Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
Johnny Depp, "Sweeney Todd"
George Clooney, "Michael Clayton"
Daniel Day-Lewis, "There Will Be Blood"
Emile Hirsch, "Into the Wild"
Frank Langella, "Starting Out in the Evening"
(alt. Denzel Washington, "American Gangster")
(pleasant surprise: Sam Riley, "Control")

Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
Amy Adams, "Enchanted"
Cate Blanchett, "Elizabeth: The Golden Age"
Julie Christie, "Away from Her"
Marion Cotillard, "La Vie en Rose"
Ellen Page, "Juno"
(alt. Laura Linney, "The Savages")
(pleasant surprise: Tang Wei, "Lust, Caution")

Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role
Javier Bardem, "No Country for Old Men"
Philip Bosco, "The Savages"
Phillip Seymour Hoffman, "Charlie Wilson's War"
Hal Holbrook, "Into the Wild"
Tom Wilkinson, "Michael Clayton"
(alt. Casey Affleck, "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford")
(pleasant surprise: Max von Sydow, "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly")

Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role
Catherine Keener, "Into the Wild"
Vanessa Redgrave, "Atonement"
Saoirse Ronan, "Atonement"
Amy Ryan, "Gone Baby Gone"
Tilda Swinton, "Michael Clayton"
(alt. Cate Blanchett, "I'm Not There")
(pleasant surprise: Jennifer Garner, "Juno")

Performance by a Cast
"Atonement"
"Into the Wild"
"Juno"
"Michael Clayton"
"No Country for Old Men"
(alt. "Charlie Wilson's War," "Hairspray," "Sweeney Todd")
(plesant surprise: "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead," "I'm Not There")