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Me too!! Such an undervalued talent.
The 2006 Best Picture race was supposed to be a showdown between No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood, but Atonement if far better than those two ridiculously overrated items.
@Amy Camus
I love all three films but 2006's Best Film (and most groundbreaking) was Borat.
Also, No Country for Old Men and There will be Blood were 2007. In that year, my #1 was Hairspray, by the way.
Yes, it was 2007, of course. And the best films weren't even nominated for Best Picture - Lust Caution, 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Offside, Into the Wild, Eastern Promises, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, Blame It on Fidel, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, American Gangster, Persepolis, Once. All better than the 5 nominated, all ignored.
LOL. What a contrarian.
Anyway, such a great year, and one of the last perfect Oscar Best Picture lineups. Of course, it helps that there were still a proper five nominees then. Hint hint AMPAS...
I think Atonement is underrated. It belongs with many of the Merchant Ivory outings in that people assume it’s a stuffy period piece but it’s rhapsodic.
Gotta stand up for No Country For Old Men here! It's a Magnificent Masterpiece (in my opinion) and one of the few times the Academy picked my favourite film of the year for Best Picture. I just wish it had more Actors nominated. I should watch Atonement again, it's been a long time
2007 was all about No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood. Unless debates on which was better. Everyone had their pick. I didn't even want to watch anything else. What was the point? I looked at the poster of Atonement and rolled my eyes. Pass. Finally, okay, I'll give it a chance. It's a nominated movie let me just watch this and cross it off my list. Wow. Okay. I was wrong. Completely wrong. I didn't expect that at all. The best movie of 2007 was Atonement. And for me, it's not even close.
Endless*
Visually she's always represented Winona Ryder 2.0 for me.
She tried to be like Grace Kelly....
@Mika: She tried to be like Grace Kelly....in High Society (1956), almost identical bathing suit + look!!
Atonement is so underrated! I wish she and McAvoy has gotten some traction and the nominations, but alas only Saoirse was nom (I'd consider V. Redgrave too!!)
Atonement is a masterpiece and time has made it even moreso,Knightley should have been nominated for it but she's picked so many wrong projects after her 2nd Oscar nod.
Atonement was great, but There Will Be Blood was best.
Fun fact I like to bring up about the 2007 Oscars: it had the highest number of movies represented among the acting nominees: 18. Each performance was from a different movie, except Michael Clayton, which had 3 acting nominees. Don’t think we’ll ever see that again.
I love all nominated films and many more, but Atonement is my pick for best Picture and James McAvoy should be nominated. Knightley maybe also. by the way: Alle Three Brionys are brillant in its own way. By the Way the Academy chose the right Acting winners that year.
Overall:
Picture: Atonement
Directing: Paul Thomas Anderson, There will be Blood
Actress: Marion Cottilard, La vie en Rose
Actor: Daniel Day Lewis, There will be Blood
supp. Actress: Tilda Swinton, Michael Clayton
supp. Actor: Javier Bardem, No Counry for old men
Foreign Film: Lust, Caution (Taiwan)
Adapt. Screenplay: No Country for old men (but maybe I should switch to Atonement)
Orig. Screenplay: Diablo Cody, Juno (I also loove michael Clayton)
Score: Dario Marianelli, Atonement
Song: Falling Slowly
Cinematography: Roger Deakins, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (!)
Art Direction: Sweeney Todd
Costumn Design: Elizabeth: The Golden Age (I also have a soft Spot on Atonement here)
Editing: Bourne Ultimatum
Sound: No Country for old Men
Sound Editing: Bourne Ultimatum
Animated Film: Ratatouille
Make-up: La vie en Rose
And if the Award still exists:
Song Score: Into the Wild
Paranoid -- that was SUCH a cool thing about 2007. But yeah, it's a pity that the academy voters seem to watch less and less films per year!
My own 2007 ballot for the non-technical categories:
Film: Atonement
Acting: Mortensen, Christie, Affleck, Blanchett
Directing: Schnabel
Screenplay: Ratatouille, Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Animated: Persepolis
Foreign: Mongol (God, how I wish Lust, Caution hadn't been disqualified for obscure and arbitrary reasons. It's in my Top 10 of the century so far. And none of the nominees, ahem, come close)
Seems like now we can say that 2007 was a great year for movies.