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Old Men, There Will Be Blood Lead Oscar Nominations
George Clooney in Michael Clayton courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures, Ellen Page in Juno by Doane Gregory/Fox Searchlight
Nominations for the 80th-annual Academy Awards were announced on Tuesday morning, and No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood led the pack with eight nods each, among them best picture and acting honors for Daniel Day-Lewis and Javier Bardem. Who else is going for gold come Feb. 24, in a ceremony of as-yet-to-be-determined magnitude? The contenders are:
Lead Actor
George Clooney, Michael Clayton
Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood
Johnny Depp, Sweeney Todd
Tommy Lee Jones, In the Valley of Elah
Viggo Mortensen, Eastern Promises
Lead 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
Supporting Actor
Casey Affleck, The Assassination of Jesse James...
Javier Bardem, No Country for Old Men
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Charlie Wilson's War
Hal Holbrook, Into the Wild
Tom Wilkinson, Michael Clayton
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 Picture
Atonement
Juno
Michael Clayton
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood
Best Directing
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Julian Schnabel)
Juno (Jason Reitman)
Michael Clayton (Tony Gilroy)
No Country for Old Men (Joel and Ethan Coen)
There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson)
Original Screenplay
Juno
Lars and the Real Girl
Michael Clayton
Ratatouille
The Savages
Adapted Screenplay
Atonement
Away from Her
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood
Best Animated Feature
Persepolis
Ratatouille
Surf's Up
Best Foreign Language Film
Beaufort (Israel)
The Counterfeiters (Austria)
Katyn (Poland)
Mongol (Kazakhstan)
12 (Russia)
Best Documentary Feature
No End in Sight
Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience
Sicko
Taxi to the Dark Side
War/Dance
All other categories will be posted in comments. Read the FlickChick blog to see which nods surprised film critic Maitland. Also, see which nomination drew a raspberry from Cheers & Jeers.
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Jan 22, 2008 8:45 AM
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More nominations for the 80th annual Academy Awards, to be broadcast feb. 24 on ABC:
Best Documentary Short Subject
Freeheld
La Corona (The Crown)
Salim Baba
Sari's Mother
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
Makeup
La Vie en Rose
Norbit
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Film Editing
The Bourne Ultimatum
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Into the Wild
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood
Original Score
Atonement
The Kite Runner
Michael Clayton
Ratatouille
3:10 to Yuma
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
Best Animated Short Film
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
Best Live Action Short Film
At Night
Il Supplente (The Substitute)
Le Mozart des Pickpockets (The Mozart of Pickpockets)
Tanghi Argentini
Tonto Woman
More to come....
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Jan 22, 2008 9:00 AM
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Hurray for Juno, the little movie that could! This was such a sweet, fresh movie. After watching this, I thought at the very least, it deserved an Oscar nom for "Best Original Screenplay".
I'm also happy for Johnny Depp, Tommy Lee Jones and Viggo Mortensen.
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Jan 22, 2008 9:48 AM
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Yawn
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Jan 22, 2008 9:52 AM
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No Helena Bonham Carter for Sweeney Todd? Inexcusable. Kudos for the Johnny Depp nod, though. Too bad Daniel Day-Lewis is up.
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Jan 22, 2008 9:55 AM
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Very happy about Johnny Depp and Viggo Mortensen, although I admit that the majority of movies I haven't see yet.
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Jan 22, 2008 10:51 AM
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No documentary nomination for The King Of Kong? And only costumes for Across The Universe? It's a world gone mad.
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Jan 22, 2008 11:37 AM
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Wow, virtually no hit movies nominated at all. Let's hope the Oscar broadcast gets canceled. This one has Snoozefest written all over it. Perhaps they should rename the Oscars the Films No One Saw Awards.
I couldn't care less about the show this year given the nominations.
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Jan 22, 2008 11:53 AM
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Isn't it about time for James Spader to free up some space for someone else? Unbelievable that there was no love for Friday Night Lights. Kyle Chandler and Connie Britton are absolutely fantastic.
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Jan 22, 2008 11:54 AM
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Looks like this is going to be the Year of the Indepedant Films.... known in the business as.... Another Year. :rolleyes:
With all the big films this year, I am very disappointed at the nominations. I mean did they really put The Golden Compass in with AWE and Transformers for Visual Effects? Really? Not Spidy3, Harry Potter5, 300, etc, etc, etc.... they pick Golden Compass? They could have easily chosen 5 nominations for that category this year. And imo AWE should have been nominated for best Song.
And perhaps the worst category of all this year was Animation. Surf's Up and Persepolis? A film no one liked and a film no one saw? Why not just hand it to Ratatouille. :rolleyes: And how on earth were Goofy's Home Entertainment Theater and Pixar's Lifted shunned out of Best Animated Short?
Perhaps the only category I am happy with is the Best Original Song category. I am so happy that Enchanted swept the competition with 3 out of the 5 nods. I just hope the Oscars airs in full so we can see those performed.
But I mean the Academy thinks the ratings are down because of the host or the length. That is just downright wrong. The show could be 2 hours or 4 hours, but either way its just a bore after the first 15 minutes (and the occasional bits by the host during the show). If they want better ratings they need to nominate better films. I mean come on. Only one film is going to win anyway, why not throw in some of the bigger films? Everyone already knows Atonement is going to win in Best Picture, so why not just replace There Will Be Blood with At World's End? Why not replace Amy Ryan with Imelda Staunton for Best Supporting Actress? Is it going to hurt anyone? No. Would it help ratings? Yes.
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Jan 22, 2008 12:13 PM
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I would have liked to have seen Into the Wild get a few more nominations. Sean Penn deserves some credit for this, and Eddie Vedder's music was worthy of a nod. So I'm disappointed.
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Jan 22, 2008 12:56 PM
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Hooray for Ellen Page. Though I don't expect her to win since she has very stiff competition, it's great to see an actress who has a bright future ahead of her recognised so early in her career.
However, I am disappointed to see that Ryan Gosling did not get an acting nom for his role in Lars and the Real Girl. Again, as disappointed as I am in his lack of nomination, I am comforting myself with the knowledge that his time to win the golden statue will come to pass eventually.
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Jan 22, 2008 1:11 PM
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Wow, virtually no hit movies nominated at all
If that was the criteria for awards, then Hannah Montana would sweep the Grammys and the Emmys.
WHO wants to see that?
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Jan 22, 2008 1:30 PM
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I'm nauseated by the results in the Best Original Song category. THREE songs from that waste of two hours of my life called "Enchanted?" Talk about stacking the deck. I heard so many better suggestions from critics everywhere. At least they got one in from "Once."
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Jan 22, 2008 1:42 PM
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I've seen all five nominees for Best Picture and I'm completely rooting for Atonement and There Will Be Blood, two of my most favorite movies of the year. In fact if they both swept the categories they're in (of course they have to give and take the ones they share) then I'll be very happy.
A few things made me sad though. Norbit getting Best Makeup over Sweeney Todd and Hairspray is one. Surf's Up getting the spot that The Simpsons Movie should've taken. James McAvoy and Ryan Gosling being nowhere on the list. And Jason Reitman for Best Director (seriously?).
Everything else seem to be pretty good. I *love* that two of my favorite movie songs of the year got nominated: "Faling Slowly" (Once) and "So Close" (Enchanted). I hope either one wins.
Again, everyone should see Atonement and There Will Be Blood. Both are FANTASTIC films and yet wholly different.
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Jan 22, 2008 1:48 PM
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