Looking for lists of critics’ favorite films from 2007? Today is your lucky day!
Not to be outdone by last week’s unveiling of the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures awards, a number of critics’ associations have announced their honors, including the New York Film Critics Online, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, the Boston Society of Film Critics, and the Washington, D.C. Area Film Critics Association. Let’s take a look, shall we? The awards follow, with Tomatometer ratings following film titles in parentheses:
New York Film Critics Online:
Picture — There Will Be Blood (100 percent) / The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (94 percent)
Actor — Daniel Day-Lewis (There Will Be Blood)
Actress — Julie Christie (Away From Her, 95 percent)
Director — PT Anderson (There Will Be Blood)
Supporting Actor — Javier Bardem (No Country for Old Men) (95 percent)
Supporting Actress — Cate Blanchett (I’m Not There, 79 percent)
Breakthrough Performer — Ellen Page (Juno, 92 percent)
Debut Director — Sarah Polley (Away From Her)
Ensemble Cast — Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead (88 percent)
Screenplay — The Darjeeling Limited, 66 percent (Wes Anderson, Jason Schwartzman, Roman Coppola)
Documentary — Sicko (93 percent)
Foreign Language — The Lives of Others (93 percent) / Persepolis (100 percent)
Animated — Persepolis
Cinematography — There Will Be Blood (Robert Elswit)
Film Music — There Will Be Blood (Jonny Greenwood)
Los Angeles Film Critics Association:
Picture — There Will Be Blood
Director — Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will Be Blood
Actor — Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood
Actress — Marion Cotillard, La Vie en rose (74 percent)
Supporting Actor — Vlad Ivanov, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (96 percent)
Supporting Actress — Amy Ryan, Gone Baby Gone, (93 percent) and Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead
Screenplay — Tamara Jenkins, The Savages (90 percent)
Foreign Languange Film — 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
Documentary — No End in Sight (95 percent)
Animation — Ratatouille (97 percent) and Persepolis (tie)
Music — Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova, Once (98 percent)
Cinematography — Janusz Kaminski, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Boston Society of Film Critics:
Picture — No Country for Old Men
Actor — Frank Langella (Starting Out in the Evening, 80 percent)
Actress — Marion Cotillard (La Vie en rose)
Director — Julian Schnabel (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly)
Supporting Actor — Javier Bardem (No Country for Old Men)
Supporting Actress — Amy Ryan (Gone Baby Gone)
Ensemble Cast — Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead
Screenplay — Brad Bird (Ratatouille)
Documentary — Crazy Love (78 percent)
Foreign Language — The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Cinematography — Janusz Kaminski (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly)
Washington, D.C. Area Film Critics Association:
Picture — No Country for Old Men
Director — Joel and Ethan Coen (No Country for Old Men)
Actor — George Clooney (Michael Clayton, 90 percent)
Actress — Julie Christie (Away From Her)
Supporting Actor — Javier Bardem (No Country for Old Men)
Supporting Actress — Amy Ryan (Gone Baby Gone)
Screenplay — Aaron Sorkin (Charlie Wilson’s War, adaptation, 88 percent); Diablo Cody (Juno, original)
Documentary — Sicko
Foreign Film — The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Animated — Ratatouille
Source: ComingSoon (New York)
Source: Variety (Los Angeles)
Source: Variety (Boston)
Source: Variety (Washington, D.C.)
