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
- 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
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
Best Film
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
- 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
- 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
Notes
- ^ Credited as Ellen Page