No Country For Old Men Is Best Picture Of The Year

No Country for Old Men won four of it's eight Academy Awards nominations. Javier Bardem won Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role; the Coen Brothers won Achievement in Directing (Best Director) and Best Adapted Screenplay, and the film won Best Picture.

The Academy Award-winning 2007 film, No Country for Old Men, was written and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. It was produced by Scott Rudin, Joel and Ethan Coen and stars Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin, and Javier Bardem.

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Adapted from the Cormac McCarthy novel of the same name, No Country for Old Men draws heavily on McCarthy's themes of chance and fate; it tells the story of a drug deal gone wrong and the ensuing cat-and-mouse drama as three men crisscross each other's paths in the desert landscape of 1980 West Texas.

Llewellyn Moss, played by Josh Brolin, comes upon a corpse-strewn drug-deal-gone-wrong in the middle of the barren West Texas range. He takes the bag of cash he finds at the scene and soon draws the attention of the county sheriff investigating the crime. Sheriff Bell (Tommy Lee Jones) will become Llewellyn's best hope for survival, however, when he finds himself the object of a relentless pursuit by hired killer Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem), a murderous sociopath.
Critical review The film has been highly praised by critics. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times called it "as good a film as the Coen brothers…have ever made."

A Guardian journalist said the film proved "that the Coens' technical abilities, and their feel for a landscape-based western classicism reminiscent of Anthony Mann and Sam Peckinpah, are matched by few living directors."

The film was also nominated for four Golden Globe Awards and won two at the 65th Golden Globe Awards. Javier Bardem won Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture and the Coen Brothers won Best Screenplay – Motion Picture. The film was also nominated for Best Motion Picture – Drama, and Best Director (Coen Brothers).

The film was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.

The Screen Actors Guild gave a nomination nod to the cast for its "Outstanding Performance".

The film won top honors on January 26, 2008 at the Directors Guild of America Awards for Joel and Ethan Coen.

Other awards include: Orange British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA's) in 2008; Best Director - Joel Coen/Ethan Coen; Best Supporting Actor - Javier Bardem.won best film in the 2008 academy awards.

80th Academy Awards and Nominations

• Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role - won
  
• Achievement in Cinematography
• Achievement in Directing - won
  
• Achievement in Film Editing
• Best Motion Picture of the Year - won
  
• Achievement in Sound Editing
• Achievement in Sound Mixing
• Adapted Screenplay - won
  

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

The 2007 Academy Award nominated Western drama film, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, is an adaptation of the Ron Hansen's 1983 novel of the same name. The film is directed by Andrew Dominik. It stars Brad Pitt playing Jesse James and Casey Affleck as Robert Ford.
The film received two Academy Award nominations for the 80th Academy Awards.

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The Assasination of Jesse James by The Coward Robert Ford

The film tells the story of Robert Ford, a cowardly, insecure man who has grown up idolizing the outlaw Jesse James. With his exploits already immortalized in popular dime novels, the outlaw Jesse James has come to represent a romanticized vision of the renegade spirit of the West when he first meets nineteen-year-old Robert Ford. The younger brother of one of the members of James's gang, Ford harbors an obsessive idolatry toward James that will take a deadly turn as their relationship progresses.

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Academy Awards Nominations

• Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role -Casey Afleck
  
• Achievement in Cinematography

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford was named by the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures as one of the top ten films of 2007. Casey Affleck was also awarded the Best Supporting actor in the film.

The San Francisco Film Critics Circle called The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford as the Best Picture of 2007 and went on to award actor Casey Affleck best supporting actor for the film.

Casey Affleck was nominated for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture for the 65th Golden Globe Awards

American Gangster

The Academy Award nominated 2007 crime film, American Gangster , was written by Steve Zaillian and directed by Ridley Scott. The movie stars Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe. Washington plays Frank Lucas, a real-life drug kingpin from Harlem who smuggled heroin into the US on American service planes returning from the Vietnam War. Richie Roberts, a New York City detective played by Crowe, attempts to bring down the Lucas' drug empire. Filming was done on location in New York City.

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Movie Plot

Ambitious Harlem drug dealer, Frank Lucas, climbs to the pinnacle of the criminal underworld with a scheme to smuggle heroin directly from Thailand to the streets of New York City; a plan made easier by the extensive corruption within the city's police department. Threatening his operation, however, is Richie Roberts, a pugnacious cop unafraid to take on both Lucas and his own dishonest colleagues.

