by Shannonn Kelly
The 80th Annual Academy Award® nominations
were announced this morning, Tuesday January 22, around 6:00 AM in Los Angeles.
The complete list of nominees are listed below. For a printable Academy Nominee Ballot for your Oscar® Party click here.
Click on the Category links to get bios and Oscar history tidbits. And now—the Nomineees…
1. Best Picture: “No Country for Old Men”, “Atonement”, “Juno”, “Michael Clayton”, “There Will Be Blood.”
2. 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”
3. 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.”
4. Best Supporting Actor: Casey Affleck, “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford”; Javier Bardem, “No Country for Old Men”; Hal Holbrook, “Into the Wild”; Philip Seymour Hoffman, “Charlie Wilson’s War”; Tom Wilkinson, “Michael Clayton”
5. Best Supporting Actress: Ruby Dee, “American Gangster”; Cate Blanchett, “I’m Not There”; Saoirse Ronan, “Atonement”; Amy Ryan, “Gone Baby Gone”; Tilda Swinton, “Michael Clayton.”
6. Best Director: Julian Schnabel, “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”; Jason Reitman, “Juno”; Tony Gilroy, “Michael Clayton”; Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, “No Country for Old Men”; Paul Thomas Anderson, “There Will Be Blood”
7. Best Foreign Film: “Beaufort,” Israel; “The Counterfeiters,” Austria; “Katyn,” Poland; “Mongol,” Kazakhstan; “12,” Russia
8. Best Adapted Screenplay: Ronald Harwood, “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”; Christopher Hampton, “Atonement”; Sarah Polley, “Away from Her”; Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, “No Country for Old Men”; Paul Thomas Anderson, “There Will Be Blood”
9. Best Original Screenplay: Diablo Cody, “Juno”; Nancy Oliver, “Lars and the Real Girl”; Tony Gilroy, “Michael Clayton”; Brad Bird, Jan Pinkava and Jim Capobianco, “Ratatouille”; Tamara Jenkins, “The Savages”
10. Best Animated Feature Film: “Persepolis”; “Ratatouille”; “Surf’s Up”
11. Best Art Direction: “American Gangster,” “Atonement,” “The Golden Compass,” “Sweeney Todd the Demon Barber of Fleet Street,” “There Will Be Blood”
12. Best 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”
13. Best Sound Mixing: “The Bourne Ultimatum,” “No Country for Old Men,” “Ratatouille,” “3:10 to Yuma,” “Transformers”
14. Best Sound Editing: “The Bourne Ultimatum,” “No Country for Old Men,” “Ratatouille,” “There Will Be Blood,” “Transformers”
15. Best Original Score: ”Ratatouille,” Michael Giacchino; “Atonement,” Dario Marianelli; “The Kite Runner,” Alberto Iglesias; “Michael Clayton,” James Newton Howard;”3:10 to Yuma,” Marco Beltrami
16. Best Original Song: ”Happy Working Song” from “Enchanted,” Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz; “Falling Slowly” from “Once,” Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova;”Raise It Up” from “August Rush,” Nominees to be determined; “So Close” from “Enchanted,” Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz; “That’s How You Know” from “Enchanted,” Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz
17. Best Costume: “Across the Universe,” “Atonement,” “Elizabeth: The Golden Age,” “La Vie en Rose,” “Sweeney Todd the Demon Barber of Fleet Street”
18. Best Documentary Feature: “No End in Sight,” “Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience,” “Sicko,” “Taxi to the Dark Side,” “War/Dance”
19. Best Documentary Short: “Freeheld,” “La Corona (The Crown),” “Salim Baba,” “Sari’s Mother”
20. Best Film Editing: “The Bourne Ultimatum,” “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly,” “Into the Wild,” “No Country for Old Men,” “There Will Be Blood”
21. Best Makeup: “La Vie en Rose,” “Norbit,” “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End”
22. Best Animated Short Film: “I Met the Walrus,” “Madame Tutli-Putli,” “Meme Les Pigeons Vont au Paradis (Even Pigeons Go to Heaven),” “My Love (Moya Lyubov),” “Peter & the Wolf”
23. Best Live Action Short Film: “Il Supplente (The Substitute),” “At Night,” “Le Mozart des Pickpockets (The Mozart of Pickpockets),” “Tanghi Argentini,” “The Tonto Woman”
24. Best Visual Effects: “The Golden Compass,” “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End,” “Transformers.”
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The HONORARY OSCAR AWARD will be given to Production Designer Robert Boyle who designed for legendary director Alfred Hitchcock among others.
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Beloved comedian, political satirist and The Daily Show host Jon Stewart makes a return visit to host the 80th Annual Academy Awards LIVE from the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood on ABC at 8PM EST on Sunday, February 24, 2008.
January 27th, 2008 at 11:04 pm
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