Chicago Film Critics Association Awards 2007



20th CFCA Awards December 13, 2007

Best Film:  No Country for Old Men 

The 20th Chicago Film Critics Association Awards, given by the CFCA on December 13, 2007, honored the best in film for 2007.

Best Actor
Daniel Day-Lewis – There Will Be Blood
 * George Clooney – Michael Clayton
 * Ryan Gosling – Lars and the Real Girl
 * Frank Langella – Starting Out in the Evening
 * Viggo Mortensen – Eastern Promises

Best Actress
Elliot Page – Juno
 * Julie Christie – Away from Her
 * Marion Cotillard – La Vie en Rose (La môme)
 * Angelina Jolie – A Mighty Heart
 * Laura Linney – The Savages

Best Animated Feature
Ratatouille
 * Beowulf
 * Meet the Robinsons
 * Persepolis
 * The Simpsons Movie

Best Cinematography
No Country for Old Men – Roger Deakins
 * The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford – Roger Deakins
 * Atonement – Seamus McGarvey
 * The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Le scaphandre et le papillon) – Janusz Kamiński
 * There Will Be Blood – Jonny Greenwood

Best Director
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen – No Country for Old Men
 * Paul Thomas Anderson – There Will Be Blood
 * David Fincher – Zodiac
 * Tony Gilroy – Michael Clayton
 * Jason Reitman – Juno

Best Documentary Feature
Sicko
 * Darfur Now
 * The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
 * Lake of Fire
 * No End in Sight

Best Film
No Country for Old Men
 * Into the Wild
 * Michael Clayton
 * Once
 * There Will Be Blood

Best Foreign Language Film
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (4 luni, 3 saptamani si 2 zile), Romania
 * Black Book (Zwartboek), Netherlands
 * The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Le scaphandre et le papillon), France
 * Lust, Caution (Se, jie), China/Taiwan
 * The Orphanage (El orfanato), Spain
 * La Vie en Rose (La môme), France

Best Original Score
Once – Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová
 * The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford – Nick Cave and Warren Ellis
 * Atonement – Dario Marianelli
 * Lust, Caution (Se, jie) – Alexandre Desplat
 * There Will Be Blood – Jonny Greenwood

Best Screenplay – Adapted
No Country for Old Men – Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
 * Atonement – Christopher Hampton
 * Into the Wild – Sean Penn
 * There Will Be Blood – Paul Thomas Anderson
 * Zodiac – James Vanderbilt

Best Screenplay – Original
Juno – Diablo Cody
 * Before the Devil Knows You're Dead – Kelly Masterson
 * Michael Clayton – Tony Gilroy
 * Ratatouille – Brad Bird
 * The Savages – Tamara Jenkins

Best Supporting Actor
Javier Bardem – No Country for Old Men
 * Casey Affleck – The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
 * Philip Seymour Hoffman – Charlie Wilson's War
 * Hal Holbrook – Into the Wild
 * Tom Wilkinson – Michael Clayton

Best Supporting Actress
Cate Blanchett – I'm Not There
 * Jennifer Jason Leigh – Margot at the Wedding
 * Leslie Mann – Knocked Up
 * Amy Ryan – Gone Baby Gone
 * Tilda Swinton – Michael Clayton

Most Promising Director
Ben Affleck – Gone Baby Gone
 * John Carney – Once
 * Craig Gillespie – Lars and the Real Girl
 * Tony Gilroy – Michael Clayton
 * Sarah Polley – Away from Her

Most Promising Performer
Michael Cera – Juno and Superbad
 * Nikki Blonsky – Hairspray
 * Glen Hansard – Once
 * Carice van Houten – Black Book
 * Tang Wei – Lust, Caution