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 ^[a] – 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

Notes

References

• https://web.archive.org/web/20120515203059/http://www.chicagofilmcritics.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=48&Itemid=58