title: Chicago Film Critics Association Awards 2007
text: # 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
  