BEST PICTURE
	Picture	Studio	Director	Awards - Poss Stars	Comment
May 4	Away From Her	Lions	Polley	Christie	Not much business and not much of a campaigner, but a loved vet
June 8	La Vie En Rose	PictH	Dahan	Cotillard	This year's Cruz?
June 22	A Mighty Heart	ParVan	Winterbottom	Jolie	Too early to hold
June 29	Evening	Focus	Koltai	Streep Close Redgrave	-
July 13	Rescue Dawn	MGM	Herzog	Bale Zahn	A test for MGM
July 20	Hairspray	NL	Shankman	Blonsky Travolta	Not likely to be more than commercial
July 24	Ressurecting The Champ	Yari	Lurie	Jackson	-
Aug 14	Feast Of Love	MGM	Benton	Freeman	Would be a major comeback for Benton
Aug 21	In The Valley Of Elah	WIP	Haggis	Jones Theron Sarandon	Mr. Crash returns
Sept 14	The Brave One	WB	Jordan	Foster Howard	Looks more commercial
Sept 14	Eastern Promises	Focus	Cronenberg	Watts	Never as kind to Cronenberg as they should be
Sept 28	Lust, Caution	Focus	Lee	Leung Wei	Language a barrier
Sept 28	La Misma Luna	FoxS	Riggen	Fererra	Lovely but small.
Oct 5	Michael Clayton	WB	Gilroy	Clooney	-
Oct 12	Elizabeth: The Golden Age	U	Kapur	Blanchett Rush Owen Morton	A sequel... hmmm
Oct 12	We Own The Night	Sony	Gray	Phoenix	More Russian mob
Oct 12	Grace Is Gone	TWC	Strouse	Cusack	Too small
Oct 19	Margot At The Wedding	ParVan	Baumbach	Kidman	-
Oct 26	Things We Lost In The Fire	DW	Bier	Berry Del Toro	Bier gets great performances
Nov 2	American Gangster	U	R. Scott	Denzel Crowe	Departed again?
Nov 2	The Kite Runner	ParVan	Forster		Tough road... beloved book
Nov 9	No Country For Old Men	Mir/ ParVan	Coens	Bardem Jones	The Coens are the ones they get years later... but may be their year
Nov 9	Reservation Road	Focus	George	Phoenix Ruffalo Connell	A big test for T-George
Nov 9	Lions For Lambs	UA	Redford	Cruise Streep Redford	Many would be thrilled to see it fail... more would be happy if it's great
Nov 16	Beowulf	Par	Zemeckis		Could be a true category changer... never bet against Zemeckis
Nov 16	Love In the Time Of Cholera	NL	Newell	Bardem	Sexy, but will it be great?
Nov 21	There Will Be Blood	ParVan	Anderson	Day-Lewis	Tough material
Nov 30	Cassandra's Dream	TWC	Allen	McGregor Wilkinson	Back again again?
Dec 7	His Dark Materials	NL	Weitz		Probably more Narnia than Rings
Dec 7	Atonement	Focus	Wright	Knightley Redgrave	Great, tough material
Dec 21	The Other Boleyn Girl	Sony	Chadwick	Portman Johansson Bana	Seems like every actor who people like but who don't get the nods
Dec 21	Sweeney Todd	DW	Burton	Depp Bonham- Carter	An opera...
Dec 21	Charlie Wilson's War	U	Nichols	Hanks Roberts Hoffman	The closest thing to a front runner... but soooo premature
Dec 26	The Savages	FoxS	Jenkins	Hoffman Linney	Loved at Sundance, but very edgy
Undated
x	The Darjeeling Limited	FoxS	W Anderson	Wilson Brody	Dark horse
x	Guerilla	Focus	Soderbergh	Del Toro	Could be 2008
x	Margaret	FoxS	Lonergan	Paquin	Long delayed
x	Youth Without Youth	SPC	Coppola	Roth	Rooting for Coppola, Sr
x	Synecdoche, New York	SK	Kaufman	Hoffman	Charlie = Genius
Nov?	In Bloom	2929	Perelman	Thurman Wood	A woman's perspective on violent tragedy

June 21 , 2007 (Updated with new dates, 6/22)
- by David Poland