OSCARS 2007- Best Picture/Director
BEST DIRECTOR
Julian Schnabel – DIVING BELL & THE BUTTERFLY
He has been nominated for this award at almost every big Film Festival in 2007.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0401383/awards
The IMDB link shows 26 Award wins & 30 nomination. I have seen this film twice. It deserves every award it has won & even more. Schnabel is a genius filmmaker. This film made me feel so many different emotions. It is the best example of how art should move us, inspire us. It is one of my all time fav film these days. It will be amazing if he gets the oscar. But I doubt it.
JUNO- Jason Reitman
Jason is having a dream run. Life cannot get better than this for him. A really good movie, but not deserving of this award in such a great year at the cinemas.
Tony Gilroy – MICHAEL CLAYTON
I have to say Tony saved his best script for his own directorial debut. He had a great year. The last of the Bourne Series was crittically & commercially a huge success. This is the most assured Directorial Debut since THE LIFE OF OTHERS in 2006. Michael Clayton has none of the problems that most Debutant Directorial projects suffer from. Gilroy is not trying to create his own style or impress anyone. He just wrote a great screenplay & put the camera at the right places in front of an amazing cast.
Coen Brothers – NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
Coen Brothers have a very good chance of winning this award. But I have a feeling they will lose this & win the Best Film award.
P.T. Anderson – THERE WILL BE BLOOD
I think he has the highest chances of taking home the Oscar for Direction. If there is one thing that has been universally accepted, it is that THERE WILL BE BLOOD is amazingly directed film. There has been amazing buzz about this film in Hollywood. Critics have hailed it as an masterpiece. Some even compared it to CITIZEN KANE. I think they are going overboard with it. But you like the film or not, you have to admit PT has done an amazing job. The 1st 15 minutes are just brilliant.
BEST FILM OF 2007
ATONEMENT
Well…please check my previous posts on OSCARS
JUNO
I remember watching JUNO before the film released. It was at that time a really small indie film. Smaller in scale than all the films it is competing against. Now it is the only bonafide hit in that group. The only film to have crossed the $100million mark. But it is the underdog in this category.
MICHAEL CLAYTON
I doubt it will win the Best Picture.
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
I’m betting on this film tommorow.
THERE WILL BE BLOOD
It will win Best Picture if the Best Director goes to Coen Brothers.
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Winners
Director – P.T.Anderson
Best Picture – NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
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The SPIRIT Awards always happens the day before the Oscars. So here is the link about the winners
http://www.filmindependent.org/spiritawards/
There is a saying in Hollywood – “Win on Saturday, Lose on Sunday”
There are very few exceptions about it. Platoon is the one I can think of right now.
If its true then Juno’s chances of taking Best Picture are less now. So is Julian Schnabel’s chances of Best Director. Same with Ellen Page’s chances of taking the Best Actress in a Lead Role. Same with Kaminski.
Anurag Kashyap
Abhay Deol
Dibakar Banerjee
Hansal Mehta
Khalid Mohamed
Kundan Shah
Anish Kuruvilla
Jaideep Verma
Manish Gupta
Navdeep Singh
Bhavani Iyer
D. Santosh
Onir
Ashvin Kumar
Ramu Ramanathan
Sudhir Mishra
Pankaj Advani
Revathy
Saurabh Shukla
Shilpa Shukla
Sujoy Ghosh
Suparn Verma
Santosh Sivan
Shashank Ghosh
Shivajee
Pavan Kaul
Partho Sen-Gupta
Prroshant Naryannan
Sam Langoria
Satish Kasetty
Atonement will not win. Too original for an Oscar. My bets are on NCFOM because overrated films always win. :P
Hmmmm:-?
:-w
Interesting….
Sheikhchilli
Whats your fav film of 2007?
Atonement.
:d
I’m hoping that PTA and DDL will drink everybody’s milkshake.
:d
My Choice
Best Film – There will be blood (If Anderson wins best director then it will be “No country for old men”).
Best Director – Coen Brothers (If NCFOM wins best film then it will be PT Anderson)
Best Actor – Daniel Day Lewis
Best Actress – Ellen Page
Best Supporting Actor – Javier Bardem
Best Supporting Actress – Amy Ryan
Best Original Screenplay – Juno
Best Adapted Screenplay – Diving Bell & The Butterfly
Art Direction – Sweeny Todd
Cinematorgraphy – No Country for old men
I have a hunch that Coen bros. gonna win the best director, but the best picture will go to There Will Be Blood.
@Sheikhchilli,
NCFOM overrated? looking for a detailed post from you….
Only film which simply does not deserve nomination is Atonement. Particularly when a film like DIVING BELL & THE BUTTERFLY is snubbed from best picture nomination.
NCFOM is what i’ll be rooting for all the way….
Coen Brothers for both.
god why do everyone here hate ATONEMENT????
i mean every single person….have you all seen this film?? all of you?? have you huh??
its no favourite of mine, but it deserves to be nominated specially when previously films like titanic, english patient etc have been not only nominated but won too….
MY PIC- film-NCFOM, dir- coens, actress- cottillard, actor- ddl
@mainak- checked that tracking shot yet?
btw today at cnn they said attonement and ellen page has the highest probabiliy.
What’s with the English Patient bashing ? It’s one of my fav films. Read the book and the script. It’s a miracle that Minghella was able to adapt it.
it reminds me of that episode in Seinfeld ,when everyone loves english patient expcept Elaine
i personally loved the film cant see why people have problem with it
English patient is excellent, one of my most favourite films.But atonement, which is technically brilliant, has nothing new to offer.Story is quite straight forward, and told in a very conventional way. Its not that it is bad, actually quite well made, but I will definitely choose Sweeney Todd, Zodiac or The Diving Bell and Butterfly over Atonement. It certainly did not deserve Best Picture nomination.
i really don’t know what is the problem with atonement…i have seen the film and neither is the story quite straight nor is the narration/treatment….i wonder whether the atonement bashers did at all read either the story or the film…not for nothing did it win best film at BAFTA/Golden Globe….
@Mainak
I saw that video. Interesting!
have you seen the whole thing?
By the way, Oscar week has started off well. Down with ‘There with be blood’ and ”The assassination of Jesse James…’.