Academy Awards Nominations

• Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role - Ruby Dee
  
• Achievement in Art Direction

In its opening weekend in the United States and Canada, American Gangster grossed $43,565,115, placing first in the weekend box office. Brandon Gray of Box Office Mojo reported that the film is the first crime saga to gross over $30 million its opening weekend and the film also had the best opening weekend for Denzel Washington as well as Russell Crowe. As of January 31, 2008, American Gangster is estimated to have grossed $130,164,645 in the United States and $114,842,654 in other territories for a worldwide total of $245,007,299.

The film inspired the rapper Jay-Z to create a concept album, also titled American Gangster. Jay-Z had been shown the film at an early screening, which had a great impact on him.

Across The Universe

The 2007 Academy Award-nominated musical film, Across the Universe, was directed by Julie Taymor and written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais.
The story is set against the backdrop of the turbulent 1960s where an American girl,Lucy, falls in love with a young Englishman,Jude, who has moved to the U.S. The lives of Lucy and Jude and their circle of friends are reshaped by a decade marked by social rebellion and the Vietnam War. The script is based on an original story credited to Taymor, Clement and La Frenais that incorporates 34 compositions written by members of The Beatles. The film stars Jim Sturgess,
Evan Rachel Wood, Joe Anderson, Dana Fuchs, Martin Luther McCoy, T.V. Carpio

Cameos appearances by:

• Bono as Dr. Robert
• Eddie Izzard as Mr. Kite
• Salma Hayek as Singing Nurses
• Joe Cocker as Bum/Pimp/Mad Hippie

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80th Academy Award Nominations

Achievement in Costume Design - Albert Wolsky

All Beatles songs were written between 1963 and 1970 by the members of The Beatles (John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr) and recorded by The Beatles. Thirty of them are compositions that are officially credited to the songwriting partnership of Lennon-McCartney. Three are credited to George Harrison. One title ("Flying") is a 1967 composition credited to all four members of the Beatles (Lennon-McCartney-Harrison-Starkey).

Listing of the thirty-four compositions written by members of The Beatles that are heard on the soundtrack, in the order featured in the film. Plus three compositions that are heard twice in the course of the film, forming a total of thirty-seven individual music cues.

1. "Girl" Performed by Jim Sturgess
2. "Helter Skelter" Performed by Dana Fuchs (brief extract over film montage - presaging later sequences in the film) Longer version performed later in film.
3. "Hold Me Tight" Performed by Evan Rachel Wood and Lisa Hogg
4. "All My Loving" Performed by Jim Sturgess
5. "I Want to Hold Your Hand" Performed by T.V. Carpio
6. "With a Little Help from My Friends" Performed by Joe Anderson, Jim Sturgess and "Dorm Buddies"
7. "It Won't Be Long" Performed by Evan Rachel Wood and "Students"
8. "I've Just Seen a Face" Performed by Jim Sturgess
9. "Let It Be" Performed by Carol Woods, Timothy T. Mitchum and church choir
10. "Come Together" Performed by Joe Cocker with Martin Luther McCoy performing the final verse
11. "Why Don't We Do It in the Road?" Performed by Dana Fuchs
12. "If I Fell" Performed by Evan Rachel Wood
13. "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" Performed by Joe Anderson, "Soldiers", Dana Fuchs and T.V. Carpio
14. "Dear Prudence" Performed by Dana Fuchs, Jim Sturgess, Evan Rachel Wood and Joe Anderson
15. "Flying" Instrumental - brief extract performed by The Secret Machines (performers not seen on-screen)
16. "Blue Jay Way" brief extract performed by The Secret Machines (performers not seen on-screen)
17. "I Am the Walrus" Performed by Bono (accompanied by the Secret Machines - not seen on-screen)
18. "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!" Performed by Eddie Izzard
19. "Because" Performed by Evan Rachel Wood, Jim Sturgess, Joe Anderson, Dana Fuchs, T. V. Carpio and Martin Luther McCoy
20. "Something" Performed by Jim Sturgess
21. "Oh! Darling" Performed by Dana Fuchs and Martin Luther McCoy
22. "Strawberry Fields Forever" Performed by Jim Sturgess and Joe Anderson
23. "Revolution" Performed by Jim Sturgess
24. "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" Performed by Martin Luther McCoy (joined by Jim Sturgess for one verse and coda)
25. "Across the Universe" Performed by Jim Sturgess (the performance of this song is interwoven with the next song Helter Skelter)
26. "Helter Skelter" Performed by Dana Fuchs (the performance of this song is interwoven with the preceding song Across the Universe)
27. "And I Love Her" (brief extract incorporated into the orchestral score during the 'Across the Universe/Helter Skelter sequence)
28. "Happiness Is a Warm Gun" Performed by Joe Anderson, "Patients" and Salma Hayek
29. "Revolution" Brief extract performed by Evan Rachel Wood
30. "A Day in the Life" Performed by Jeff Beck (instrumental version of the song recorded in 1998 for George Martin's In My Life album)
31. "Blackbird" Performed by Evan Rachel Wood
32. "Hey Jude" Performed by Joe Anderson (joined by Angela Mounsey for one verse)
33. "Don't Let Me Down" Performed by Dana Fuchs and Martin Luther McCoy
34. "All You Need is Love" Performed by Jim Sturgess, Dana Fuchs, T.V. Carpio and Martin Luther McCoy
35. "She Loves You" Performed by Joe Anderson (chorus sung during the last part of the "All You Need Is Love" sequence) (see note below)
36. "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" Performed by Bono (with backing vocals by The Edge), played over the beginning of the end credit sequence (performance not seen on-screen)
37. "Flying" Instrumental - extended version performed by The Secret Machines played over the latter portion of the end credit sequence (performers not seen on-screen)

