ROTTEN TOMATOES: There Will Be Blood, No Country For Old Men Top Critics' Awards

There Will Be Blood, No Country For Old Men Top Critics' Awards

New York, LA, Boston and D.C. scribes honor the best of 2007.

by Jeff Giles | December 10, 2007

Looking for lists of critics' favorite films from 2007? Today is your lucky day!

Not to be outdone by last week's unveiling of the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures awards, a number of critics' associations have announced their honors, including the New York Film Critics Online, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, the Boston Society of Film Critics, and the Washington, D.C. Area Film Critics Association. Let's take a look, shall we? The awards follow, with Tomatometer ratings following film titles in parentheses:

New York Film Critics Online:
Picture -- There Will Be Blood (100 percent) / The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (94 percent)
Actor -- Daniel Day-Lewis (There Will Be Blood)
Actress -- Julie Christie (Away From Her, 95 percent)
Director -- PT Anderson (There Will Be Blood)
Supporting Actor -- Javier Bardem (No Country for Old Men) (95 percent)
Supporting Actress -- Cate Blanchett (I'm Not There, 79 percent)
Breakthrough Performer -- Ellen Page (Juno, 92 percent)
Debut Director -- Sarah Polley (Away From Her)
Ensemble Cast -- Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (88 percent)
Screenplay -- The Darjeeling Limited, 66 percent (Wes Anderson, Jason Schwartzman, Roman Coppola)
Documentary -- Sicko (93 percent)
Foreign Language -- The Lives of Others (93 percent) / Persepolis (100 percent)
Animated -- Persepolis
Cinematography -- There Will Be Blood (Robert Elswit)
Film Music -- There Will Be Blood (Jonny Greenwood)

Los Angeles Film Critics Association:
Picture -- There Will Be Blood
Director -- Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will Be Blood
Actor -- Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood
Actress -- Marion Cotillard, La Vie en rose (74 percent)
Supporting Actor -- Vlad Ivanov, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (96 percent)
Supporting Actress -- Amy Ryan, Gone Baby Gone, (93 percent) and Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
Screenplay -- Tamara Jenkins, The Savages (90 percent)
Foreign Languange Film -- 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
Documentary -- No End in Sight (95 percent)
Animation -- Ratatouille (97 percent) and Persepolis (tie)
Music -- Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova, Once (98 percent)
Cinematography -- Janusz Kaminski, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Boston Society of Film Critics:
Picture -- No Country for Old Men
Actor -- Frank Langella (Starting Out in the Evening, 80 percent)
Actress -- Marion Cotillard (La Vie en rose)
Director -- Julian Schnabel (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly)
Supporting Actor -- Javier Bardem (No Country for Old Men)
Supporting Actress -- Amy Ryan (Gone Baby Gone)
Ensemble Cast -- Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
Screenplay -- Brad Bird (Ratatouille)
Documentary -- Crazy Love (78 percent)
Foreign Language -- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Cinematography -- Janusz Kaminski (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly)

Washington, D.C. Area Film Critics Association:
Picture -- No Country for Old Men
Director -- Joel and Ethan Coen (No Country for Old Men)
Actor -- George Clooney (Michael Clayton, 90 percent)
Actress -- Julie Christie (Away From Her)
Supporting Actor -- Javier Bardem (No Country for Old Men)
Supporting Actress -- Amy Ryan (Gone Baby Gone)
Screenplay -- Aaron Sorkin (Charlie Wilson's War, adaptation, 88 percent); Diablo Cody (Juno, original)
Documentary -- Sicko
Foreign Film -- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Animated -- Ratatouille

Source: ComingSoon (New York)
Source: Variety (Los Angeles)
Source: Variety (Boston)
Source: Variety (Washington, D.C.)

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empoor writes:
on Dec 10 2007 07:37 AM

JULIE CHRISTIE! Yeaahhh... (Agree with some of the winning movies, not all.)

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stanleykubrickr.i.p. writes:
on Dec 10 2007 07:44 AM

I'm glad to hear that "There Will Be Blood" has won best picture from the Los Angeles Film Critics. When "NO Country for Old Men" won last week from the NBR and TWBB was completely shut out I began to worry that maybe the film really wasn't what early reviews have said. But, with this win I am sure that it is going to be great.

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wordweaver writes:
on Dec 10 2007 08:36 AM

Amy Ryan for Gone baby Gone? what is freakin' wrong with Boston critics?

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empoor writes:
on Dec 10 2007 09:05 AM

In reply to this comment (#1344701)
Word.

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BjornFree writes:
on Dec 10 2007 09:09 AM

In reply to this comment (#1344701)
I thought Amy Ryan did a very solid job. I also think Javier Bardem is the right choice on the male side.

