Coral's Oscar Pics for 2007

Whether you saw them on DVD, Online or The Big Screen, here are my Oscar Picks for 2007.

This is it - the Night of Nights! with Faux Pundit Host Jon Stewart.

For my small part, our store Far Out Flicks has 2007 indee titles from The Lookout and Lust, Caution to The Namesake.

Here’s Mee Picks.

Best Supporting Actor

Javier Bardem – No Country for Old Men.

I first saw Bardem in The Sea Inside. Bardem deserves Oscar for his role as the ruthless Anton Chigurh in No Country for Old Men

Best Supporting Actress

Cate Blanchett - I’m Not There.

Todd Haynes' six dimensions of Bob Dylan is pure genius and Blanchett’s Jude – channels this enigmatic music minstrel.

Best Actress

Marion Cotillard – La Vie En Rose

Move over Courtney, Lisa and Brittany. A legendary forerunner has you beat for tragedy and talent. Cotillard is dazzling as French chanteuse Edith Piaf.

Best Actor

Daniel Day Lewis – There Will Be Blood.

Daniel Day Lewis is winning awards galore for playing oil obsessed / morally conflicted Daniel Plainview this high octane action drama. There will be Oscar.

Best DirectorJoel and Ethan Coen - No Country for Old Men

I’m a Coens fan from 1984 debut Blood Simple to Fargo and Raising Arizona. (Briefly lost Coen Luster after Intolerable Cruelty) Visceral duster No Country for Old Men, gives them there Coen boys a potent comeback. Yippie-yay -yo-kay-yay, motherf***kers!

Best Picture - Atonement

Juno is 2007’s Little Miss Sunshine.So there’s that…But The Academy loves Sweeping Romantic Timeless Epics.

Animated Short – I Met the Walrus

Animated Feature – Ratatouille

FL. Documentary – Sicko!

Foreign Language Film – 12

Adapted Screenplay – Ronald Harwood - Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Original Screenplay – Diablo Cody – Juno

That’s All Folks.