OSCAR NOMINATIONS ARE HERE!!
I’m NOT pleased about the complete lack of nominations for Hairspray, nor am I pleased that Tommy Lee Jones somehow squeaked by Emile Hirsch to land a Best Actor Nomination for "In The Valley Of Elah"..but other than that, there’s no real surprises…
BEST PICTURE
“Atonement” (Focus Features)
“Juno” (Fox Searchlight)
“Michael Clayton” (Warner Bros.)
“No Country for Old Men” (Miramax and Paramount
Vantage)
“There Will Be Blood” (Paramount Vantage and Miramax)
BEST DIRECTOR
“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 ACTOR
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)
BEST ACTRESS
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)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
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)
Hal Holbrook in “Into the Wild” (Paramount Vantage and River Road Entertainment)
Philip Seymour Hoffman in “Charlie Wilson’s War” (Universal)
Tom Wilkinson in “Michael Clayton” (Warner Bros.)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
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 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
BEST 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
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
“Beaufort”
A Metro Communications, Movie Plus Production Israel
“The Counterfeiters”
An Aichholzer Filmproduktion, Magnolia
Filmproduktion Production
Austria
“Katyn´”
An Akson Studio Production Poland
“Mongol”
A Eurasia Film Production Kazakhstan
“12”
A Three T Production Russia
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
ANIMATED FILM
“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
ART DIRECTION
“American Gangster” (Universal) Art Direction:
Set Decoration: Arthur Max Beth A. Rubino
“Atonement” (Focus Features) Art Direction:
Set Decoration: Sarah Greenwood Katie Spencer
“The Golden Compass” (New Line in association with
Ingenious Film Partners) Art Direction: Set Decoration: Dennis Gassner Anna Pinnock
“Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street”
(DreamWorks and Warner Bros.,
Distributed by DreamWorks/Paramount)
Art Direction:
Set Decoration: Dante Ferretti Francesca Lo Schiavo
“There Will Be Blood” (Paramount Vantage and Miramax) Art Direction:
Set Decoration: Jack Fisk Jim Erickson
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
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
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
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
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
MUSIC (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
MUSIC (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
SHORT FILM (ANIMATED)
“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
SHORT FILM (LIVE ACTION)
“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
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
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
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