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TheGreatOne13 writes:
on Dec 10 2007 09:31 AM

Amy Ryan really pissed me off in Gone Baby Gone DAMN IT

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nathanpoitras writes:
on Dec 10 2007 10:22 AM

I hated Amy Ryan in Gone Baby Gone as well, I guess that means she did a pretty good job.

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dahluzz writes:
on Dec 10 2007 10:24 AM

In reply to this comment (#1344701)
uhh, also selected by LA and will probably win the Oscar if academy darling Blanchett doesn't cop it. be specific about what you didn't like, because from where i was sitting she completely nailed the Dorchester coke slut that you can't have any sympathy for. i'm assuming you actually saw the movie...

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Elixor writes:
on Dec 10 2007 10:28 AM

Absolutely loved Javier Bardem in NCfOM. An absolutely awesome job.

Gone Baby Gone was a very good movie and Ryan was solid in it, but was that really the best job by a supporting actress this year? Can't think of a better one off of the top of my head (this wouldn't have come to mind either). Amy Ryan has been in three really solid movies this year with Gone Baby Gone, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, and Dan in Real Life, but I couldn't say that her roles really stuck out to me as great acting. Gone Baby Gone was definately the best out of the three. hmmm ...

George Clooney in Micheal Clayton for best actor seems questionable too. Sounds like I definately need to see There Will be Blood.

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Poor_Frisco writes:
on Dec 10 2007 10:29 AM

can't wat for There Will Be Blood.
P.T. Andeson is fantastic.
Magnolia is my all time favorite movie.

I really want to see I'm Not here

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Poor_Frisco writes:
on Dec 10 2007 10:30 AM

Obviously meant to say I'm Not There
RT you kill me with your lack of editing options

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Darule17 writes:
on Dec 10 2007 10:42 AM

So far my best picture is no country for old men, but it might change when I see There will be blood.

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Bardego writes:
on Dec 10 2007 11:33 AM

Wow, Amy Ryan wins four supporting actress awards and Blanchett only wins one? Didn't see that coming...

Anyway, I'm glad There Will Be Blood is getting some love. Maybe there is hope for it come Oscar time after all...

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danielfrohlich writes:
on Dec 10 2007 11:43 AM

the lives of others should have gotten more nods in the foreign film category.

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nardoguz writes:
on Dec 10 2007 11:45 AM

i give the trailer for there will be blood best picture of the year.

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BatsInTheBelfry writes:
on Dec 10 2007 12:04 PM

I'll hold any "Best" picks I have until the end of the year. However, I think one thing we can all agree on is this was a great year for movies. It's nice to see good movies being spread out throughout the year rather than all in November and December. We got The Lookout and Zodiac early on, The Bourne Ultimatum and Knocked Up in the summer, and Gone Baby Gone and 3:10 to Yuma in the fall.

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EmmG389 writes:
on Dec 10 2007 02:58 PM

This looks good for There Will Be Blood, after some polarizing reviews I was worried. But after that deleted scene, I felt good about it again. I felt good about it after the trailer, but look at American Gangster's trailer, that was awesome. I think now that There Will Be Blood will live up to the trailer now.
Sweeney Todd is also getting major love from the critics in top ten lists(New Yorker, Newsweek), so I am looking forward to that. And this confirms the fact that I knew Charlie Wilson's War was going to be a disappointment, good but not great.

You know it is a great year for movies when movies surpass and live up to their trailers.
Mentions:
Gone Baby Gone (poor trailer)
No Country (amazing)
Superbad
Knocked Up (cheesy like all of Apatow's trailers)
Rescue Dawn (not great either)
3:10 to Yuma

And for all of you Amy Ryan haters, Amy Ryan pissed every one off in Gone Baby Gone. Although Cate Blanchett should win it.

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unbreakable_samurai writes:
on Dec 10 2007 03:09 PM

Just watched No Country last night, I was disapointed it was a solid film but not great, definitely not the best Coen film or film of the year. There Will Be Blood looks damn good, I can hardly wait. And Amy Ryan did do a good job in Gone Baby Gone.

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VICVEGA06 writes:
on Dec 10 2007 03:56 PM

In reply to this comment (#1345591)
It was only a solid film? You're crazy in the coconut mang!

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Pyramids writes:
on Dec 10 2007 04:05 PM

In reply to this comment (#1345052)
seeing as it won last year's foreign language film oscar, i'm pretty sure it's exempt from this year's lists lol

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Movie:	Ratatouille
	No Country for Old Men
	Gone Baby Gone
	Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
	I'm Not There
	Juno
	The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
	4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
	Starting Out in the Evening
	No End in Sight
	Sicko
	Away From Her
	Persepolis
	Charlie Wilson's War
	La Vie En Rose
	The Savages
	The Darjeeling Limited
	Crazy Love
	Once
	Awards Tour 2007