80th Annual Academy Awards Nominees (2008)

BEST PICTURE
Atonement
Juno
Michael Clayton
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood

BEST DIRECTOR
P.T. Anderson, There Will Be Blood
Joel & Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men
Tony Gilroy, Michael Clayton
Jason Reitman, Juno
Julian Scnabel, The Diving Bell & the Butterfly

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
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Charlie Wilson's War
Hal Holbrook, Into the Wild
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 ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Juno, Diablo Cody
Lars and the Real Girl, Nancy Oliver
Michael Clayton, Tony Gilroy
Ratatouille, Brad Bird, Jan Pinkava & Jim Capobianco
The Savages, Tamara Jenkins

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



The rest of the categories in a moment...

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BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Persepolis
Ratatouille
Surf's Up

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

FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FEATURE
Beaufort, Israel
The Counterfeiters, Austria
Katyń, Poland
Mongol, Kazakhstan
12, Russia

CINEMATOGRAPHY
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Roger Deakins
Atonement, Seamus McGarvey
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Janusz Kaminski
No Country for Old Men, Roger Deakins
There Will Be Blood, Robert Elswit

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

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

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

ANIMATED SHORT
"I Met the Walrus"
"Madame Tutli-Putli"
"Even Pigeons Go to Heaven"
My Love"
Peter & the Wolf"

LIVE-ACTION SHORT
"At Night"
"Il Supplente"
"Le Mozart des Pickpockets"
"Tanghi Argentini"
"The Tonto Woman"

DOCUMENTARY SHORT
Freeheld
La Corona
Salim Baba
Sari's Mother

MAKE-UP
La Vie en Rose
Norbit
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End

VISUAL EFFECTS
The Golden Compass
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
Transformers

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
3:10 to Yuma
Transformers

ORIGINAL SCORE
Atonement, Dario Marianelli
The Kite Runner, Alberto Iglesias
Michael Clayton, James Newton Howard
Ratatouille, Michael Giacchino
3:10 to Yuma, Marco Beltrami

ORIGINAL SONG
"Falling Slowly" from Once
"Happy Working Song" from Enchanted
"Raise It Up" from August Rush
"So Close" from Enchanted
"That's How You Know" from Enchanted

To tally up some of those noms, No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood lead the pack with eight nods a piece, Atonement has seven, and Michael Clayton has six. Juno only has four, but all are in the "big eight" categories: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress and Best Original Screenplay. And of course those are the five Picture nominees.

There Will be Blood has eight nods, not six.

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Whoops. Yup, I miscounted. I missed both of the sound categories. But right you are!

Such an interesting list... Juno might be the dark horse in this one for the Best Picture award. And I hope Ellen Page wins.

Some of the biggest surprises that weren't on many people's radar: Ruby Dee for American Gangster and Cate Blanchett for Elizabeth: The Golden Age. As for some who aren't exactly shocks but were considered longer odds to make the cut based on previous big awards they had been shut out of, Hal Holbrook for Into the Wild, Laura Linney for The Savages and Tommy Lee Jones for In the Valley of Elah.

I love Ruby Dee, so good on her (didn't think it was amazing work or anything, but good on her just the same). Holbrook definitely deserved to be in the final mix for supporting actor, I loved Linney in The Savages, and while not on the level of Daniel Day-Lewis (and nobody is right now) I thought Tommy Lee Jones was amazing in In the Valley of Elah and I'm glad his performance didn't get overlooked by The Academy voters.


Some of the favorites who were notable snubs: Angelina Jolie for A Mighty Heart, Keira Knightley for Atonement, John Travolta for Hairspray, Tim Burton for Sweeney Todd and 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days for Foreign Language Feature.

I thought Philip Seymour Hoffman had a good shot at becoming a double-nominee, but he didn't make the cut as Best Actor for either The Savages or Before the Devil Knows You're Dead. Blanchett winds up as a bit of a surprise double-nominee. Her nod for I'm Not There was pretty well a lock, but Elizabeth: The Golden Age was so trashed and ignored, it's really a bit of a surprise to see that performance make it. And of course this means she has been nominated for both times she's played Queen Elizabeth I, having gotten the Best Actress nomination in 1998 for Elizabeth (she lost that year to Gwyneth Paltrow for Shakespeare in Love). So she joins I believe only Al Pacino and Bing Crosby for being nominated for the same role in a sequel. Pacino for Michael Corleone in the first two Godfathers and Crosby for Father O'Malley in Going My Way & The Bells of St. Mary's. Brando and DeNiro both won playing Vito Corleone in different Godfather films, and Peter O'Toole was twice nominated as King Henry II in both Becket and The Lion in Winter, but those two movies aren't really related, other than being based on different phases of Hank 2's reign (different writers, directors and producers for both of those films). I don't think I'm forgetting any others, but let me think....

