Broadcast Film Critics Association nominations

This is a very important precursor. Since 1996, every Best Picture winner has gone on to receive a nomination at the Academy Awards. This decade, they've chosen 5/7 of the eventual Best Picture winners.

BFCA Nominees:

Best Picture

American Gangster
Atonement
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Into the Wild
Juno
The Kite Runner
Michael Clayton
No Country for Old Men
Sweeney Todd
There Will Be Blood

Best Actor
George Clooney, Michael Clayton
Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood
Johnny Depp, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Ryan Gosling, Lars and the Real Girl
Emile Hirsch, Into the Wild
Viggo Mortensen, Eastern Promises

BEST ACTRESS:
Amy Adams, Enchanted
Cate Blanchett, Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Julie Christie, Away From Her
Marion Cotillard. La Vie en Rose
Angelina Jolie, A Mighty Heart
Ellen Page, Juno

Best Supporting Actor
Casey Affleck, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Javier Bardem, No Country for Old Men
Philip Seymour Hoffman. Charlie Wilson's War
Hal Holbrook, Into the Wild
Tom Wilkinson, Michael Clayton

Best Supporting Actress
Cate Blanchett, I'm Not There
Catherine Keener, Into the Wild
Vanessa Redgrave, Atonement
Amy Ryan, Gone Baby Gone
Tilda Swinton, Michael Clayton

Best Acting Ensemble
Hairspray
Juno
No Country for Old Men
Sweeney Todd
Gone Baby Gone
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead

Best Director
Tim Burton, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men
Sidney Lumet, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
Sean Penn, Into the Wild
Julian Schnabel, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Joe Wright, Atonement

Best Writer
Diablo Cody, Juno
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men
Tony Gilroy, Michael Clayton
Nancy Oliver, Lars and the Real Girl
Sean Penn, Into the Wild
Aaron Sorkin, Charlie Wilson's War

Best Animated Feature
Bee Movie
Beowulf
Persepolis
Ratatouille
The Simpsons Movie

Best Young Actor
Michael Cera, Juno
Michael Cera, Superbad
Freddie Highmore, August Rush
Ahmad Khan Mahmoodzada, The Kite Runner
Edward Sanders, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Best Young Actress
Nikki Blonsky, Hairspray
Dakota Blue Richards, The Golden Compass
AnnaSophia Robb, Bridge to Terabithia
Saoirse Ronan, Atonement

Best Comedy Movie
Dan in Real Life
Hairspray
Juno
Knocked Up
Superbad

Best Family Film
August Rush
Enchanted
The Golden Compass
Hairspray
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Best Picture Made for Television
The Company
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Tin Man
The War

Best Foreign Language Film
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days
La Vie en Rose
Lust, Caution
The Orphanage

Best Song
"Come So Far", Queen Latifah, Nikki Blonsky, Zac Efron, Elijah Kelley, Hairspray
"Do You Feel Me", Anthony Hamilton, American Gangster
"Falling Slowly", Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova, Jesse L. Martin and Cast, Once
"That's How You Know", Amy Adams, Enchanted

Best Composer
Marco Beltrami, 3:10 to Yuma
Alexandre Desplat, Lust, Caution
Clint Eastwood, Grace Is Gone
Jonny Greenwood, There Will Be Blood
Dario Marianelli, Atonement
Alan Menken, Enchanted

Best Documentary
Darfur Now
In the Shadow of the Moon
The King of Kong
No End In Sight
Sharkwater

A couple things:
- Amy Adams needed that nomination to stay fresh in minds.
- Lars and the Real Girl continues to make itself known.
- Cate Blanchett is still in the race for Elizabeth: The Golden Age.
- Like Adams, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is still in.