No Country for Old Men

No Country for Old Men received eight Academy Award nominations. The Oscars will be held on February 24, 2008 on ABC - 5pm PT/8pm ET

No Country for Old Men is a 2007 film written, directed, and produced by Joel and Ethan Coen. Adapted from the well-received Cormac McCarthy novel of the same name, No Country for Old Men draws heavily on McCarthy's themes of chance and fate; it tells the story of a drug deal gone wrong and the ensuing cat-and-mouse drama as three men crisscross each other's paths in the desert landscape of 1980 West Texas. It stars Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin, and Javier Bardem.

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80th Academy Awards Nominations

• Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role - (Javier Bardem)
• Achievement in Cinematography - (Roger Deakins)
• Achievement in Directing - (Coen Brothers)
• Achievement in Film Editing - (Roderick Jaynes)
• Best Motion Picture of the Year
• Achievement in Sound Editing
• Achievement in Sound Mixing
• Adapted Screenplay - (Coen Brothers)

The film has been highly praised by critics.

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times called it "as good a film as the Coen brothers…have ever made."

A Guardian journalist said the film proved "that the Coens' technical abilities, and their feel for a landscape-based western classicism reminiscent of Anthony Mann and Sam Peckinpah, are matched by few living directors."

No Country for Old Men won Golden Globe Awards for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role and Best Screenplay.

There Will Be Blood

There Will Be Blood is nominated for eight Academy awards including Best Actor,Best Director and Best Picture. The Oscars will air on ABC on February 24,2008 at 5pm PT/8pm ET


There Will Be Blood, is a 2007 film directed, written, and produced by Paul Thomas Anderson. The film is inspired by Upton Sinclair's novel Oil! (1927), and tells the story of Daniel Plainview's quest for power in Southern California's oil boom of the late-19th and early-20th centuries. It stars Daniel Day-Lewis,Paul Dano and Dillon Freasier.

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80th Academy Awards Nominations

• Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role - Daniel Day-Lewis
  
• Achievement in Art Direction - (Jack Fisk and Jim Erickson)
• Achievement in Cinematography - (Robert Elswit)
• Achievement in Directing - (Paul Thomas Anderson)
• Achievement in Film Editing - (Dylan Tichenor)
• Best Motion Picture of the Year - (Daniel Lupi, JoAnne Sellar, & P.T. Anderson)
• Achievement in Sound Editing - (Matthew Wood)
• Adapted Screenplay - (Paul Thomas Anderson)
  

"There Will Be Blood" received significant critical praise and numerous award nominations and wins. It appeared on many critics' "top ten" lists for the year,taking the number one position on more than twenty of lists including the National Society of Film Critics and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association.

