# 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.

## 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