FILM: There Will Be Blood by Paul Thomas Anderson

Runner-up: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Julian Schnabel

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days directed by Cristian Mungiu

Runner-up: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly directed by Julian Schnabel

DOCUMENTARY/NON-FICTION FILM: No End in Sight directed by Charles Ferguson

Runner-up: Sicko directed by Michael Moore

DIRECTOR: Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will Be Blood

Runner-up: Julian Schnabel, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

ACTRESS: Marion Cotillard, La Vie en Rose

Runner-up: Anamaria Marinca, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days

ACTOR: Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood

Runner-up: Frank Langella, Starting Out in the Evening

SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Amy Ryan, Gone Baby Gone and Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead

Runner-up: Cate Blanchett, I’m Not There

SUPPORTING ACTOR: Vlad Ivanov, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days

Runner-up: Hal Holbrook, Into the Wild

SCREENPLAY: The Savages by Tamara Jenkins

Runner-up: There Will Be Blood by Paul Thomas Anderson

ANIMATION (tie): Ratatouille (Brad Bird) and Persepolis (Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi)

CINEMATOGRAPHY: Janusz Kaminski, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Runner-up: Robert Elswit, There Will Be Blood

PRODUCTION DESIGN: Jack Fisk, There Will Be Blood

Runner-up: Dante Ferretti, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

MUSIC: Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova, Once

Runner-up: Jonny Greenwood, There Will Be Blood

NEW GENERATION: Sarah Polley, Away from Her

INDEPENDENT/EXPERIMENTAL: Colossal Youth directed by Pedro Costa

CAREER ACHIEVEMENT: Sidney Lumet

SPECIAL CITATIONS: To New Crowned Hope, an extraordinary project in honor of Mozart’s 250th birthday, commissioning adventurous work in multiple art forms including cinema. New Crowned Hope’s films included works marking major achievements in current world film, including Syndromes and a Century, I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone, Paraguayan Hammock, Daratt, Half Moon, Opera Jawa and Meokgo and the Stickfighter. We are honoring artistic director Peter Sellars and producers Simon Field and Keith Griffiths.

LEGACY OF CINEMA AWARDS (two): To Dennis Doros and Amy Heller of Milestone Film & Video for their tireless efforts on behalf of film restoration and preservation, which in 2007 brought about the debut releases on DVD of such noteworthy films as Killer of Sheep and My Brother’s Wedding, as well as the re-release of I Am Cuba.

To the Outfest Legacy Project, which is spearheading the rescue and restoration of lost gay and lesbian cinema, and which hosted its first presentation of a Legacy Project restoration this summer with a new print of the seminal 1986 comedy/drama Parting Glances.

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