Michael Clayton
Daniel Day-Lewis
There Will Be Blood
Johnny Depp
Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Tommy Lee Jones
In the Valley of Elah
Viggo Mortensen
Eastern Promises
Pity his talented fellow nominees. Even if they had stood on their heads, naked, reciting Shakespeare for their entire movies, they'd still have found it impossible to top Daniel Day-Lewis's volcanically intense performance as a determined oilman in There Will Be Blood.
