No Country for Old Men: 2007 Best Picture

“No Country for Old Men” won the Best Picture at the 80th Academy Awards, as well as Best Director (Joel and Ethan Coen), Best Supporting Actor (Javier Bardem) and Best Adapted Screenplay (the Coen brothers). The other Best Picture nominees were “Atonement”, “Juno”, “Michael Clayton” and “There Will Be Blood”.

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Acting Awards: Daniel Day-Lewis won Best Actor for “There Will Be Blood”. Marion Cotillard won Best Actress as Edith Piaf in “La Vie en Rose”. Javier Bardem won Best Supporting Actor as Anton Chigurh in the Best Picture; and the Best Supporting Actress went to Tilda Swinton as Karen Crowder in “Michael Clayton”.

2007’s top 10 films (by worldwide gross): “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End”, “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix”, “Spider-Man 3”, “Shred the Third”, “Transformers”, “Ratatouille”, “I Am Legend”, “The Simpsons Movie”, “National Treasure: Book of Secrets” and “300”.

Other notable films included “The Diving Bell and the Butterly”, “The Bourne Ultimatum”, “Enchanted”, “Sweeney Tood: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street”, “American Gangster” and “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford”.

Jeopardy! clues on “No Country for Old Men”
WEAK END $3,000 (Daily Double): Slate called the last scene of this 2007 Oscar winner based on Cormac McCarthy’s novel “a tacked on chunk of meaning”
GET YOUR MOVIE FACTS STRAIGHT $1600: “North Country” starred Charlize Theron; “No Country for Old Men” featured this Spaniard as a relentless killer
WHO’S YOUR DADDY? $800: “No Country for Old Men” co-star Josh
& THE OSCAR GOES TO… $1000: These 2 brothers, for their adapted screenplay for “No Country for Old Men”
McWRITERS $800: The film “No Country For Old Men” was based on a novel by him
GEEK SPEAK $1600: Make films like the Coen Brothers’ “No Country for Old Men” using this Apple film-editing software

More 2007 film clues:
ALAN RICKMAN ROLES $600: As Judge Turpin, Alan Rickman has a close shave with Johnny Depp in this 2007 film
GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT $1000: Frankie Muniz played agent Cody Banks; Diablo Cody wrote the screenplay of this 2007 film about a pregnant teen
THE NEW YORK TIMES MOVIE REVIEWS $400: (A.O. Scott presents the clue.) This nearly flawless 2007 Pixar film featured a French rodent who had a passion for fine cooking, I called him a “rat for all seasonings”
JANE AUSTEN IN POP CULTURE $2000: She played a pre-fame Jane Austen in the 2007 film “Becoming Jane”
SCIENCE FICTION $5,000 (Daily Double): This 1954 Richard Matheson novel has inspired such films as “The Last Man On Earth” & a 2007 Will Smith movie
COMPASS POINT MOVIES $2000: Viggo Mortensen was nominated for an Oscar for his role as a Russian Mafioso in this 2007 film
POLITICAL CINEMA $2000: In this 2007 film Tom Hanks played a Texas congressman who covertly aided Afghan rebels against the Soviets
“GIRL” MOVIES $2000: A life-sized doll named Bianca is one of the title characters of this Oscar-nominated 2007 film
MOVIE REMAKES $2000: This 2007 Shia LaBeouf film is a modern take on Hitchcock’s “Rear Window”
THE PERFORMER $200: Patton Oswalt cooked up the voice of Remy the Rodent in this 2007 Pixar film
SUPER COOPER $1000: In the 2007 film “Breach”, he played real-life FBI agent Robert Hanssen, who sold secrets to the Soviet Union
JOHN TRAVOLTA FILMS $200: John was really a “drag” in this 2007 film in which he played Edna Turnblad, a role first made famous by Divine
21st CENTURY CINEMA $600: Kid: “You just killed a helicopter with a car”; John McClane: “I was out of bullets” in this 2007 film with a 5-word title
FRIGHT-FUL FILMS $1600: Luke Wilson & Kate Beckinsale check into a motel AAA would not approve in this 2007 film
PET PROJECTS $1000: In a 2007 film this mutt was able to leap tall buildings in a single bound after a mishap in the lab of Simon Barsinister
UPTON SINCLAIR $2,000 (Daily Double): Sinclair’s novel “Oil!” was the basis of this Oscar-winning 2007 film
A STUDY IN SCARLETT JOHANSSON $1600: Scarlett provided child care for the Xs (Paul Giamatti & Laura Linney) in this 2007 film
MOVING PICTURES $800: 2007 film about a paralyzed editor
AT THE MOVIES $800: The “Legend of the Deep” in this 2007 film is a mysterious egg that hatches a sea creature of Scottish myth
MOVIE SONGS $1000: The Oscar for Best Song of 2007 went to a tune from this film about 2 Dublin musicians
GET YOUR MOVIE FACTS STRAIGHT $800: “First Blood” was a Rambo movie; this 2007 film had Daniel Day-Lewis searching for oil
ON THE BIG SCREEN $800: Mais oui! In 2007 Chris Tucker & Jackie Chan headed to Paris, giving this film series trilogy status
AT THE MOVIES $1600: Vince Vaughn played this title guy, Santa’s bitter older brother, in a 2007 holiday film
WILL SMITH $800: A tagline for this 2007 Will Smith film was “The last man on Earth is not alone”
MICHELLE PFEIFFER PFILMS $2000: Michelle plays evil witch Lamia, bent on maintaining her unnatural youth, in this 2007 fantasy film