The Best Performances of 2007
The actors and actresses who made the ballooning price of admission worth paying this year.
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")
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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David Ansen is a contributing editor and film critic for Newsweek, where he has been reviewing movies since 1977. He's written for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times Book Review, Film Comment and Interview. He is the artistic director of the Los Angeles Film Festival. Since he was 12, he has kept a list of every movie he has ever seen.
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