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Dec 9 2007

Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood was the big winner at this year's New York Film Critics Online award meeting. We were there, we voted and we were happy to see some of our favorites receive recognition. There Will Be Blood follows the epic rise and fall of prospector Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis) in the booming West Coast oil fields at the turn of the 20th century. The film shared Best Picture with Julian Schnabel's The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. Blood's other awards include Best Director for Paul Thomas Anderson, Best Cinematography for Robert Elswit, Best Score for Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood and Best Actor for Daniel Day-Lewis.

Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud's Persepolis, the remarkable story of one girl's coming of age in Iran, took two top awards: Best Foreign Film and Best Animation. Canadian Sarah Polley was given the prestigious Best Debut Director award for Away From Her, the adaption of Alice Munro's short story. Star Julie Christie also received Best Actress for her performance in the film. In the Best Supporting categories, Javier Bardem and Cate Blanchett took the prizes, for No Country For Old Men and I'm Not There respectively. Ellen Page received the Breakthrough Performance award for Juno. In the day's biggest surprise, the underappreciated The Darjeeling Limited won Best Screenplay. Here is the complete list of winners.

BEST PICTURE
Tie: There Will Be Blood and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

BEST ACTOR
Daniel Day-Lewis (There Will Be Blood)

BEST ACTRESS
Julie Christie (Away From Her)

BEST DIRECTOR
Paul Thomas Anderson (There Will Be Blood)

BEST SCREENPLAY
Wes Anderson, Jason Schwartzman, and Roman Coppola (The Darjeeling Limited)

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Tie: The Lives of Others and Persepolis

BEST DOCUMENTARY
Sicko

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Persepolis

BEST DEBUT DIRECTOR
Sarah Polley (Away From Her)

BEST FILM SCORE/MUSIC
Jonny Greenwood (There Will Be Blood)

BEST ENSEMBLE CAST
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Javier Bardem (No Country For Old Men)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Cate Blanchett (I'm Not There)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Robert Elswit (There Will Be Blood)

BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE
Ellen Page (Juno)

TOP TEN PICTURES (Alphabetical)

• Atonement
  
• Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
  
• The Darjeeling Limited
  
• The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
  
• I'm Not There
  
• Juno
  
• Michael Clayton
  
• No Country For Old Men
  
• Persepolis
  
• Sweeney Todd
  
• There Will Be Blood
  

Members of New York Film Critics Online

• Ethan Alter (Film Journal International)
• Chris Barsanti (Film Threat)
• Fred & Mary Ann Brussat (Spirituality And Practice)
• Marcy Dermansky (World Film Guide)
• Edward Douglas (Comingsoon.net)
• David Edelstein (New York Magazine)
• Jurgen Fauth (World Film Guide)
• Ed Gonzalez (Slant Magazine)
• Susan Granger (SSG Syndicate)
• Ron Henriques (Latinoreview.com)
• Brandon Judell (Indiewire)
• Harvey Karten (Compuserve)
• Glenn Kenny (Premiere)
• Kurt Loder (MTV)
• Maitland McDonagh (TV Guide Online)
• Prairie Miller (WBAI; Long Island Press)
• Scott Nash (Three Movie Buffs)
• Michelle Orange (The Reeler)
• Louis Proyect (Marx Mail)
• Rex Reed (New York Observer)
• Julian Roman (Movieweb.com; Latino Review; Black Film)
• Chuck Schwartz (Cranky Critic)
• Dana Stevens (Slate, NYTimes.com)
• Armond White (New York Press, AOL Black Voices)
• Kam Williams (Black Film)
• William Wolf (Wolf Entertainment Guide)
• Stephanie Zacharek (Salon)