I don't know. If those two cancel each other out...I dread to think what might happen.Big Magilla wrote:The tie in nominations between No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood making it a nail-biter to the finish.
80th Academy Awards Nominations
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The worst inclusions: Blanchett, Seymour and 3 songs from Enchanted.
The worst exlusions: Into the Wild for best picture, actor, supporting actress, dierctor, screenplay and song.
The best overall: The tie in nominations between No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood making it a nail-biter to the finish.
The worst exlusions: Into the Wild for best picture, actor, supporting actress, dierctor, screenplay and song.
The best overall: The tie in nominations between No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood making it a nail-biter to the finish.
A mixed bag as always but a way better mixed bag than most years. And Eric, I agree with you but even that lame directing nomination for Juno is better than past directing nominations for Ray and Crash.
I'm really glad I predicted Polley's screenplay nomination for Away From Her (good for her!) but disappointed that Pinsent couldn't get in. Tommy Lee Jones was the surprise instead for...a Paul Haggis film! Goddamit, Haggis has had his dirty fingers in every Oscar pie since 2004 - Million Dollar Baby, Crash, Flags of Our Father and Now In the Valley of Elah. Does he just churn them out every year? Ah, but then again, I'd probably try to cover my lack of talent with frequency also.
And the Animated Film category just proved to be even more ludicrous by including shit like Ratatouille and Surf's Up and leaving out the one American animated film worth a damn last year - The Simpsons Movie.
I'm really glad I predicted Polley's screenplay nomination for Away From Her (good for her!) but disappointed that Pinsent couldn't get in. Tommy Lee Jones was the surprise instead for...a Paul Haggis film! Goddamit, Haggis has had his dirty fingers in every Oscar pie since 2004 - Million Dollar Baby, Crash, Flags of Our Father and Now In the Valley of Elah. Does he just churn them out every year? Ah, but then again, I'd probably try to cover my lack of talent with frequency also.
And the Animated Film category just proved to be even more ludicrous by including shit like Ratatouille and Surf's Up and leaving out the one American animated film worth a damn last year - The Simpsons Movie.
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First thing's first: I will not sit through Norbit. I just...no...GODDAMN THESE PEOPLE!
Now, that that's out of the way, I find there's surprisingly little to discuss about these nominations. Atonement held on without nods for its leads or director, and I completely overestimated the Into the Wild love (and am shocked it missed the song nod).
Yay for Sarah Polley, the nomination I'm most happy about. Thrilled also for Tommy Lee Jones, even though I much preferred him in No Country. (I knew that category was confusing enough to produce one surprise.)
I breathed a big sigh of relief when Persepolis was the first animated film announced. Little did I know the shock would come at the end -- with a nod for Surf's Up.
Perhaps there's a reason Alan Menken was disqualified from the score category -- three nominations for Enchanted songs seems like MAJOR overkill. (Plus, am I the only person who thinks "True Love's Kiss" is the best song from Enchanted?)
Juno had a director?
For all our pre-nominations talk about how great the nominees would be this year, I'm a little bummed about some of the below-the-line categories. Nominations for Norbit, Across the Universe, and August Rush, but nothing for Zodiac, Lust, Caution, Hairspray, Knocked Up, or Beowulf. (300 was also shut-out, though I wouldn't put that in the disappointment category.)
Now, that that's out of the way, I find there's surprisingly little to discuss about these nominations. Atonement held on without nods for its leads or director, and I completely overestimated the Into the Wild love (and am shocked it missed the song nod).
Yay for Sarah Polley, the nomination I'm most happy about. Thrilled also for Tommy Lee Jones, even though I much preferred him in No Country. (I knew that category was confusing enough to produce one surprise.)
I breathed a big sigh of relief when Persepolis was the first animated film announced. Little did I know the shock would come at the end -- with a nod for Surf's Up.
Perhaps there's a reason Alan Menken was disqualified from the score category -- three nominations for Enchanted songs seems like MAJOR overkill. (Plus, am I the only person who thinks "True Love's Kiss" is the best song from Enchanted?)
Juno had a director?
