No Country For Old Men in AFI's top 10 of 2007
Story by Jack Foley
NO Country For Old Men, the latest film from the Coen brothers, has been included in the American Film Institute’s (AFI) top 10 list of the best films of 2007.
The Oscar-tipped thriller, based on the novel by Cormac McCarthy, has already been voted best picture by the New York Film Critics’ Circle and the National Board of Review. And it has picked up four Golden Globe nominations, including one for its co-star Javier Bardem.
Other films to make the AFI’s annual list include Pixar’s animated smash hit Ratatouille and the thrillers There Will Be Blood (from Paul Thomas Anderson) and Michael Clayton (starring George Clooney).
The list is completed by Juno, Before The Devil Knows You’re Dead, Knocked Up, The Savages, Into The Wild and The Diving Bell & The Butterfly.
The list was compiled by a panel of filmmakers, reviewers and academics.
Ironically, British film Atonement, which leads the Golden Globe nominations with seven nods, was missing from the AFI list, as were Oscar-tipped movies Charlie Wilson’s War and American Gangster.