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The year 2007 in film saw major releases such as The Simpsons Movie, National Treasure: Book of Secrets, Transformers, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, TMNT, Saw IV, and Live Free or Die Hard as well as releases of third installment films, such as: The Bourne Ultimatum, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, Rush Hour 3, Shrek the Third, Resident Evil: Extinction, Spider-Man 3, and Ocean's Thirteen.[1][2]
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[edit] Events
| Month | Day | Event |
| January | 9 | 33rd People's Choice Awards: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest wins Favorite Movie, Favorite Movie Drama, and Favorite On Screen Matchup for Johnny Depp and Keira Knightley. Depp also wins Favorite Male Action Star and Favorite Male Movie Star. |
| January | 13 | 64th Golden Globe Awards: Major winners include Dreamgirls and Babel. |
| 20 | Little Miss Sunshine is chosen as best picture by the Producers Guild of America. | |
| 22 | The Golden Raspberry Awards picks for worst film achievement in 2007 had Little Man and Basic Instinct 2 leading with seven nominations. Other nominees included Lady in the Water, RV, The Shaggy Dog, and Date Movie. | |
| 23 | 79th Academy Awards nominations announced, leading films are:
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| 28 | Screen Actors Guild Awards: Helen Mirren, for Best Female Actor, Forest Whitaker, for Best Male Actor, Eddie Murphy, for Best Male Supporting Actor, Jennifer Hudson, for Best Female Supporting Actor. | |
| February | 15 | BAFTA Awards: Major winners include Helen Mirren, Best Actress and Forest Whitaker, Best Actor |
| 24 | Basic Instinct 2 dominates the Golden Raspberry Awards, walking away with 4 awards, including Worst Picture and Worst Actress (Sharon Stone). M. Night Shyamalan wins Worst Director and Worst Supporting Actor for Lady in the Water. Other awards include Shawn and Marlon Wayans for Little Man and Carmen Electra for Scary Movie 4 and Date Movie | |
| 25 | 79th Academy Awards: The Departed wins picture and director (Martin Scorsese) and two other awards. Helen Mirren (The Queen) and Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland) win top acting awards for leading roles, while Jennifer Hudson (Dreamgirls) and Alan Arkin (Little Miss Sunshine) win top acting awards for supporting roles. | |
| April | 25 | The 2007 Tribeca Film Festival opens with notable films such as Spider-Man 3 and Surf's Up. |
| May | 6 | Spider-Man 3 finishes weekend with a total weekend gross of $151,116,516, breaking the previous record set by Pirates of the Carribean: Dead Man's Chest. |
| 27 | 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, a Romanian film by Cristian Mungiu wins the top prize, the Palme d'Or, at the Cannes Film Festival. Paranoid Park, a film by Gus Van Sant wins the 60th Anniversary Prize. | |
| June | 20 | The American Film Institute holds a revised edition of 100 Years..100 Movies. Citizen Kane retains its place as the greatest movie of the past century. |
| September | 12 | Producer Gil Cates elects Jon Stewart as MC for the 80th Academy Awards. |
| November | 5 | 12,000 writers of the Writers Guild of America go on strike affecting both motion picture and television production, including the Golden Globes and the Academy Awards in 2008. |
| December | 13 | Nomination for the 65th Golden Globe Awards are announced. Atonement earns the most entries with seven. Charlie Wilson's War follows with five. |
[edit] Top grossing films
Please note that following the tradition of the English-language film industry, these are the top grossing films that were first released in 2007. The top ten as of February 21, 2008 (Worldwide, U.S. & Canada and International);(UK) and (Australia) are as follows:
| 2007 Rank | Title | Studio | Worldwide Gross | U.S/Canada Gross | U.K. Gross | Australia Gross | |||
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| 1 | Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End | Disney | $960,996,492 | $309,420,425 | £41,371,858 | $29,085,288 | |||
| 2 | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix | Warner Bros. | $938,468,864 | $292,004,738 | £51,507,155 | $29,409,933 | |||
| 3 | Spider-Man 3 | Columbia | $890,871,626 | $336,530,303 | £34,071,767 | $19,667,403 | |||
| 4 | Shrek the Third | DreamWorks | $798,957,081 | $321,012,359 | £39,721,161 | $28,500,981 | |||
| 5 | Transformers | DreamWorks/Paramount | $708,226,810 | $319,246,193 | £24,126,377 | $23,885,803 | |||
| 6 | Ratatouille | Disney / Pixar | $621,416,583 | $206,445,654 | £24,706,510 | $13,240,587 | |||
| 7 | I Am Legend | Warner Bros. | $584,137,442 | $256,393,010 | £26,257,809 | $21,160,195 | |||
| 8 | The Simpsons Movie | 20th Century Fox | $526,864,607 | $183,135,014 | £39,842,000 | $26,654,369 | |||
| 9 | National Treasure: Book of Secrets | Disney | $457,364,325 | $219,961,501 | £8,956,842 | $11,790,412 | |||
| 10 | 300 | Warner Bros. | $456,068,181 | $210,614,939 | £14,225,674 | $12,304,031 |
In total, fifty-one films released in 2007 have grossed more than $100 million, reaching blockbuster status. Eleven films more than $400 million, reaching international blockbuster motion picture status. This breaks 2003's record of nine films grossing more than $400 million. Two (Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix) grossed more than $900 million, making them the sixth and seventh highest grossing films internationally, respectively, in history.
