No Country for Old Men

• American Gangster
• Atonement
• The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
• Into the Wild
• Juno
• The Kite Runner
• Michael Clayton
• Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
• There Will Be Blood

Joel Coen and Ethan Coen – No Country for Old Men

• Tim Burton – Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
• Sidney Lumet – Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
• Sean Penn – Into the Wild
• Julian Schnabel – The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
• Joe Wright – Atonement

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

• George Clooney – Michael Clayton as Michael Clayton
• Johnny Depp – Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street as Benjamin Barker / Sweeney Todd
• Ryan Gosling – Lars and the Real Girl as Lars Lindstrom
• Emile Hirsch – Into the Wild as Chris McCandless
• Viggo Mortensen – Eastern Promises as Nikolai Luzhin

Julie Christie – Away from Her as Fiona Anderson

• Amy Adams – Enchanted as Giselle
• Cate Blanchett – Elizabeth: The Golden Age as Elizabeth I
• Marion Cotillard – La Vie en Rose as Édith Piaf
• Angelina Jolie – A Mighty Heart as Mariane Pearl
• Elliot Page^{[lower-alpha 1]} – Juno as Juno MacGuff

Javier Bardem – No Country for Old Men as Anton Chigurh

• Casey Affleck – The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford as Robert Ford
• Philip Seymour Hoffman – Charlie Wilson's War as Gust Avrakotos
• Hal Holbrook – Into the Wild as Ron Franz
• Tom Wilkinson – Michael Clayton as Arthur Edens

Amy Ryan – Gone Baby Gone as Helene McCready

• Cate Blanchett – I'm Not There as Jude Quinn
• Catherine Keener – Into the Wild as Jan Burres
• Vanessa Redgrave – Atonement as Older Briony
• Tilda Swinton – Michael Clayton as Karen Crowder

Ahmad Khan Mahmoodzada – The Kite Runner as Young Hassan

• Michael Cera – Juno as Paulie Bleeker
• Michael Cera – Superbad as Evan
• Freddie Highmore – August Rush as Evan Taylor
• Ed Sanders – Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street as Tobias Ragg

Nikki Blonsky – Hairspray as Tracy Turnblad

• Dakota Blue Richards – The Golden Compass as Lyra Belacqua
• AnnaSophia Robb – Bridge to Terabithia as Leslie Burke
• Saoirse Ronan – Atonement as Briony Tallis, aged 13

Hairspray

• Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
• Gone Baby Gone
• Juno
• No Country for Old Men
• Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Juno – Diablo Cody

• Charlie Wilson's War – Aaron Sorkin
• Into the Wild – Sean Penn
• Lars and the Real Girl – Nancy Oliver
• Michael Clayton – Tony Gilroy
• No Country for Old Men – Joel Coen and Ethan Coen

Ratatouille

• Bee Movie
• Beowulf
• Persepolis
• The Simpsons Movie

Sicko

• Darfur Now
• In the Shadow of the Moon
• The King of Kong
• No End in Sight
• Sharkwater

Enchanted

• August Rush
• The Golden Compass
• Hairspray
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly • France / United States

• 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days • Romania
• La Vie en Rose • Czech Republic / France / United Kingdom
• Lust, Caution • China / Taiwan / United States
• The Orphanage • Spain

There Will Be Blood – Jonny Greenwood

• 3:10 to Yuma – Marco Beltrami
• Atonement – Dario Marianelli
• Enchanted – Alan Menken
• Grace Is Gone – Clint Eastwood
• Lust, Caution – Alexandre Desplat

"Falling Slowly" – Once

• "Come So Far (Got So Far to Go)" – Hairspray
• "Do You Feel Me" – American Gangster
• "Guaranteed" – Into the Wild
• "That's How You Know" – Enchanted

Juno

• Dan in Real Life
• Hairspray
• Knocked Up
• Superbad