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It’s here! Awards season! OMG!
The National Board of Review, a nearly 100-year-old organization of self-styled ‘film critics’ who have little to no credentials, has announced its 2007 winners. Traditionally, the NBR announcement is the kick-off to a long 3 months of celebrity pandering and atrocious speeches. The brilliant, bleak, and overlong No Country for Old Men picked up the Best Picture prize, and elsewhere the NBR spread the love around as usual. Gotta get as many celebs as possible to that awards dinner in January, which probably explains George Clooney’s surprising win for Michael Clayton. Here are the major awards:
Best Picture: No Country for Old Men
Best Foreign Film: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Best Actor: George Clooney, Michael Clayton
Best Actress: Julie Christie, Away from Her
Best Supporting Actor: Casey Affleck, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Best Supporting Actress: Amy Ryan, Gone Baby Gone
Best Director: Tim Burton, Sweeney Todd
Best Directorial Debut: Ben Affleck, Gone Baby Gone
Best Animated Feature: Ratatouille
Best Adapted Screenplay: Joel and Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men
Best Original Screenplay: (tie) Diablo Cody, Juno and Nancy Oliver, Lars and the Real Girl
Because clearly everyone wants to know the NBR’s top ten list (beyond their Best Pic choice), they provide it every year, in alphabetical order:
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Atonement
The Bourne Ultimatum
The Bucket List
Into the Wild
Juno
The Kite Runner
Lars and the Real Girl
Michael Clayton
Sweeney Todd
The Bucket List, really? Lars and the Real Girl? Where the hell is There Will Be Blood? I’m Not There? Seriously, The Bourne Ultimatum? Video box critics unite!