The National Society of Film Critics, of which Wesley and I are members, met today in New York and voted on the films of 2007. "There Will Be Blood" came away the big winner, taking best picture, actor, director, and cinematography. Other categories held some surprises. The full list of winners, with runners-up, is as follows:
BEST PICTURE
1. There Will Be Blood
2. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
3. No Country for Old Men
BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM
1. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
2. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
3. Persepolis
BEST DIRECTOR
1, Paul Thomas Anderson ? There Will Be Blood
2. Joel and Ethan Coen ? No Country for Old Men
2. Julian Schnabel ? The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
BEST NONFICTION FILM
1. No End in Sight
2. Sicko
3. Terror?s Advocate
BEST ACTOR
1. Daniel Day-Lewis ? There Will Be Blood
2. Frank Langella - Starting Out in the Evening
3. Philip Seymour Hoffman - The Savages, Before the Devil Knows
You?re Dead
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
1. Casey Affleck - The Assassination of Jesse James by the
Coward Robert Ford
2. Javier Bardem ? No Country for Old Men
3. Philip Seymour Hoffman ? Charlie Wilson?s War
BEST ACTRESS
1. Julie Christie ? Away from Her
2. Marion Cotillard ? La Vie en Rose
3. Anamaria Marinca ? 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
1. Cate Blanchett ? I?m Not There
2. Amy Ryan ? Gone Baby Gone and Before the Devil Knows You?re Dead
3. Tilda Swinton ? Michael Clayton
BEST SCREENPLAY
1. Tamara Jenkins ? The Savages
2. Paul Thomas Anderson ? There Will Be Blood
3. Ronald Harwood ? The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
1. There Will Be Blood ? Robert Elswit
2. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly ? Janusz Kaminski
3. No Country for Old Men ? Roger Deakins
BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM to ?Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind? by
John Gianvito
FILM HERITAGE AWARD to "Ford at Fox," a 21-disc box set from Fox Home
Video.?
FILM HERITAGE AWARD to Ross Lipman of the UCLA Film and Television
Archive for the restoration of Charles Burnett?s "Killer of Sheep" and
other independent films.