For all our pre-nominations talk about how great the nominees would be this year, I'm a little bummed about some of the below-the-line categories. Nominations for Norbit, Across the Universe, and August Rush, but nothing for Zodiac, Lust, Caution, Hairspray, Knocked Up, or Beowulf. (300 was also shut-out, though I wouldn't put that in the disappointment category.)
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Here are the others:
Art Direction:
American Gangster
Atonement
The Golden Compass
Sweeney Todd
There Will Be Blood
Cinematography:
The Assassination of Jesse James
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
Documentary:
No End in Sight
Operation Homecoming
Sicko
Taxi to the Dark Side
War/Dance
Documentary Short:
Freeheld
La Corona
Salim Baba
Sari's Mother
Editing:
The Bourne Ultimatum
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Into the Wild
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood
Makeup:
La Vie en Rose
Norbit
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Original Score:
Atonement
THe Kite Runner
Michael Clayton
Ratatouille
3:10 to Yuma
Song:
"Falling Slowly" - Once
"Happy Working Song" - Enchanted
"Raise It Up" - August Rush
"So Close" - Enchanted
"That's How You Know" - Enchanted
Animated Short:
I Met the Walrus
Madame Tutli-Putli
Meme Les Pigeons Vont au Paradis
My Love
Peter & The Wolf
Live Action Short
At Night
Il Supplente
Le Mozart des Pickpockets
Tanghi Argentini
The Tonto Woman
Sound Editing:
Bourne Ultimatum
No Country for Old Men
Ratatouille
There Will Be Blood
Transformers
Sound Mixing:
Bourne Ultimatum
No Country for Old Men
Ratatouille
3:10 to Yuma
Transformers
Visual Effects:
The Golden Compass
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Transformers
Art Direction:
American Gangster
Atonement
The Golden Compass
Sweeney Todd
There Will Be Blood
Cinematography:
The Assassination of Jesse James
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
Documentary:
No End in Sight
Operation Homecoming
Sicko
Taxi to the Dark Side
War/Dance
Documentary Short:
Freeheld
La Corona
Salim Baba
Sari's Mother
Editing:
The Bourne Ultimatum
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Into the Wild
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood
Makeup:
La Vie en Rose
Norbit
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Original Score:
Atonement
THe Kite Runner
Michael Clayton
Ratatouille
3:10 to Yuma
Song:
"Falling Slowly" - Once
"Happy Working Song" - Enchanted
"Raise It Up" - August Rush
"So Close" - Enchanted
"That's How You Know" - Enchanted
Animated Short:
I Met the Walrus
Madame Tutli-Putli
Meme Les Pigeons Vont au Paradis
My Love
Peter & The Wolf
Live Action Short
At Night
Il Supplente
Le Mozart des Pickpockets
Tanghi Argentini
The Tonto Woman
Sound Editing:
Bourne Ultimatum
No Country for Old Men
Ratatouille
There Will Be Blood
Transformers
Sound Mixing:
Bourne Ultimatum
No Country for Old Men
Ratatouille
3:10 to Yuma
Transformers
Visual Effects:
The Golden Compass
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Transformers
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Picture
They were all pretty darn good films....i liked atonement the least and liked into the wild a whole lot but i don't think i've ever been this happy with the 5 nominees as a whole.
Director
Reitman was a shocker...i like diving bell the least out of the 5 but it was very good so again i don't know if i've ever been this happy with the nominees, but again i would have loved to see sean penn.
Actor
Shocker seeing tommy lee jones....i think depp is the least deserving, would have liked to see a lot of others above him.
Actress
The worst and best nominees are in this catorgory...i hate the fact they nominated blanchett here, a disgrace....but love the fact they nominated laura linney's great performance....but anjelina really deserved to be nominated here, ashame....and so did keri russell.
Supporting Actor
All really great choices...loved them all...but would have loved the replacements that i'm sure just missed maybe even more. But hoffman had such a great year, it wouldn't have been right to see him nowhere.
Supporting Actress
Don't get me wrong i love ruby dee but i would rather have had kelly macdonald in another small supporting part....and they nominated the wrong atonement girl, why romona garai got no love from anybody i'll never know.
Adapted Screenplay
So happy for away from her....but no into the wild? come on....throw sean a bone at least....very sad about its absent and it really hit home when i didn't hear the name of the film when they read this catorgory.
