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2007 New York Film Critics Circle Awards
73rd NYFCC Awards January 6, 2008 ---- Best Picture: No Country for Old Men The 73rd New York Film Critics Circle Awards, honoring the best in film for 2007, were voted on 11 December 2007 and given out 6 January 2008. Winners *Best Actor: **Daniel Day-Lewis – ''There Will Be Blood'' **Runner-up: Viggo Mortensen – ''Eastern Promises'' *Best Actress: **Julie Christie – ''Away from Her'' **Runner-up: Elliot Page – '' Juno'' *Best Animated Feature: **''Persepolis'' *Best Cinematography: **Robert Elswit – ''There Will Be Blood'' *Best Director: ** Joel Coen and Ethan Coen – ''No Country for Old Men'' **Runners-up: Paul Thomas Anderson – ''There Will Be Blood'' and Todd Haynes – ''I'm Not There'' *Best Film: **''No Country for Old Men'' **Runners-up: ''There Will Be Blood'' and ''I'm Not There'' *Best First Film: **Sarah Polley – ''Away from Her'' *Best Foreign Language Film: **'' Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others)'' • Germany *Best Non-Ficti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2007 In Film
The following is an overview of events in 2007 in film, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies and festivals, a list of films released and notable deaths. The highest-grossing film of the year was '' Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End'', which was just ahead of ''Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix''. 2007 is often considered one of the greatest years for film in the 21st century. This would also be the last year in which no films grossed at least $1 billion at the box office until 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic prevented multiple theatrically released films. Evaluation of the year Many have considered 2007 to be the greatest year for film in the 21st century and one of the greatest of all time. In his article from April 18, 2017, which highlighted the best movies of 2007, critic Mark Allison of ''Den of Geek'' said, "2007 must surely be remembered as one of the finest years in English-language film-making, quite possibly the best of this century so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
No Country For Old Men
''No Country for Old Men'' is a 2007 American neo-Western crime thriller film written and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, based on Cormac McCarthy's 2005 novel of the same name. Starring Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, and Josh Brolin, the film is set in the desert landscape of 1980 West Texas. The film revisits the themes of fate, conscience, and circumstance that the Coen brothers had explored in the films ''Blood Simple'' (1984), ''Raising Arizona'' (1987), and '' Fargo'' (1996). The film follows three main characters: Llewelyn Moss (Brolin), a Vietnam War veteran and welder who stumbles upon a large sum of money in the desert; Anton Chigurh (Bardem), a hitman who is tasked with recovering the money; and Ed Tom Bell (Jones), a local sheriff investigating the crime. The film also stars Kelly Macdonald as Moss's wife Carla Jean, and Woody Harrelson as a bounty hunter seeking Moss and the return of the $2 million. ''No Country for Old Men'' premiered in competition at the 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Javier Bardem
Javier Ángel Encinas Bardem (; born 1 March 1969) is a Spanish actor. Known for his roles in Blockbuster (entertainment), blockbusters and foreign films, he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance as the psychopath, psychopathic assassin Anton Chigurh in the Coen Brothers' modern western drama film ''No Country for Old Men'' (2007). He also received critical acclaim for his roles in films such as ''Jamón jamón'' (1992), ''Boca a boca'' (1995), ''Carne trémula'' (1997), ''Los lunes al sol'' (2002), and ''Mar adentro'' (2004). Bardem also starred in Woody Allen's romantic drama ''Vicky Cristina Barcelona'' (2008), Sam Mendes's James Bond spy film ''Skyfall'' (2012), Terrence Malick's drama ''To the Wonder'' (2013), Darren Aronofsky's psychological horror film ''mother!'' (2017), Asghar Farhadi's mystery drama ''Everybody Knows (film), Everybody Knows'' (2018) and Denis Villeneuve's science fiction drama ''Dune (2021 film), Dune'' (2021). Bardem has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zodiac (film)
''Zodiac'' is a 2007 American mystery thriller film directed by David Fincher from a screenplay by James Vanderbilt, based on the non-fiction books by Robert Graysmith, ''Zodiac'' and ''Zodiac Unmasked'', which were published in 1986 and 2002, respectively. The film stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo, and Robert Downey Jr. with Anthony Edwards, Brian Cox, Elias Koteas, Donal Logue, John Carroll Lynch, Chloë Sevigny, Philip Baker Hall and Dermot Mulroney in supporting roles. The film tells the story of the manhunt for the Zodiac Killer, a serial murderer who terrorized the San Francisco Bay Area during the late 1960s and early 1970s, taunting police with letters, bloodstained clothing, and ciphers mailed to newspapers. The case remains one of the United States' most infamous unsolved crimes. Fincher, Vanderbilt, and producer Bradley J. Fischer spent 18 months conducting their own investigation and research into the Zodiac murders. Fincher employed the digital Thomson Viper ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Vanderbilt
James Platten Vanderbilt (born November 17, 1975) is an American filmmaker best known for the films ''Zodiac'' (2007), ''White House Down'' (2013), ''The Amazing Spider-Man'' (2012), ''The Amazing Spider-Man 2'' (2014), '' Independence Day: Resurgence'' (2016), ''Murder Mystery'' (2019) and '' Scream'' (2022). He also contributed as producer for the films ''The House with a Clock in Its Walls'' (2018) and '' Ready or Not'' (2019), where he cameoed as demon Mr. Le Bail. Early life A member of the Vanderbilt family of New York, James Vanderbilt is the son of Alison Campbell (''née'' Platten) and Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt III. His paternal great-grandfather Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt Sr. died on the in the 1915 sinking, his paternal grandfather, Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt Jr., once chaired the New York Racing Association, and his maternal grandfather, Donald Campbell Platten, was the chief executive and chairman of Chemical Bank. Vanderbilt was raised in Norwalk, Connecticut, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Savages (film)
