The Chloes

The Home of the 2007 Chloe Awards

Best Costume Design
The expert seamstresses are...

Atonement
Jacqueline Durran
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Alexandra Byrne
The Golden Compass
Ruth Myers
Juno
Monique Prudhomme
La Vie en Rose
Marit Allen
Perfectly symbolistic and eye-catching, but they all blend easily to their environments. Incredible work.
Bombastic, over-the-top, all colors of the rainbow covered. She's the best working today.
Just like with a lot of the film, if only for Mrs. Coulter. She must've had an incredible closet.
Indie in the best sense of the word. Always fitting, always competent, always awesome.
Edith's diva persona could not have been better materialized. RIP you exceptional talent.
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Finalists: There Will Be Blood (Mark Bridges) * The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Patricia Norris) * Becoming Jane (Eimer Ni Mhaoldomhnaigh) * Amazing Grace (Jenny Beaven)
Semi-Finalists: Enchanted (Mona May) * Across the Universe (Albert Wolsky) * Lust, Caution (Lai Pan) * Michael Clayton (Sarah Edwards) * Bridge to Terabithia (Barbara Darragh) * Hairspray (Rita Ryack) * Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Colleen Atwood) * Black Book (Yan Tax)
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Best Film Editing
The wizards of continuity are...

Atonement
Paul Tothill
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Juliette Welfling
Michael Clayton
John Gilroy
There Will Be Blood
Dylan Tichenor
Youth Without Youth
Walter Murch
Falling in and out of truth and fiction, hope and regret, dreams and Briony.
Perhaps the most effective of the film's many artistic triumphs.
A dialogue-heavy legal bore becomes an electrifying thriller. Huh.
It covers a lot in an epic amount of time without you even realizing it.
For helping to make primal chaos rational, lyrical, and confronting.
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Finalists: The Bourne Ultimatum (Christopher Rouse) * Paprika (Takeshi Seyama) * The Lives of Others (Patricia Rommel) * A Mighty Heart (Peter Christelis)
Semi-Finalists: La Vie en Rose (Richard Marizy) * Lust, Caution (Tim Squyres) * Hairspray (Michael Tronick) * Away from Her (David Wharnsby) * No Country for Old Men (Roderick Jaynes) * Bug (Darrin Navarro) * The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Curtiss Clayton & Dylan Tichenor)
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Best Production Design
The fab surroundings are...

Atonement
Sarah Greenwood
The Golden Compass
Dennis Gassner
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Stuart Craig
Paprika
Nobutaka Ike
There Will Be Blood
Jack Fisk
For once, it's the set decoration rather than the art direction itself that proves it's worth. That doesn't happen very often.
It just makes sense, you know? It never seems out-of-place or innapropriate, just an awe-inspiring sight to behold.
For the fifth time, his work is breathtaking. Especially the new ones, specifically Umbridge's office and the Ministry.
Completely masterful, and it's all through insanely intricate cyber realities and blending consciouses.
Simple and stark, and a perfect stagey representation of the world in which the characters love to ham it up.
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Finalists: Sunshine (Mark Tildesley) * The Lives of Others (Silke Buhr) * Youth Without Youth (Calin Papura) * Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium (Thérèse DePrez) * Tekkon Kinkreet (Shinji Kimura)
Semi-Finalists: Across the Universe (Mark Friedberg) * The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Michel Eric & Laurent Ott) * Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Dante Ferretti) * La Vie en Rose (Olivier Raoux) * The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Troy Sizemore) * Lust, Caution (Lai Pan) * Hairspray (Mark Gropman)
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