More end of the year best of lists. AV Clubs top ten films.

[Rman]

1. No Country For Old Men (dir. Joel and Ethan Coen)
2. Once (dir. John Carney)
3. There Will Be Blood (dir. Paul Thomas Anderson)
4. Zodiac (dir. David Fincher)
5. The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford (dir. Andrew Dominik)
6. Atonement (dir. Joe Wright)
7. Sweeney Todd (dir. Tim Burton)
8. Into The Wild (dir. Sean Penn)
9. Offside (dir. Jafar Panahi)
10. Gone Baby Gone (dir. Ben Affleck)

For the full list and write ups go here: http://www.avclub.com/content/feature/the_year_in_film_2007

[Gay Boy]

Very good list.

[Gay Boy]

That is just one top 10. The article has a bunch of them.

These are the others:

1. No Country For Old Men

2. Offside

3. Ratatouille

4. Sweeney Todd

5. Once

6. The King Of Kong

7. Into The Wild

8. Gone Baby Gone

9. Zodiac

10. Atonement

1. There Will Be Blood

2. No Country For Old Men

3. Sweeney Todd

4. Once

5. The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford

6. Before The Devil Knows You're Dead

7. Zodiac

8. Atonement

9. Gone Baby Gone

10. I'm Not There

1. Once

2. There Will Be Blood

3. Zodiac

4. No Country For Old Men

5. Ratatouille

6. Sweeney Todd

7. Atonement

8. The Savages

9. An Unreasonable Man

10. The TV Set

1. No Country For Old Men

2. Into The Wild

3. Once

4. Atonement

5. The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford

6. Deep Water

7. The Lives Of Others

8. The Orphanage

9. Offside

10. I'm Not There

. No Country For Old Men

2. There Will Be Blood

3. Zodiac

4. The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford

5. Knocked Up

6. Lake Of Fire

7. Once

8. Joshua

9. Black Book

10. Syndromes And A Century

[Rman]

Ratatouille was one my favorites as well and Disney is actually making a push so it could be nominated for Best Picture as well.

[Joe Molotov]

I've only seen three of those (No Country, Once, and Zodiac) but I'm going to try to see Atonement and Sweeny Todd in theater this week. Some of the others I will attempt to obtain through alternate avenues.  I blame Hollywood, and their limited releasing and non-advertising of good movies.

[Gay Boy]

Ratatouille was one my favorites as well and Disney is actually making a push so it could be nominated for Best Picture as well.

0.000001% chance of it getting best picture nomination.

The 5 will be these 3 locks:
No Country For Old Men
There Will Be Blood
Juno

and 2 from these movies:
Into The Wild
Atonement
Sweeney Todd
The Diving Bell And The Butterfly
Michael Clayton

[Rman]

Thanks, GB, for adding the additional writers.

[Joe Molotov]

Ratatouille was one my favorites as well and Disney is actually making a push so it could be nominated for Best Picture as well.

0.000001% chance of it getting best picture nomination.

I'm pretty sure they came up with the Best Animated Film category just to ensure that there was no chance of that ever happening again.

[Gay Boy]

Ratatouille was one my favorites as well and Disney is actually making a push so it could be nominated for Best Picture as well.

0.000001% chance of it getting best picture nomination.

I'm pretty sure they came up with the Best Animated Film category just to ensure that there was no chance of that ever happening again.

Well it happened so rarely I doubt it was too much of a concern, did anyone really complain when Beauty & The Beast got a best picture nod? I would think it was added just to make sure animated films got some recognition but thats just me.

[Rman]

Ratatouille was one my favorites as well and Disney is actually making a push so it could be nominated for Best Picture as well.

0.000001% chance of it getting best picture nomination.

Beauty and Beast was nominated for Best Picture.  Pixar's latest offering surpasses it in every way.  But I see what you are saying, it's not the type of film is nominated in that category.  But, hey, if Crash could win best picture, why not?

[Gay Boy]

Ratatouille was one my favorites as well and Disney is actually making a push so it could be nominated for Best Picture as well.

0.000001% chance of it getting best picture nomination.

Beauty and Beast was nominated for Best Picture.  Pixar's latest offering surpasses it in every way.  But I see what you are saying, it's not the type of film is nominated in that category.  But, hey, if Crash could win best picture, why not?

Eh, Ratatouille was amazing but it did not hit that critical amazement that B&tB got to get a best picture nod. B&tB came after a string of disappointing Disney films of the 80's it was a shock and a return to form.

Beast was in the right place at the right time, everything happened perfectly. Ratatouille is just another in a string of great pixar work.

[Howard Alan Treesong]

glad to see Once do so well (even a first place!)

it seems to be a top 3 finisher on most year end lists

[Joe Molotov]

Ratatouille was one my favorites as well and Disney is actually making a push so it could be nominated for Best Picture as well.

0.000001% chance of it getting best picture nomination.

I'm pretty sure they came up with the Best Animated Film category just to ensure that there was no chance of that ever happening again.

Well it happened so rarely I doubt it was too much of a concern, did anyone really complain when Beauty & The Beast got a best picture nod? I would think it was added just to make sure animated films got some recognition but thats just me.

The Academy is a bunch of crotchety old codgers. If they really cared about animated films they'd let voice actors get nominated for Best Actor/Actress. Also they'd nominate movies that actually deserve it, as opposed to the ones that advertise the hardest. Watch Shrek 3 and Bee Movie get noms. Tekkonkinkreet? Probably not.

[Gay Boy]

Ratatouille was one my favorites as well and Disney is actually making a push so it could be nominated for Best Picture as well.

0.000001% chance of it getting best picture nomination.

I'm pretty sure they came up with the Best Animated Film category just to ensure that there was no chance of that ever happening again.

Well it happened so rarely I doubt it was too much of a concern, did anyone really complain when Beauty & The Beast got a best picture nod? I would think it was added just to make sure animated films got some recognition but thats just me.

The Academy is a bunch of crotchety old codgers. If they really cared about animated films they'd let voice actors get nominated for Best Actor/Actress. Also they'd nominate movies that actually deserve it, as opposed to the ones that advertise the hardest. Watch Shrek 3 and Bee Movie get noms. Tekkonkinkreet? Probably not.

Shrek 3 won't get nominated. Also voice actors SHOULDNT be nominated. There is a lot more to acting than just your voice inflections. Body language and so forth are equally important.

Things like Andy Serkis as Gollum or Frank Oz as Yoda pre-CGI are different though, because they do everything not just the voice. Just voice acting is something that isnt impressive enough compared to real acting.

[TakingBackSunday]

Fuck yeah, Zodiac

[Eel O'Brian]

Ugh, Into the Wild is a celebration of idiocy.

[bud]

Fuck yeah, Zodiac

fincher

i still need to see it, though

[Joe Molotov]

Fuck yeah, Zodiac

fincher

i still need to see it, though

It's awesome.