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2007
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2007

Major Events · Sports · Music · Screen · Prizes

Apple's iPhone reinvented the mobile phone and ushered in the smartphone era, cracks in subprime mortgages foreshadowed financial catastrophe, and a U.S. troop 'surge' sought to salvage the war in Iraq.

A Year in Review
Best Picture
The Departed
Nobel · Literature
Doris Lessing "That Epicist Of The Femal
World Series
No. 1 Song
1 Beyonce Irreplaceable 2 Rihanna feat.
Top TV
Academy · Actor

Major Events of 2007

2 events
Hamdan vs RumsfeldIsrael Removes Settlers from Gaza

Sports Highlights

Champions of 2007

Champions

MLB2007 World Series Boston Red Sox win 4-0 against the Colorado Rockies -Oct 24& x2026; Colorado 1 at Boston 13 -Oct 26& x2026; Colorado 1 at Boston 2 -Oct 27& x2026;Boston 10 at Colorado 5 -Oct 28& x2026;Boston 4 at Colorado 3
NFLSuper Bowl XLI Indianapolis Colts win 29-17 against the Chicago Bears -Super Bowl Box Score: Indianapolis& x2026; 6 10 6 7= 29 Chicago& x2026;& x2026;..14 0 3 0= 17 Professional Golf Men's Majors winners - The Masters: Zach Johnson& x2026;71-73-76-69= 289 -
US OpenAngel Cabrera& x2026; 69-71-76-69=285 - British Open: Pádraig Harrington& x2026;277 - PGA Championship: Tiger Woods& x2026; 71-63-69-69=272 Women's Majors winners - Kraft Nabisco Championship: Morgan Pressel& x2026; 74-72-70-69= 285 - US Women's Open: Cristie Kerr& x2026;71-72-66-70=279 - LPGA Championship: Suzann Pettersen& x2026;274 (-14) - Weetabix Women's British Open: Lorena Ochoa & x2026;287 (-5)

Top Music of 2007

The year on the charts

Top Songs

  1. 1 Beyonce Irreplaceable 2 Rihanna feat. Jay-Z Umbrella 3 Gwen Stefani feat. Akon The Sweet Escape 4 Fergie Big Girls Don't Cry 5 T-Pain feat. Yung Joc Buy U A Drank (Shawty Snappin') 6 Carrie Underwood Before He Cheats 7 Plain White T's Hey There Delilah 8 Akon feat. Snoop Dogg I Wanna Love You 9 Nelly Furtado Say It Right 10 Fergie feat. Ludacris Glamorous

Grammy Awards

Record of the Year
“Not Ready to Make Nice”- Dixie Chicks
Song of the Year
“Not Ready to Make Nice”- Dixie Chicks
Album of the Year
Taking the Long Way - Dixie Chicks
Best New Artist
Carrie Underwood

Screen & Television

At the box office & on the air

Top Movies

  1. No Country for Old Men - Joel Coen & Ethan Coen Into the Wild - Sean Penn · Across the Universe · Superbad Transformers - Michael Bay · Knocked Up · Paranormal Activity · Juno · Ratatouille · The Bourne Ultimatum · Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Academy Awards

Honoring 2007
Best Picture
The Departed
Best Director
Martin Scorsese for The Departed Best actor in a leading role: Forest Whitaker for The Last King of Scotland Best actress in a leading role: Helen Mirren for The Queen Best actor in a supporting role: Alan Arkin for Little Miss Sunshine Best actress in a supporting role: Jennifer Hudson for Dreamgirls

Nobel & Pulitzer Prizes

The year in letters & science

Nobel Prizes

Peace
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert Arnold Gore Jr. "for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to count
Physiology or Medicine
Mario R. Capecchi , Sir Martin J. Evans and Oliver Smithies "for their discoveries of principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mice by the use of embryonic stem cells" Economic Sciences: Leonid Hurwicz , Eric S. Maskin and
Chemistry
Gerhard Ertl "for his studies of chemical processes on solid surfaces"
Physics
Albert Fert and Peter Grünberg "for the discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance"
Literature
Doris Lessing "that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny"

Pulitzer Prizes

Public Service
The Wall Street Journal • Breaking News Reporting: Staff of The Oregonian, Portland • Investigative Reporting: Brett Blackledge of The Birmingham (AL) News • Explanatory Reporting: Kenneth R. Weiss, Usha Lee McFarling, reporters, and Rick Loomis, photographer, of the Los Angeles Times • Local Reporting: Debbie Cenziper of The Miami Herald • National Reporting: Charlie Savage of The Boston Globe • International Reporting: Staff of The Wall Street Journal • Feature Writing: Andrea Elliott of The New York Times • Commentary: Cynthia Tucker of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution • Criticism: Jonathan Gold of LA Weekly • Editorial Writing: Arthur Browne, Beverly Weintraub and Heidi Evans of New York Daily News • Editorial Cartooning: Walt Handelsman of Newsday, Long Island, NY • Breaking News Photography: Oded Balilty of Associated Press • Feature Photography: Renée C. Byer of The Sacramento Bee •
Fiction
The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Alfred A. Knopf) •
Drama
“Rabbit Hole” by David Lindsay-Abaire •
History
The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation by Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff (Alfred A. Knopf) • Biography or Auto
biography
The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher by Debby Applegate (Doubleday) •
Poetry
Native Guard by Natasha Trethewey (Houghton Mifflin) •
General Nonfiction
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright (Alfred A. Knopf) •
Music
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