BEST ACTOR: JOHNNY DEPP
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Age 44 Role A tonsorial ace turned serial killer. On Sweeney ''He is beyond dark,'' Depp says of his psychopathic character. ''He's already dead. He's been dead for years.'' Finding the Look Director Tim Burton says it took some effort to keep promotional images of Depp looking as pale as they both intended, because studio executives wanted to inject more color into his face. ''It should be a warts-and-all kind of thing,'' adds Depp. ''Almost like a Kabuki mask.'' Up Next He's been keen to star in the redeemed-heroin-addict drama Shantaram for years, but with that project on a strike-induced hold, his most likely next move will be playing '30s gangster John Dillinger in Michael Mann's Public Enemies, due in 2009. —Steve Daly