There are lots of good films this year that are truly deserving of the Indie Spirit Awards, the Oscars, BAFTAs and Golden Globes. One great blog dealing with indie films in the US was one of the first to highlight the upcoming awards race. In this series, we feature five awesome movies from Paramount Vantage! Complete with production notes, image galleries and the usual synopsis and cast/crew bios, the Paramount 'for your consideration' drive is one of the first such campaign ever to be launched by a major studio in the US.

A Mighty Heart, featuring the powerful performance of Angelina Jolie, is one of the latest works of famed British director Michael Winterbottom. It tells the harrowing story of Mariane Pearl and her struggle to find her husband, Daniel, who was kidnapped and later murdered by terrorists in Pakistan.

Margot at the Wedding is Noah Baumbach's follow-up to his Academy Award®-nominated The Squid and the Whale. It's "a daringly funny and bracingly honest exploration of the tender, absurd and sometimes excruciating relationship between siblings — and the fallout for those in their wake: children, husbands and lovers."

The Kite Runner, from director Marc Forster (Finding Neverland, Monster's Ball), is based on one of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory, The Kite Runner is a profoundly emotional tale of friendship, family, devastating mistakes and redeeming love.

Finally, There Will Be Blood, the upcoming movie starring the iconic Daniel Day Lewis. A sprawling epic of family, faith, power and oil, THERE WILL BE BLOOD is set on the incendiary frontier of California’s turn-of-the-century petroleum boom. The story chronicles the life and times of one Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis), who transforms himself from a down-and-out silver miner raising a son on his own into a self-made oil tycoon.

tMF is particularly excited about Daniel Day-Lewis's performance in There Will Be Blood. The fact that his co-star is the young and talented Paul Dano makes it one of the year's best films. Emile Hirsch's performance in Alpha Dog was a bit of a disappoinment to fans, but in this Sean Penn flick, he definitely establishes himself as a promising leading man in Hollywood. Jolie's Mariane Pearl is one of the year's most convincing performances, but we are more inclined to pick Marion Cotillard in La Vie En Rose and Keira Knigthley in Atonement as two of the best for the year.

To see more of the five features, just click any one of the following:

[ A Mighty Heart ] [ Margot at the Wedding ] [ Into the Wild ] [ The Kite Runner ] [ There Will Be Blood ]

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oh nicole!

no one seems to like nicole anymore, she used to be sooo popular! that incredibly annoying article from the guardian still makes me mad.

Janell Edmunds , October 28, 2007

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