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

1. Paul Thomas Anderson for There Will Be Blood.
2. Ethan Coen, Joel Coen for No Country for Old Men.
3. Tony Gilroy for Michael Clayton.
4. Jason Reitman for Juno.
5. Julian Schnabel for Scaphandre et le papillon, Le.

The Oscar goes to Joel and Ethan Coen for No Country For Old Men.