6th Annual Nilsson Award Nominees for the Most Outstanding Filmmaking of 2007

The following nominees were chosen sometime in late January of 2008. The winners were announced in early March, but the nominees were not published until April, by C.D. Nilsson. So here are the nominees... (winners are starred [(*)], best supporting actress was not only a tie, but categories are supposed to have three or five nominees, but this one tied, making it six. best supporting actor also has six nominees)

FACT: This year had the most nominations and wins for foreign language films, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly taking the most wins, (4, tied with Atonement) and La Vie en Rose taking the Best Actress win (Marion Cotillard).

FACT: This is the second year in a row where the Academy Award for Best Picture winner got low standings.



Best Film:
Atonement (*)
Juno
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood
The Savages

Best Director:
Tim Burton - Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Paul Thomas Andersen - There Will Be Blood
Jason Reitman - Juno
Julian Schnabel - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Le scaphandre et le papillon) (*)
Sidney Lumet - Before the Devil Knows You're Dead

Best Actor:
George Clooney - Michael Clayton
Daniel Day Lewis - There Will Be Blood (*)
Emilie Hirsch - Into the Wild
Philip Seymour Hoffman - The Savages
Viggo Mortensen - Eastern Promises

Best Actress:
Laura Linney - The Savages
Julie Christie - Away From Her
Marion Cotillard - La Vie En Rose (La Môme) (*)
Emmanuelle Seigner - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Le scaphandre et le papillon)
Ellen Page - Juno

Best Supporting Actor:
Javier Bardem - No Country for Old Men (*)
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Charlie Wilson's War
Hal Holbrook - Into the Wild
Tom Wilkinson - Michael Clayton
Philip Bosco - The Savages

Best Supporting Actress:
Cate Blanchett - I'm Not There (*)
Amy Ryan - Gone Baby Gone
Allison Janney - Juno
Saoirse Ronan - Atonement
Tilda Swinton - Michael Clayton

Best Screenplay - Adapted:
Atonement - Christopher Hampton (based on the novel by Ian McEwan)
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Le scaphandre et le papillon) - Ronald Howard (based on the novel by Jean-Dominique Bauby) (*)
Into the Wild - Sean Penn (based on the book by Jon Krakauer)
No Country For Old Men - Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (based on the novel by Cormac McCarthy)
There Will Be Blood - Paul Thomas Anderson (based on the novel, "Oil!", by Upton Sinclair)

Best Screenplay - Original:
Across the Universe - Dick Clement, Ian La Frenais and Julie Taymor
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead - Kelly Masterson
Juno - Diablo Cody (*)
Michael Clayton - Tony Gilroy
The Savages - Tamara Jenkins

Best Animated Feature:
Persepolis
Ratatouille (*)
Shrek: The Third

Best Foreign Language Film:
The Counterfeiters (Die Fälscher), German
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Le scaphandre et le papillon), French (*)
Lust, Caution (色，戒), Mandarin
La Vie En Rose (La Môme), French
12, Russian

Best Cast:
Across the Universe
Into the Wild
Juno
The Savages (*)
Atonement

Best Cinematography:
Atonement - Seamus McGarvey
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Le scaphandre et le papillon) - Janusz Kaminski (*)
I'm Not There - Edward Lachman
No Country for Old Men - Roger Deakins
There Will Be Blood - Robert Elswit

Best Original Score:
Atonement - Dario Marianelli (*)
The Kite Runner - Alberto Iglesias
Michael Clayton - James Newton Howard
The Savages - Stephen Trask
Into the Wild - Eddie Vedder, Kaki King and Michael Brook

Best Costume Design
Marit Allen - La Vie En Rose (La Môme)
Colleen Atwood - Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Jacqueline Durran - Atonement (*)
Alexandra Byrne - Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Albert Wolsky - Across the Universe

Best Art Direction
Sarah Greenwood, Nick Gottschalk and Niall Moroney - Atonement
Dante Ferretti and David Warren - Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (*)
Mark Friedberg, Mark Ragget and Peter Rogness - Across the Universe

Best Set Decoration
Sarah Greenwood (Production Designer), Nick Gottschalk (Art Director), Niall Moroney (Art Director) and Katie Spencer (Set Decoration) - Atonement (*)
Mark Friedberg (Production Designer), Mark Ragget (Art Director), Peter Rogness (Art Director), Elle Christianson de Jonge (Set Decorator) and Caroline Smith (Set Decorator) - Across the Universe
Dante Ferretti (Production Designer), Francesca Lo Schiavo (Art Director) and David Warren (Set Decorator) - Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Best Make-Up and Hair
Jan Archibald and Didier Levergne - La Vie En Rose
Ve Neill and Martin Samuel - Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (*)
Ivana Primorac and Peter Owen - Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Best Original Song
Falling Slowly by Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová - Once (*)
Guaranteed by Eddie Vedder - Into the Wild
Lies by Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová - Once

Best Original Soundtrack
Across the Universe (*)
Once
La Vie En Rose
Sweeney Todd
Hairspray

Best Compiled Soundtrack
American Gangster
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Juno (*)
I'm Not There
Into the Wild

Best Independent Film
Into the Wild (*)
Lust, Caution
Once

Breakthrough Artist Award:
Ellen Page - Juno, An American Crime and The Tracy Fragments

Young Artist Award:
Saoirse Ronan - Atonement




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