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BEST PICTURE

“Atonement”
“Juno”
“Michael Clayton”
“No Country for Old Men” (
“There Will Be Blood”

BEST ACTOR
George Clooney “Michael Clayton” (Warner Bros.)
Daniel Day-Lewis “There Will Be Blood” (Paramount Vantage and Miramax)
Johnny Depp “Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street”
Tommy Lee Jones “In the Valley of Elah” (Warner Independent)
Viggo Mortensen “Eastern Promises” (Focus Features)

SUPPORTING ACTOR
Casey Affleck “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford” (Warner Bros.)
Javier Bardem “No Country for Old Men” (Miramax and Paramount Vantage)
Philip Seymour Hoffman “Charlie Wilson’s War” (Universal)
Hal Holbrook “Into the Wild” (Paramount Vantage and River Road Entertainment)
Tom Wilkinson “Michael Clayton” (Warner Bros.)

BEST ACTRESS
Cate Blanchett “Elizabeth: The Golden Age” (Universal)
Julie Christie “Away from Her” (Lionsgate)
Marion Cotillard “La Vie en Rose” (Picturehouse)
Laura Linney “The Savages” (Fox Searchlight)
Ellen Page “Juno” (Fox Searchlight)

SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Cate Blanchett “I’m Not There” (The Weinstein Company)
Ruby Dee “American Gangster” (Universal)
Saoirse Ronan “Atonement” (Focus Features)
Amy Ryan “Gone Baby Gone” (Miramax)
Tilda Swinton “Michael Clayton” (Warner Bros.)

Best animated feature film of the year
“Persepolis” (Sony Pictures Classics) Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud
“Ratatouille” (Walt Disney) Brad Bird
“Surf's Up” (Sony Pictures Releasing) Ash Brannon and Chris Buck

DIRECTOR
“The Diving Bell and the Butterfly” (Miramax/Pathé Renn) Julian Schnabel
“Juno” (Fox Searchlight) Jason Reitman
“Michael Clayton” (Warner Bros.) Tony Gilroy
“No Country for Old Men” (Miramax and Paramount Vantage) Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
“There Will Be Blood” (Paramount Vantage and Miramax) Paul Thomas Anderson

FOREIGN FILM
“Beaufort” Israel
“The Counterfeiters” Austria
“Katyń” Poland
“Mongol” Kazakhstan
“12” Russia