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.