The nominees for the 80th Academy Awards were announced on January 22, 2008, at 5:38 a.m. PST (13:38 UTC) by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences president Sid Ganis and actress Kathy Bates, at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in the Academy's Beverly Hills headquarters.
Bold text indicates the winner for each category.
Best Picture
Best Director
- Paul Thomas Anderson - There Will Be Blood
- Joel Coen and Ethan Coen - No Country for Old Men
- Tony Gilroy - Michael Clayton
- Jason Reitman - Juno
- Julian Schnabel - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Best Actor
- George Clooney - 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
Best Actress
- Cate Blanchett - Elizabeth: The Golden Age
- Julie Christie - Away from Her
- Marion Cotillard - La Vie en Rose (La môme)
- Laura Linney - The Savages
- 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
- Ruby Dee - American Gangster
- Saoirse Ronan - Atonement
- Amy Ryan - Gone Baby Gone
- Tilda Swinton - Michael Clayton
Best Original Screenplay
- Juno - Diablo Cody
- Lars and the Real Girl - Nancy Oliver
- Michael Clayton - Tony Gilroy
- Ratatouille - Brad Bird
- The Savages - Tamara Jenkins
Best Adapted Screenplay
- Atonement - Christopher Hampton, from Atonement, novel by Ian McEwan
- Away from Her - Sarah Polley, from "The Bear Came over the Mountain", short story by Alice Munro
- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly - Ronald Harwood, from Le scaphandre et le papillon, memoir by Jean-Dominique Bauby
- No Country for Old Men - Joel and Ethan Coen, from No Country for Old Men, novel by Cormac McCarthy
- There Will Be Blood - Paul Thomas Anderson, from Oil!, novel by Upton Sinclair
