BEST PICTURE
Release Date	Picture	Studio	Comment
Oct 5	Michael Clayton	WB	The understated front runner
Nov 9	No Country For Old Men	Miramax	Locking
Swinging For The Fences
Dec 7	Atonement	Focus	Becoming the front runner waiting to be torn down
Oct 26	Before The Devil Knows You're Dead	Think	This year's pre-nom The Departed?
July 20	Hairspray	NL	The one they refuse to believe... which has grossed more than the five titles above it on this list are likely to gross combined.
Dec 21	Sweeney Todd	DW	Awaiting the final product... the pitch is commercial... the singing may be less relevant than the blood
Sept 21	Into The Wild	ParVan	Vantage's Babel of this year... slow and steady, with passions flying every way
Dec 21	Charlie Wilson's War	U	Good or great?
Swimming Upstream
Nov 28	The Savages	FoxS	Could it be too real for the audience?
Dec 26	There Will Be Blood	ParVan	A miss-terpiece.
Dec 14	The Kite Runner	ParVan	Looking like a quiet audience fave... but a long way to go
Dec 17	The Diving Bell & The Butterfly	Mir	Could it settle into the feel-good-about-yourself film?
Sept 7	3:10 To Yuma	Lions	Needs to re-launch
Nov 2	American Gangster	U	Gained an audience, losing awards steam
Dec 5	Juno	FoxS	BP Nominee says, "You should've gone to China, you know, 'cause I hear they give away babies like free iPods. You know, they pretty much just put them in those t-shirtguns and shoot them out at sporting events"?
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The Current Long Shots (in aphabetical order)
Nov 16	Beowulf	Par	So much better than it deserves to be... 1000 times better than 300, but still, a geek flick
Oct 12	Lars & The Real Girl	MGM/Kim	Just didn't catch. People will wonder why after they've seen it
Nov 21	I'm Not There	TWC	Where is it ?
Oct 26	Things We Lost In The Fire	DW	Hard to overcome box office trouble
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Pretty Much Out Of The BP Race (by release date)
Dec 14	Youth Without Youth	SPC	Genius Without Comprehension
TBA	The Bucket List	WB	The boys are rolling back into town... Jack's SAG Q&A is a hot ticket
TBA-Dec	The Great Debaters	TWC	Screening it unfinished
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Pretty Much Out Of The BP Race (by release date)
June 8	La Vie En Rose	PictH
June 22	A Mighty Heart	ParVan
May 4	Away From Her	Lions
July 13	Rescue Dawn	MGM
Aug 24	Ressurecting The Champ	Yari
Sept 14	The Brave One	WB
Sept 14	Eastern Promises	Focus
Sept 14	In The Valley Of Elah	WIP
Sept 28	Lust, Caution	Focus
Sept 29	The Darjeeling Limited	FoxS
Oct 12	Elizabeth: The Golden Age	U
Nov 9	Lions For Lambs	UA
Nov 16	In Bloom	Mag
Nov 16	Love In the Time Of Cholera	NL
Nov 16	Margot At The Wedding	ParVan
Dec 7	Grace Is Gone	TWC
Dec 7	His Dark Materials	NL

November 15, 2007
- by David Poland

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Charts - November 8, 2007
Charts - November 1, 2007
Charts - October 25, 2007
Charts - October 18, 2007
The Post-Toronto Chart - September 21, 2007
The Pre-Toronto Chart - September 6, 2007
The First Chart of The Season- June 21, 2007

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