The Best Performances of 2007

Best Actor· Daniel Day-Lewis ("There Will Be Blood")
· Chris Cooper ("Breach")
· Tommy Lee Jones ("In the Valley of Elah")
· Don Cheadle ("Talk to Me")
· Rolf Lassgard ("After the Wedding")
· Viggo Mortenson ("Eastern Promises")
· Frank Langella ("Starting Out in the Evening")
· Philip Seymour Hoffman ("The Savages"; "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead")
· Casey Affleck ("The Assassination of Jesse James …")
· Josh Brolin ("No Country for Old Men")
· Richard Gere ("The Hoax")
· Denzel Washington ("American Gangster")
· Christian Bale ("Rescue Dawn")
· Thomas Turgoose ("This Is England")
· Johnny Depp ("Sweeney Todd")
· George Clooney ("Michael Clayton")
· James McAvoy ("Atonement")

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Best Actress
· Julie Christie ("Away From Her")
· Marion Cotillard ("La Vie en Rose")
· Parker Posey ("Broken English")
· Ellen Page ("Juno")
· Angelina Jolie ("A Mighty Heart")
· Laura Linney ("The Savages")
· Helena Bonham-Carter ("Sweeney Todd")
· Jodie Foster ("The Brave One")
· Nicole Kidman ("Margot at the Wedding")
· Mirjana Karanovic ("Grbavica")
· Amy Adams ("Enchanted")
· Tang Wei ("Lust, Caution")
· Belen Rueda ("The Orphanage")
· Ashley Judd ("Bug")
· Carise van Houten ("Black Book")

Best Supporting Actor
· Stephen Graham ("This Is England")
· Philip Seymour Hoffman ("Charlie Wilson's War")
· Steve Zahn ("Rescue Dawn")
· Jason Bateman ("Juno," "Smokin' Aces")
· Javier Bardem ("No Country for Old Men")
· Tommy Lee Jones ("No Country for Old Men")
· Ethan Hawke ("Before the Devil Knows You're Dead")
· Jeff Daniels ("The Lookout")
· Hal Holbrook ("Into the Wild")
· Paul Schneider ("Lars and the Real Girl"; "The Assassination of Jesse James …")
· Paul Rudd ("Knocked Up")
· Peter Sarsgaard ("Year of the Dog")
· Alfred Molina ("The Hoax")
· Max von Sydow ("The Diving Bell and the Butterfly")
· Robert Downey Jr. ("Zodiac")
· Paul Dano ("There Will Be Blood")
· Kevin J. O'Connor ("There Will Be Blood")
· Michael Cera ("Superbad")
· Brian Dierker ("Into the Wild")
· Christopher Mintz-Plasser, a.k.a. McLovin ("Superbad")

Supporting Actress· Cate Blanchett ("I'm Not There")
· Margo Martindale ("Paris Je T'Aime")
· Jennifer Jason Leigh ("Margot at the Wedding")
· Kristen Thomson ("Away From Her")
· Lily Taylor ("Starting Out in the Evening")
· Olympia Dukakis ("Away From Her")
· Tabu ("The Namesake")
· Catherine Keener ("Into the Wild")
· Amy Ryan ("Gone Baby Gone")
· Leslie Mann ("Knocked Up")
· Marisa Tomei ("Before the Devil Knows You're Dead")
· Jennifer Garner ("Juno")
· Saoirse Ronan ("Atonement")
· Tilda Swinton ("Michael Clayton")
· Michelle Pfeiffer ("Hairspray")
· Imelda Staunton ("Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix")
· Vanessa Redgrave ("Atonement")

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