VILLAGE VOICE/LA WEEKLY 2007 Film Poll: Javier Bardem, Cate Blanchett
VILLAGE VOICE/LA WEEKLY 2007 Film Poll: Part I
Best Supporting Actor:
1 Javier Bardem, No Country for Old Men
2 Casey Affleck, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
3 Hal Holbrook, Into the Wild
4 Philip Seymour Hoffman, Charlie Wilson’s War
5 Paul Dano, There Will Be Blood
6 Vlad Ivanov, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
7 Tom Wilkinson, Michael Clayton
8 Max von Sydow, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
9 Steve Zahn, Rescue Dawn
10 Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Superbad
Strangely, Gordon Pinsent, who’s very much the lead in Away from Her, received one best supporting actor vote. The full list is here.
Best Supporting Actress:
1 Cate Blanchett, I’m Not There (right)
2 Amy Ryan, Gone Baby Gone
3 Tilda Swinton, Michael Clayton
4 Leslie Mann, Knocked Up
5 Jennifer Jason Leigh, Margot at the Wedding
6 Zoe Bell, Grindhouse
7 Kelly Macdonald, No Country for Old Men
8 Marisa Tomei, Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead
9 Samantha Morton, Control
10 Catherine Keener, Into the Wild
All top-ten supporting actresses had English-speaking roles. Cate Blanchett is the critics’ favorite, but somehow she has been losing out to Amy Ryan in the many critics’ groups’ awards. The full list is here.
Best First Film:
1 Away from Her by Sarah Polley (above)
2 (tie) Gone Baby Gone by Ben Affleck and Michael Clayton by Tony Gilroy
4 Control by Anton Corbijn
5 Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud
6 In Between Days by So Yong Kim
7 12:08 East of Bucharest by Corneliu Porumboiu
8 (tie) Great World of Sound by Craig Zobel; L’Iceberg by Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon, and Bruno Romy; Manda Bala (Send a Bullet) by Jason Kohn, No End in Sight by Charles Ferguson, The Band’s Visit by Eran Kolirin; and The Lookout by Scott Frank
Actors turned directors did quite well in this category. The full list is here.
Best Documentary:
1 No End in Sight by Charles Ferguson (above)
2 (tie) Into Great Silence by Philip Gröning and Lake of Fire by Tony Kaye
4 Terror’s Advocate by Barbet Schroeder
5 Manda Bala (Send a Bullet) by Jason Kohn
6 (tie) The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters by Seth Gordon; Manufactured Landscapes by Jennifer Baichwal; My Kid Could Paint That by Amir Bar-Lev; and West of the Tracks by Wang Bing
10 (tie) I for India by Sandhya Suri; Our Daily Bread by Nikolaus Geyrhalter; Sicko by Michael Moore; The Cats of Mirikitani by Linda Hattendorf; The Life of Reilly by Frank L. Anderson and Barry Poltermann; The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema by Sophie Fiennes
Charles Ferguson’s No End in Sight has already won several awards from critics’ groups.
The full list is here.
Best Undistributed Film:
1 Secret Sunshine by Lee Chang-dong
2 Useless by Jia Zhang-Ke
3 (tie) In the City of Sylvia by José Luis Guerín and The Romance of Astrea and Celadon by Eric Rohmer
5 (tie) Profit motive and the whispering wind by John Gianvito; The Man from London by Béla Tarr; You, the Living by Roy Andersson
8 (tie) Battle for Haditha by Nick Broomfield and La France by Serge Bozon
10 (tie) Frownland by Ronald Bronstein; Import/Export by Ulrich Seidl; These Encounters of Theirs by Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet
The full list is here. Secret Sunshine also topped the indieWIRE list of best undistributed films.
There’s also a list of worst films — with fewer votes — which was topped by Richard Kelly’s Southland Tales and Rob Reiner’s The Bucket List. Next came Zack Snyder’s 300 and Eli Roth’s Hostel: Part II.
Next in line is the popular and generally quite well-received Juno, which shows that one person’s great movie is another’s cinematic disaster.
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