Best Actor

Daniel Day-Lewis – There Will Be Blood as Daniel Plainview

• Don Cheadle – Talk to Me as Ralph "Petey" Greene
• George Clooney – Michael Clayton as Michael Clayton
• Ryan Gosling – Lars and the Real Girl as Lars Lindstrom
• Tommy Lee Jones – In the Valley of Elah as Hank Deerfield
• Viggo Mortensen – Eastern Promises as Nikolai Luzhin

Best Actress

Elliot Page^{[lower-alpha 1]} – Juno as Juno MacGuff

• Cate Blanchett – Elizabeth: The Golden Age as Elizabeth I
• Julie Christie – Away from Her as Fiona Anderson
• Marion Cotillard – La Vie en Rose as Édith Piaf
• Jodie Foster – The Brave One as Erica Bain
• Laura Linney – The Savages as Wendy Savage

Best Animated or Children's Film

Ratatouille

• Bridge to Terabithia
• Enchanted
• The Golden Compass
• Persepolis
• The Simpsons Movie

Best Cinematography

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
• Into the Wild – Éric Gautier
• The Kite Runner – Roberto Schaefer
• No Country for Old Men – Roger Deakins
• There Will Be Blood – Robert Elswit

Best Director

Ethan Coen and Joel Coen – No Country for Old Men

• Paul Thomas Anderson – There Will Be Blood
• Tim Burton – Sweeney Todd
• Mike Nichols – Charlie Wilson's War
• Sean Penn – Into the Wild
• Julian Schnabel – The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Le scaphandre et le papillon)

Best Documentary Film

Sicko

• In the Shadow of the Moon
• The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
• Manufactured Landscapes
• No End in Sight

Best Film

No Country for Old Men

• The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
• Atonement
• The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Le scaphandre et le papillon)
• Into the Wild
• Juno
• The Kite Runner
• Michael Clayton
• Sweeney Todd
• There Will Be Blood

Best Film – Musical or Comedy

Juno

• Knocked Up
• Lars and the Real Girl
• The Simpsons Movie
• Superbad
• Waitress
• Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

Best Foreign Language Film

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Le scaphandre et le papillon) • France/United States

• The Host • South Korea
• The Kite Runner • Afghanistan/United States
• La Vie en Rose • France
• Lust, Caution • China/Hong Kong/Taiwan
• Persepolis • France

Best Score

Sweeney Todd – Stephen Sondheim

• The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford – Nick Cave and Warren Ellis
• Atonement – Dario Marianelli
• Juno – Mateo Messina
• La Vie en Rose – Christopher Gunning
• Once – Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová
• There Will Be Blood – Jonny Greenwood

Best Screenplay

Juno – Diablo Cody

• Atonement – Ian McEwan and Christopher Hampton
• Into the Wild – Sean Penn and Jon Krakauer
• Lars and the Real Girl – Nancy Oliver
• Michael Clayton – Tony Gilroy
• No Country for Old Men – Ethan Coen and Joel Coen
• Persepolis – Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi

Best Supporting Actor

Casey Affleck – The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford as Robert Ford

• Javier Bardem – No Country for Old Men as Anton Chigurh
• Josh Brolin – No Country for Old Men as Llewelyn Moss
• Philip Seymour Hoffman – Charlie Wilson's War as Gust Avrakotos
• Tommy Lee Jones – No Country for Old Men as Ed Tom Bell
• Michael Sheen – Music Within as Art Honeyman
• Tom Wilkinson – Michael Clayton as Arthur Edens

Best Supporting Actress

Amy Ryan – Gone Baby Gone as Helene McCready

• Cate Blanchett – I'm Not There as Jude Quinn
• Katherine Heigl – Knocked Up as Allison Scott
• Taraji P. Henson – Talk to Me as Vernell Watson
• Saoirse Ronan – Atonement as Briony Tallis (age 13)
• Tilda Swinton – Michael Clayton as Karen Crowder

Best Visual/Special Effects

300

• The Golden Compass
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
• I Am Legend
• Stardust
• Sweeney Todd

Most Original, Innovative or Creative Film

I'm Not There

• Across the Universe
• The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Le scaphandre et le papillon)
• Into Great Silence
• Juno
• Persepolis

Worst Film of the Year

The Brothers Solomon