Film Critics Ring In: LA, NY Online, Boston, and D.C.
Awards season kicked into a new gear on Sunday with a handful of film critics’ selections.
Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood comes up big with the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and the New York Film Critics Online. The DC and Boston critics go for Joel and Ethan Coen’s No Country For Old Men, but Boston awards Julien Schnabel Best Director for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.
The New York Film Critics Circle is scheduled to announce their 2007 picks tomorrow (Monday, December 10).
Full results after the jump…
2007 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
- Picture: There Will Be Blood
Runner-up: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly - Director: Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will Be Blood
Runner-up: Julian Schnabel, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly - Actress: Marion Cotillard, La Vie En Rose
Runner-up: Anamaria Marinca, 4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days - Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood
Runner-up: Frank Langella, Starting Out In The Evening - Screenplay: Tamara Jenkins, The Savages
Runner-up: Paul Thomas Anderson for There Will Be Blood - Supporting actress: Amy Ryan for Gone Baby Gone and Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead
Runner-up: Cate Blanchett, I’m Not There - Supporting actor: Vlad Ivanov, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
Runner-up: Hal Holbrook, Into the Wild - Foreign language film: 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
Runner-up: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly - Documentary/Non-fiction film: No End in Sight directed by Charles Ferguson
Runner-up: Sicko directed by Michael Moore - Production design: Jack Fisk, There Will Be Blood
Runner-up: Dante Ferretti, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - Animation: (tie) Persepolis and Ratatouille
- Music: Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova, Once
Runner-up: Jonny Greenwood, There Will Be Blood - Cinematography: Janusz Kaminski, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Runner-up: Robert Elswit, There Will Be Blood - New generation: Sarah Polley, Away From Her
- Douglas Edwards Indie Award: Colossal Youth directed by Pedro Costa
- Career Achievement: Sidney Lumet
- Legacy Awards: Milestone Film and Video and the Outfest Legacy Project
2007 New York Film Critics Online Awards
- Picture: There Will Be Blood and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
- Actor: Daniel Day Lewis, There Will Be Blood
- Actress: Julie Christie, Away from Her
- Director: Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will Be Blood
- Supporting Actor: Javier Bardem, No Country for Old Men
- Supporting Actress: Cate Blanchett, I’m Not There
- Breakthrough Performer: Ellen Page, Juno
- Debut Director: Sarah Polley, Away from Her
- Ensemble Cast: Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead
- Screenplay: Wes Anderson, Jason Schwartzman, Roman Coppola; The Darjeeling Limited
- Documentary: Sicko
- Foreign Language: (Tie) The Lives of Others and Persepolis
- Animated: Persepolis
- Cinematography: Robert Elswit, There Will Be Blood
- Film Music: Johnny Greenwood, There Will Be Blood
2007 New York Film Critics Online Top 11 Films (”It’s one louder, isn’t it?”)
- Atonement
- Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead
- The Darjeeling Limited
- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
- I’m Not There
- Juno
- Michael Clayton
- No Country for Old Men
- Persepolis
- Sweeney Todd
- There Will Be Blood
2007 Boston Film Critics Awards
- Picture: No Country For Old Men
- Actor: Frank Langella, Starting Out in the Evening
- Actress: Marion Cotillard, La Vie en Rose
- Supporting Actor: Javier Bardem, No Country for Old Men
- Supporting Actress: Amy Ryan, Gone Baby Gone
- Director: Julian Schnabel, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
- Screenplay: Brad Bird, Ratatouille
- Cinematography: Janusz Kaminski, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
- Documentary: Crazy Love
- Foreign-Language Film: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
- New Filmmaker: Ben Affleck, Gone Baby Gone
- Ensemble Cast: Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead
2007 Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards
- Picture: No Country for Old Men
- Director: Joel and Ethanl Coen, No Country for Old Men
- Actor: George Clooney, Michael Clayton
- Actress: Julie Christie, Away from Her
- Supporting Actor: Javier Bardem, No Country for Old Men
- Supporting Actress: Amy Ryan, Gone Baby Gone and Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead
- Adapted Screenplay: Aaron Sorkin, Charlie Wilson’s War
- Original Screenplay: Diablo Cody, Juno
- Ensemble: No Country for Old Men
- Animated Film: Ratatouille
- Documentary Film: Sicko
- Foreign Language Film: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
- Art Direction: Sweeney Todd
- Breakthrough Performance: Ellen Page, Juno
You’d think I’d be sad the there isn’t more love for No Country for Old Men from the LA Film Critics, but actually I’m pleased. The Coen film is obviously not having any problems earning critical support and it appears to be finding an audience. While I’d dearly love to see the Coens finally win a richly deserved Oscar, especially for a film that may one day be regarded as their best, I have a feeling There Will Be Blood is going to need all the help it can get. The more attention it receives, the better.
Interesting that for the LA Film critics, There Will Be Blood either won or was the runner up for every award it had a reasonable chance of winning. There was no chance it would win a supporting actress award and Dano as supporting actor would’ve been a surprise. Dano is good, but he’s literally blown off the screen by Hurricane Daniel.
Glad to see Tamara Jenkins getting some respect for her terrific The Savages. Screenplay feels like a nice consolation prize for a wonderful movie.
I’ve been saying to anyone who would listen that Janusz Kaminski deserves some attention for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. He delivered more than beautiful imagery, his camerawork was integral to successfully telling the story from the perspective of a man who can only blink one eyelid.
A little surprised Cate Blanchett was shut out in LA, D.C. and Boston. I can undertand Boston going for Amy Ryan in the hometown movie Gone Baby, Gone, but the LA and DC picks would seem to indicate the Boston critics weren’t just being homers.
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wait The Darjeeling Limited gets a screenplay win *arrrgh*……..
stop the madness………
oh well, critics are only bad when they don’t agree with you…. ;)
Don’t tell me you didn’t like Darjeeling!
dude i mentioned this in your blog in whatever post.
no i din’t like the limited. and this was my first w. anderson film.
and i pretty much have zero interest in wanting to see the supposedly earlier/better stuff.
uh his earlier stuff was better than this right ????
so i’m going with just say no. the geek show continues…*no*
I checked the Darjeeling review but I didnt’ see your comments.
I have a filter on my brain sometimes, when someone doesn’t like something that I do, I block it out :)
There’s a chance you might like Bottle Rocket and MAYBE Rushmore, but I’m going to guess you wouldn’t like Royal Tenenbaums or Life Aquatic.
Which is too bad because they’re unspeakably awesome. Oh well, to each his own…
craig….i think it poped up in some other review commnet thing.
like how must how my comments about ‘i’m not there’ weren’t under your review of ‘i’m not there’
sigh…i just chaos guy i guess. ha ha….
craig my ref to the limited is in this segment
http://livingincinema.com/2007/10/24/weekend-forecast-102607/#comments
I see that. I guess you learned not to trust my ratings too much since I gave it four stars!
and hopefully i’ll avoid atonement which you went 3 and half stars with…..
why would i see this just to torture myself ???
i know i’m supposed to care ???
i know this has keira ‘bones’ knightley in it and supposed to watch just because i think she’s hot but i don’t think she’s hot and i’ll know i’ll hate this film.
and i’d probably rather have sex with james mcavoy anyway.
seriously any thing i dislike goes right to top ala ‘no country’/'juno’ so it makes sense people are orgasming so hard/often for ‘atonement’…..
but don’t worry…. “someday i’ll forget/what was so important/someday i’ll forget/exactly what the reasons were/ for wanting to be different /and for wanting change/some day i’ll think all those ideas/ were so radiacal/and strange ”
keeping the song quote thing going for the kids….