80th Annual Academy Awards Nominees (2008)

Two days after I'd seen it I couldn't really recall what it was about.

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I've just noticed that I'm the only person who voted for Documentary Short. It wasn't on the original list of noms on Page 1.

The nominess are:

Freehold
La Corona (The Crown)
Salim Baba
Sari's Mother

Try to edit those into your picks.

P.S. I have everyone who filled out a ballot included in the Oscar Picks Game I run at my house each year, so my daughter will be keeping score.

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My picks for the main categories...


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
Casey Affleck, The Assassination of Jesse James...

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

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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

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

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Suspect's Reviews

If i saw this thread earlier i woulda included my picks...but i kept track of my picks with a thing that came with my newspaper and i got 12 right :P

Only got fourteen right, but I was very happy with just about every single award.

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I did pretty badly, went 12 and 12

14 out of 20 here (I missed even making a prediction for a few); Bourne killed me pretty badly. Went 7 of 8 for the big categories (you can probably guess which one I missed there), though.

Was there no Honorary Award this year?

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They had temporarily escaped the factories, the warehouses, the slaughterhouses, the car washes - they'd be back in captivity the next day but now they were out - they were wild with freedom. They weren't thinking about the slavery of poverty. Or the slavery of welfare and food stamps. The rest of us would be all right until the poor learned how to make atom bombs in their basements.

I didn't make any picks, but like Holden, fairly happy with most.
I am disappointed Cate Blanchett didn't recieve any awards, but Australia still picked up one award:

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

Taxi to the Dark Side was awarded best documentary, the award was recieved by Eva Orner, from Melbourne, Australia.
May I offer my congratulations, and indeed the congratulations of all the Australians on this forum to Eva for a great job.

Oh. And, congratulations to all other award recipients.

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There was one this year: Robert Boyle (art director almost pushing 100!)

and i was 11/20

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This is what i got too! Although i dont think i posted my predictions in here? We did an office sweepstake at work and i won out of the offcie with 14 out of 20.

Ł22 to me! BOO YEAH!

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I mentioned this in the Shoutbox, but Jon Stewart was a total waste. They could of picked somebody else to host the show. He wasn't funny, he was cocky, and nobody even barely laughed. He could save all his crap for his show, let somebody who knows how to host the Oscars come back next year.

I think Jason is exaggerating a little (plenty of people laughed, for example), but I was unimpressed by Stewart, too. I like him in general, and think he's very talented, but something just felt a bit off tonight. I realize a lot of the material was probably to blame, and the whole thing was a bit rushed this year, but I daresay you could tell.

I'd grade the performance; his end, and the writing all mixed together, about a C-.

Yeah im not a fan either. Bring back Billy Crystal! Or Whoopee!

I thought Stewart was good, and he had some great lines. It was obviously less prepared than usual in that there were no pre-planned bits or taped segments, and I think that is very clearly due to the fact that they had only less than two weeks to plan and write it where they usually have four of five months plus. Given all that, I thought he did a great job. It was a crappy circumstance to be stuck in and he made the best of it.

I think the producers of The Oscars are going to be very pleased with what Jon was able to do, especially as they know better than anybody what the time crunch was like. He'll be back, assuming he wants the gig again. He'll be offered it, for sure.

Agreed, to a certain extent.

I grew up watching Crystal host the Oscars, so it was always a blast seeing him host them. I would love to see the Academy bring him back for old times sake.

But, as for Stewart, I highly enjoyed his undertaking of hosting the show. Yes, we all know the writer's strike dampened the overall creation process, but given the amount of time they had, Stewart delivered. And he was able to think up some good improv right on the spot, which I give him credit for as well.

I would like to see him host again.

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Ah... so that's who that guy was... I missed his intro and forgot to look it up this morning.


As for Stewart, I thought he had some really good lines but also several that missed the mark... and considering the fact I normally think he's pretty funny, I just caulked it up to having "off material" to work with...

Did they have something going on in front of one of the podiums? I noticed several people almost slipped or acted like they did....

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haha yeah Colin Farrell slipped and was like "woah that couldn't been bad" or something like that and "somebody should take care of that" then I think Travolta slid a bit. obviously it wasn't high priority, they probably wanted somebody to slip, cause i mean celebs falling down is pretty funny

I like J Stewart's hosting job just fine. I also really dug the whole intro to the Oscars, with all the film icons in the CGI bit. Fun. I thought the show had its peaks and valleys, as usual.

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