Original Screenplay
Great list but would have liked to see ratatouille replaced with any number of others...before the devil, waitress, knocked up, i'm not there, even once.
Animated
I gotta say, i didn't see surfs up...but that was a shocker, i didn't love the simpsons movie, but i thought it would get nominated and i wouldn't have complained.
Foreign
They should be ashamed of themselves....but i've been saying that for a few days and i'm just over this catorgory and don't care anymore.
They were all pretty darn good films....i liked atonement the least and liked into the wild a whole lot but i don't think i've ever been this happy with the 5 nominees as a whole.
Director
Reitman was a shocker...i like diving bell the least out of the 5 but it was very good so again i don't know if i've ever been this happy with the nominees, but again i would have loved to see sean penn.
Actor
Shocker seeing tommy lee jones....i think depp is the least deserving, would have liked to see a lot of others above him.
Actress
The worst and best nominees are in this catorgory...i hate the fact they nominated blanchett here, a disgrace....but love the fact they nominated laura linney's great performance....but anjelina really deserved to be nominated here, ashame....and so did keri russell.
Supporting Actor
All really great choices...loved them all...but would have loved the replacements that i'm sure just missed maybe even more. But hoffman had such a great year, it wouldn't have been right to see him nowhere.
Supporting Actress
Don't get me wrong i love ruby dee but i would rather have had kelly macdonald in another small supporting part....and they nominated the wrong atonement girl, why romona garai got no love from anybody i'll never know.
Adapted Screenplay
So happy for away from her....but no into the wild? come on....throw sean a bone at least....very sad about its absent and it really hit home when i didn't hear the name of the film when they read this catorgory.
Original Screenplay
Great list but would have liked to see ratatouille replaced with any number of others...before the devil, waitress, knocked up, i'm not there, even once.
Animated
I gotta say, i didn't see surfs up...but that was a shocker, i didn't love the simpsons movie, but i thought it would get nominated and i wouldn't have complained.
Foreign
They should be ashamed of themselves....but i've been saying that for a few days and i'm just over this catorgory and don't care anymore.
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Performance by an actor in a leading role
George Clooney in "Michael Clayton" (Warner Bros.)
Daniel Day-Lewis in "There Will Be Blood" (Paramount Vantage and Miramax)
Johnny Depp in "Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" (DreamWorks and Warner Bros., Distributed by DreamWorks/Paramount)
Tommy Lee Jones in "In the Valley of Elah" (Warner Independent)
Viggo Mortensen in "Eastern Promises" (Focus Features)
Performance by an actor in a supporting role
Casey Affleck in "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford" (Warner Bros.)
Javier Bardem in "No Country for Old Men" (Miramax and Paramount Vantage)
Philip Seymour Hoffman in "Charlie Wilson's War" (Universal)
Hal Holbrook in "Into the Wild" (Paramount Vantage and River Road Entertainment)
Tom Wilkinson in "Michael Clayton" (Warner Bros.)
Performance by an actress in a leading role
Cate Blanchett in "Elizabeth: The Golden Age" (Universal)
Julie Christie in "Away from Her" (Lionsgate)
Marion Cotillard in "La Vie en Rose" (Picturehouse)
Laura Linney in "The Savages" (Fox Searchlight)
Ellen Page in "Juno" (Fox Searchlight)
Performance by an actress in a supporting role
Cate Blanchett in "I'm Not There" (The Weinstein Company)
Ruby Dee in "American Gangster" (Universal)
Saoirse Ronan in "Atonement" (Focus Features)
Amy Ryan in "Gone Baby Gone" (Miramax)
Tilda Swinton in "Michael Clayton" (Warner Bros.)
