The candidates for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role for the 80th Annual Academy Awards:

1. George Clooney for Michael Clayton.
2. Daniel Day-Lewis for There Will Be Blood.
3. Johnny Depp for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.
4. Tommy Lee Jones for In the Valley of Elah.
5. Viggo Mortensen for Eastern Promises.

The Oscar goes to Daniel Day-Lewis for There Will Be Blood.