The NBR’s announcement of their top films for 2007 comes later today and kicks the awards season into full swing (the Golden Globes nominations are a week away). Although I don’t hold the people of the NBR in high esteem I do concede that their over-hyped self-importance makes their list a self fulfilling prophecy: Academy members may just be influenced by it (and, true, they have some genuine good picks here and there).

But before they have their say I have to have mine:

Ratatouille
&
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

I have this inkling that these two movies will be much bigger this award season then most prognosticators give them credit.