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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George Clooney

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

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.