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2007 Oscar Awards
Nomination ballots were mailed 26 December 2007; nominations will be announced 22 January 2008;
polls close 19 February; the 80th Academy Awards show will be televised 24 February 2008 on A.B.C.
complete listings of 2008 Acadamy Awards for films of 2007
A.M.P.A.S. site •
Internet Movie Database
And the winner is...
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"--" [2007]
full credits from IMDb |
"Across The Universe" [Revolution/Sony Sept 2007]
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PREDICTION 10/2007: Oscar nominations for Best Director & Best Visual Effects
Strikingly visionary teen love story set in the turbulent 1960s using 33 Beatles songs & psyche- delic graphics. Co-written & directed by Julie Taymor; co-written by Dick Clement & Ian La Frenais; starring Jim Sturgess, Joe Anderson, Evan Rachel Wood, Dana Fuchs, Martin Luther, T.V. Carpio & Spencer Liff, with cameos by Joe Cocker, Salma Hayek, Eddie Izzard & Bono Sony widescreen color DVD [2/2008] 2 disks for $18.99 
Interscope records soundtrack CD [10/2007] 2 disks for $9.99 Interscope records soundtrack CD [9/2007] for $10.97 full credits from IMDb official movie site {requires Flash} |
"American Gangster" [Imagine Nov 2007] 
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PREDICTION 11/2007: Oscar nominations for Best Director & Best Editing
The true story of the 1970s heroin trade in New York City's Harlem, and the police detective who put Frank Lucas in jail for 70 years. Co-produced & directed by Ridley Scott; written & co-produced by Steven Zaillian, based on an article by Mark Jacobson; starring Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, Cuba Gooding Jr., Josh Brolin, 'RZA', John Ortiz, John Hawkes, Ted Levine, Yul Vazquez & Carla Gugino Universal Collector's Edition widescreen color DVD [2/2008] 2 disks for $19.99
Universal Deluxe Edition widescreen color DVD [2/2008] 3 disks for $27.99
full credits from IMDb official movie site {Flash only} novelization by Max Allen Collins |
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"American Gangster and Other Tales of New York" [2007] by Mark Jacobson Grove Press pb [10/2007] for $11.20 Blackstone UNABR audio CD [10/2007] for $45.36 |
"The 11th Hour"
[Warner Independent documentary Aug 2007]
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"Turn mankind's darkest hour into its finest"
Co-written & co-directed by Nadia Conners & Leila Conners Petersen; co-produced, co-written & hosted by Leonardo DiCaprio; footage includes Mikhail Gorbachev, Thom Hartmann, Stephen Hawking & Bill McKibben video/DVD not yet available; full credits from IMDb official movie site {requires Flash} |
"Michael Clayton" [Castle Rock Oct 2007]
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The 'fixer' at a New York law firm tries to save an overworked partner from a crisis of conscience, but billions of dollars are at stake in a class action lawsuit against the ruthless agri-giant client, and the partner's sudden suicide looks a lot like murder.
Written & directed by Tony Gilroy; co-produced by Steve Samuels, Steven Soderbergh, George Clooney & Sydney Pollack; starring George Clooney, Tom Wilkinson, Sydney Pollack, Michael O'Keefe, Tilda Swinton, Robert Prescott, Terry Serpico, Merritt Wever & Sean Cullen
video/DVD not yet available; full credits from IMDb official movie site {requires Flash} |
"Sicko" [Weinstein/Dog Eat Dog June 2007]
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Moore compares the failed American health care system with that of Canada & Cuba. Official tasgline: "A comedy about 45 million people with no health care in the richest country on earth."
Co-produced, written & directed by and starring Michael Moore Weinstein Company color DVD [11/2007] for $19.99
full credits from IMDb official movie site |
"There Will Be Blood"
[Paramount Vantage/Miramax Dec 2007]
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PREDICTION 12/2007: The movie isn't even out yet and critics already list the film and Daniel Day-Lewis for Oscar wins. (The trailer is showing, so I've seen why this is so.)
A wealthy oilman meets his match when he tries to cheat a Texas family headed by a blowhard preacher. Co-produced, 'loosely adapted' & directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, based on Upton Sinclair's 1927 novel "Oil!"; starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano, Kevin J. O'Connor, Ciarán Hinds & Dillon Freasier video/DVD not yet available; full credits at IMDb official movie site |
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"Oil!: A Novel" [1927] by Upton Sinclair [1878-1968] A fast-paced tale of the 1920s oil boom in Southern California Penguin 7¾x5½ movie tie-in pb [12/2007] for $10.20 Univ CA Press 8x5½ pb [4/97] out of print/used Bentley hardcover [6/79] out of print/used |
"--" [2007]
full credits from IMDb
"--" [2007]
full credits from IMDb
"--" [2007]
full credits from IMDb
"--" [2007]
full credits from IMDb
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