Daniel Day-Lewis has won many Best Actor Awards for his performance including a BAFTA, Golden Globe, and the Screen Actors' Guild.

Michael Clayton

The Academy Awards
February 24, 2008 - 5pm PT/8pm ET on ABC

Michael Clayton receives seven Academy award nominations.
The film is a dramatic law thriller written and directed by Tony Gilroy and co-produced by George Clooney. It chronicles the attempts of attorney Michael Clayton, played by Clooney, to cope with a colleague's apparent mental breakdown and corruption within a major client of his law firm. It also stars Tom Wilkinson,Tilda Swinton.

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80th Academy Awards Nominations

• Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role - (George Clooney)
• Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role - (Tom Wilkinson)
• Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role - (Tilda Swinton)
• Achievement in Directing - (Tony Gilroy)
• Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score) - (James Newton Howard)
• Best Motion Picture of the Year
• Original Screenplay - (Tony Gilroy)

Critical Reviews

The film received favorable reviews from critics. As of January 5, 2008, the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported that 90% of critics gave the film positive reviews, based on 171 reviews.

Metacritic reported the film had an average score of 82 out of 100, based on 36 reviews.

Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly gave it an 'A' saying that it was "better than good, it just about restores your faith."

Roger Ebert gave it a 4-star review and Richard Roeper named it the 'best film of the year.'

It was Richard Schickel's top film of 2007, who called it “a morally alert, persuasively realistic and increasingly suspenseful melodrama, impeccably acted and handsomely staged by Tony Gilroy."

The film appeared on many critics' top ten lists of the best films of 2007 reaching number one on the following:

• 1st - Claudia Puig, USA Today
• 1st - Richard Roeper At the Movies with Ebert & Roeper
• 1st - Richard Schickel, TIME magazine

Juno

The film, Juno, has earned overwhelmingly positive reviews as well as making many the top ten on many of the critics lists. It has received four Academy Award nominations including Best Picture. The Oscars will be held on February 24,2008 at 5pm PT/8pm ET on ABC

Juno is a 2007 comedy-drama film directed by Jason Reitman and written by Diablo Cody. Ellen Page stars as the main character. Michael Cera, Jennifer Garner and Jason Bateman also star. Juno is a sharp-tongued teenager confronting an unplanned pregnancy.When the smart, outspoken sixteen-year-old, finds herself pregnant, she decides to give the baby up for adoption. As her pregnancy progresses, she spends time with the baby's prospective adoptive parents, Mark and Vanessa Loring. But her growing bond with Mark begins to take a turn that could throw everyone's plans into chaos.

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80th Academy Awards Nominations

• Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role - Ellen Page
  
• Achievement in Directing - Jason Reitman
  
• Best Motion Picture of the Year
• Original Screenplay - Diablo Cody

Screenwriter Diablo Cody says any similarities to Korean film "Jenny,Juno" is merely cosmic coincidence in her blog:

"Unbeknownst to me, we had another spiritual cousin out there, a Korean movie called "Jenny, Juno", This time, the cousinry goes one step further and the movie is about – seriously – a pregnant teenager and her cute, sweet boyfriend. (The guy character is named Juno, not the girl.) There's no adoption subplot and apparently the film is otherwise dissimilar to mine, but how f--ked up is that? I bring this up because a journalist drilled me about it recently – awkward! – and also because I saw someone on our IMDb board wondering if Juno was a remake of the K-flick. So for the record, 1.) it isn't a remake 2.) I haven't seen 'Jenny, Juno,' though I want to now, and 3.) I don't think anyone would even bat an eye about this if my film was called Jenny. The name Juno is just so darned distinctive that confusion is inevitable."

Atonement

On January 22, 2008, Atonement received 7 Academy Award nominations.
The Oscars will take place on February 24,2008 at 5pm PT/8pm ET on ABC

Atonement

Atonement and is a 2007 film adaptation of Ian McEwan's critically acclaimed novel of the same name. It was directed by Joe Wright, and is based on the screenplay by Christopher Hampton. It is about how a series of events in the summer of 1935 and the ways in which they are interpreted change the lives of sisters Briony and Cecilia Tallis and the housekeeper's son, Robbie. Overseen exchanges between Cecilia and Robbie, a careless mistake, and an act of violence provoke an escalating tragedy of misunderstandings that center on Briony, a 13-year-old aspiring writer from an upper-class English family, and her innocent view of the adult world. Atonement was produced by Working Title Films and filmed throughout the summer of 2006 in Great Britain/France, starring James McAvoy and Keira Knightley.

