80th Academy Awards Announced Categories Performance by an actor in a leading role 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)
Performance by an actor in a supporting role 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) Philip Seymour Hoffman in "Charlie Wilson's War" (Universal) Hal Holbrook in "Into the Wild" (Paramount Vantage and River Road Entertainment) Tom Wilkinson in "Michael Clayton" (Warner Bros.)
Performance by an actress in a leading role 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)
Performance by an actress in a supporting role 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 animated feature film of the year "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
Achievement in art direction "American Gangster" (Universal): Art Direction: Arthur Max; Set Decoration: Beth A. Rubino "Atonement" (Focus Features): Art Direction: Sarah Greenwood; Set Decoration: Katie Spencer "The Golden Compass" (New Line in association with Ingenious Film Partners): Art Direction: Dennis Gassner; Set Decoration: Anna Pinnock "Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" (DreamWorks and Warner Bros., Distributed by DreamWorks/Paramount): Art Direction: Dante Ferretti; Set Decoration: Francesca Lo Schiavo "There Will Be Blood" (Paramount Vantage and Miramax): Art Direction: Jack Fisk; Set Decoration: Jim Erickson
Achievement in 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/Path Renn): Janusz Kaminski "No Country for Old Men" (Miramax and Paramount Vantage): Roger Deakins "There Will Be Blood" (Paramount Vantage and Miramax): Robert Elswit
Achievement in 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
Achievement in directing "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" (Miramax/Path 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 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
Best 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
Achievement in film editing "The Bourne Ultimatum" (Universal): Christopher Rouse "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" (Miramax/Path 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
Best foreign language film of the year "Beaufort" Israel "The Counterfeiters" Austria "Katyn" Poland "Mongol" Kazakhstan "12" Russia
Achievement in 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
Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original 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
Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original 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
Best motion picture of the year "Atonement" (Focus Features) A Working Title Production: Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner and Paul Webster, Producers "Juno" (Fox Searchlight) A Dancing Elk Pictures, LLC Production: Lianne Halfon, Mason Novick and Russell Smith, Producers "Michael Clayton" (Warner Bros.) A Clayton Productions, LLC Production: Sydney Pollack, Jennifer Fox and Kerry Orent, Producers "No Country for Old Men" (Miramax and Paramount Vantage) A Scott Rudin/Mike Zoss Production: Scott Rudin, Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, Producers "There Will Be Blood" (Paramount Vantage and Miramax) A JoAnne Sellar/Ghoulardi Film Company Production: JoAnne Sellar, Paul Thomas Anderson and Daniel Lupi, Producers
Best animated short film "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 "Mme 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
Best live action short film "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 Kar 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
Achievement in 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
Achievement in 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
Achievement in 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
Adapted screenplay "Atonement" (Focus Features), Screenplay by Christopher Hampton "Away from Her" (Lionsgate), Written by Sarah Polley "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" (Miramax/Path 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
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
Nor should it, against NO COUNTRY and THERE WILL BE BLOOD. It's a great film, but it's not got anywhere near as much going on as those two.
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Originally posted by PeterStorkWith Persepolis on the slate, this might be a year that Pixar doesn't take Best Animated Feature.
Pixar is only 2-for-4 in the category. Shrek beat Monsters, Inc. and Happy Feet beat Cars. (Finding Nemo and The Incredibles won in their years.)
I was pleasantly surprised to see all the love for Michael Clayton. I think that was my favorite film last year.
I was really surprised that Jason Reitman was nominated for Best Director, though. I thought that Joe Wright would get that fifth nod.
A lot of people are going to be pissed that neither Jonny Greenwood nor Eddie Vedder got any nominations. I thought one of the two was a shoe-in. At least one of the songs from Once got in there.
I'm glad to see "Falling Slowly" from Once nominated. It's such a great soundtrack and the particular scene where that song is performed is quite moving. Although going up against 3(!) songs from "Enchanted" may be tough.
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Originally posted by PeterStorkWith Persepolis on the slate, this might be a year that Pixar doesn't take Best Animated Feature.
Pixar is only 2-for-4 in the category. Shrek beat Monsters, Inc. and Happy Feet beat Cars. (Finding Nemo and The Incredibles won in their years.)
I was pleasantly surprised to see all the love for Michael Clayton. I think that was my favorite film last year.
I was really surprised that Jason Reitman was nominated for Best Director, though. I thought that Joe Wright would get that fifth nod.
A lot of people are going to be pissed that neither Jonny Greenwood nor Eddie Vedder got any nominations. I thought one of the two was a shoe-in. At least one of the songs from Once got in there.
Greenwood was ruled ineligible as the music was not composed specifically for the film.
Originally posted by PeterStorkWith Persepolis on the slate, this might be a year that Pixar doesn't take Best Animated Feature.
Juno for Best Pic = I like. But it doesn't have a chance.
I think there is a zero percent chance that Ratatouille doesn't win the best animated feature award. I'm a bit surprised that the Simpsons Movie didn't take the third slot, but then again, seeing the Simpsons snubbed for awards isn't exactly news.
