BEST PICTURE
Release Date	Picture	Studio	Globe Nom	Comment
Nov 9	No Country For Old Men	Mira	D	The most locked
Oct 5	Michael Clayton	WB	D	The most likely consensus builder
Dec 21	Sweeney Todd	DW	M/C	The most muscled one
Dec 7	Atonement	Focus	D	The most in need of Leno and Letterman
Sept 21	Into The Wild	ParVan		Willing to fight and fight hard... would be interesting to see an anti-campaign campaign at this point... full of oddball events
Dec 5	Juno	FoxS	M/C	If you are in love with this film, what other film would you choose as "more likely?" It may be unique enough to get in... or too unique to be more than Actress and Screenplay
Nov 2	American Gangster	U	D	It doesn't have the senior love of Seabiscuit or the actor love of Ray... but it feels like a film that could be shoehorned in (and it's better than either of the previous UniMiracles).
Nov 30	The Diving Bell & The Butterfly	Mir	F	Can it find the traction?
Dec 26	There Will Be Blood	ParVan	D	Can this be "the critics' pick" with No Country For Old Men also in the top group?
Sept 7	3:10 To Yuma	Lions		SAG offers hope.
Nov 28	The Savages	FoxS		SAG offers doom
Dec 14	The Kite Runner	ParVan	F	SAG didn't notice... but was always a tough get for SAG, given little known names
Oct 26	Before The Devil Knows You're Dead	Think		SAG seems to have forgotten, though Phil Hoffman didn't come kiss up either
Dec 21	Charlie Wilson's War	U	M/C	Would have to be shot from a really challenging angle
July 20	Hairspray	NL	M/C	If SAG didn't go for Travolta, the nod becomes a longshot... even if there is an Ensemble nod
Sept 14	Eastern Promises	Focus	D	Looking more interesting in Actor and Screenplay again
Dec 25	The Great Debaters	TWC	D
Oct 12	Lars & The Real Girl	MGM/ Kim		Nancy Oliver has the best shot... Ryan Gosling next... and BP? Loooooooongshot.
Sept 14	Across The Universe	Sony	M/C	Just not a BP player... but craft awards?
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Pretty Much Out Of The BP Race (by release date)
Jun 1	Knocked Up	U
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	In The Valley Of Elah	WIP
Sept 28	Lust, Caution	Focus
Sept 29	The Darjeeling Limited	FoxS
Oct 12	Elizabeth: The Golden Age	U
Oct 26	Things We Lost In The Fire	DW
Nov 9	Lions For Lambs	UA
Nov 16	Beowulf	Par
Nov 16	Love In the Time Of Cholera	NL
Nov 16	Margot At The Wedding	ParVan
Nov 21	I'm Not There	TWC
Dec 7	Grace Is Gone	TWC
Dec 7	The Golden Compass	NL
Dec 14	Youth Without Youth	SPC
Dec 25	The Bucket List	WB

December 20, 2007
- by David Poland

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