BEST ACTRESS: ELLEN PAGE
Juno
Age 20 Role Sardonically sincere pregnant teen Juno MacGuff. High School Crush Page first read the Juno script when she was a high school senior in Halifax, Canada. ''It floored me,'' she says. ''I don't cry over spilled milk, but if I hadn't been able to do it, I would have been really disappointed.'' What You See Isn't What You Get When director Jason Reitman was casting Juno, Page was playing a starved abuse victim in An American Crime. ''I was very skinny and a little delusional,'' Page says. ''But he managed to see past those things.'' Up Next April's indie comedy Smart People opposite Dennis Quaid and Sarah Jessica Parker. Then she'll star in Drew Barrymore's feature directorial debut, the Roller Derby comedy Whip It. —Sean Smith