SKANDIES 2007

2007 Skandies ballot for Victor Morton

Part I: Favorites

  • Best Picture

      • No Country for Old Men 20
      • Hot Fuzz 17
      • Atonement 10
      • Into Great Silence 10
      • Private Fears in Public Places 10
      • There Will Be Blood 8
      • Grindhouse 7
      • The Lives of Others 7
      • Gone Baby Gone 6
      • Joshua 5

  • Best Director

      • Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men 18
      • Alain Resnais, Private Fears in Public Places 14
      • Quentin Tarantino, Grindhouse 12
      • Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Syndromes and a Century 10
      • Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will Be Blood 10
      • Edgar Wright, Hot Fuzz 8
      • Jafar Panahi, Offside 8
      • Tsai Ming-liang, The Wayward Cloud 7
      • David Fincher, Zodiac 7
      • Kim Ki-duk, Time 6

  • Best Actress

      • Nicole Kidman, Margot at the Wedding 22
      • Laura Linney, The Savages 14
      • Ellen Page, Juno 12
      • Keira Knightley, Atonement 10
      • Jennifer Jason Leigh, Margot at the Wedding 9
      • Tammy Blanchard, Bella 8
      • Tang Wei, Lust, Caution 8
      • Kate Dickie, Red Road 7
      • Chen Shiang-chyi, The Wayward Cloud 5
      • Jodie Foster, The Brave One 5

  • Best Actor

      • Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood 15
      • Simon Pegg, Hot Fuzz 15
      • Sam Rockwell, Joshua 14
      • Josh Brolin, No Country for Old Men 12
      • Jens Albinus, The Boss of It All 9
      • Ulrich Mühe, The Lives of Others 9
      • Casey Affleck, Gone Baby Gone 7
      • Dany Boon, My Best Friend 7
      • Will Smith, I Am Legend 7
      • Don Cheadle, Talk to Me 5

  • Best Supporting Actor

      • Hal Holbrook, Into the Wild 17
      • Javier Bardem, No Country for Old Men 15
      • Lambert Wilson, Private Fears in Public Places 13
      • Casey Affleck, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford 10
      • Kurt Russell, Grindhouse 9
      • Terrence Howard, The Brave One 9
      • Peter O'Toole, Ratatouille 8
      • Philip Seymour Hoffman, Charlie Wilson's War 8
      • Mark Ruffalo, Zodiac 6
      • Ving Rhames, I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry 5

  • Best Supporting Actress

      • Saoirse Ronan, Atonement 20
      • Sabine Azema, Private Fears in Public Places 17
      • Vanessa Redgrave, Atonement 15
      • Amy Ryan, Gone Baby Gone 9
      • Cate Blanchett, I'm Not There 9
      • Seong Hyeon-a, Time 9
      • Kelly Macdonald, No Country for Old Men 6
      • Amy Ryan, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead 5
      • Anna Kendrick, Rocket Science 5
      • Kelli Garner, Lars and the Real Girl 5

  • Best Screenplay

      • Christopher Hampton, Atonement 20
      • Edgar Wright & Simon Pegg, Hot Fuzz 15
      • Noah Baumbach, Margot at the Wedding 15
      • Ben Affleck & Aaron Stockard, Gone Baby Gone 10
      • Diablo Cody, Juno 10
      • Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, The Lives of Others 8
      • Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men 7
      • Julie Gavras, Blame It on Fidel 5
      • Lars von Trier, The Boss of It All 5
      • Brad Bird, Ratatouille 5

  • Best Scene

      • "Miss Baltimore Crab", Hairspray 10
      • "What did the sun say to Erich Honecker", The Lives of Others 10
      • A visit to the bathroom, Offside 10
      • At the Father's house, Bella 10
      • City of women, Half Moon 10
      • Coin toss with "friendo", No Country for Old Men 10
      • Han River attack, The Host 10
      • Ship's Mast, Grindhouse 10
      • The body won't stay dead, Lust, Caution 10
      • Umbrella dance, The Wayward Cloud 10

Part II: Ratings

Alpha Dog 1.5
Amazing Grace 2.0
American Gangster 3.0
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford 3.0
Atonement 4.0
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead 3.0
Bella 3.0
Belle toujours 3.0
Blame It on Fidel 3.0
The Boss of It All 3.5
The Bourne Ultimatum 1.5
Breach 2.5
Breaking and Entering 2.0
Cashback 1.5
Charlie Wilson's War 2.5
The Darjeeling Limited 1.0
Death at a Funeral 1.0
Eastern Promises 3.0
Elizabeth: The Golden Age 1.0
Falling 3.0
Fay Grim 3.0
For the Bible Tells Me So 0.0
Gone Baby Gone 4.0
Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams 2.5
Grindhouse 4.0
Guru 3.0
Hairspray 3.0
Half Moon 2.5
Halloween 2.0
The Host 3.5
Hot Fuzz 4.0
I Am Legend 3.0
I Don't Want to Sleep Alone 1.5
I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry 2.5
I'm Not There 2.5
Into Great Silence 4.0
Into the Wild 3.0
Joshua 3.5
Juno 3.5
The Kingdom 3.0
Knocked Up 2.5
La Vie en Rose 2.0
Lars and the Real Girl 2.0
The Last Winter 3.0
Lights in the Dusk 1.5
The Lives of Others 3.5
Lust, Caution 3.0
Manda Bala 'Send a Bullet' 3.0
Margot at the Wedding 3.5
Michael Clayton 2.5
Moliere 3.0
My Best Friend 3.5
My Kid Could Paint That 2.0
The Namesake 1.5
No Country for Old Men 4.0
O Jerusalem 1.0
Offside 3.5
Outsourced 1.0
Persepolis 3.5
The Pervert's Guide to Cinema 3.0
Private Fears in Public Places 4.0
Ratatouille 3.0
Red Road 3.5
Rocket Science 2.5
The Savages 3.0
The Simpsons Movie 3.5
Southland Tales 1.0
Starter for 10 1.5
Sunshine 3.0
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street 3.0
Syndromes and a Century 3.5
Talk to Me 2.5
Ten Canoes 2.5
There Will Be Blood 4.0
300 3.0
Time 3.5
12:08 East of Bucharest 3.0
Valet 2.0
Waitress 1.5
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story 2.0
The Walker 3.0
The Wayward Cloud 3.0
The Willow Tree 2.0
The Wind That Shakes the Barley 1.0
Zodiac 3.0

Part III: Top Ten List

  • 01. NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN (Joel and Ethan Coen, USA)
  • 02. HOT FUZZ (Edgar Wright, Britain)
  • 03. ATONEMENT (Joe Wright, Britain)
  • 04. PRIVATE FEARS IN PUBLIC PLACES (Alain Resnais, France)
  • 05. INTO GREAT SILENCE (Philip Groening, Germany)
  • 06. THERE WILL BE BLOOD (Paul Thomas Anderson, USA)
  • 07. GRINDHOUSE (Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino et al, USA)
  • 08. THE LIVES OF OTHERS (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, Germany)
  • 09. GONE BABY GONE (Ben Affleck, USA)
  • 10. JOSHUA (George Ratliff, USA)