2007: Year in Review
Fritz Golden Superlatives

1. No Country for Old Men (dir: Joel Coen and Ethan Coen)

2. There Will Be Blood (dir: Paul Thomas Anderson)

3. Zodiac (dir: David Fincher)

4. Exiled (dir: Johnnie To; US Release Date)

5. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (dir: Andrew Dominik)

6. Black Book (dir: Paul Verhoeven; US release date)

7. Superbad (dir: Greg Mottola)

8. 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days (dir: Cristian Mungiu)

9. 12:08 East of Bucharest (dir: Corneliu Porumboiu; US release date)

10. Walk Hard: Thhe Dewey Cox Story (dir: Jake Kasdan)

Honorable Mentions (in alphabetical order): Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead (dir: Sidney Lumet), Bug (dir: William Friedkin), Control (dir: Anton Corbjin), The Darjeeling Limited (dir: Wes Anderson), Curse of the Golden Flower (dir: Zhang Yimou), Death Proof (dir: Quentin Tarantino), The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (dir: Julian Schnabel), Eastern Promises (dir: David Cronenberg), Election (dir: Johnnie To; US Release Date), The Host (dir: Bong Joon-ho; US release date), I’m Not There (dir: Todd Haynes), Offside (dir: Corneliu Porumboiu), Red Road (dir: Andrea Arnold), Shotgun Stories (dir: Jeff Nichols), Southland Tales (dir: Richard Kelly; US Release Date), Waitress (dir: Adrianne Shelly)

Best Film of the Year: No Country for Old Men
Directors: Joel Coen and Ethan Coen Producers: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, Scott Rudin
US Distributor: Miramax

Best Director
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men
2. Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will Be Blood
3. David Fincher, Zodiac
4. Johnnie To, Exiled
5. Andrew Dominik, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

Best Actor
Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood
2. Casey Affleck, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
3. Jonah Hill, Superbad
4. Viggo Mortensen, Eastern Promises
5. Brad Pitt, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

Best Actress
Marion Cotillard, La Vie en Rose
2. Ashley Judd, Bug
3. Anamaria Marinca, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
4. Carice van Houten, Black Book
5. Keri Russell, Waitress

Best Supporting Actor
Javier Bardem, No Country for Old Men
2. Tommy Lee Jones, No Country for Old Men
3. Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
4. Paul Dano, There Will Be Blood
5. Mircea Andreescu, 12:08 East of Budapest

Best Supporting Actress
Marisa Tomei, Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead
2. Cate Blanchett, I'm Not There
3. Cheryl Hines, Waitress
4. Tilda Swinton, Michael Clayton
5. Samantha Morton, Control

Best Original Screenplay
Superbad – Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg
2. Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story — Judd Apatow and Jake Kasdan
3. The Darjeeling Limited — Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola, and Jason Schwartzman
4. Waitress — Adrianne Shelly
5. Southland Tales — Richard Kelly

Best Adapted Screenplay
There Will Be Blood — Paul Thomas Anderson
2. Bug – Tracy Letts
3. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford – Andrew Dominik
4. No Country for Old Men – Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
5. Zodiac – James Vanderbilt

Best Cinematography
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford – Roger Deakins
2. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly – Janusz Kaminski
3. There Will Be Blood – Robert Elswit
4. No Country for Old Men — Roger Deakins
5. Zodiac – Harris Savides and Claudio Miranda

Best Original Score
There Will Be Blood – Jonny Greenwood
2. The Host — Lee Byung-woo
3. Southland Tales — Moby
4. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford – Nick Cave and Warren Ellis
5. The Lives of Others — Gabriel Yared and Stephane Moucha

Best Film Editing
Zodiac — Angus Wall
2. No Country for Old Men – Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
3. Eastern Promises – Ronald Sanders
4. Hot Fuzz — Chris Dickens 
5. Exiled — David Richardson

Best Production Design
The Darjeeling Limited — Mark Friedberg, Suzanne Caplan Merwanji, and Aradhana Seth
2. There Will Be Blood – Jack Fisk and Jim Erickson
3. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street – Dante Ferretti and Francesca Lo Schiavo
4. Stardust — Gavin Bocquet and Peter Young
5. Black Book – Wilbert Van Dorp

Best Costume Design
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street — Colleen Atwood
2. Stardust — Sammy Shelton
3. Curse of the Golden Flower — Chung Man Yee
4. Atonement — Jacuqeline Durran
5. There Will Be Blood — Mark Bridges

Best Visual Effects
The Host
2. Transformers
3. I Am Legend

Best Sound
No Country for Old Men
2. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
3. The Lives of Others

Best Makeup
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
2. Planet Terror
3. La Vie en Rose

Best Documentary Feature:
Gary Hustwit, Helvetica

Best Animated Feature:
Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis

Best Limited Series:
Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, Geoffrey C. Ward, Sarah Botstein, Karen Kenton, Vivian Connolly, and Ben Spivak, The War

Best Ensemble Cast: 
No Country for Old Men

Orson Welles' Best First Feature:
Corneliu Porumboiu, 12:08 East of Bucharest

Best Ensemble Cast (dir: Joel Coen and Ethan Coen; in alphabetical order): Javier Bardem, Rodger Boyce, Josh Brolin (pictured), Barry Corbin, Garret Dillahunt, Beth Grant, Tess Harper, Woody Harrelson, Tommy Lee Jones, Kelly Macdonald (pictured) and Stephen Root

Best First Feature: Corneliu Porumboiu, 12:08 East of Bucharest

RECAP

W I N S :

No Country for Old Men — 5,
There Will Be Blood — 3, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford — 2, 12:08 East of Bucharest — 1, Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead — 1, The Darjeeling Limited — 1, Helvetica — 1, The Host — 1, La Vie en Rose — 1, Persepolis — 1, Superbad — 1, Sweeney Todd — 1, The War — 1, Zodiac — 1

M U L T I P L E
N O M I N A T I O N S :

No Country for Old Men — 9, There Will Be Blood — 9,
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford — 7, Zodiac — 4, 12:08 East of Bucharest — 3, Black Book — 3, Exiled — 3, The Host— 3, Superbad — 3, Waitress— 3, 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days — 2, Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead — 2, Bug — 2, The Darjeeling Limited — 2, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly — 2, Eastern Promises — 2, La Vie en Rose — 2, The Lives of Others — 2, Sweeney Todd — 2, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story — 2

the year-end project:
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Best of the Decade:
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