'Sweeney Todd' & 'Hairspray' Earn 5 Critics' Choice Nominations

The nominees for the 13th Annual Critics' Choice Awards were announced Tuesday, December 11 by the Broadcast Film Critics Association.  Honoring the finest in cinematic achievement, the winners of the Critics' Choice Awards will be broadcast live on VH1 from the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium on Monday, January 7, 2008.

Notable nominations include 5-nods to movie-musicals Sweeney Todd and Hairspray. Among them include Johnny Depp (Sweeney Todd) and Nikki Blonsky (Hairspray) in their leading performances; the ensemble casts of Sweeney Todd and Hairspray; and Tim Burton (Sweeney Todd) as Best Director.

Disney's family film, Enchanted garnered three nominations, including Amy Adams' lead performance and Alan Menkan's music compositions.  Cate Blanchett was twice-nominated for her performances in I'm Not There and Elizabeth: The Golden Age.  Aaron Sorkin (playwright of The Farnsworth Invention) was nominated for penning the film Charlie Wilson's War, as was Philip Seymour Hoffman as the film's supporting actor.

Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (playwright of Atlantic Theatre Company's coming Almost An Evening) were multi-nominated for No Country for Old Men.  Vanessa Redgrave earned a nomination for her supporting role in Atonement.

The list of 2007 nominees is as follows:

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)
Ryan Gosling (Lars and the Real Girl)
Emile Hirsch (Into the Wild)
Viggo Mortensen (Eastern Promise)

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)
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)

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

Best Comedy
Dan in Real Life
Hairspray
Juno
Knocked Up
Superbad

Best Family Film (live action)
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" feat. Queen Latifah, Nikki Blonsky, Zac Efron, Elijah Kelley (Hairspray)
"Do You Feel Me" feat. Anthony Hamilton (American Gangster)
"Falling Slowly" feat. Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova (Once)
"Guaranteed" feat. Eddie Vedder (Into the Wild)
"That's How You Know" feat. 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 Feature
Darfur Now
In the Shadow of the Moon
The King of Kong
No End In Sight
Sharkwater
Sicko

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