Yeah good on Ruby Dee, but surely a nod to her venerable age and career rather than her performance in American Gangster as she must be on screen for all of a few minutes?

OK, as for which of these nominated films you can currently rent or buy on R1 DVD: Ratatouille, La Vie en Rose, Eastern Promises, Away from Her, Once, No End in Sight, Sicko, Surf's Up, 3:10 to Yuma, The Bourne Ultimatum, Norbit, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End and Transformers are on the shelves now. Across the Universe, Elizabeth: The Golden Age and Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford are all due out in two weeks, Into the Wild and Gone Baby Gone on February 12th and Michael Clayton, In the Valley of Elah and American Gangster are due out February 19th, just days ahead of The Oscars.

[quote=Holden Pike;407741]ORIGINAL SCORE
Atonement, Dario Marianelli
The Kite Runner, Alberto Iglesias
Michael Clayton, James Newton Howard
Ratatouille, Michael Giacchino
3:10 to Yuma, Marco Beltrami

How ironic that the remake fo 3:10 to Yuma gets nominated for Original Score when one of the main features of the original film was singer Frankie Laine belting out the original song 3:10 to Yuma as the opening and closing credits rolled! An instrumental verson of the same song played in a classical style on a Spanish guitar was heard at various times during the original film, too.

I'm gonna have to get around to taking a look at that remake someday. Maybe rent the remake's DVD and run it as a double feature with the original.

Maybe the Academy is justly ashamed for never before giving an award to her or husband Ossie Davis although they both were among the best actors ever to grace stage or screen in this country. Maybe the Academy sees this as its last chance to Do the Right Thing.

same as every other awards - hopefully the shows cool

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(making my predictions, without seeing There Will Be Blood)


BEST PICTURE
There Will Be Blood
(but I want Juno to win, but this is the clear front runner

BEST DIRECTOR
Joel & Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men

BEST ACTOR
Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood

BEST ACTRESS
Ellen Page, Juno
(or Julie Christie)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Javier Bardem, No Country for Old Men

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Cate Blanchett, I'm Not There

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Juno, Diablo Cody

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
No Country for Old Men, Joel & Ethan Coen

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Ratatouille

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
No End in Sight

FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FEATURE
Beaufort, Israel
The Counterfeiters, Austria
Katyń, Poland
Mongol, Kazakhstan
12, Russia
(haven't seen any)

CINEMATOGRAPHY
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Janusz Kaminski

COSTUME DESIGN
Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

ART DIRECTION
Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

EDITING
No Country for Old Men

ANIMATED SHORT
"I Met the Walrus"
"Madame Tutli-Putli"
"Even Pigeons Go to Heaven"
My Love"
Peter & the Wolf"
(haven't seen any)

LIVE-ACTION SHORT
"At Night"
"Il Supplente"
"Le Mozart des Pickpockets"
"Tanghi Argentini"
"The Tonto Woman"
(haven't seen any)

MAKE-UP
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End

Ha! Norbit being nominated in the Oscars, and the Razzies!

VISUAL EFFECTS
Transformers

SOUND EDITING
Ratatouille

SOUND MIXING
3:10 to Yuma

ORIGINAL SCORE
3:10 to Yuma, Marco Beltrami

ORIGINAL SONG
"Falling Slowly" from Once

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Predictions (not personal choices):

BEST PICTURE: No Country for Old Men
BEST DIRECTOR: Joel & Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men
BEST ACTOR: Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood
BEST ACTRESS: Julie Christie, Away from Her
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Javier Bardem, No Country for Old Men
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Cate Blanchett, I'm Not There
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Juno, Diablo Cody
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: No Country for Old Men, Joel & Ethan Coen
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE: Ratatouille
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE: No End in Sight
DOCUMENTARY SHORT: Freehold
FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FEATURE: The Counterfeiters, Austria
CINEMATOGRAPHY: No Country for Old Men, Roger Deakins
COSTUME DESIGN: Atonement
ART DIRECTION: There Will Be Blood
EDITING: The Bourne Ultimatum
ANIMATED SHORT: "I Met the Walrus"
LIVE-ACTION SHORT: "Tanghi Argentini"
MAKE-UP: La Vie en Rose
VISUAL EFFECTS: Transformers
SOUND EDITING: Transformers
SOUND MIXING: No Country for Old Men
ORIGINAL SCORE: Atonement, Dario Marianelli
ORIGINAL SONG: "Falling Slowly" from Once

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Not personal choices either:

BEST PICTURE
Atonement
Juno
Michael Clayton
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood

