indieWIRE North American Critics Poll 2007

Recently indieWIRE realeased the results of their annual poll and here are some categories with the rankings for the top five.

Best Film
There Will Be Blood
Zodiac
No Country for Old Men
Syndromes and a Century
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days

Best Performance
Daniel Day-Lewis for There Will Be Blood
Anamaria Marinca for 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
Julie Christie for Away From Her
Carice van Houten for Black Book
Viggo Mortensen for Eastern Promises

Best Supporting Performance
Cate Blanchett for I’m Not There
Javier Bardem for No Country for Old Men
Casey Affleck for The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Paul Dano for There Will Be Blood

Best Director
Paul Thomas Anderson for There Will Be Blood
David Fincher for Zodiac
Joel and Ethan Coen for No Country for Old Men
Todd Haynes for I’m Not There
Cristian Mungiu for 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days

Best First Film
Away from Her, Sarah Polley
Gone Baby Gone, Ben Affleck
Control, Anton Corbijn
In Between Days, So Yong Kim
Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud

Best Undistributed Film (I like this category!)
Secret Sunshine
Useless
The Romance of Astree and Celadon
In the City of Sylvia
The Man From London

You have to read the complete Best Undistributed Film category; there are some very interesting movies. To check the full list for all categories go here.