National Society of Film Critics and Kansas City Film Critics Circle Pick "There Will Be Blood"; Houston "No Country"

National Society of Film Critics:

Best Picture:
There Will Be Blood (48 votes)
followed by: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (28) and No Country for Old Men (27)

Best Foreign-Language Film:
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (57)
followed by: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (42) and Persepolis (18)

Best Director:
Paul Thomas Anderson (47) - There Will Be Blood
followed by: Joel and Ethan Coen (29) - No Country for Old Men and Julian Schnabel (29) - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Best Non-Fiction Film:
No End in Sight (43)
followed by: Sicko (20) and Terror’s Advocate (18)

Best Actor:
Daniel Day-Lewis (66) - There Will Be Blood
followed by: Frank Langella (34) — Starting Out in the Evening and Philip Seymour Hoffman (21) — The Savages, Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead

Best Supporting Actor:
Casey Affleck (37) - The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
followed by: Javier Bardem (30) - No Country for Old Men and Philip Seymour Hoffman (29) - Charlie Wilson’s War

Best Actress:
Julie Christie (53) - Away from Her
followed by: Marion Cotillard (50) - La Vie en Rose and Anamaria Marinca (28) - 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days

Best Supporting Actress:
Cate Blanchett (42) - I’m Not There
Followed by: Amy Ryan (29) - Gone Baby Gone and Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead and Tilda Swinton (23) - Michael Clayton

Best Screenplay:
Tamara Jenkins (28) - The Savages
Followed by: Paul Thomas Anderson (19) - There Will Be Blood and Ronald Harwood (17) - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Best Cinematography:
There Will Be Blood (51) - Robert Elswit
followed by: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (40) - Janusz Kaminski and No Country for Old Men (33) - Roger Deakins

Best Experimental Film: Profit motive and the whispering wind by John Gianvito

Film Heritage Award: "Ford at Fox" DVD box set, a series of films John Ford made at Fox/20th Century-Fox, and Ross Lipman of the UCLA Film and Television Archive for the restoration of Charles Burnett’s Killer of Sheep and other independent films.

Kansas City Film Critics:

Best Film: There Will Be Blood

Robert Altman Award for Best Director:

Tie:

Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will Be Blood

Julian Schnabel, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood

Best Actress: Marion Cotillard, La Vie en Rose

Best Supporting Actor: Javier Bardem, No Country for Old Men

Best Supporting Actress: Tilda Swinton, Michael Clayton

Best Original Screenplay: Diablo Cody, Juno

Best Adapted Screenplay: Joel and Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men

Best Animated Film: Ratatouille

Best Foreign Language Film: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (France)

Best Documentary: In the Shadow of the Moon

Vince Koehler Award for Best Science Fiction, Fantasy or Horror Film: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Houston Film Critics Society:

Best Picture: No Country for Old Men

Runners-up:
Juno
Atonement
Michael Clayton
Into the Wild
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead
Charlie Wilson’s War
I’m Not There

Best Foreign Language Film: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Julian Schnabel

Best Documentary: The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters by Seth Gordon

Best Director of a Motion Picture: Tim Burton, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role: Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role: Julie Christie, Away from Her

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role: Javier Bardem, No Country for Old Men

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role: Amy Ryan, Gone Baby Gone

Best Performance by an Ensemble Cast: Hairspray

Best Screenplay: Diablo Cody, Juno

Best Animated Film: Ratatouille by Brad Bird

Best Cinematography: Roger Deakins, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

Best Original Score: Dario Marianelli, Atonement

Best Original Song: "Falling Slowly" by Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova, Once

Outstanding Achievement in Cinema: Philip Seymour Hoffman, for Charlie Wilson’s War, The Savages, and Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead

Outstanding Achievement in Cinema: The Greenway Three Theatre for over thirty years of service to Houston’s art-house film community

Honorary Texan Award: Joel and Ethan Coen