Source: Houston Film Critics Society
The Houston Film Critics Society (HFCS) has announced its 2007 slate of year-end award winning films. This group of critics, based in or around the fourth-largest U.S. city, was diverse in spreading the accolades. Of utmost interest was No Country for Old Men, which got awards for Best Picture and Javier Bardem for Best Supporting Actor.
In an unprecedented move, the HFCS even named the co-directors, Joel and Ethan Coen, as Honorary Texans. Also impressive was Philip Seymour Hoffman, who the HCFS honored with a special award for Outstanding Achievement in Cinema for his trifecta work in Charlie Wilson’s War, The Savages and Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead.
Best Picture – No Country for Old Men
Best Director of a Motion Picture – Tim Burton, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role – Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role – Julie Christie, Away From Her
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role – Javier Bardem, No Country for Old Men
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role – Amy Ryan, Gone Baby Gone
Best Performance by an Ensemble Cast – Hairspray
Best Screenplay – Diablo Cody, Juno
Best Animated Film – Ratatouille
Best Cinematography – The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Best Documentary – The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
Best Foreign Language Film – The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Best Original Score – Dario Marianelli, Atonement
Best Original Song – “Falling Slowly” from Once
Honorary Texan Award – Joel and Ethan Coen
Outstanding Achievement in Cinema – Philip Seymour Hoffman
Outstanding Achievement in Cinema – The Greenway Three Theatre for over thirty years of service to Houston’s art-house film community.
The Houston Film Critics Society top ten films for 2007:
No Country for Old Men
Juno
Atonement
Michael Clayton
Into the Wild
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead
Charlie Wilson’s War
I’m Not There
