Best Costume Design Sony widescreen color Blu-ray [2/2008] for $12.99 Sony widescreen color DVD [2/2008] 2 disks - out of prodn/many used Interscope records soundtrack CD [10/2007] 2 disks for $9.99 Interscope records soundtrack CD [9/2007] for $10.97 full credits from IMDb official movie site |
"American Gangster" [Imagine Nov 2007]
| PREDICTION 11/2007: Oscar nominations for Best Director & Best Editing The true story of the 1970s heroin trade in New York City's Harlem, and the police detective who put Frank Lucas in jail for 70 years. Co-produced & directed by Ridley Scott; written & co-produced by Steven Zaillian, based on an article by Mark Jacobson; starring Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, Cuba Gooding Jr., Josh Brolin, 'RZA', John Ortiz, John Hawkes, Ted Levine, Yul Vazquez & Carla Gugino; Oxcar nomination for Best Supporting Actress (RD), 5 BAFTA noms, won SAG Best Supporting Actress (RD) Universal Collector's Edition widescreen color DVD [2/2008] 2 disks for $19.99 Universal Deluxe Edition widescreen color DVD [2/2008] 3 disks for $27.99 full credits from IMDb • official movie site novelization by Max Allen Collins
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"American Gangster and Other Tales of New York" [2007] by Mark Jacobson Grove Press pb [10/2007] for $11.20 Blackstone UNABR audio CD [10/2007] for $45.36 |
"The Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford" [2007]
full credits from IMDb
"Atonement" [2007]
full credits from IMDb
"Charlie Wilson's War" [2007]
full credits from IMDb
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHl-6uH8MUQ [2:32]
"Die Fälscher" ("The Counterfeiters") [2007]
full credits from IMDb
"The 11th Hour"
[Warner Independent documentary Aug 2007]
 | "Turn mankind's darkest hour into its finest" Co-written & co-directed by Nadia Conners & Leila Conners Petersen; co-produced, co-written & hosted by Leonardo DiCaprio; footage includes Mikhail Gorbachev, Thom Hartmann, Stephen Hawking & Bill McKibben Warner Home Video color DVD [4/2008] for $4.99 full credits from IMDb • official movie site 11th Hour Action community forum site |
"Elizabeth: The Golden Age" [2007]
full credits from IMDb
"I'm Not There" [2007]
full credits from IMDb
"In the Valley of Elah" [2007]
full credits from IMDb
"Juno" [2007]
full credits from IMDb
"La Môme" aka "La Vie en Rose" [France 2007]
full credits from IMDb
"Michael Clayton" [Castle Rock Oct 2007]
 | The 'fixer' at a New York law firm tries to save an overworked partner from a crisis of conscience, but billions of dollars are at stake in a class action lawsuit against the ruthless agri-giant client, and the partner's sudden suicide looks a lot like murder.
Written & directed by Tony Gilroy; co-produced by Steve Samuels, Steven Soderbergh, George Clooney & Sydney Pollack; starring George Clooney, Tom Wilkinson, Sydney Pollack, Michael O'Keefe, Tilda Swinton, Robert Prescott, Terry Serpico, Merritt Wever & Sean Cullen; won Oscar for Best Supporting Actress (TS), Oscar noms for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Script, Best Actor (Clooney), Best Sipporting Actor (TW) & Best Original Music Score; won BAFTA Best Supporting Actress; nominated for DGA, PGA & WGA Award, 3 SAG Award noms
Warner Home Video widescreen color DVD [2/2008] for $16.99 Warner Home Video color DVD [2/2008] for $21.99 full credits from IMDb • official movie site |
"Persepolis" [France May 2007, USA Oct 2007]
  | Oscar-nominated mostly black-and-white animated masterpiece, French-language with subtitles. Tells the history of artist Satrapi from her childhood under the Shah of Iran, during the Iraq-Iran War, and thru exile in Vienna & Paris.
Co-written & co-directed by Vincent Paronnaud & Marjane Satrapi, based on Satrapi's graphic novels; with the voices of Chiara Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve, Danielle Darrieux, Simon Abkarian, Gabrielle Lopes, François Jerosme, Arié Elmaleh & Mathias Mlekuz; Oscar nomination for Best Animated Feature Film
Sony Pictures widescreen color/b&w Blu-ray [6/2008] for $10.12 Sony Pictures widescreen color/b&w DVD [6/2008] for $5.62 full credits from IMDb official French-language movie site on MySpace Sony Classics official USA moviesite French-language 27"x40" poster from Amazon for $16.48   "The Complete Persepolis: Now a Major Motion Picture" [2007]
Pantheon 8¾x6 pb graphic novel [10/2007] for $14.10 Pantheon 9x5¾ hardcover graphic novel [5/2008] for $30.56 prior editions in paper & hardcover |
"Sicko" [Weinstein/Dog Eat Dog June 2007]
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Moore compares the failed American health care system with that of Canada & Cuba. Official tagline: "A comedy about 45 million people with no health care in the richest country on earth."
Co-produced, written & directed by and starring Michael Moore; won ACE & PGA Awards, nominated for WGA Award & for Best Documentary Feature Oscar Weinstein Company color DVD [11/2007] for $19.99 full credits from IMDb official movie site |
"Taxi To The Dark Side" [2007]
full credits from IMDb
"There Will Be Blood"
[Paramount Vantage/Miramax Dec 2007]
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PREDICTION 12/2007: The movie isn't even out yet and critics already list the film and Daniel Day-Lewis for Oscar wins. (The trailer is showing, so I've seen why this is so.) A wealthy oilman meets his match when he tries to cheat a Texas family headed by a blowhard preacher. Co-produced, 'loosely adapted' & directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, based on Upton Sinclair's 1927 novel "Oil!"; starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano, Kevin J. O'Connor, Ciarán Hinds & Dillon Freasier; won Oscars for Best Actor (DDL) & Best Cinematography, Oscar noms for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Script Adaptation, Best Editing, Best Sound Editing & Best Art Direction; also won ASC, ADG, BAFTA Best Actor (plus 8 BAFTA noms), Berlin Silver Bear & SAG Best Actor awards, and DGA, PGA & WGA noms
Paramount widescreen color DVD Special Collector's Edition [4/2008] 2 disks for $21.99 Paramount widescreen color DVD [4/2008] for $15.99 27"x40" fire poster from Amazon for $19.99 11"x17" fire poster from Amazon for $14.99 27"x40" face poster from Amazon for $19.99 full credits at IMDb • official movie site |
 | "Oil!: A Novel" [1927] by Upton Sinclair [1878-1968] A fast-paced tale of the 1920s oil boom in Southern California Penguin 7¾x5½ movie tie-in pb [12/2007] for $10.20 Univ CA Press 8x5½ pb [4/97] out of print/used Bentley hardcover [6/79] out of print/used |
 | "Screen World Volume 59: The Films of 2007" [2008] Edited by John Willis & Barry Monush Applause Books 9½x7¾ hardcover [11/2008] out of print/50+ used |
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