Best animated feature film of the year
"Persepolis" (Sony Pictures Classics): Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud
"Ratatouille" (Walt Disney): Brad Bird
"Surf's Up" (Sony Pictures Releasing): Ash Brannon and Chris Buck
Achievement in art direction
"American Gangster" (Universal): Art Direction: Arthur Max; Set Decoration: Beth A. Rubino
"Atonement" (Focus Features): Art Direction: Sarah Greenwood; Set Decoration: Katie Spencer
"The Golden Compass" (New Line in association with Ingenious Film Partners): Art Direction: Dennis Gassner; Set Decoration: Anna Pinnock
"Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" (DreamWorks and Warner Bros., Distributed by DreamWorks/Paramount): Art Direction: Dante Ferretti; Set Decoration: Francesca Lo Schiavo
"There Will Be Blood" (Paramount Vantage and Miramax): Art Direction: Jack Fisk; Set Decoration: Jim Erickson
Achievement in cinematography
"The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford" (Warner Bros.): Roger Deakins
"Atonement" (Focus Features): Seamus McGarvey
"The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" (Miramax/Pathé Renn): Janusz Kaminski
"No Country for Old Men" (Miramax and Paramount Vantage): Roger Deakins
"There Will Be Blood" (Paramount Vantage and Miramax): Robert Elswit
Achievement in costume design
"Across the Universe" (Sony Pictures Releasing) Albert Wolsky
"Atonement" (Focus Features) Jacqueline Durran
"Elizabeth: The Golden Age" (Universal) Alexandra Byrne
"La Vie en Rose" (Picturehouse) Marit Allen
"Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" (DreamWorks and Warner Bros., Distributed by DreamWorks/Paramount) Colleen Atwood
Achievement in directing
"The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" (Miramax/Pathé Renn), Julian Schnabel
"Juno" (Fox Searchlight), Jason Reitman
"Michael Clayton" (Warner Bros.), Tony Gilroy
"No Country for Old Men" (Miramax and Paramount Vantage), Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
"There Will Be Blood" (Paramount Vantage and Miramax), Paul Thomas Anderson
Best documentary feature
"No End in Sight" (Magnolia Pictures) A Representational Pictures Production: Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs
"Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience" (The Documentary Group) A Documentary Group Production: Richard E. Robbins
"Sicko" (Lionsgate and The Weinstein Company) A Dog Eat Dog Films Production: Michael Moore and Meghan O'Hara
"Taxi to the Dark Side" (THINKFilm) An X-Ray Production: Alex Gibney and Eva Orner
"War/Dance" (THINKFilm) A Shine Global and Fine Films Production: Andrea Nix Fine and Sean Fine
Best documentary short subject
"Freeheld" A Lieutenant Films Production: Cynthia Wade and Vanessa Roth
"La Corona (The Crown)" A Runaway Films and Vega Films Production: Amanda Micheli and Isabel Vega
"Salim Baba" A Ropa Vieja Films and Paradox Smoke Production: Tim Sternberg and Francisco Bello
"Sari's Mother" (Cinema Guild) A Daylight Factory Production: James Longley
Achievement in film editing
"The Bourne Ultimatum" (Universal): Christopher Rouse
"The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" (Miramax/Pathé Renn): Juliette Welfling
"Into the Wild" (Paramount Vantage and River Road Entertainment): Jay Cassidy
"No Country for Old Men" (Miramax and Paramount Vantage) Roderick Jaynes
"There Will Be Blood" (Paramount Vantage and Miramax): Dylan Tichenor
Best foreign language film of the year
"Beaufort" Israel
"The Counterfeiters" Austria
"Katyn" Poland
"Mongol" Kazakhstan
"12" Russia
Achievement in makeup
"La Vie en Rose" (Picturehouse) Didier Lavergne and Jan Archibald
"Norbit" (DreamWorks, Distributed by Paramount): Rick Baker and Kazuhiro Tsuji
"Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" (Walt Disney): Ve Neill and Martin Samuel
Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)
"Atonement" (Focus Features) Dario Marianelli
"The Kite Runner" (DreamWorks, Sidney Kimmel Entertainment and Participant Productions, Distributed by Paramount Classics): Alberto Iglesias
"Michael Clayton" (Warner Bros.) James Newton Howard
"Ratatouille" (Walt Disney) Michael Giacchino
"3:10 to Yuma" (Lionsgate) Marco Beltrami
Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)
"Falling Slowly" from "Once" (Fox Searchlight) Music and Lyric by Glen Hansard and: Marketa Irglova
"Happy Working Song" from "Enchanted" (Walt Disney): Music by Alan Menken; Lyric by Stephen Schwartz
