42nd NSFC Awards

January 5, 2008

---- Best Film:
There Will Be Blood

The 42nd National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on 5 January 2008, honored the best in film for

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Winners

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Casey Affleck at the Manchester by the Sea premiere (30199719155) (cropped)

Best Picture

1. '' There Will Be Blood''
2. '' The Diving Bell and the Butterfly'' (''Le scaphandre et le papillon'')
3. '' No Country for Old Men''

Best Director

1. Paul Thomas Anderson – '' There Will Be Blood''
2. Joel Coen and Ethan Coen – '' No Country for Old Men''
2. Julian Schnabel – '' The Diving Bell and the Butterfly'' (''Le scaphandre et le papillon'')

Best Actor

1. Daniel Day-Lewis – '' There Will Be Blood''
2. Frank Langella – '' Starting Out in the Evening''
3. Philip Seymour Hoffman – ''

Before the Devil Knows You're Dead ''Before the Devil Knows You're Dead'' is a 2007 American crime thriller film directed by Sidney Lumet. The film was written by Kelly Masterson, and stars Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ethan Hawke, Marisa Tomei, and Albert Finney. The title comes from t ...

'' and '' The Savages''

Best Actress

1. Julie Christie – '' Away from Her''
2. Marion Cotillard – ''

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'' (''La Môme'')
3.

Anamaria Marinca Anamaria Marinca (born 1 April 1978) is a Romanian actress. She made her screen debut with the Channel 4 film ''Sex Traffic'', for which she won the British Academy Television Award for Best Actress. Marinca is also known for her performance in ...

– ''

4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days ''4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days'' ( ro, 4 luni, 3 săptămâni și 2 zile) is a 2007 Romanian art film written and directed by Cristian Mungiu and starring Anamaria Marinca, Laura Vasiliu, and Vlad Ivanov. The film is set in Socialist Republic o ...

'' (''4 luni, 3 săptămâni și 2 zile'')

Best Supporting Actor

1. Casey Affleck – '' The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford''
2. Javier Bardem – '' No Country for Old Men''
3. Philip Seymour Hoffman – '' Charlie Wilson's War''

Best Supporting Actress

Cate Blanchett Catherine Elise Blanchett (; born 14 May 1969) is an Australian actor. Regarded as one of the finest performers of her generation, she is known for her versatile work across independent films, blockbusters, and the stage. She has received nu ...

– '' I'm Not There''
2. Amy Ryan – '' Gone Baby Gone'' and ''

''
3. Tilda Swinton – ''

Michael Clayton ''Michael Clayton'' is a 2007 American legal thriller film written and directed by Tony Gilroy in his feature directorial debut and starring George Clooney, Tom Wilkinson, Tilda Swinton, and Sydney Pollack. Clooney plays lawyer Michael Clayton, w ...

Best Screenplay

1. Tamara Jenkins – '' The Savages''
2. Paul Thomas Anderson – '' There Will Be Blood''
3.

Ronald Harwood Sir Ronald Harwood ( né Horwitz; 9 November 1934 – 8 September 2020) was a South African-born British author, playwright, and screenwriter, best known for his plays for the British stage as well as the screenplays for ''The Dresser'' (for w ...

– '' The Diving Bell and the Butterfly'' (''Le scaphandre et le papillon'')

Best Cinematography

Robert Elswit Robert Christopher Elswit, (born April 22, 1950) is an American cinematographer. He has collaborated with Paul Thomas Anderson on six of his films and won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography for ''There Will Be Blood''. Elswit has also col ...

– '' There Will Be Blood''
2.

Janusz Kamiński Janusz Zygmunt Kamiński (; born June 27, 1959) is a Polish cinematographer and director of film and television. He has established a partnership with Steven Spielberg, working as a cinematographer on his films since 1993. He won the Academy Awa ...

– '' The Diving Bell and the Butterfly'' (''Le scaphandre et le papillon'')
3. Roger Deakins – '' No Country for Old Men''

Best Foreign Language Film

1. ''

'' (''4 luni, 3 săptămâni și 2 zile'')
2. '' The Diving Bell and the Butterfly'' (''Le scaphandre et le papillon'')
3. '' Persepolis''

Best Non-Fiction Film

1. '' No End in Sight''
2. '' Sicko''
3. ''

Terror's Advocate ''Terror's Advocate'' (french: L'Avocat de la terreur) is a 2007 French feature documentary film on controversial lawyer Jacques Vergès. Produced by Rita Dagher and directed by Barbet Schroeder, it explores how Vergès assisted, from the 1960s on ...

'' (''L'avocat de la terreur'')

Best Experimental Film

* '' Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind''

Film Heritage Awards

# " Ford at Fox", a 21-disc box set from Fox Home Video. #

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of the UCLA Film and Television Archive for the restoration of Charles Burnett's ''

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'' (1978) and other independent films.

References

External links

Past Awards
{{NSFC Awards Chron 2007 film awards

2008 in American cinema