• The San Francisco Film Critics group awarded The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford best picture of the year. The rest of the list was fairly standard - Coen brothers win for directing No Country for Old Men, Clooney wins Best Actor for Michael Clayton - but Casey Affleck also won Best Supporting Actor for Jesse James.
• The 13th Annual Critics Choice Awards unveiled their nominations - no major surprises, except that Into the Wild led the pack overall with seven nominations: Picture, Emile Hirsch for Actor, Hal Holbrook for Supporting Actor, Catherine Keener for Supporting Actress, Sean Penn for both the screenplay and directing, and Eddie Vedder for the song "Guaranteed." The awards actually have a Comedy Film category too, and the nominees for that were Juno, Knocked Up, Superbad, Hairspray, and Dan in Real Life.
• The London Film Critics Association had an eclectic group of Best Picture nominees: No Country for Old Men, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, There Will Be Blood, and, surprisingly enough, Zodiac and The Bourne Ultimatum. (Atonement and Eastern Promises both made the "Best British Film" category.)
• The Chicago Film Critics group gave No Country for Old Men their top award plus Director, Screenplay, and Javier Bardem for Supporting Actor. The "Most Promising Performer" award went to Michael Cera, while "Most Promising Filmmaker" went to Ben Affleck.

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