Chicago Film Critics Association Awards: 2007

CFCA Award

Date:	(announced: 14 December)
Notes:	The category 'Best Animated Feature' gets added to the association's awards tally bringing the total number of categories to 15.

Best Picture


Winner:
	No Country for Old Men (2007)
Other Nominees:
	Into the Wild (2007) Michael Clayton (2007) Once (2006) There Will Be Blood (2007)

Best Actor


Winner:
	There Will Be Blood (2007) - Daniel Day-Lewis
Other Nominees:
	Eastern Promises (2007) - Viggo Mortensen Lars and the Real Girl (2007) - Ryan Gosling (I) Michael Clayton (2007) - George Clooney Starting Out in the Evening (2007) - Frank Langella

Best Actress


Winner:
	Juno (2007) - Ellen Page
Other Nominees:
	Away from Her (2006) - Julie Christie (I) Mighty Heart, A (2007) - Angelina Jolie Môme, La (2007) - Marion Cotillard Savages, The (2007) - Laura Linney

Best Supporting Actor


Winner:
	No Country for Old Men (2007) - Javier Bardem
Other Nominees:
	Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, The (2007) - Casey Affleck Charlie Wilson's War (2007) - Philip Seymour Hoffman Into the Wild (2007) - Hal Holbrook Michael Clayton (2007) - Tom Wilkinson (I)

Best Supporting Actress


Winner:
	I'm Not There. (2007) - Cate Blanchett
Other Nominees:
	Gone Baby Gone (2007) - Amy Ryan (I) Knocked Up (2007) - Leslie Mann Margot at the Wedding (2007) - Jennifer Jason Leigh Michael Clayton (2007) - Tilda Swinton

Best Director


Winner:
	No Country for Old Men (2007) - Ethan Coen; Joel Coen
Other Nominees:
	Juno (2007) - Jason Reitman Michael Clayton (2007) - Tony Gilroy (I) There Will Be Blood (2007) - Paul Thomas Anderson Zodiac (2007/I) - David Fincher

Best Screenplay, Original


Winner:
	Juno (2007) - Diablo Cody
Other Nominees:
	Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007) - Kelly Masterson Michael Clayton (2007) - Tony Gilroy (I) Ratatouille (2007) - Brad Bird (I) Savages, The (2007) - Tamara Jenkins

Best Screenplay, Adapted


Winner:
	No Country for Old Men (2007) - Ethan Coen; Joel Coen
Other Nominees:
	Atonement (2007) - Christopher Hampton (I) Into the Wild (2007) - Sean Penn (I) There Will Be Blood (2007) - Paul Thomas Anderson Zodiac (2007/I) - James Vanderbilt

Best Cinematography


Winner:
	Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, The (2007) - Roger Deakins
Other Nominees:
	Atonement (2007) - Seamus McGarvey No Country for Old Men (2007) - Roger Deakins Scaphandre et le papillon, Le (2007) - Janusz Kaminski (I) There Will Be Blood (2007) - Robert Elswit

Best Original Score


Winner:
	Once (2006) - Glen Hansard; Mark�ta Irglov�
Other Nominees:
	Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, The (2007) - Nick Cave; Warren Ellis (I) Atonement (2007) - Dario Marianelli Se, jie (2007) - Alexandre Desplat There Will Be Blood (2007) - Jonny Greenwood

Best Documentary


Winner:
	Sicko (2007)
Other Nominees:
	Darfur Now (2007) King of Kong, The (2007) Lake of Fire (2006) No End in Sight (2007)

Best Foreign Language Film


Winner:
	4 luni, 3 saptamâni si 2 zile (2007) - Romania.
Other Nominees:
	Môme, La (2007) - France/UK/Czech Republic. Orfanato, El (2007) - Mexico/Spain. Scaphandre et le papillon, Le (2007) - France/USA. Se, jie (2007) - USA/China/Taiwan/Hong Kong. Zwartboek (2006) - Netherlands/Germany/Belgium.

Most Promising Filmmaker


Winner:
	Gone Baby Gone (2007) - Ben Affleck
Other Nominees:
	Away from Her (2006) - Sarah Polley (I) Lars and the Real Girl (2007) - Craig Gillespie (I) Michael Clayton (2007) - Tony Gilroy (I) Once (2006) - John Carney (V)

Most Promising Performer


Winner:
	Juno (2007) - Michael Cera - Also for Superbad (2007).
Other Nominees:
	Hairspray (2007) - Nikki Blonsky Once (2006) - Glen Hansard Se, jie (2007) - Wei Tang Zwartboek (2006) - Carice van Houten

Best Animated Feature


Winner:
	Ratatouille (2007)
Other Nominees:
	Beowulf (2007) Meet the Robinsons (2007) Persepolis (2007) Simpsons Movie, The (2007)