Best and Worst of 2007 - Performances and Moments

Best Actor
Viggo Mortensen in Eastern Promises

Best Actress
Julie Christie in Away From Her

Best Supporting Actor
Javier Bardem in No Country For Old Men

Best Supporting Actress
Cate Blanchett in I'm Not There

Best Body of Work
Ben Foster in Alpha Dog, 3:10 to Yuma, 30 Days of Night

Best Death Scene
Zachary Knighton's body gets ripped in half in The Hitcher

Best Fight Scene
Viggo Mortensen's naked knife fight in a sauna in Eastern Promises

Best Action Scene
Maggie Q vs Bruce Willis includes punches, kicks and a car chase into an elevator shaft in Live Free or Die Hard

Best Movie Poster
Rose McGowan with a machine gun leg for Planet Terror

Best Quote
"I will take you down to hell with me!" - Ben Foster in Alpha Dog

Best Body Part
Nicolas Cage's abs in Ghost Rider

Best Opening Scene
A perfect introduction to the evil of Javier Bardem's character in No Country For Old Men

Best Ending
TIE - Gun shots in the mist / someone survives / everything changes in The Mist ... and No Country For Old Men... just ends.

Best Male Performance in a Bad Movie
Shia LaBeouf in Transformers

Best Female Performance in a Bad Movie
Laura Linney in The Nanny Diaries

Best Line Reading
"I thought I was good looking." -Joseph Gordon-Levitt tries to pick up girls in The Lookout

Best Musical Moment in a Non-Musical Film
Michael Cera sings These Eyes to a bunch of coke heads in Superbad

Best Musical Moment in a Musical Film
"Falling Slowly" performed in the piano shop by Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova in Once

Best Scene Stealer
Marcia Gay Harden in The Mist

Best Bad Ass - Male
Freddy Rodriguez in Planet Terror

Best Bad Ass - Female
Zoe Bell, Rosario Dawson, Tracie Thoms in Death Proof

Best Car Chase
The last 20 minutes of Death Proof

Best On-Screen Chemistry
Ashley Judd and Michael Shannon in Bug

Best Horror Movie Trend
Mass murder via helicopter blades in Planet Terror and 28 Weeks Later

Best Opening Credits
The retro dance sequence opening of Superbad

Best End Credits
The credits of Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon ("He's just a man..." or is he? All set to Psycho Killer by The Talking Heads)

Best Hero
Bruce Willis in Live Free or Die Hard

Best Kiss
Viggo Mortensen and Naomi Watts in Eastern Promises

Best Love Scene
Keira Knightley and James McAvoy get it on against some bookshelves in a library in Atonement

Best Casting
Robert Englund takes on the Doctor Loomis-esque role in Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon

Best Cameo
Bill Murray in The Darjeeling Limited

Best Villain
Javier Bardem in No Country For Old Men

Best Unconsummated Romance
Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova in Once

Best Prop
Juno's hamburger phone in Juno

Best Single Shot
The roaming, beautiful 4.5 minute shot through the Dunkirk beach in Atonement

Best Single Scene
The convenience store scene in No Country For Old Men

Best Horror Film
Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon

Best Comedy
Superbad

Best Romantic Comedy
Waitress

Best Action Film
Live Free or Die Hard

Best Remake
3:10 to Yuma

Best Short Film
Hotel Chevalier


Worst Actor
Justin Chatwin in The Invisibe

Worst Actress
Elisha Cuthbert in Captivity [NOTE: I am giving Lindsey Lohan a bi here because I'm pretty sure she was so drugged up while making I Know Who Killed Me and I don't think Elisha can use the same excuse. Frankly, I'm surprised Lindsey could stand up straight.]

Worst Supporting Actor
John Turturro in Transformers

Worst Supporting Actress
Scout Taylor-Compton in Halloween

Worst Chemistry
Brooke Langton and Dominic Purcell in Primeval

Worst Plot
Killer dolls come to life in Dead Silence

Worst Mother
Marley Shelton gives her 5 year old a gun in Planet Terror

Worst Sequel
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

Worst Dance Sequence
Tobey Maguire imitates John Travolta in Spiderman 3

Worst Plot Sequence
Johnny Depp has hallucinations in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

Most Overrated
Knocked Up

Worst Way to Waste a Whole Lot of Money (yours, mine and the studios)
Every single thing about Evan Almighty

Worst Way to Waste the Talents of Jonah Hill, Ed Helms and Lauren Graham
Not writing them a single funny piece of dialogue in Evan Almighty

Worst Way for Matt Damon to Prove He's Funnier Than Brad Pitt and George Clooney
By appearing in the convoluted mess known as Ocean's 13

Worst Overindulgence
The first half hour of Death Proof

Worst Decision
Quentin Tarantino decided to cut the lap dance from the theatrical version of Death Proof

Worst Chemistry From Two Very, Very HOT People
Scarlett Johansson and Chris Evans in The Nanny Diaries

Worst Casting
Casting a 7 foot tall wrestler / amazon warrior / superhuman as Michael Meyers in Halloween

Worst Homage to Jamie Lee Curtis
Scout Taylor-Compton destroys the role of Laurie in Halloween

Biggest Disappointment
Across the Universe

Worst Ending
The Brave One

Worst Car Chase
The terrible editing of the London car chase in National Treasure: Book of Secrets

Worst Cameo
Rainn Wilson in Juno

Worst Character
Olivia Thirbly as Leah in Juno

Worst Horror Movie
Aliens Vs. Predator: Requiem

Worst Comedy
Evan Almighty

Worst Romantic Comedy
Good Luck Chuck

Worst Action Film
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

Worst Remake
Halloween


Tomorrow: 10 Best Performances of the Year!