"Raise It Up" from "August Rush" (Warner Bros.): Nominees to be determined
"So Close" from "Enchanted" (Walt Disney): Music by Alan Menken; Lyric by Stephen Schwartz
"That's How You Know" from "Enchanted" (Walt Disney): Music by Alan Menken; Lyric by Stephen Schwartz
Best motion picture of the year
"Atonement" (Focus Features) A Working Title Production: Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner and Paul Webster, Producers
"Juno" (Fox Searchlight) A Dancing Elk Pictures, LLC Production: Lianne Halfon, Mason Novick and Russell Smith, Producers
"Michael Clayton" (Warner Bros.) A Clayton Productions, LLC Production: Sydney Pollack, Jennifer Fox and Kerry Orent, Producers
"No Country for Old Men" (Miramax and Paramount Vantage) A Scott Rudin/Mike Zoss Production: Scott Rudin, Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, Producers
"There Will Be Blood" (Paramount Vantage and Miramax) A JoAnne Sellar/Ghoulardi Film Company Production: JoAnne Sellar, Paul Thomas Anderson and Daniel Lupi, Producers
Best animated short film
"I Met the Walrus" A Kids & Explosions Production: Josh Raskin
"Madame Tutli-Putli" (National Film Board of Canada) A National Film Board of Canada Production Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski "Même Les Pigeons Vont au Paradis (Even Pigeons Go to Heaven)" (Premium Films) A BUF Compagnie Production Samuel Tourneux and Simon Vanesse
"My Love (Moya Lyubov)" (Channel One Russia) A Dago-Film Studio, Channel One Russia and Dentsu Tec Production Alexander Petrov
"Peter & the Wolf" (BreakThru Films) A BreakThru Films/Se-ma-for Studios Production Suzie Templeton and Hugh Welchman
Best live action short film
"At Night" A Zentropa Entertainments 10 Production: Christian E. Christiansen and Louise Vesth
"Il Supplente (The Substitute)" (Sky Cinema Italia) A Frame by Frame Italia Production: Andrea Jublin
"Le Mozart des Pickpockets (The Mozart of Pickpockets)" (Premium Films) A Karé Production: Philippe Pollet-Villard
"Tanghi Argentini" (Premium Films) An Another Dimension of an Idea Production: Guido Thys and Anja Daelemans
"The Tonto Woman" A Knucklehead, Little Mo and Rose Hackney Barber Production: Daniel Barber and Matthew Brown
Achievement in sound editing
"The Bourne Ultimatum" (Universal): Karen Baker Landers and Per Hallberg
"No Country for Old Men" (Miramax and Paramount Vantage): Skip Lievsay
"Ratatouille" (Walt Disney): Randy Thom and Michael Silvers
"There Will Be Blood" (Paramount Vantage and Miramax): Matthew Wood
"Transformers" (DreamWorks and Paramount in association with Hasbro): Ethan Van der Ryn and Mike Hopkins
Achievement in sound mixing
"The Bourne Ultimatum" (Universal) Scott Millan, David Parker and Kirk Francis
"No Country for Old Men" (Miramax and Paramount Vantage): Skip Lievsay, Craig Berkey, Greg Orloff and Peter Kurland
"Ratatouille" (Walt Disney): Randy Thom, Michael Semanick and Doc Kane
"3:10 to Yuma" (Lionsgate): Paul Massey, David Giammarco and Jim Stuebe
"Transformers" (DreamWorks and Paramount in association with Hasbro): Kevin O'Connell, Greg P. Russell and Peter J. Devlin
Achievement in visual effects
"The Golden Compass" (New Line in association with Ingenious Film Partners): Michael Fink, Bill Westenhofer, Ben Morris and Trevor Wood
"Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" (Walt Disney): John Knoll, Hal Hickel, Charles Gibson and John Frazier
"Transformers" (DreamWorks and Paramount in association with Hasbro): Scott Farrar, Scott Benza, Russell Earl and John Frazier
Adapted screenplay
"Atonement" (Focus Features), Screenplay by Christopher Hampton
"Away from Her" (Lionsgate), Written by Sarah Polley
"The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" (Miramax/Pathé Renn), Screenplay by Ronald Harwood
"No Country for Old Men" (Miramax and Paramount Vantage), Written for the screen by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
"There Will Be Blood" (Paramount Vantage and Miramax), Written for the screen by Paul Thomas Anderson
Original screenplay
"Juno" (Fox Searchlight), Written by Diablo Cody
"Lars and the Real Girl" (MGM), Written by Nancy Oliver
"Michael Clayton" (Warner Bros.), Written by Tony Gilroy
"Ratatouille" (Walt Disney), Screenplay by Brad Bird; Story by Jan Pinkava, Jim Capobianco, Brad Bird
"The Savages" (Fox Searchlight), Written by Tamara Jenkins
Performance by an actor in a leading role
George Clooney in "Michael Clayton" (Warner Bros.)