BEST DIRECTOR
P.T. Anderson, There Will Be Blood
Joel & Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men
Tony Gilroy, Michael Clayton
Jason Reitman, Juno
Julian Scnabel, The Diving Bell & the Butterfly

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
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Charlie Wilson's War
Hal Holbrook, Into the Wild
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 ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Juno, Diablo Cody
Lars and the Real Girl, Nancy Oliver
Michael Clayton, Tony Gilroy
Ratatouille, Brad Bird, Jan Pinkava & Jim Capobianco
The Savages, Tamara Jenkins

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

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BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Persepolis
Ratatouille
Surf's Up

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

FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FEATURE
Beaufort, Israel
The Counterfeiters, Austria
Katyń, Poland
Mongol, Kazakhstan
12, Russia

CINEMATOGRAPHY
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Roger Deakins
Atonement, Seamus McGarvey
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Janusz Kaminski
No Country for Old Men, Roger Deakins
There Will Be Blood, Robert Elswit

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

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

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

My predictions...

BEST PICTURE
Juno

BEST DIRECTOR
Joel & Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men

BEST ACTOR
Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood

BEST ACTRESS
Julie Christie, Away from Her

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Hal Holbrook, Into the Wild

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Tilda Swinton, Michael Clayton

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Juno, Diablo Cody

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
No Country for Old Men, Joel & Ethan Coen

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Ratatouille

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Taxi to the Dark Side

FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FEATURE
The Counterfeiters, Austria

CINEMATOGRAPHY
There Will Be Blood, Robert Elswit

COSTUME DESIGN
Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

ART DIRECTION
Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

EDITING
No Country for Old Men

ANIMATED SHORT
"Madame Tutli-Putli"

LIVE-ACTION SHORT
"Le Mozart des Pickpockets"

DOCUMENTARY SHORT
La Corona

MAKE-UP
La Vie en Rose

VISUAL EFFECTS
Transformers

SOUND EDITING
No Country for Old Men

SOUND MIXING
Ratatouille

ORIGINAL SCORE
Atonement, Dario Marianelli

ORIGINAL SONG
"Falling Slowly" from Once

I do get the feeling there is going to be some great upset tonight -- like Juno in BP -- but I'm not sure where the upset will be. I'm going mostly with the frontrunners.

BEST PICTURE
No Country for Old Men

BEST DIRECTOR
Joel & Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men

BEST ACTOR
Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood

BEST ACTRESS
Julie Christie, Away from Her

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Javier Bardem, No Country for Old Men

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Tilda Swinton, Michael Clayton
(Hardest to predict: I'm going with Tilda, because I think Michael Clayton has a lot of fans in the Academy and I thought she was great.)

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Juno, Diablo Cody

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
No Country for Old Men, Joel & Ethan Coen

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Ratatouille

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
No End in Sight

FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FEATURE
The Counterfeiters, Austria

CINEMATOGRAPHY
There Will Be Blood, Robert Elswit
(I really want Deakins to win here for Jesse James, but being nominated twice might hurt. Jesse James was, by far, the most beautiful film of the year.)

COSTUME DESIGN
Atonement
(I want Sweeney Todd to win!)

ART DIRECTION
There Will Be Blood
(I want Sweeney Todd to win!)

EDITING
No Country for Old Men
(The Bourne Ultimatum could easily win here! I flipped a coin.)

MAKE-UP
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
(Totally unsure of this prediction; La Vie en Rose might win.)

VISUAL EFFECTS
Transformers

SOUND EDITING
Transformers

SOUND MIXING
Transformers

ORIGINAL SCORE
Atonement

ORIGINAL SONG
"Falling Slowly" from Once

My fearless predictions...

BEST PICTURE
Michael Clayton

BEST DIRECTOR
Joel & Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men

BEST ACTOR
Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood

BEST ACTRESS
Ellen Page, Juno

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Javier Bardem, No Country For Old Men

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Cate Blanchett, I'm Not There

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Juno, Diablo Cody

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Ronald Harwood

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Ratatouille

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
No End in Sight

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT
Freehold

FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FEATURE
The Counterfeiters, Austria

CINEMATOGRAPHY
There Will Be Blood, Robert Elswit

COSTUME DESIGN
Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

ART DIRECTION
Atonement

EDITING
No Country for Old Men

ANIMATED SHORT
"Peter and the Wolf"

LIVE-ACTION SHORT
"Il Supplente"

MAKE-UP
La Vie en Rose

VISUAL EFFECTS
Transformers

SOUND EDITING
No Country for Old Men

SOUND MIXING
No Country For Old Men

ORIGINAL SCORE
Atonement, Dario Marianelli

ORIGINAL SONG
"Falling Slowly" from Once

That is fearless!

I think this film might get a lot of votes from the older members.