The Chloes

Best Original Screenplay
The exploiters of free thought are...

Juno Diablo Cody	The Lives of Others Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck	Michael Clayton Tony Gilroy	Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium Zach Helm	Ratatouille Brad Bird & Jan Pinkava & Jim Capobianco
One of the most completely endearing and heart-warming scripts in a while. Honest to blog.	Controlled, brilliant, and so surprisingly (but pleasantly) melodramatic. I will NOT shut up about how amazing he is.	Sure, it's messy and unfocused and over-the-top, but somehow, it makes the film better because it's like that.	This'll probably get me a lot of "WTF?"s, but I mean it. With Helm, it always feels like it's the first hit of word-smack.	It takes some very basic and tired methods and turns them into something completely wonderful. Yay!
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Finalists: Breaking & Entering (Anthony Minghella) * Rocket Science (Jeffrey Blitz) * The Savages (Tamara Jenkins) * Hot Fuzz (Edgar Wright & Simon Pegg) * Dans Paris (Christophe Honoré) Semi-Finalists: Eastern Promises (Steven Knight) * In the Valley of Elah (Paul Haggis) * Waitress (Adrienne Shelley) * Stephanie Daley (Hilary Brougher) * Superbad (Seth Rogen & Evan Goldberg) / Knocked Up (Judd Apatow) * The Lookout (Scott Frank) * Margot at the Wedding (Noah Baumbach) * The Orphanage (Sergio G. Sánchez) * Amazing Grace (Steven Knight) * Black Snake Moan (Craig Brewer) * The Darjeeling Limited (Wes Anderson & Jason Schwartzman)
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Best Adapted Screenplay
The local library lovers are...

Atonement Christopher Hampton	Away from Her Sarah Polley	The Diving Bell and the Butterfly Ron Harwood	Paprika Seishi Minakami & Satoshi Kon	There Will Be Blood Paul Thomas Anderson
With full faith in the audience being able to interpret things beyond the shallow beauty of it's cover, it takes you in and never lets go.	Incredible work. It's something beautifully subtle and minimalistic, and with some very unexpected ideals. Yay Sarah!	Just like the film, it's heartbreaking wonderment is indeed it's strength, and it's acclaim is astoundingly appropriate.	Odd choice, I know, but it's actually one of the best ruminations on technology and the state of humanity ever.	He transforms it into a menacing, epic, and ultimately harrowing story stylized in full mentally unstable regalia.
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Finalists: Youth Without Youth (Francis Ford Coppola) * Lust, Caution (James Schamus and Hui-Lung Wang) * The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Andrew Dominick) * No Country for Old Men (Joel & Ethan Coen) Semi-Finalists: A Mighty Heart (John Orloff) * Bug (Tracey Letts) * Hairspray (Leslie Nixon) * Jindabyne (Beatrix Christian) * Charlie Wilson's War (Aaron Sorkin)
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Best Animated Feature Film
The squiggly moving lines are...

Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie film for Theaters dir. Matt Maiellaro + Dave Willis (First Look)	Futurama: Bender's Big Score dir. Dwayne Carey-Hill (30th Century Fox)	Paprika dir. Satoshi Kon (SPC)	Ratatouille dir. Brad Bird (Disney / Pixar)	Tekkon Kinkreet dir. Michael Arias (Destination)
It all relies on the viewer's ability to tolerate insanity, and that's really how it should be.	The exceptionally awesome return of the single best television show in the history of time.	A PERFECT film. Visually incredible, disturbingly intelligent, and viscerally brilliant.	Pixar really is the greatest animation studio in the world not founded by Hayao Miyazaki.	Underrated, undervalued, underseen. Promise me you'll seek it out? Awesome.
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Finalists: The Simpsons Movie Semi-Finalists: Meet the Robinsons * Surf's Up
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Best Documentary Feature Film
The stubborn people with a camera are...

My Kid Could Paint That Amir Bar-Lev (SPC)

A fascinating yet cluelessly unbiased look into stage parents, public fraud, and people's ability to believe.

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Finalists: I only saw one this year, so, no. Not really.

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Best Foreign Language Film
Les internationales sont...

Black Book dir. Paul Verhoeven (SPC)	The Diving Bell and the Butterfly dir. Julian Schnabel (Miramax)	La Vie en Rose dir. Olivier Dahan (Picturehouse)	The Lives of Others dir. Florian Henckel von Donnersmark (SPC)	Paprika dir. Satoshi Kon (SPC)
Van Nederland.	De France.	De France.	Aus Deutschland.	日本から。
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Finalists: Tekkon Kinkreet * Lust, Caution * Dans Paris Semi-Finalists: The Orphanage * Vitus * After the Wedding * Golden Door * Princess Raccoon
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