09 December 2007

Yes, there will be blood

Four more critics' circles announced their year-end awards today. Amy Ryan seems to be taking the place of once frontrunner for the best supporting actress category Cate Blanchett (though I may suspect that confusion would be made as to whether she was the lead or supporting). Frank Langella has also emerged as a dark horse candidate for Best Actor... and if you're wondering about Colossal Youth from Portugal which took two best "experimental" films, the film, as of yet, has no US distributor (I'll keep you posted with that one). And this year's Cannes line-up appears to be connecting with the US film awards much more than previous years with In Competition films like No Country for Old Men, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Colossal Youth, Persepolis, and 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days all faring quite well in the year-end rush of prizes. Keep in mind though that The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is ineligible for the Foreign-Language Oscar as France chose Persepolis as their official selection. I'm pretty sure a good portion of the film is in English as well, so France avoided the conflict that Israel is facing now with their selection of The Band's Visit. I really don't have anything to say other than that... but here they are anyway. UPDATED: 12/11 with San Francisco Film Critics Circle.

Boston Film Critics Assosication

Film: No Country for Old Men

Director: Julian Schnabel (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly)

Actor: Frank Langella (Starting Out in the Evening)

Actress: Marion Cotillard (La Vie en rose)

Supporting Actor: Javier Bardem (No Country for Old Men)

Supporting Actress: Amy Ryan (Gone Baby Gone)

Screenplay: Brad Bird (Ratatouille)

Foreign-Language Film: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Documentary/Non-Fiction Film: Crazy Love - dir. Dan Klores

Cinematography: Janusz Kaminski (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly)

New Filmmaker: Ben Affleck (Gone Baby Gone)

Ensemble Cast: Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (Philip Seymour Hoffman, Albert Finney, Ethan Hawke, Marisa Tomei, Amy Ryan, et al)

Independent/Experimental: Colossal Youth [Juventude Em Marcha] - dir. Pedro Costa

Los Angeles Film Critics Association

Film: There Will Be Blood
Runner-Up: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Director: Paul Thomas Anderson (There Will Be Blood)
Runner-Up: Julian Schnabel (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly)

Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis (There Will Be Blood)
Runner-Up: Frank Langella (Starting Out in the Evening)

Actress: Marion Cotillard (La vie en rose)
Runner-Up: Anamaria Marinca (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days)

Supporting Actor: Vlad Ivanov (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days)
Runner-Up: Hal Holbrook (Into the Wild)

Supporting Actress: Amy Ryan (Gone Baby Gone)
Runner-Up: Cate Blanchett (I'm Not There)

Screenplay: Tamara Jenkins (The Savages)
Runner-Up: Paul Thomas Anderson (There Will Be Blood)

Foreign-Language Film: 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days [4 luni, 3 săptămâni şi 2 zile] - dir. Cristian Mungiu
Runner-Up: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly - dir. Julian Schnabel

Documentary/Non-Fiction Film: No End in Sight - dir. Charles Ferguson
Runner-Up: Sicko - dir. Michael Moore

Production Design: Jack Fisk (There Will Be Blood)
Runner-Up: Dante Ferretti (Sweeney Todd)

Animation (tie): Ratatouille - dir. Brad Bird; Persepolis - dir. Vincent Parannaud, Marjane Satrapi

Music: Glen Hansard, Marketa Irglova (Once)
Runner-Up: Jonny Greenwood (There Will Be Blood)

Cinematography: Janusz Kaminski (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly)
Runner-Up: Robert Elswit (There Will Be Blood)

New Generation: Sarah Polley (Away from Her)

Career Achievement: Sidney Lumet

Independent/Experimental: Colossal Youth [Juventude Em Marcha] - dir. Pedro Costa

Washington DC Film Critics

Film: No Country for Old Men

Director: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen (No Country for Old Men)

Actor: George Clooney (Michael Clayton)

Actress: Julie Christie (Away from Her)

Supporting Actor: Javier Bardem (No Country for Old Men)

Supporting Actress: Amy Ryan (Gone Baby Gone, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead)

Ensemble Cast: No Country for Old Men (Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Kelly Macdonald, Woody Harrelson, et al)

Breakthrough Performance: Ellen Page (Juno)

Adapted Screenplay: Aaron Sorkin (Charlie Wilson's War)

Original Screenplay: Diablo Cody (Juno)

Animated Feature: Ratatouille - dir. Brad Bird

Foreign Language Film: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly - dir. Julian Schnabel

Documentary: Sicko - dir. Michael Moore

Art Direction: Sweeney Todd

New York Online Film Critics

Film (tie): The Diving Bell and the Butterfly - dir. Julian Schnabel; There Will Be Blood - dir. Paul Thomas Anderson

Director: Paul Thomas Anderson (There Will Be Blood)

Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis (There Will Be Blood)

Actress: Julie Christie (Away from Her)

Supporting Actor: Javier Bardem (No Country for Old Men)

Supporting Actress: Cate Blanchett (I'm Not There)

Cinematography: Robert Elswit (There Will Be Blood)

Screenplay: Wes Anderson, Jason Schwartzman, Roman Coppola (The Darjeeling Limited)

Foreign Film (tie): The Lives of Others - dir. Florian Henckel von Donnersmark; Persepolis - dir. Vincent Parannaud, Marjane Satrapi

Documentary: Sicko - dir. Michael Moore

Music/Score: Jonny Greenwood (There Will Be Blood)

Breakthrough Performance: Ellen Page (Juno)

Debut as Director: Sarah Polley (Away from Her)

Ensemble Performance: Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (Philip Seymour Hoffman, Albert Finney, Ethan Hawke, Marisa Tomei, Amy Ryan, et al)

The 11 Best Films of 07 (alphabetically):
Atonement - dir. Joe Wright
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead - dir. Sidney Lumet
The Darjeeling Limited - dir. Wes Anderson
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly - dir. Julian Schnabel
I'm Not There - dir. Todd Haynes
Juno - dir. Jason Reitman
Michael Clayton - dir. Tony Gilroy
No Country for Old Men - dir. Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Persepolis - dir. Vincent Parannaud, Marjane Satrapi
Sweeney Todd - dir. Tim Burton
There Will Be Blood - dir. Paul Thomas Anderson

San Francisco Film Critics Circle

Film: The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

Director: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen (No Country for Old Men)

Actor: George Clooney (Michael Clayton)

Actress: Julie Christie (Away from Her)

Supporting Actor: Casey Affleck (The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford)

Supporting Actress: Amy Ryan (Gone Baby Gone)

Original Screenplay: Tamara Jenkins (The Savages)

Adapted Screenplay: Sarah Polley (Away from Her)

Documentary: No End in Sight - dir. Charles Ferguson

Foreign Film: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly - dir. Julian Schnabel

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