The candidates for Best Achievement in Cinematography for the 80th Annual Academy Awards:

1. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford: Roger Deakins.
2. Atonement: Seamus McGarvey.
3. No Country for Old Men: Roger Deakins.
4. Scaphandre et le papillon, Le: Janusz Kaminski.
5. There Will Be Blood: Robert Elswit.

The Oscar goes to Roger Elswit for There Will Be Blood.