Chicago Film Critics Association Awards 2007 Explained

20th CFCA Awards

December 13, 2007

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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.

Winners and nominees

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

References

• https://web.archive.org/web/20120515203059/http://www.chicagofilmcritics.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=48&Itemid=58