Best Actor Oscar Nominees

Best Actor Oscar Nominees List

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Variety: 'No Country' big winner at Oscars (February 24, 2008)
- "Brit Daniel Day-Lewis won the acting statue, the second of his career."
The Baltimore Sun: 'No Country for Old Men,' 'There Will Be Blood' lead Oscar nominations (January 22, 2008)
- "With a Golden Globe and universal acclaim for his performance as a relentless killer, Bardem looks like the closest thing to a front-runner this Oscar season, which is unusually wide open for best picture and other top categories."
This is London: Will it be Daniel's day as Brits lead Oscars line-up (January 22, 2008)
- "Day-Lewis, 50, has been nominated for best actor for a searing performance as an oil prospector in There Will Be Blood. Victory would be his second Oscar win after My Left Foot in 1989."

- "But he faces stiff competition from Johnny Depp, for his role in Tim Burton's adaptation of the musical Sweeney Todd, Viggo Mortensen for the Russian mafia movie Eastern Promises which was filmed in London, and George Clooney for Michael Clayton."
New York Magazine: The Oscars: The Best Actor and Actress Nominees, Decoded (January 22, 2008)

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Hollywood Today: Violence is Golden with Depp, Clooney, Viggo, Blood, No Country (January 22, 2008)
- "Tommy Lee Jones (for 'In the Valley of Elah,' not 'No Country') and 'Blood’s' Daniel Day-Lewis are up for Best Actor, joined by three equally violent characters, a razor wielding Johnny Depp from Sweeney Todd, George Clooney on the run from corporate hit men and Viggo Mortensen as a Russian mafioso from 'Eastern Promises.' Early money is on Day-Lewis, whose win-at-all-costs oil baron in 'Blood' does not even need to say a word in the first 20 minutes, but leaves you breathless."