For a complete list of 2007's top-grossing films, follow these links:
- Worldwide: http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?view2=worldwide&yr=2007&p=.htm
- U.S. & Canada: http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=2007&p=.htm
- United Kingdom: http://www.boxofficemojo.com/intl/uk/
- Australia: http://www.boxofficemojo.com/intl/australia/
[edit] Awards
- Best Picture: No Country for Old Men
- Best Director: Joel & Ethan Coen - No Country for Old Men
- Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis - There Will Be Blood
- Best Actress: Marion Cotillard - La Vie en Rose
- Best Supporting Actor: Javier Bardem - No Country for Old Men
- Best Supporting Actress: Tilda Swinton - Michael Clayton
- Best Original Screenplay: Diablo Cody - Juno
- Best Adapted Screenplay: Joel & Ethan Coen - No Country For Old Men
- Best Foreign Language Film: The Counterfeiters, Austria
- Best Original Score: Atonement - Dario Marianelli
- Drama
- Best Picture: Atonement
- Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis - There Will Be Blood
- Best Actress: Julie Christie - Away From Her
- Musical or Comedy
- Best Picture: Sweeney Todd
- Best Actor: Johnny Depp - Sweeney Todd
- Best Actress: Marion Cotillard - La Vie en Rose
- Other
- Best Director: Julian Schnabel - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
- Best Supporting Actor: Javier Bardem - No Country for Old Men
- Best Supporting Actress: Cate Blanchett - I'm Not There
- Best Original Screenplay: Joel and Ethan Coen - No Country for Old Men
- Best Foreign Language Film: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, France
- Best Original Score: Atonement - Dario Marianelli
- Best Film: Atonement
- Best Director: Joel and Ethan Coen - No Country for Old Men
- Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis - There Will Be Blood
- Best Actress: Marion Cotillard - La Vie en Rose
- Best Supporting Actor: Javier Bardem - No Country for Old Men
- Best Supporting Actress: Tilda Swinton - Michael Clayton
- Best Original Screenplay: Diablo Cody - Juno
- Best British Film: This Is England
- Best Foreign Language Film: The Lives of Others, Germany
- Best Original Score: La Vie en Rose - Christopher Gunning
Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival):
- 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, directed by Cristian Mungiu, Romania
Grand Jury Prize (Sundance Film Festival):
- Padre Nuestro, directed by Christopher Zalla, United States
Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival):
- Lust, Caution, directed by Ang Lee, Taiwan
Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival):
- Tuya's Marriage, directed by Wang Quan'an, China
Golden Seashell (San Sebastián Film Festival):
- A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, directed by Wayne Wang, United States
Crystal Globe (Karlovy Vary Film Festival):
- Jar City, directed by Baltasar Kormákur, Iceland
[edit] Wide-release films
Wide release is a term in the American motion picture industry for a motion picture that is playing nationally on 600 screens or more in the United States and Canada.
The following films meet these criteria:
[edit] January - March
There were a total of 43 films released between January and March 2007 and of these the top grossing film of the quarter was 300 which made a total of $209,313,972.