Daniel Day-Lewis in "There Will Be Blood" (Paramount Vantage and Miramax)
Johnny Depp in "Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" (DreamWorks and Warner Bros., Distributed by DreamWorks/Paramount)
Tommy Lee Jones in "In the Valley of Elah" (Warner Independent)
Viggo Mortensen in "Eastern Promises" (Focus Features)
Performance by an actor in a supporting role
Casey Affleck in "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford" (Warner Bros.)
Javier Bardem in "No Country for Old Men" (Miramax and Paramount Vantage)
Philip Seymour Hoffman in "Charlie Wilson's War" (Universal)
Hal Holbrook in "Into the Wild" (Paramount Vantage and River Road Entertainment)
Tom Wilkinson in "Michael Clayton" (Warner Bros.)
Performance by an actress in a leading role
Cate Blanchett in "Elizabeth: The Golden Age" (Universal)
Julie Christie in "Away from Her" (Lionsgate)
Marion Cotillard in "La Vie en Rose" (Picturehouse)
Laura Linney in "The Savages" (Fox Searchlight)
Ellen Page in "Juno" (Fox Searchlight)
Performance by an actress in a supporting role
Cate Blanchett in "I'm Not There" (The Weinstein Company)
Ruby Dee in "American Gangster" (Universal)
Saoirse Ronan in "Atonement" (Focus Features)
Amy Ryan in "Gone Baby Gone" (Miramax)
Tilda Swinton in "Michael Clayton" (Warner Bros.)
Best animated feature film of the year
"Persepolis" (Sony Pictures Classics): Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud
"Ratatouille" (Walt Disney): Brad Bird
"Surf's Up" (Sony Pictures Releasing): Ash Brannon and Chris Buck
Achievement in art direction
"American Gangster" (Universal): Art Direction: Arthur Max; Set Decoration: Beth A. Rubino
"Atonement" (Focus Features): Art Direction: Sarah Greenwood; Set Decoration: Katie Spencer
"The Golden Compass" (New Line in association with Ingenious Film Partners): Art Direction: Dennis Gassner; Set Decoration: Anna Pinnock
"Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" (DreamWorks and Warner Bros., Distributed by DreamWorks/Paramount): Art Direction: Dante Ferretti; Set Decoration: Francesca Lo Schiavo
"There Will Be Blood" (Paramount Vantage and Miramax): Art Direction: Jack Fisk; Set Decoration: Jim Erickson
Achievement in cinematography
"The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford" (Warner Bros.): Roger Deakins
"Atonement" (Focus Features): Seamus McGarvey
"The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" (Miramax/Pathé Renn): Janusz Kaminski
"No Country for Old Men" (Miramax and Paramount Vantage): Roger Deakins
"There Will Be Blood" (Paramount Vantage and Miramax): Robert Elswit
Achievement in costume design
"Across the Universe" (Sony Pictures Releasing) Albert Wolsky
"Atonement" (Focus Features) Jacqueline Durran
"Elizabeth: The Golden Age" (Universal) Alexandra Byrne
"La Vie en Rose" (Picturehouse) Marit Allen
"Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" (DreamWorks and Warner Bros., Distributed by DreamWorks/Paramount) Colleen Atwood
Achievement in directing
"The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" (Miramax/Pathé Renn), Julian Schnabel
"Juno" (Fox Searchlight), Jason Reitman
"Michael Clayton" (Warner Bros.), Tony Gilroy
"No Country for Old Men" (Miramax and Paramount Vantage), Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
"There Will Be Blood" (Paramount Vantage and Miramax), Paul Thomas Anderson
Best documentary feature
"No End in Sight" (Magnolia Pictures) A Representational Pictures Production: Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs
"Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience" (The Documentary Group) A Documentary Group Production: Richard E. Robbins
