So without any further ado, here are my choices for the best English-language films in 2007:

1. Jason Reitman’s Juno

2. Joe Wright’s Atonement

3. Andrew Wagner’s Starting Out in the Evening

4. John Carney’s Once

5. Sarah Polley’s Away From Her

6. Steve Buscemi’s Interview

7. Michael Apted’s Amazing Grace

8. Tamara Jenkins’ The Savages

9. Denzel Washington’s The Great Debaters

10. (Three-Way Tie) Robert Benton’s Feast of Love, Judd Apatow’s Knocked Up and John Dahl’s You Kill Me.

IN CASE YOU were wondering, yes, I saw the Coen brothers’ No Country for Old Men. This year it makes up my entire category of Movies Other People Liked and I Didn’t. It is simply too nihilistically evil-worshipping for my taste, though I can’t fault the sterling performances of Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Tommy Lee Jones and Woody Harrelson.

MY CHOICES FOR the best foreign-language films in 2007:

1. Julian Schnabel’s The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

2. Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s The Lives of Others

3. Ang Lee’s Lust, Caution

4. Stefan Krohmer’s Summer ’04

5. Denis Dercourt’s The Page Turner (La Tourneuse de Pages)

6. Susanne Bier’s After the Wedding

7. Pascale Ferran’s Lady Chatterley

8. Patrice Leconte’s My Best Friend

9. Joachim Lafosse’s Private Property

10. (Three-Way Tie) Olivier Dahan’s La Vie en rose, Paul Verhoeven’s Black Book and Claude Chabrol’s The Comedy of Power

MY TEN-BEST actresses of the year were as follows:

1. Julie Christie, Away From Her

2. Ellen Page, Juno

3. Cate Blanchett, Elizabeth: The Golden Age, I’m Not There

4. Isabelle Huppert, The Comedy of Power, Private Property

5. Laura Linney, The Savages, Breach

6. Martine Gedeck, Summer ’04, The Lives of Others

7. Markéta Irglová, Once

8. Marion Cotillard, La Vie en rose

9. Jodie Foster, The Brave One

10. Anamaria Marinca, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days

MY TEN-BEST actors of the year were:

1. George Clooney, Michael Clayton

2. Russell Crowe, American Gangster, 3:10 to Yuma

3. Gordon Pinsent, Away From Her

4. Mathieu Amalric, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

5. Ulrich Mühe, The Lives of Others

6. Glen Hansard, Once

7. Steve Buscemi, Interview, Delirious

8. Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Savages, Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead

9. Ben Kingsley, You Kill Me

10. Daniel Auteuil, My Best Friend, The Valet

OTHER NOTABLE ENGLISH-LANGUAGE films of 2007, in no particular order:

Breach; Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead; The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford; In the Valley of Elah; Enchanted; Dan in Real Life; Margot at the Wedding; Elizabeth: The Golden Age; 3:10 to Yuma; The Treatment; Lars and the Real Girl; The Bourne Ultimatum; Michael Clayton; American Gangster; Black Sheep; Live Free or Die Hard; The Walker; Mr. Brooks; Youth Without Youth; Zodiac; Puccini for Beginners; Grindhouse; Eastern Promises; Pierrepoint, the Last Hangman; There Will Be Blood; Gone, Baby, Gone; Lucky You; Becoming Jane; The Jane Austen Book Club; Starting Out in the Evening

OTHERE NOTABLE FOREIGN-LANGUAGE films in no particular order:

Summer in Berlin; Avenue Montaigne; The Valet; Exiled; Election; Triad Election; 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days; Funny Games

OTHER NOTABLE PERFORMANCES by actresses in no particular order:

