performance

What would film be if not for the face? I couldn't think of a better way to acknowledge the best performances of 2007 than to share a collection of their faces. As a audience we may forget bits of dialogue, pieces of the plot, or grand action sequences, but we never forget a face on film, especially when they're this good.

Amy Adams, "Enchanted"
Brad Pitt, "The Assassination of Jesse James
by the Coward Robert Ford"
Tilda Swinton, "Michael Clayton"
Daniel Day-Lewis, "There Will Be Blood"
Marina Hands, "Lady Chatterley"
Chiwetel Ejiofor, "Talk to Me"
John Carroll Lynch, "Zodiac"
James McAvoy, "Atonement"
Viggo Mortenson, "Eastern Promises"
Nicole Kidman and Jennifer Jason Leigh, "Margot at the Wedding"
Tang Wei and Tony Leung, "Lust, Caution"
Max Von Sydow, "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly"
Kaycee Moore and Henry G. Sanders, "Killer of Sheep"
Matt Damon, "The Bourne Ultimatum"
Cate Blanchett, "I'm Not There"
Josh Brolin, "No Country for Old Men"
"American Gangster"
and "In the Valley of Elah"
Julie Delpy and Adam Goldberg, "2 Days in Paris"
Michael Cera, "Superbad"
Leslie Mann, "Knocked Up"
Irfan Khan and Tabu, "The Namesake"
The cast of "Southland Tales"
Philip Seymour Hoffman, "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead"
and "Charlie Wilson's War"
Amy Ryan, "Gone Baby Gone"
Hal Holbrook and Catherine Keener, "Into the Wild"