Last Thoughts of 2007

Film Critics in different countries of the world voted, via their associations and societies, for the best films of the last year released in the cinemas of their territories. These are very worthwhile polls because they not just respected but, moreover, introduce us to films that we may struggle to see outside of festivals depending on what country we live in.

USA

Here are The National Society of Film Critics votes, made up of the country's leading film critics:

Best Picture: There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson)
Best Foreign-Language Film: 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu)
Best Director: Paul Thomas Anderson (There Will Be Blood)
Best Nonfiction Film: No End in Sight (Charles Ferguson)
Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis (There Will Be Blood)
Best Supporting Actor: Casey Affleck (The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford)
Best Actress: Julie Christie (Away from Her)
Best Supporting Actress: Cate Blanchett (I'm Not There)
Best Screenplay: Tamara Jenkins (The Savages)
Best Cinematography: Robert Elswit (There Will Be Blood)
Best Experimental Film: Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind (John Gianvito)
Film Heritage Award: to Ford at Fox, a 21-disc box set from Fox Home Video
Film Heritage Award: to Ross Lipman of the UCLA Film and Television Archive for the restoration of Charles Burnett's Killer of Sheep and other independent films

Brazil

Brazilian Critics voted The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen) by German director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck Best Films of 2007.

Australia

The Melbourne–based Australian Film Critics Association instituted its own awards (the first time in 2007). Awards in four categories were given.
Best Australian Film: Noise (Matthew Saville)
Best Overseas Film: No Country For Old Men (Ethan & Joel Coen, USA)
Best Documentary: Forbidden Lies (Anna Broinowski, Australia)
Best Unreleased Film: The Band's Visit (Bikur Ha-Tizmoret) by Eran Kolirin, Israel)