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80th Academy Award Nominations

• Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role - Saoirse Ronan
• Achievement in Art Direction - Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer
• Achievement in Cinematography - Seamus McGarvey
• Achievement in Costume Design - Jacqueline Durran
• Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score) - Dario Marianelli
• Best Motion Picture of the Year - Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Paul Webster
• Adapted Screenplay - Christopher Hampton

Critical Acclaim

The film has received positive reviews by the vast majority. As of January 18, 2008, the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes records that 82% of 171 critics gave the film positive reviews, with a consensus that the film's "strong performances, brilliant cinematography, and lovely score make for a very successful adaptation of Ian McEwan's novel."

Roger Ebert gave it a four star review saying that the movie was "one of the year's best films, a certain for best picture nominee." The film was listed as number 3 on Empire Magazine's top 25 films of 2007.

Time magazine's Richard Corliss named the film one of the Top 10 Movies of 2007, ranking it at #4. Corliss praised the film as "first beguiling, then devastating", and singled out Saoirse Ronan as "terrific as the confused 12-year-old."

February 4, 2008: It received the Evening Standard British Film Award for Technical Achievement in Cinematography (Seamus McGarvey), Production Design (Sarah Greenwood) and Costume Design (Jacqueline Durran).

January 16, 2008: the film received 14 BAFTA nominations for the 61st British Academy Film Awards including Best Film, Best British Film and Best Director.

December 13, 2007: It received 7 Golden Globe nominations, more than any other film nominated for the 65th Golden Globe Awards.

January 13, 2007:The film won 2 Golden Globes, including Best Motion Picture Drama.

Academy Awards: Best Picture

The Oscars - February 24, 2008 5pm PT/8pm ET on ABC
The Academy award nominees for Best Picture

Atonement

Atonement and is a 2007 film adaptation of Ian McEwan's critically acclaimed novel of the same name. It was directed by Joe Wright, and is based on the screenplay by Christopher Hampton. It is about how a series of events in the summer of 1935 and the ways in which they are interpreted change the lives of sisters Briony and Cecilia Tallis and the housekeeper's son, Robbie. Overseen exchanges between Cecilia and Robbie, a careless mistake, and an act of violence provoke an escalating tragedy of misunderstandings that center on Briony, a 13-year-old aspiring writer from an upper-class English family, and her innocent view of the adult world. Atonement was produced by Working Title Films and filmed throughout the summer of 2006 in Great Britain/France, starring James McAvoy and Keira Knightley.

Juno

Juno is a 2007 comedy-drama film directed by Jason Reitman and written by Diablo Cody. Ellen Page stars as the main character. Michael Cera, Jennifer Garner and Jason Bateman also star.

Juno is a sharp-tongued teenager confronting an unplanned pregnancy.When the smart, outspoken sixteen-year-old, finds herself pregnant, she decides to give the baby up for adoption. As her pregnancy progresses, she spends time with the baby's prospective adoptive parents, Mark and Vanessa Loring. But her growing bond with Mark begins to take a turn that could throw everyone's plans into chaos.

Michael Clayton

Michael Clayton is a dramatic law thriller written and directed by Tony Gilroy and co-produced by George Clooney. It chronicles the attempts of attorney Michael Clayton to cope with a colleague's apparent mental breakdown and corruption within a major client of his law firm. It stars George Clooney,
Tom Wilkinson,Tilda Swinton.

No Country for Old Men

No Country for Old Men is a 2007 film written, directed, and produced by Joel and Ethan Coen. Adapted from the well-received Cormac McCarthy novel of the same name, No Country for Old Men draws heavily on McCarthy's themes of chance and fate; it tells the story of a drug deal gone wrong and the ensuing cat-and-mouse drama as three men crisscross each other's paths in the desert landscape of 1980 West Texas. It stars Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin, and Javier Bardem.

There Will Be Blood

There Will Be Blood, is a 2007 film directed, written, and produced by Paul Thomas Anderson. The film is inspired by Upton Sinclair's novel Oil! (1927), and tells the story of Daniel Plainview's quest for power in Southern California's oil boom of the late-19th and early-20th centuries. It stars Daniel Day-Lewis and Paul Dano.