Worst nominee? Ruby Dee, for her five minutes in American Gangster.
How you uh, how you comin' on that novel you're working on? Huh? Gotta a big, uh, big stack of papers there? Gotta, gotta nice litte story you're working on there? Your big novel you've been working on for 3 years? Huh? Gotta, gotta compelling protaganist? Yeah? Gotta obstacle for him to overcome? Huh? Gotta story brewing there? Working on, working on that for quite some time? Huh? Yea, talking about that 3 years ago. Been working on that the whole time? Nice little narrative? Beginning, middle, and end? Some friends become enemies, some enemies become friends? At the end your main character is richer from the experience? Yeah? Yeah?
I'm a little surprised that Knightley didn't get a nom for Atonement because it seems like they want to make her the "next big star."
Love to see Ellen Page in there, but I can't see an Indie comedy winning an award that big (it's an "It's an honor to be nominated!" nomination). I'm guessing Cate Blanchet.
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Hell no. Blanchett hasn't got a hope in Hell for ELIZABETH - it was terribly reviewed, and the only reaosn it made it onto the slate was because they didn't want to nominate Knightley. It's between Christie and Cotillard I think.
To those who say people wouldn't look; they wouldn't be interested; they're too complacent, indifferent and insulated, I can only reply: There is, in one reporter's opinion, considerable evidence against that contention. But even if they are right, what have they got to lose? Because if they are right, and this instrument is good for nothing but to entertain, amuse and insulate, then the tube is flickering now and we will soon see that the whole struggle is lost. This instrument can teach, it can illuminate; yes, and it can even inspire. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Otherwise it is merely wires, and lights, in a box.-Edward R. Murrow
I actually think Ellen Page is the favourite. Julie Christie has won a number of critics' awards, but she won 40 years ago and isn't quite in 'exalted veteran' category. Marion Cotillard is both unknown and French, both of which work against her. Blanchett was in a crappy movie. Laura Linney got the 'happy to be here' nomination. All of this points to an honest-to-blog victory for Ellen Page. Pretty wild for a girl who I still remember as Lahey's daughter in Trailer Park Boys.
(edited by Big Bad on 23.1.08 0453) How you uh, how you comin' on that novel you're working on? Huh? Gotta a big, uh, big stack of papers there? Gotta, gotta nice litte story you're working on there? Your big novel you've been working on for 3 years? Huh? Gotta, gotta compelling protaganist? Yeah? Gotta obstacle for him to overcome? Huh? Gotta story brewing there? Working on, working on that for quite some time? Huh? Yea, talking about that 3 years ago. Been working on that the whole time? Nice little narrative? Beginning, middle, and end? Some friends become enemies, some enemies become friends? At the end your main character is richer from the experience? Yeah? Yeah?
Page is up there with a chance, unlike Linney and Blacnhett. I'd peg Cotillard as the favourite - she's been redhot all year long, and the Academy love slinging the awar donto a lower-key European performance (Benigni in LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL, Brody for THE PIANIST).
To those who say people wouldn't look; they wouldn't be interested; they're too complacent, indifferent and insulated, I can only reply: There is, in one reporter's opinion, considerable evidence against that contention. But even if they are right, what have they got to lose? Because if they are right, and this instrument is good for nothing but to entertain, amuse and insulate, then the tube is flickering now and we will soon see that the whole struggle is lost. This instrument can teach, it can illuminate; yes, and it can even inspire. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Otherwise it is merely wires, and lights, in a box.-Edward R. Murrow
I'm really hoping Javier Bardem can pull out a win as he was just great. He didn't have a ton of dialog which might hurt him, but I don't know who else you could put in that role and get that kind of feeling from.
Except for maaaaybe Day-Lewis, Bardem's as close to a lock as you'll get this year. I can't see anyone else winning that category. Affleck's the only guy whose work matches up quality-wise, and the buzz for him is non-existent.
To those who say people wouldn't look; they wouldn't be interested; they're too complacent, indifferent and insulated, I can only reply: There is, in one reporter's opinion, considerable evidence against that contention. But even if they are right, what have they got to lose? Because if they are right, and this instrument is good for nothing but to entertain, amuse and insulate, then the tube is flickering now and we will soon see that the whole struggle is lost. This instrument can teach, it can illuminate; yes, and it can even inspire. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Otherwise it is merely wires, and lights, in a box.-Edward R. Murrow
Daniel Day Lewis, Javier Bardem, and Cate Blanchett (Supporting) are pretty much mortal locks at this point. I'd say it's about 80% for Marion Cotillard.
Best Picture and Best Director are going to be the only really competitive races among the six major awards, in my opinion.
http://weblogs.variety.com/bfdealmemo/2009/07/ryan-reynolds-is-the-green-lantern.html The Green Lantern movie is happening. Martin Campbell (Casino Royale) to direct and Ryan Reynolds is the Emerald Gladiator.