Annal:2007 Academy Award® for Best Motion Picture
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Results of the Academy Award® in the year 2007. For a ranked list of films, try the honor roll.
- 2007 Oscar-Picture winner
- 2006 Edgar–Video winner
- 2007 BAFTA-Film nominee
- 2007 Golden Globe-Drama nominee
- 2007 Saturn-Action nominee
- Score: 38.57
Rookie cop Billy Costigan (Leonardo DiCaprio) grew up in crime. That makes him the perfect mole, the man on the inside of the mob run by boss Frank Costello (Jack Nicholson). It’s his job to win Costello’s trust and help his detective handlers (Mark Wahlberg and Martin Sheen) bring Costello down. Meanwhile, SIU officer Colin Sullivan (Matt Damon) has everyone’s trust. No one suspects he’s Costello’s mole. How these covert lives cross, double-cross and collide is at the ferocious core of the widely acclaimed The Departed. Martin Scorsese directs, guiding a cast for the ages in a visceral tale of crime and consequences. This is searing, can’t-look-away filmmaking: like staring into the eyes of a con—or a cop—with a gun.
- 2007 Golden Globe-Drama winner
- 2007 BAFTA-Film nominee
- 2007 Oscar-Picture nominee
- Score: 22.57
In this mesmerizing, emotional film that was shot in three continents and four languages - and traverses both the deeply personal and the explosively political—acclaimed director Alejandro González Iñárritu (21 Grams, Amores Perros) explores with shattering realism the nature of the barriers that seem to separate humankind. In doing so, he evokes the ancient concept of Babel and questions its modern day implications: the mistaken identities, misunderstandings and missed chances for communication that—though often unseen—drive our contemporary lives.
- 2007 Oscar-Picture nominee
- Score: 6.57
Sixty-one years ago, US and Japanese armies met on Iwo Jima. Decades later, several hundred letters are unearthed from that stark island’s soil. The letters give faces and voices to the men who fought there, as well as the extraordinary General Kuribayashi who led them.
With little defense other than sheer will and the volcanic rock of the island itself, Gen. Kuribayashi’s unprecedented tactics transform what was predicted to be a quick and bloody defeat into nearly 40 days of heroic and resourceful combat.
Almost 7,000 American soldiers were killed on Iwo Jima; more than 20,000 Japanese troops perished. The black sands of Iwo Jima are stained with their blood, but their sacrifices, their struggles, their courage and their compassion live on in the letters they sent home.
Valerie Faris, Jonathan Dayton
- 2007 BAFTA-Film nominee
- 2007 Golden Globe-Musical/Comedy nominee
- 2007 MTV-Movie nominee
- 2007 Oscar-Picture nominee
- Score: 24.57
The Hoover family treks from Albuquerque to the Little Miss Sunshine pageant in Redondo Beach, California, to fulfill the deepest wish of 7-year-old Olive, an ordinary little girl with big dreams. Along the way the family must deal with crushed dreams, heartbreaks, and a broken-down VW bus, leading up to the surreal Little Miss Sunshine competition itself. On their travels through this bizarre landscape, the Hoovers learn to trust and support each other along the path of life, no matter what the challenge.
- 2007 BAFTA-Film winner
- 2007 Golden Globe-Drama nominee
- 2007 Oscar-Picture nominee
- Score: 22.57
Tradition Prepared Her. Change Will Define Her.
The Queen is a witty and ingenious look at a moment that rocked the house of Windsor: the week that followed the sudden death of Princess Diana in 1997.
