No Country for Old Men

• American Gangster
• Atonement
• The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
• Into the Wild
• Juno
• The Kite Runner
• Michael Clayton
• Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
• There Will Be Blood

Joel Coen and Ethan Coen –No Country for Old Men

• Tim Burton –Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
• Sidney Lumet –Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
• Sean Penn –Into the Wild
• Julian Schnabel –The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
• Joe Wright –Atonement

Daniel Day-Lewis –There Will Be Blood as Daniel Plainview

• George Clooney –Michael Clayton as Michael Clayton
• Johnny Depp –Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street asBenjamin Barker / Sweeney Todd
• Ryan Gosling –Lars and the Real Girl as Lars Lindstrom
• Emile Hirsch –Into the Wild asChris McCandless
• Viggo Mortensen –Eastern Promises as Nikolai Luzhin

Julie Christie –Away from Her as Fiona Anderson

• Amy Adams –Enchanted as Giselle
• Cate Blanchett –Elizabeth: The Golden Age asElizabeth I
• Marion Cotillard –La Vie en Rose asÉdith Piaf
• Angelina Jolie –A Mighty Heart asMariane Pearl
• Elliot Page^[a] –Juno as Juno MacGuff

Javier Bardem –No Country for Old Men asAnton Chigurh

• Casey Affleck –The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford asRobert Ford
• Philip Seymour Hoffman –Charlie Wilson's War asGust Avrakotos
• Hal Holbrook –Into the Wild as Ron Franz
• Tom Wilkinson –Michael Clayton as Arthur Edens

Amy Ryan –Gone Baby Gone as Helene McCready

• Cate Blanchett –I'm Not There as Jude Quinn
• Catherine Keener –Into the Wild as Jan Burres
• Vanessa Redgrave –Atonement as Older Briony
• Tilda Swinton –Michael Clayton as Karen Crowder

Ahmad Khan Mahmoodzada –The Kite Runner as Young Hassan

• Michael Cera –Juno as Paulie Bleeker
• Michael Cera –Superbad as Evan
• Freddie Highmore –August Rush as Evan Taylor
• Ed Sanders –Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street asTobias Ragg

Nikki Blonsky –Hairspray as Tracy Turnblad

• Dakota Blue Richards –The Golden Compass asLyra Belacqua
• AnnaSophia Robb –Bridge to Terabithia as Leslie Burke
• Saoirse Ronan –Atonement as Briony Tallis, aged 13

Hairspray

• Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
• Gone Baby Gone
• Juno
• No Country for Old Men
• Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Juno –Diablo Cody

• Charlie Wilson's War –Aaron Sorkin
• Into the Wild –Sean Penn
• Lars and the Real Girl –Nancy Oliver
• Michael Clayton –Tony Gilroy
• No Country for Old Men –Joel Coen and Ethan Coen

Ratatouille

• Bee Movie
• Beowulf
• Persepolis
• The Simpsons Movie

Sicko

• Darfur Now
• In the Shadow of the Moon
• The King of Kong
• No End in Sight
• Sharkwater

Enchanted

• August Rush
• The Golden Compass
• Hairspray
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly •France /United States

• 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days •Romania
• La Vie en Rose •Czech Republic /France /United Kingdom
• Lust, Caution •China /Taiwan /United States
• The Orphanage •Spain

There Will Be Blood –Jonny Greenwood

• 3:10 to Yuma –Marco Beltrami
• Atonement –Dario Marianelli
• Enchanted –Alan Menken
• Grace Is Gone –Clint Eastwood
• Lust, Caution –Alexandre Desplat

"Falling Slowly" –Once

• "Come So Far (Got So Far to Go)" –Hairspray
• "Do You Feel Me" –American Gangster
• "Guaranteed" –Into the Wild
• "That's How You Know" –Enchanted

Juno

• Dan in Real Life
• Hairspray
• Knocked Up
• Superbad