2007 5th Annual Nilsson Awards Nominees and Winners have been disclosed!!

The following nominees were chosen sometime in late January of 2007. The winners were announced in early March, but the nominees were not published until this year, by C.D. Nilsson. So here are the nominees... (winners are starred [(*)])


Best Film:
Babel (*)
The Departed
The Last King of Scotland
Little Miss Sunshine
The Queen

Best Director:
Clint Eastwood - Letters from Iwo Jima
Stephen Frears - The Queen
Alejandro González Iñárritu - Babel (*)
Paul Greengrass - United 93
Martin Scorsese - The Departed

Best Actor:
Leonardo DiCaprio - The Departed
Ryan Gosling - Half Nelson
Peter O'Toole - Venus
Will Smith - The Pursuit of Happyness
Forest Whitaker - The Last King of Scotland (*)

Best Actress:
Penélope Cruz - Volver
Judi Dench - Notes on a Scandal
Helen Mirren - The Queen (*)
Toni Collette - Little Miss Sunshine
Kate Winslet - Little Children

Best Supporting Actor:
Alan Arkin - Little Miss Sunshine
Jackie Earle Haley - Little Children
Djimon Hounsou - Blood Diamond
Brad Pitt - Babel (*)
Mark Wahlberg - The Departed

Best Supporting Actress:
Adriana Barraza - Babel
Cate Blanchett - Notes on a Scandal
Abigail Breslin - Little Miss Sunshine
Emily Blunt - The Devil Wears Prada
Rinko Kikuchi - Babel (*)

Best Screenplay:
Babel - Guillermo Arriaga (*)
The Departed - William Monahan
Little Children - Todd Field, Tom Perrotta
Notes on a Scandal - Patrick Marber
The Queen - Peter Morgan

Best Animated Feature:
Cars (*)
Happy Feet
Monster House

Best Foreign Language Film:
Apocalypto - Mel Gibson
Letters from Iwo Jima - Clint Eastwood
Babel - Alejandro González Iñárritu (*)
Pan's Labyrinth - Guillermo del Toro
Volver - Pedro Almodóvar

Best Cast:
Babel (*)
Little Miss Sunshine
United 93

Best Cinematography:
Babel (*)
The Departed
Little Miss Sunshine
Pan's Labyrinth
United 93

Best Original Score:
Babel - Gustavo Santaolalla (*)
Pan's Labyrinth - Javier Navarrete
The Queen - Alexandre Desplat

Best Costume Design
Pan's Labyrinth - Alex Angulo
The Devil Wears Prada - Patricia Field (*)
Dreamgirls - Sharen Davis
Marie Antoinette - Milena Canonero
The Queen - Consolata Boyle

Best Art Direction
Babel
Dreamgirls
Pan's Labyrinth (*)

Best Make-Up and Hair
Apocalypto
Dreamgirls
Pan's Labyrinth (*)

Best Original Song
"I Need to Wake Up" - An Inconvenient Truth
"Song of the Heart" - Happy Feet
"A Father's Way" - The Pursuit of Happyness (*)

Best Original Soundtrack
Dreamgirls (*)
Happy Feet
Music and Lyrics

Best Compiled Soundtrack
Cars (*)
The Departed
The Pursuit of Happyness

Breakthrough Artist Award:
Jennifer Hudson - Dreamgirls

Young Artist Award:
Jaden Smith - The Pursuit of Happyness

Awards Breakdown

Winning...
(not including special honorary awards such as Breakthrough Artist Award and Young Artist Award)


4/9 Atonement
4/6 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
2/7 Juno
2/4 Once
1/7 The Savages
1/6 Across the Universe
1/6 Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
1/5 La Vie En Rose
1/5 There Will Be Blood
1/4 No Country for Old Men
1/3 I'm Not There
1/1 Ratatouille
0/8 Into the Wild
0/4 Michael Clayton
0/2 Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
0/2 Elizabeth: The Golden Age
0/2 Lust, Caution
0/1 Eastern Promises
0/1 Away From Her
0/1 Charlie Wilson's War
0/1 The Kite Runner
0/1 Gone Baby Gone
0/1 Hairspray
0/1 The Counterfeiters
0/1 Persepolis
0/1 12

The Most Nominations - Atonement (9)
The Most Wins - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly and Atonement(4)
Greatest Win to Nomination Ratio (with more than one win and nomination)- Atonement (4:9)
Lowest Win to Nomination Ratio (with more than zero wins and three nominations) - Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street and La Vie En Rose (1:6)
Most Nominations Without a Win - Into the Wild (8)

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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Nilsson Awards

THIS IS NOT AN OFFICIAL SITE!!

thank you for showing interest in the Nilsson Awards. As of this time there is NO official sites for the Nilsson Awards, however, they plan to be expanded over the next 10-20 years.

For those who do not know, the Nilsson Awards are an annual award announcement created by C.D. Nilsson (AKA Curtis Dunn). There have been 6 award announcements to date, honoring the best of the year's motion pictures. The nominees are chosen by an anonymous party chosen by Mr. Nilsson himself. The winners are then chosen from those nominees by vote by a larger anonymous party, all of which is overseen by Mr. Nilsson. This however is only 3/4 of the chosing. The last quarter is considering the critics response to each category and a public vote.

The announcement is usually closed, but as of 2008 (for films in 2007) the winners have been published.

In the following posts all nominees will be shown, after that, all winners.

thanks,
the keeper.