Wei Tang, Lust, Caution; Kiera Knightley, Harriet Walter, Brenda Blethyn, Vanessa Redgrave, Romola Garai and Saoirse Ronan, Atonement; Jane Alexander, Radha Mitchell, Selma Blair, Shannon Lucio and Alexa Davalos, Feast of Love; Svea Lohde, Summer ’04; Nicole Kidman and Jennifer Jason Leigh, Margot at the Wedding; Anne Hathaway, Anna Maxwell Martin and Maggie Smith, Becoming Jane; Emmanuelle Seigner, Marie-Josée Croze and Anne Consigny, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly; Laura Vasiliu, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days; Drew Barrymore and Debra Messing, Lucky You; Elizabeth Reasner, Gretchen Mol, Jennifer Dundas, Julianne Nicholson and Tina Benko, Puccini for Beginners; Olympia Dukakis, Away From Her; Juliet Binoche, Dan in Real Life; Alexandra Maria Lara, Youth Without Youth; Marina Hands, Lady Chatterley; Danielle Mason, Black Sheep; Katherine Heigl and Leslie Mann, Knocked Up; Emily Mortimer, Patricia Clarkson and Kelli Garner, Lars and the Real Girl; Sienna Miller, Interview; Alison Lohman, Delirious; Mary-Louise Parker, The Assassination of Jesse James; Abbie Cornish, Elizabeth: The Golden Age; Tilda Swinton, Michael Clayton; Maria Bello, Emily Blunt and Kathy Baker, The Jane Austen Book Club; Journee Smollett, The Great Debaters; Lili Taylor and Lauren Ambrose, Starting Out in the Evening; Julia Stiles and Joan Allen, The Bourne Ultimatum; Romola Garai, Amazing Grace; Kristin Scott Thomas and Lauren Bacall, The Walker; Suzanne Flon, Cécile De France, Valérie Lemercier and Laura Morante and Dani, Avenue Montaigne; Laura Morante, Isabelle Carré and Sabine Azéma, Private Fears in Public Places; Maggie Q and Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Live Free or Die Hard; Jennifer Garner, Allison Janney and Olivia Thirlby, Juno; Téa Leoni, You Kill Me; Catherine Frot, Déborah François and Julie Richalet, The Page Turner; Juliet Stevenson, Pierrepoint; Marilyne Canto, The Comedy of Power

OTHER NOTABLE PERFORMANCES by actors in no particular order:

Michael Cera, Jason Bateman and J.K. Simmons, Juno; Denzel Washington, The Great Debaters, American Gangster; Jack Black and John Turturro, Margot at the Wedding; Ciarán Hinds, Margot at the Wedding, Amazing Grace; Philip Bosco, The Savages; Eric Bana and Robert Duvall, Lucky You; Steve Carell and Dave Cook, Dan in Real Life; Tim Roth, Youth Without Youth; Oliver Driver, Nathan Meister, Peter Feeney and Tammy Davis, Black Sheep; Seth Rogen, Paul Rudd and Harold Ramis, Knocked Up; Forest Whitaker, Nate Parker, Denzel Washington and Jermaine Williams, The Great Debaters; Tom Wilkinson, Michael Clayton; Sydney Pollack, Michael Clayton, Avenue Montaigne; Brad Pitt and Sam Shepard, The Assassination of Jesse James; Casey Affleck, Gone Baby Gone, The Assassination of Jesse James; Viggo Mortensen, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Vincent Cassel and Jerzy Skolimowski, Eastern Promises; Woody Harrelson, The Walker, No Country for Old Men; Morgan Freeman, Feast of Love, Gone Baby Gone; Greg Kinnear, Billy Burke and Toby Hemingway, Feast of Love; Robert Seeliger, Peter Davor and Lucas Kotaranin, Summer ’04; Ryan Gosling and Paul Schneider, Lars and the Real Girl; Matt Damon and David Strathairn, The Bourne Ultimatum; James McAvoy, Atonement, Becoming Jane; James Cromwell and Laurence Fox, Becoming Jane; Jean-Louis Coullo’ch and Hippolyte Girardot, Lady Chatterley; Ioan Gruffuld, Michael Gambon, Rufus Sewell, Toby Jones, Youssou N’Dour and Benedict Cumberbatch, Amazing Grace; Jérémie Renier, Yannick Renier and Kris Cuppens, Private Property; Dany Boon, My Best Friend; Justin Kirk, Puccini for Beginners; Vlad Ivanov and Alexandru Potocean, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days; William Hurt, Kevin Costner and Dane Cook, Mr. Brooks; Sebastian Koch, The Lives of Others; Daniel Day-Lewis, Ciarán Hinds and Paul Dano, There Will Be Blood; Frank Langella, Starting Out in the Evening; Chris Cooper, Ryan Phillippe and Dennis Haysbert, Breach; Willem Dafoe, The Walker; Lambert Wilson, Pierre Arditi, André Dussollier and François Gillard, Private Fears in Public Places; Christian Bale and Peter Fonda, 3:10 to Yuma; Bruce Willis and Timothy Olyphant, Live Free or Die Hard; Timothy Spall, Pierrepoint; Michael Pitt, Delirious.