2008 Academy Award Nominees

[NFBuck]

Best Picture
"Atonement"
"Juno"
"Michael Clayton"
"No Country for Old Men"
"There Will Be Blood"

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"

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 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"

Supporting Actress
Cate Blanchett, "I'm Not There"
Ruby Dee, "American Gangster"
Saoirse Ronan, "Atonement"
Amy Ryan, "Gone Baby Gone"
Tilda Swinton, "Michael Clayton"

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"

Foreign Film
"Beaufort," Israel
"The Counterfeiters," Austria
"Katyn," Poland
"Mongol," Kazakhstan
"12," Russia

Adapted Screenplay
Christopher Hampton, "Atonement"
Sarah Polley, "Away from Her"
Ronald Harwood, "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly"
Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, "No Country for Old Men"
Paul Thomas Anderson, "There Will Be Blood"

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."

Animated Feature Film
"Persepolis"
"Ratatouille"
"Surf's Up"

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"

Sound Mixing
"The Bourne Ultimatum"
"No Country for Old Men"
"Ratatouille"
"3:10 to Yuma"
"Transformers"

Sound Editing
"The Bourne Ultimatum"
"No Country for Old Men"
"Ratatouille"
"There Will Be Blood"
"Transformers"

Original Score
"Atonement," Dario Marianelli
"The Kite Runner," Alberto Iglesias
"Michael Clayton," James Newton Howard
"Ratatouille," Michael Giacchino
"3:10 to Yuma," Marco Beltrami

Original Song
"Falling Slowly" from "Once," Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova
"Happy Working Song" from "Enchanted," Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz
"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

Costume
"Across the Universe"
"Atonement"
"Elizabeth: The Golden Age"
"La Vie en Rose"
"Sweeney Todd the Demon Barber of Fleet Street"

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"

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"

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"

Live Action Short Film
"At Night"
"Il Supplente (The Substitute)"
"Le Mozart des Pickpockets (The Mozart of Pickpockets)"
"Tanghi Argentini"
"The Tonto Woman"

Visual Effects
"The Golden Compass"
"Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End"
"Transformers"

I'll be rooting for 'Juno' in Best Picture, Ellen Page for Best Actress, Daniel Day-Lewis for Best Actor and Hoffman for Best Supporting Actor.

 

[3074326]

I was a big fan of Michael Clayton and Juno, I hope they both do well. I haven't seen a couple of the other major movies on the lists (mainly No Country for Old Men and Atonement), so I can't really say who I think should win.

 

[BuckWild03]

No Best Picture nomination for Into The Wild and no best director nod for Sean Penn. Something is wrong with that. I'm very disappointed.

 

[FookMichiganTGJ]

No Country For Old Men was veryyy underrated... a great movie

 

[OregonBuckeye]

No Country For Old Men was veryyy underrated... a great movie

Unless you consider it the best movie of all-time, it wasn't underrated.

 

[FookMichiganTGJ]

Unless you consider it the best movie of all-time, it wasn't underrated.

not much pub and pretty low budget film and marketing....

 

[Buckeye513]

No Country for Old Men for best picture, Daniel Day-Lewis for best actor, Ellen Page for best actress, Casey Affleck for best supporting actor, Coens for best director(s), Diablo Cody for best original screenplay.

4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days didn't get a best foreign film nomination?

 

[BuckWild03]

Absolutely loved No Country but think Juno and Michael Clayton are a little overrated. Have yet to see There Will Be Blood and Atonement.

 

[Oh8ch]

Marion Cotillard gave the most remarkable performance I have seen in some time.

 

[Gatorubet]

Philip Seymour Hoffman is such a great actor. Sucker steals movies away from stars.

 

[DaytonBuck]

4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days didn't get a best foreign film nomination?

great movie

 

[buckeyeinfla]

No Country for Old Men was brutal in the best way.....the scene where he kills the deputy with the handcuffs was unreal...just his expression made me feel uncomfortable

Javier Bardem, "No Country for Old Men" hands down the best performance I have seen....CALL IT FRIENDO

Johnny Depp was really good in Sweeney Todd

Daniel Day Lewis was SOULESS in TWBB...

 

[leroyjenkins]

Philip Seymour Hoffman is such a great actor. Sucker steals movies away from stars.

"Dude, I just sharted!", "Let it rain!!", "You douchebags bring your A game... Just messin' with ya Sasquach.", "Oh my God Im so F-ing horny!"


I know hes done some more serious films, but he was AWESOME in Along came Polly!!

 

[vrbryant]

Juno is not worthy of Best Picture consideration. Very cute film, and the parents (J.K. Simmons and Allison Janney) put forth exemplary performances--but it's not on par with No Country, Atonement or There Will Be Blood. Unfortunately, I haven't seen any of the other lead actress performances, so I'm unable to speak intelligently as to Page's viability, though I'm skeptical anyway. Can't say I'm shocked, as Juno's hype train has been chugging along for months now, but perhaps this will lend some credibility to my criticism (if you can call it that):

From IMDb, voting results for Juno:

------------------------Votes----Average

Females aged 18-29-----5,213------9.0

Top 1000 voters---------161-------6.2

Keeping in mind, of course, that while the Top 1000 voters are not without bias, they are not insipid fangirls who fall in love uber-hip dialogue or incessant neo-feminist shit-talking. They typically rate movies lower than the site average (their rating for No Country is 7.8, for example, compared to 8.7 overall), but the disparity with Juno (6.2 to 8.4) says it all, in my opinion.

Once again, adorable little movie, and a hell of an achievement for young Reitman, but not even my favorite of his. Thank You for Smoking is equally clean and fun to watch, and it actually says something meaningful. You know--other than "home slice" and "honest to blog" or whatever the fuck.

Wouldn't mind seeing Cody (the former exotic dancer) win for writing the thing, though. Wouldn't mind at all.