Awards and lists, 12/8.

"Ang Lee's controversial spy thriller Lust, Caution has won a host of prizes at the Golden Horse awards in Taiwan," reports the BBC.

"Continuing the most head-scratching year-end awards season in recent memory, the International Documentary Association named Mary Olive Smith's A Walk to Beautiful as the Best Feature Documentary of the Year, capping an awards night in Los Angeles marked by no-show winners and surprise guest presenters." AJ Schnack's got a report and the full list.

The Australian Film Institute has announced its many awards, among them, Best Film: Richard Roxburgh's Romulus, My Father. Via Patrick Walsh at Cinematical.

Jeffrey Wells puts Zodiac at the top of his "10 Best Films of 2007" list.

"Because I loved this post about the top ten films of the millennium (thus far), and because I love lists, and probably because I'm sometimes a copycat, I decided to compile a list of the twenty most defining films released since 2000," blogs Brett McCracken. Via Jason Morehead, who also points to a couple of non-film-related lists.

The New York Times Magazine presents "70 of the ideas that helped make 2007 what it was."

In the Los Angeles Times: "Favorite Books of 2007."

Angel Gurria-Quintana compiles the Financial Times' list of "best books of 2007."

Posted by dwhudson at December 8, 2007 3:11 PM