The 2007 Critics Consensus Award Nominations
There will be no country for butterflies in the 2007 Critics Consensus Award nominations! The critics selected from the year's wealth of excellent Oscar offerings their picks for the finest achievements in film, and the cumulative results of their awards and polls brought about seven CCA nominations each for the Coen brothers' return to form No Country for Old Men and the film that reinvigorated Paul Thomas Anderson's career, There Will Be Blood. There's another non-English language title in the Best Picture mix (the third in two years): Julian Schnabel's highly acclaimed The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, and a strong showing for David Fincher's Zodiac, kicking off the second act of his cinema career in fine fashion. Great to see a Best Actress mention for 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days' Anamaria Marinca, though not so great to see Angelina Jolie's blackface rewarded (how things have changed in the last 11 years!) - indeed, this is an unfortunate example of #CCASoWhite, as only Ensemble Cast and Foreign Language Film recognize any artists of colour. A pretty risible show, that, particularly given that there were more opportunities for recognition than ever before, as the introduction of the Best Editing prize raises the category total to 14, a new high. Award winners are on their way later today, but nominees are all right here, right now:
Best Picture
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Kathleen Kennedy, Jon Kilik and Julian Schnabel)
Juno (Lianne Halfon, John Malkovich, Mason Novick, Jason Reitman and Russell Smith)
No Country for Old Men (Ethan Coen, Joel Coen and Scott Rudin)
There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson, Daniel Lupi and JoAnne Sellar)
Zodiac (Cean Chaffin, David Fincher, Brad Fischer, Mike Medavoy, Arnold Messer and James Vanderbilt)
Best Director
Paul Anderson (There Will Be Blood)
Tim Burton (Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street)
Ethan Coen and Joel Coen (No Country for Old Men)
David Fincher (Zodiac)
Julian Schnabel (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly)
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
Julie Christie (Away from Her)
Marion Cotillard (La Vie en Rose)
Angelina Jolie (A Mighty Heart)
Anamaria Marinca (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days)
Ellen Page (Juno)
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
George Clooney (Michael Clayton)
Daniel Day-Lewis (There Will Be Blood)
Ryan Gosling (Lars and the Real Girl)
Frank Langella (Starting Out in the Evening)
Viggo Mortensen (Eastern Promises)
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
Cate Blanchett (I'm Not There.)
Jennifer Jason Leigh (Margot at the Wedding)
Saoirse Ronan (Atonement)
Amy Ryan (Gone Baby Gone)
Tilda Swinton (Michael Clayton)
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
Casey Affleck (The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford)
Javier Bardem (No Country for Old Men)
Philip Seymour Hoffman (Charlie Wilson's War)
Hal Holbrook (Into the Wild)
Tom Wilkinson (Michael Clayton)
Best Original Screenplay
Brad Bird (Ratatouille)
Diablo Cody (Juno)
Tony Gilroy (Michael Clayton)
Tamara Jenkins (The Savages)
Nancy Oliver (Lars and the Real Girl)
Best Adapted Screenplay
Paul Thomas Anderson (There Will Be Blood)
Ethan Coen and Joel Coen (No Country for Old Men)
Christopher Hampton (Atonement)
Ronald Harwood (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly)
James Vanderbilt (Zodiac)
Best Cinematography
Roger Deakins (The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford)
Roger Deakins (No Country for Old Men)
Robert Elswit (There Will Be Blood)
Janusz Kaminski (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly)
Seamus McGarvey (Atonement)
Best Editing
Ethan Coen and Joel Coen (No Country for Old Men)
Christopher Rouse (The Bourne Ultimatum)
Dylan Tichenor (There Will Be Blood)
Paul Tothill (Atonement)
Angus Wall (Zodiac)
Best Music
Nick Cave and Warren Ellis (The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford)
Jonny Greenwood (There Will Be Blood)
Glen Hansard and Irglova Marketa (Once)
Dario Marianelli (Atonement)
Eddie Vedder (Into the Wild)
Best Ensemble Cast
Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Marcus Carl Franklin, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Richard Gere, Bruce Greenwood, Heath Ledger and Ben Whishaw (I'm Not There.)
Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Garret Dillahunt, Tess Harper, Woody Harrelson, Tommy Lee Jones and Kelly MacDonald (No Country for Old Men)
Jason Bateman, Michael Cera, Jennifer Garner, Allison Janney, Ellen Page, J. K. Simmons and Olivia Thirlby (Juno)
Nikki Blonsky, Amanda Bynes, Paul Dooley, Zac Efron, Allison Janney, Elijah Kelley, James Marsden, Michelle Pfeiffer, Queen Latifah, Brittany Snow, Jerry Stiller, John Travolta and Christopher Walken (Hairspray)
Albert Finney, Rosemary Harris, Ethan Hawke, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Ryan and Marisa Tomei (Before the Devil Knows You're Dead)
Best Documentary
In the Shadow of the Moon (Duncan Copp and David Sington)
The King of Kong (Ed Cunningham and Seth Gordon)
Lake of Fire (Tony Kaye)
No End in Sight (Jennie Amias, Charles Ferguson, Audrey Marrs and Jessie Vogelson Childs)
Sicko (Michael Moore, Meghan O'Hara and Susannah Price)
Best Foreign Language Film
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu and Oleg Mutu)
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Kathleen Kennedy, Jon Kilik and Julian Schnabel)
The Lives of Others (Quirin Berg, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, Hubert von Spreti and Max Wiedemann)
Lust, Caustion (William Kong and Ang Lee)
La Vie en Rose (Olivier Dahan and Alain Goldman)
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