Achievement in directing
Julian Schnabel, The Diving Bell And The Butterfly
Jason Reitman, Juno
Tony Gilroy, Michael Clayton
Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, No Country for Old Men (winner!)
Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will Be Blood

Performance by an actor in a leading role
George Clooney in Michael Clayton
Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood (winner!)
Johnny Depp in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Tommy Lee Jones in In the Valley of Elah
Viggo Mortensen in Eastern Promises

Original screenplay
Juno, Written by Diablo Cody (winner!)
Lars and the Real Girl, Written by Nancy Oliver
Michael Clayton, Written by Tony Gilroy
Ratatouille, Screenplay by Brad Bird; Story by Jan Pinkava, Jim Capobianco, Brad Bird
The Savages, Written by Tamara Jenkins

Best documentary feature
No End in Sight: Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs
Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience: Richard E. Robbins
Sicko: Michael Moore and Meghan O’Hara
Taxi to the Dark Side: Alex Gibney and Eva Orner (winner!)
War/Dance: Andrea Nix Fine and Sean Fine

Best documentary short subject
Freeheld: Cynthia Wade and Vanessa Roth (winner!)
La Corona: Amanda Micheli and Isabel Vega
Salim Baba: Tim Sternberg and Francisco Bello
Sari’s Mother: James Longley

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)
Atonement Dario Marianelli (winner!)
The Kite Runner: Alberto Iglesias
Michael Clayton James Newton Howard
Ratatouille Michael Giacchino
3:10 to Yuma Marco Beltrami

Achievement in cinematography
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford: Roger Deakins
Atonement: Seamus McGarvey
The Diving Bell And The Butterfly: Janusz Kaminski
No Country for Old Men: Roger Deakins
There Will Be Blood: Robert Elswit (winner!)

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)
Falling Slowly from Once Music and Lyric by Glen Hansard and: Marketa Irglova (winner!)
Happy Working Song from Enchanted: Music by Alan Menken; Lyric by Stephen Schwartz
Raise It Up from August Rush: Nominees to be determined
So Close from Enchanted: Music by Alan Menken; Lyric by Stephen Schwartz
That’s How You Know from Enchanted: Music by Alan Menken; Lyric by Stephen Schwartz

Best foreign language film of the year
Beaufort, Israel
The Counterfeiters, Austria (winner!)
Katyn, Poland
Mongol, Kazakhstan
12, Russia

Achievement in film editing
The Bourne Ultimatum: Christopher Rouse (winner!)
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: Juliette Welfling
Into the Wild: Jay Cassidy
No Country for Old Men Roderick Jaynes
There Will Be Blood: Dylan Tichenor

Performance by an actress in a leading role
Cate Blanchett in Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Julie Christie in Away from Her
Marion Cotillard in La Vie en Rose (winner!)
Laura Linney in The Savages
Ellen Page in Juno

Achievement in sound mixing
The Bourne Ultimatum Scott Millan, David Parker and Kirk Francis (winner!)
No Country for Old Men: Skip Lievsay, Craig Berkey, Greg Orloff and Peter Kurland
Ratatouille: Randy Thom, Michael Semanick and Doc Kane
3:10 to Yuma: Paul Massey, David Giammarco and Jim Stuebe
Transformers: Kevin O’Connell, Greg P. Russell and Peter J. Devlin

Achievement in sound editing
The Bourne Ultimatum: Karen Baker Landers and Per Hallberg (winner!)
No Country for Old Men: Skip Lievsay
Ratatouille: Randy Thom and Michael Silvers
There Will Be Blood: Matthew Wood
Transformers: Ethan Van der Ryn and Mike Hopkins

Adapted screenplay
Atonement, Screenplay by Christopher Hampton
Away From Her, Written by Sarah Polley
The Diving Bell And The Butterfly, Screenplay by Ronald Harwood
No Country for Old Men, Written for the screen by Ethan Coen and Joel Coen (winner!)
There Will Be Blood, Written for the screen by Paul Thomas Anderson

Performance by an actress in a supporting role
Cate Blanchett in I’m Not There
Ruby Dee in American Gangster
Saoirse Ronan in Atonement
Amy Ryan in Gone Baby Gone
Tilda Swinton in Michael Clayton (winner!)

Best animated short film
I Met the Walrus: Josh Raskin
Madame Tutli-Putli: Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski
Même Les Pigeons Vont au Paradis (Even Pigeons Go to Heaven): Samuel Tourneux and Simon Vanesse
My Love (Moya Lyubov): Alexander Petrov
Peter & the Wolf: Suzie Templeton and Hugh Welchman (winner!)

Best live action short film
At Night: Christian E. Christiansen and Louise Vesth
Il Supplente (The Substitute): Andrea Jublin
Le Mozart des Pickpockets (The Mozart of Pickpockets): Philippe Pollet-Villard (winner!)
Tanghi Argentin: Guido Thys and Anja Daelemans
The Tonto Woman: Daniel Barber and Matthew Brown

Performance by an actor in a supporting role
Casey Affleck in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Javier Bardem in No Country for Old Men (winner!)
Philip Seymour Hoffman in Charlie Wilson’s War
Hal Holbrook in Into the Wild
Tom Wilkinson in Michael Clayton

Achievement in art direction
American Gangster: Art Direction: Arthur Max; Set Decoration: Beth A. Rubino
Atonement: Art Direction: Sarah Greenwood; Set Decoration: Katie Spencer
The Golden Compass: Art Direction: Dennis Gassner; Set Decoration: Anna Pinnock
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street: Art Direction: Dante Ferretti; Set Decoration: Francesca Lo Schiavo (winner!)
There Will Be Blood: Art Direction: Jack Fisk; Set Decoration: Jim Erickson

Achievement in visual effects
The Golden Compass: Michael Fink, Bill Westenhofer, Ben Morris and Trevor Wood (winner!)
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End: John Knoll, Hal Hickel, Charles Gibson and John Frazier
Transformers: Scott Farrar, Scott Benza, Russell Earl and John Frazier

Achievement in makeup
La Vie en Rose: Didier Lavergne and Jan Archibald (winner!)
Norbit: Rick Baker and Kazuhiro Tsuji
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End: Ve Neill and Martin Samuel

Best animated feature film of the year
Persepolis: Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud
Ratatouille: Brad Bird (winner!)
Surf’s Up: Ash Brannon and Chris Buck

Achievement in costume design
Across the Universe Albert Wolsky
Atonement Jacqueline Durran
Elizabeth: The Golden Age Alexandra Byrne (winner!)
La Vie en Rose Marit Allen
Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Colleen Atwood