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Blood And Old Men Fight Over Oscar NominationsBy Rafe Telsch: 2008-01-22 09:30:25
It’s that time of year again, although this year the questions are a little different. Instead of wondering if our favorite picture will be nominated or win an award, most people are simply wondering whether the annual extravaganza will even occur. With other major awards playing to empty houses or simply being handed out in a press conference on top of complaints in recent years about the quality of nominations, one has to wonder if the excuse for excess is even really necessary anymore. Is the writer’s strike really killing the awards, or have they shown us that we don’t really need the celebration anymore? Is it time to move past the decadence and simply enjoy movies that everyone sees?
Strike or no strike, show or no show, need for celebration or no need, the winners of this year’s Oscars will be announced on Sunday, February 24th. For now, here is the list of nominees for the 80th Acadamy Awards. The Nominees Are... ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE George Clooney - Michael Clayton Daniel Day Lewis - There Will Be Blood Johnny Depp - Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Viggo Mortensen - Eastern Promises Tommy Lee Jones - In the Valley of Elah ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE 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 ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE Cate Blanchett - Elizabeth: The Golden Age Julie Christie - Away From Her Marion Cotillard - La Vie En Rose Laura Linney - The Savages Ellen Page- Juno ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE Cate Blanchett - I’m Not There Ruby Dee - American Gangster Saoirse Ronan - Atonement Amy Ryan - Gone Baby Gone Tilda Swinton - Michael Clayton ANIMATED FEATURE FILM Surf’s Up Persepolis Ratatouille DIRECTING Paul Thomas Anderson - There Will Be Blood Ethan Coen and Joel Coen - No Country For Old Men Tony Gilroy - Michael Clayton Jason Reitman - Juno Julian Schnabel - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly BEST PICTURE Atonement Juno Michael Clayton No Country For Old Men There Will Be Blood And then there are the categories that are just as important, but I’m not going to comment individually on. In interests of time and space I haven’t listed each individual person, just the film involved, but those people’s families know who they are. Here are the rest of the Oscar Categories... WRITING (ADAPTED SCREENPLAY) Atonement Away from Her The Diving Bell and the Butterfly No Country for Old Men There Will Be Blood WRITING (ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY) Juno Lars and the Real Girl Michael Clayton Ratatouille The Savages MUSIC (SCORE) Atonement The Kite Runner Michael Clayton Ratatouille 3:10 to Yuma MUSIC (SONG) "Falling Slowly" - Once "Happy Working Song" - Enchanted "Raise it Up" - August Rush "So Close" - Enchanted "That’s How You Know " - Enchanted DOCUMENTARY FEATURE No End in Sight Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience Sicko Taxi to the Dark Side War/Dance DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT Freeheld La Corona (The Crown) Salim Baba Sari’s Mother SHORT FILM (ANIMATED) 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 SHORT FILM (LIVE ACTION) At Night Il Supplente (The Substitute) Le Mozart des Pickpockets (The Mozart of Pickpockets) Tanghi Argentini The Tonto Woman FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM Beaufort The Counterfeiters Katyń Mongol 12 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 FILM 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 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 VISUAL EFFECTS The Golden Compass Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End Transformers The 80th Academy Awards will be held on Sunday, February 24th on ABC Television at 5pm PST/8pm EST. Assuming they happen, don’t forget to join us for Oscar Chat 7 here at Cinema Blend, where we’ll no doubt make fun of the winners, losers, and sum up everything everyone will be talking about at the water cooler the next day. RELATED: awards, oscars
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