"Sicko" (Lionsgate and The Weinstein Company) A Dog Eat Dog Films Production: Michael Moore and Meghan O'Hara
"Taxi to the Dark Side" (THINKFilm) An X-Ray Production: Alex Gibney and Eva Orner
"War/Dance" (THINKFilm) A Shine Global and Fine Films Production: Andrea Nix Fine and Sean Fine
Best documentary short subject
"Freeheld" A Lieutenant Films Production: Cynthia Wade and Vanessa Roth
"La Corona (The Crown)" A Runaway Films and Vega Films Production: Amanda Micheli and Isabel Vega
"Salim Baba" A Ropa Vieja Films and Paradox Smoke Production: Tim Sternberg and Francisco Bello
"Sari's Mother" (Cinema Guild) A Daylight Factory Production: James Longley
Achievement in film editing
"The Bourne Ultimatum" (Universal): Christopher Rouse
"The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" (Miramax/Pathé Renn): Juliette Welfling
"Into the Wild" (Paramount Vantage and River Road Entertainment): Jay Cassidy
"No Country for Old Men" (Miramax and Paramount Vantage) Roderick Jaynes
"There Will Be Blood" (Paramount Vantage and Miramax): Dylan Tichenor
Best foreign language film of the year
"Beaufort" Israel
"The Counterfeiters" Austria
"Katyn" Poland
"Mongol" Kazakhstan
"12" Russia
Achievement in makeup
"La Vie en Rose" (Picturehouse) Didier Lavergne and Jan Archibald
"Norbit" (DreamWorks, Distributed by Paramount): Rick Baker and Kazuhiro Tsuji
"Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" (Walt Disney): Ve Neill and Martin Samuel
Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)
"Atonement" (Focus Features) Dario Marianelli
"The Kite Runner" (DreamWorks, Sidney Kimmel Entertainment and Participant Productions, Distributed by Paramount Classics): Alberto Iglesias
"Michael Clayton" (Warner Bros.) James Newton Howard
"Ratatouille" (Walt Disney) Michael Giacchino
"3:10 to Yuma" (Lionsgate) Marco Beltrami
Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)
"Falling Slowly" from "Once" (Fox Searchlight) Music and Lyric by Glen Hansard and: Marketa Irglova
"Happy Working Song" from "Enchanted" (Walt Disney): Music by Alan Menken; Lyric by Stephen Schwartz
"Raise It Up" from "August Rush" (Warner Bros.): Nominees to be determined
"So Close" from "Enchanted" (Walt Disney): Music by Alan Menken; Lyric by Stephen Schwartz
"That's How You Know" from "Enchanted" (Walt Disney): Music by Alan Menken; Lyric by Stephen Schwartz
Best motion picture of the year
"Atonement" (Focus Features) A Working Title Production: Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner and Paul Webster, Producers
"Juno" (Fox Searchlight) A Dancing Elk Pictures, LLC Production: Lianne Halfon, Mason Novick and Russell Smith, Producers
"Michael Clayton" (Warner Bros.) A Clayton Productions, LLC Production: Sydney Pollack, Jennifer Fox and Kerry Orent, Producers
"No Country for Old Men" (Miramax and Paramount Vantage) A Scott Rudin/Mike Zoss Production: Scott Rudin, Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, Producers
"There Will Be Blood" (Paramount Vantage and Miramax) A JoAnne Sellar/Ghoulardi Film Company Production: JoAnne Sellar, Paul Thomas Anderson and Daniel Lupi, Producers
Best animated short film
"I Met the Walrus" A Kids & Explosions Production: Josh Raskin
"Madame Tutli-Putli" (National Film Board of Canada) A National Film Board of Canada Production Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski "Même Les Pigeons Vont au Paradis (Even Pigeons Go to Heaven)" (Premium Films) A BUF Compagnie Production Samuel Tourneux and Simon Vanesse
"My Love (Moya Lyubov)" (Channel One Russia) A Dago-Film Studio, Channel One Russia and Dentsu Tec Production Alexander Petrov
"Peter & the Wolf" (BreakThru Films) A BreakThru Films/Se-ma-for Studios Production Suzie Templeton and Hugh Welchman
