Tuesday, 22 January 2008

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The Oscar nominations are out!

This year’s nominations are a mixed bunch

The Oscar nominations for the 80th Annual Academy Awards have been announced.

No Country For Old Men and There Will Be Blood lead the way with an impressive 8 nominations each.

Box-office hits Atonement and Michael Clayton are both up for 7 awards – all four films are chasing Best Picture.

George Clooney, Johnny Depp and Daniel-Day Lewis are jostling for Best Actor, with Cate Blanchett and Julie Christie vying for Best Actress.

Newcomer Ellen Page, 20, is also in the running for the Best Actress statue for her performance in hit indie film Juno (also up for Best Picture).

Surprisingly Keira Knightley – who was tipped for an Oscar nod for her role in Atonement – has been overlooked this year.

Meanwhile there are worries that the ceremony may not even go ahead due to the Writers Guild Strike that is still crippling Hollywood.

The glitzy bash is expected to air live from Hollywood’s Kodak Theatre on 24 February.

And the nominees are…

Best Picture
Atonement
Juno
Michael Clayton
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood

Best Actor
George Clooney, Michael Clayton
Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood
Johnny Depp, Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Tommy Lee Jones, In the Valley of Elah
Viggo Mortensen, Eastern Promises

Best Actress
Cate Blanchett, Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Julie Christie, Away from Her
Marion Cotillard, La Vie en Rose
Laura Linney, The Savages
Ellen Page, Juno

Best Supporting Actor
Casey Affleck, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Javier Bardem, No Country for Old Men
Hal Holbrook, Into the Wild
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Charlie Wilson's War
Tom Wilkinson, Michael Clayton

Best Supporting Actress
Cate Blanchett, I'm Not There
Ruby Dee, American Gangster
Saoirse Ronan, Atonement
Amy Ryan, Gone Baby Gone
Tilda Swinton, Michael Clayton

Best Director
Julian Schnabel, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Jason Reitman, Juno
Tony Gilroy, Michael Clayton
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men
Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will Be Blood

Best Original Screenplay
Diablo Cody, Juno
Nancy Oliver, Lars and the Real Girl
Tony Gilroy, Michael Clayton
Ratatouille (written by Brad Bird; story by Jan Pinkava, Jim Capobianco, Brad Bird)
Tamara Jenkins, The Savages

Best Adapted Screenplay
Christopher Hampton, Atonement
Sarah Polley, Away from Her
Ronald Harwood, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men
Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will Be Blood

Foreign Language Film
Beaufort, Israel
The Counterfeiters, Austria
Katyn, Poland
Mongol, Kazakhstan
12, Russia

Animated Feature
Persepolis
Ratatouille
Surf's Up

Art Direction
American Gangster
Atonement
The Golden Compass
Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
There Will Be Blood

Cinematography
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Atonement
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood

Costume Design
Across the Universe
Atonement
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
La Vie en Rose
Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Film Editing
The Bourne Ultimatum
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Into the Wild
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood

Music (Score)
Atonement, Dario Marianelli
The Kite Runner, Alberto Iglesias
Michael Clayton, James Newton Howard
Ratatouille, Michael Giacchino
3:10 to Yuma, Marco Beltrami

Music (Song)
Falling Slowly, from Once: Music and Lyric by Glen Hansard and: Marketa Irglova
Happy Working Song, from Enchanted: Music by Alan Menken; Lyric by Stephen Schwartz
Raise It Up, from August Rush: Nominees to be determined
So Close, from Enchanted: Music by Alan Menken; Lyric by Stephen Schwartz
That's How You Know, from Enchanted:Music by Alan Menken; Lyric by Stephen Schwartz

Make-up
La Vie en Rose
Norbit
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

Sound Editing
The Bourne Ultimatum
No Country for Old Men
Ratatouille
There Will Be Blood
Transformers

Sound Mixing
The Bourne Ultimatum
No Country for Old Men
Ratatouille
Transformers

Visual Effects
The Golden Compass
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Transformers

Short Film (Animated)
I Met the Walrus
Madame Tutli-Putli
Même Les Pigeons Vont au Paradis (Even Pigeons Go to Heaven)
My Love (Moya Lyubov)
Peter & the Wolf

Short Film (Live Action)
At Night
Il Supplente (The Substitute)
Le Mozart des Pickpockets (The Mozart of Pickpockets)
Tanghi Argentini
The Tonto Woman

Documentary Feature
No End in Sight
Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience
Sicko
Taxi to the Dark Side
War/Dance

Documentary Short
Freeheld
La Corona (The Crown)
Salim Baba
Sari's Mother

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