2007 in Film - Events

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January 9 33rd People's Choice Awards: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest wins Favorite Movie, Favorite Movie Drama, and Favorite On Screen Matchup for Johnny Depp and Keira Knightley. Depp also wins Favorite Male Action Star and Favorite Male Movie Star.
January 13 64th Golden Globe Awards: Major winners include Dreamgirls and Babel.
20 Little Miss Sunshine is chosen as best picture by the Producers Guild of America.
22 The Golden Raspberry Awards picks for worst film achievement in 2007 had Little Man and Basic Instinct 2 leading with seven nominations. Other nominees included Lady in the Water, RV, The Shaggy Dog, and Date Movie.
23 79th Academy Awards nominations announced, leading films are:
  • 8: Dreamgirls
  • 7: Babel
  • 6: Pan's Labyrinth
  • 6: The Queen
  • 5: The Departed
28 Screen Actors Guild Awards: Helen Mirren, for Best Female Actor, Forest Whitaker, for Best Male Actor, Eddie Murphy, for Best Male Supporting Actor, Jennifer Hudson, for Best Female Supporting Actor.
February 15 BAFTA Awards: Major winners include Helen Mirren, Best Actress and Forest Whitaker, Best Actor
24 Basic Instinct 2 dominates the Golden Raspberry Awards, walking away with 4 awards, including Worst Picture and Worst Actress (Sharon Stone). M. Night Shyamalan wins Worst Director and Worst Supporting Actor for Lady in the Water. Other awards include Shawn and Marlon Wayans for Little Man and Carmen Electra for Scary Movie 4 and Date Movie.
25 79th Academy Awards: The Departed wins picture and director (Martin Scorsese) and two other awards. Helen Mirren (The Queen) and Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland) win top acting awards for leading roles, while Jennifer Hudson (Dreamgirls) and Alan Arkin (Little Miss Sunshine) win top acting awards for supporting roles.
April 25 The 2007 Tribeca Film Festival opens with notable films such as Spider-Man 3 and Surf's Up.
May 6 Spider-Man 3 finishes weekend with a total weekend gross of $151,116,516, breaking the previous record set by Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest.
27 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, a Romanian film by Cristian Mungiu wins the top prize, the Palme d'Or, at the Cannes Film Festival. Paranoid Park, a film by Gus Van Sant wins the 60th Anniversary Prize.
June 20 The American Film Institute holds a revised edition of 100 Years..100 Movies. Citizen Kane retains its place as the greatest movie of the past century.
September 12 Producer Gil Cates elects Jon Stewart as MC for the 80th Academy Awards.
November 5 12,000 writers of the Writers Guild of America go on strike affecting both motion picture and television production, including the Golden Globes and the Academy Awards in 2008.
December 13 Nomination for the 65th Golden Globe Awards are announced. Atonement earns the most entries with seven. Charlie Wilson's War follows with five.

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