''The Savages'' is a 2007 American black comedy-drama film written and directed by Tamara Jenkins. It stars Laura Linney, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Philip Bosco. It had its world premiere at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival on January 19, 2007. It was released on November 28, 2007, by Fox Searchlight Pictures. It received critical acclaim. At the 80th Academy Awards, it earned two nominations: Best Actress (for Linney) and Best Original Screenplay (for Jenkins). At the 65th Golden Globe Awards, it was nominated for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy (for Seymour Hoffman). Plot After drifting apart emotionally over the years, two single siblings—Jon and Wendy, the younger of the two—band together to care for their estranged, elderly father, Lenny, who is rapidly slipping into dementia. Wendy and Jon first travel to Sun City, Arizona to attend the funeral of their father's girlfriend of 20 years. When they arrive, they are told that their father signed a non-marriage agreem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tamara Jenkins
Tamara Jenkins (born May 2, 1962) is an American filmmaker and occasional actress. She is best known for her feature films ''Slums of Beverly Hills'' (1998), '' The Savages'' (2007), and ''Private Life'' (2018). Early life Jenkins was born in Philadelphia, the daughter of Lillian and Manuel Jenkins. Her father is Jewish, and her mother is Italian American. After her parents divorced, her father, a former nightclub owner, took custody of her and her three brothers, moving the family to California to work as a car salesman. She lived in Beverly Hills with her father and brothers, and attended Beverly Hills High for a year and a half. In the 1980s, Jenkins moved to New York City where she performed in various productions, including the first national tours of ''Chicago'', '' Les Miserables'', and ''Cats'', as well as the 1993 Broadway Revival of ''My Fair Lady''. She enrolled in the graduate filmmaking program at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in the 1990s. Winner ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diablo Cody
Brook Maurio (''née'' Busey; born June 14, 1978), known professionally by the pen name Diablo Cody, is an American writer and producer. She gained recognition for her candid blog and subsequent memoir, '' Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper'' (2005). Cody received critical acclaim for her screenwriting debut film, ''Juno'' (2007), winning the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, the BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay, the Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay, and the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay. Cody created, wrote, and produced the Showtime comedy drama series ''United States of Tara'' (2009–2011). She wrote, produced, and made her directorial debut with the comedy drama film ''Paradise'' (2013). Cody also wrote and produced the horror comedy film ''Jennifer's Body'' (2009), the comedy drama film ''Young Adult'' (2011), which earned her a second nomination for the Writers Guild of America Award for B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
No End In Sight
''No End in Sight'' is a 2007 American documentary film about the American occupation of Iraq. The directorial debut of Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Charles Ferguson, it premiered on January 22, 2007, at the Sundance Film Festival and opened in its first two theaters in the United States on July 27, 2007. By December of that year, it had a theatrical gross of $1.4 million. The film was nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the 80th Academy Awards. Interviews To a large extent, the film consists of interviews with people who were involved in the initial Iraqi occupation authority and the Office for Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance (ORHA), which was later replaced by the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA). Thirty-five people who had become disillusioned by what they experienced at the time are interviewed. In particular, many of those interviewed claim that the inexperience of the core members of the Bush administration — and their refusal to seek ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Germany
Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated between the Baltic and North seas to the north, and the Alps to the south; it covers an area of , with a population of almost 84 million within its 16 constituent states. Germany borders Denmark to the north, Poland and the Czech Republic to the east, Austria and Switzerland to the south, and France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands to the west. The nation's capital and most populous city is Berlin and its financial centre is Frankfurt; the largest urban area is the Ruhr. Various Germanic tribes have inhabited the northern parts of modern Germany since classical antiquity. A region named Germania was documented before AD 100. In 962, the Kingdom of Germany formed the bulk of the Holy Roman Empire. During the 16th ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lives Of Others
''The Lives of Others'' (german: link=no, Das Leben der Anderen, ) is a 2006 German drama film written and directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck marking his feature film directorial debut. The plot is about the monitoring of East Berlin residents by agents of the Stasi, East Germany's secret police. It stars Ulrich Mühe as Stasi Captain Gerd Wiesler, Ulrich Tukur as his superior Anton Grubitz, Sebastian Koch as the playwright Georg Dreyman, and Martina Gedeck as Dreyman's lover, a prominent actress named Christa-Maria Sieland. The film was released in Germany on 23 March 2006. At the same time, the screenplay was published by Suhrkamp Verlag. ''The Lives of Others'' won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The film had earlier won seven Deutscher Filmpreis awards—including those for best film, best director, best screenplay, best actor, and best supporting actor—after setting a new record with 11 nominations. It also won the BAFTA Award for Best Film No ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Polley
Sarah Ellen Polley (born January 8, 1979) is a Canadian actress,Howell, Peter (September 24, 1999)"Nobody's Starlet: Toronto's Sarah Polley is Only 20 but already a veteran actor so secure in her craft she can thumb her nose at Hollywood" ''Toronto Star''. September 4, 1999. Retrieved January 21, 2021. writer, director, producer and political activist. Polley first garnered attention as a child actress for her role as Ramona Quimby in the television series ''Ramona'', based on Beverly Cleary's books. Subsequently this led to her role as Sara Stanley in the Canadian television series '' Road to Avonlea'' (1990–1996). She has starred in many feature films, including ''The Adventures of Baron Munchausen'' (1988), ''Exotica'' (1994), '' The Sweet Hereafter'' (1997), ''Guinevere'' (1999), '' Go'' (1999), ''The Weight of Water'' (2000), '' No Such Thing'' (2001), ''My Life Without Me'' (2003), '' Dawn of the Dead'' (2004), '' Splice'' (2009), and '' Mr. Nobody'' (2009). Polley made ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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