Best live action short film
"At Night" A Zentropa Entertainments 10 Production: Christian E. Christiansen and Louise Vesth
"Il Supplente (The Substitute)" (Sky Cinema Italia) A Frame by Frame Italia Production: Andrea Jublin
"Le Mozart des Pickpockets (The Mozart of Pickpockets)" (Premium Films) A Karé Production: Philippe Pollet-Villard
"Tanghi Argentini" (Premium Films) An Another Dimension of an Idea Production: Guido Thys and Anja Daelemans
"The Tonto Woman" A Knucklehead, Little Mo and Rose Hackney Barber Production: Daniel Barber and Matthew Brown
Achievement in sound editing
"The Bourne Ultimatum" (Universal): Karen Baker Landers and Per Hallberg
"No Country for Old Men" (Miramax and Paramount Vantage): Skip Lievsay
"Ratatouille" (Walt Disney): Randy Thom and Michael Silvers
"There Will Be Blood" (Paramount Vantage and Miramax): Matthew Wood
"Transformers" (DreamWorks and Paramount in association with Hasbro): Ethan Van der Ryn and Mike Hopkins
Achievement in sound mixing
"The Bourne Ultimatum" (Universal) Scott Millan, David Parker and Kirk Francis
"No Country for Old Men" (Miramax and Paramount Vantage): Skip Lievsay, Craig Berkey, Greg Orloff and Peter Kurland
"Ratatouille" (Walt Disney): Randy Thom, Michael Semanick and Doc Kane
"3:10 to Yuma" (Lionsgate): Paul Massey, David Giammarco and Jim Stuebe
"Transformers" (DreamWorks and Paramount in association with Hasbro): Kevin O'Connell, Greg P. Russell and Peter J. Devlin
Achievement in visual effects
"The Golden Compass" (New Line in association with Ingenious Film Partners): Michael Fink, Bill Westenhofer, Ben Morris and Trevor Wood
"Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" (Walt Disney): John Knoll, Hal Hickel, Charles Gibson and John Frazier
"Transformers" (DreamWorks and Paramount in association with Hasbro): Scott Farrar, Scott Benza, Russell Earl and John Frazier
Adapted screenplay
"Atonement" (Focus Features), Screenplay by Christopher Hampton
"Away from Her" (Lionsgate), Written by Sarah Polley
"The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" (Miramax/Pathé Renn), Screenplay by Ronald Harwood
"No Country for Old Men" (Miramax and Paramount Vantage), Written for the screen by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
"There Will Be Blood" (Paramount Vantage and Miramax), Written for the screen by Paul Thomas Anderson
Original screenplay
"Juno" (Fox Searchlight), Written by Diablo Cody
"Lars and the Real Girl" (MGM), Written by Nancy Oliver
"Michael Clayton" (Warner Bros.), Written by Tony Gilroy
"Ratatouille" (Walt Disney), Screenplay by Brad Bird; Story by Jan Pinkava, Jim Capobianco, Brad Bird
"The Savages" (Fox Searchlight), Written by Tamara Jenkins
"...it is the weak who are cruel, and...gentleness is only to be expected from the strong." - Leo Reston
"Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable." - Jodie Foster
"Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable." - Jodie Foster
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I think this will be a great year for Best Picture competition. Michael Clayton is the strongest, nomination-wise, with 6 nominations in the Big 8 Categories. No Country is the pre-nomination front runner, There Will Be Blood is the critics choice, Juno stays strong and is the popular favorite and Atonement is the traditional choice, but hurt by poorest showing in the Big 8.
Other great matchups are Bardem/Holbrook, Blanchett/Ryan and Christie/Cotillard/Page. You can count on AMPAS to throw in some surprises, and they did.
This is great.
Other great matchups are Bardem/Holbrook, Blanchett/Ryan and Christie/Cotillard/Page. You can count on AMPAS to throw in some surprises, and they did.
This is great.