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The Young Victoria
The Young Victoria (2009) is a historical drama directed by Jean-Marc Vallée, written by Julian Fellowes, starring Emily Blunt as the young Queen Victoria and Rupert Friend as Prince Albert; produced by Scorsese, Graham King, and Sarah Ferguson, it won the Oscar for Best Costume Design.
There Will Be Blood
There Will Be Blood (2007) is Paul Thomas Anderson's epic period drama, loosely based on Upton Sinclair's novel Oil!, starring Daniel Day-Lewis as oilman Daniel Plainview opposite Paul Dano's preacher Eli Sunday; it won Day-Lewis the Best Actor Oscar and ranks third on the NYT 2025 best-films list.
Tokyo Sonata (トウキョウソナタ)
Tokyo Sonata (トウキョウソナタ), 2008 drama by Kiyoshi Kurosawa about a salaryman hiding his unemployment from his family; won Cannes Un Certain Regard Jury Prize and 2009 Asian Film Awards Best Film.
Tokyo!
Tokyo! (2008) is a France-Japan-South Korea-Germany anthology film with three Tokyo-set segments, Interior Design, Merde, and Shaking Tokyo, by Michel Gondry, Leos Carax, and Bong Joon-ho, premiered at Cannes Un Certain Regard.
Visage (ヴィサージュ) (2009 film)
Visage (臉, ヴィザージュ) is Tsai Ming-liang's 2009 Louvre-commissioned film about a Taiwanese director shooting a Salomé film in Paris, in Cannes competition, the first film in the Louvre's permanent collection; distinct from Kagawa Takayuki's 2009 Japanese action film ヴィサージュ.
White Material
White Material is a 2009 drama by Claire Denis (with Marie N'Diaye), starring Isabelle Huppert as Maria Vial, a French coffee-plantation manager in an unnamed African country amid civil war; screened in competition at Venice 66.