Movie News: Houston Film Critics Society Awards

Best Picture
No Country for Old Men
Runners-up: Juno, Atonement, Michael Clayton, Into the Wild, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead, Charlie Wilson’s War, I’m Not There
Best Foreign Language Film
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Best Documentary
The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
Best Director of a Motion Picture
Tim Burton, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
Julie Christie, Away from Her
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
Javier Bardem, No Country for Old Men
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
Amy Ryan, Gone Baby Gone
Best Performance by an Ensemble Cast
Hairspray
Best Screenplay
Diablo Cody, Juno
Best Animated Film
Ratatouille
Best Cinematography
Roger Deakins, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Best Original Score
Dario Marianelli, Atonement
Best Original Song
"Falling Slowly" by Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova, Once
Outstanding Achievement in Cinema
Philip Seymour Hoffman, for Charlie Wilson’s War, The Savages, and Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead
Outstanding Achievement in Cinema
The Greenway Three Theatre for over thirty years of service to Houston’s art-house film community
Honorary Texan Award
Joel and Ethan Coen