The nominees include three Oscar winners, Daniel Day-Lewis (There Will Be Blood), George Clooney (as a morally conflicted lawyer in Michael Clayton) and Tommy Lee Jones (the father of a missing Iraq war veteran in In the Valley of Elah), along with Johnny Depp, on his third nomination, as Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, and first-time nominee Viggo Mortensen (a Russian gangster in Eastern Promises).
Clooney has assiduously courted the voters, who have an evident regard for Depp, but Day-Lewis towers over his fellow nominees and it will be astonishing if he doesn't win.
THE ODDS
1/20 Daniel Day-Lewis (There Will Be Blood)
12/1 Johnny Depp (Sweeney Todd)
12/1 George Clooney (Michael Clayton)
40/1 Viggo Mortensen (Eastern Promises)
50/1 Tommy Lee Jones (In the Valley of Elah)
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