Best Picture
Atonement
Juno
Micheal Clayton
No Country For Old Men
There Will Be Blood
Best Actor
George Clooney, Michael Clayton
Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood
Johnny Depp, Sweeney Todd
Tommy Lee Jones, In The Valley Of Elah
Viggo Moretensen, Eastern Promises
Tommy Lee Jones, what? Well, he did get a SAG nomination, so this makes sense, but otherwise a major upset as he really wasn’t on any one’s radar. Whoever laid odds on him just made some serious money.
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
Laura Linney, excellent, good for her, but otherwise expected.
Best Director
Julian Schnabel, The Diving Bell & The Butterfly
Jason Reitman, Juno
Tony Gilroy, Michael Clayton
The Coen Brothers, No Country For Old Men
Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will Be Blood
Wow, Reitman for Juno this is super unexpected. No one woulda guessed that in a million years. Dude is currently celebrating, ordering hookers, uncorking champagne and getting ready to cut lines off of asses.
Best Supporting Actor
Casey Affleck, The Assassination of Jesse James
Javier Bardem , No Country For Old Men
Philip Seymour Hoffman – Charlie Wilson’s War
Hal Holbrook, Into The Wild
Tom Wilkinson, Michael Clayton
We were spot-on here.
Best Supporting Actress
Cate Blanchett, I’m Not There
Ruby Dee, American Gangster
Saoirse Ronan, Atonement
Amy Ryan, Gone Baby Gone
Tilda Swinton, Michael Clayton
That little brat Saiorise Ronan better not win. We can’t stand her.
Best Original Screenplay
Diablo Cody, Juno
Nancy Oliver, Lars and the Real Girl
Tony Gilroy, Michael Clayton
Brad Bird and co., Ratatouille
Tamara Jenkins, The Savages
Pretty much expected all around. We’re sad to see that “Knocked Up” didn’t get a nod though. This category is always good to the indies, but Cody has a lock on it no matter what (though it would be nice to see Jenkins take it).
Best Adapted Screenplay
Christopher Hampton, Atonement
Sarah Polley, Away From Her
Ronald Harwood, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Joel and Ethan Coen, No Country For Old Men
Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will Be Blood
Sarah Polley, wow. A nice little surprise. I’m she she’s still sleeping and will wake up to about 400 voicemail messages, will shrug and then sip coffee with her husband over some light feminist literature.
Best Animated Feature
Persepolis
Ratatouille
Surf’s Up
Persepolis gets some recognition and love, finally!
Foreign Film
“Beaufort,” Israel
“The Counterfeiters,” Austria
“Katyn,” Poland
“Mongol,” Kazakhstan
“12,” Russia
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.”
Yes, Jesse James! We basically called this. Pleasantly surprised that ‘Assassination’ got it, but wondering how “Into The Wild” got snubbed (that not we mind). But as we said yesterday, this is going to be a weird one. Roger Deakins is nominated twice, both for ‘Jesse’ and also for ‘No Country’ which could split the votes and give the victory to Robert Elswit for ‘Blood,’ but hopefully Janusz Kaminski’s beautiful ‘Butterfly’ work takes it. Deakins is the first cinematographer to receive two nominations in the same year since 1971.
Sound Mixing
“The Bourne Ultimatum”
“No Country for Old Men”
“Ratatouille”
“3:10 to Yuma”
“Transformers”
The Bourne film should probably be a lock for most technical awards, but then again the ominous air-gun sounds from ‘No Country’ could take this.
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
Wow, boring, boring picks. We hope 3:10 To Yuma takes it. That was a great score that we recently considered picking up. As we reported yesterday Jonny Greenwood’s “There Will Be Blood” was named ineligible.
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.
No Eddie Vedder, this is a surprise as he did win a Golden Globe, but we can’t say we’re displeased. Will the Oscars give it to the creepy Hansard who is fucking someone like 15 years younger than himself – his co-songwriter Irglova. But basically this is the reason Stereogum, Pitchfork, et al, won’t be interested in the Oscars this year and we say good riddance. And gee, you think these guys like “Enchanted” or what? 3 nominations in this category? Ugh.
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”
We love us some muckracking Michael Moore, but “No End In Sight” was amazing.
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”
Nice to see a psedonymn earn a nomination. Roderick Jaynes was nominated for ‘No Country’. Who is the masked man? A stand-in name for Joel and Ethan Coen. If they win (and they have a great shot at winning) expect the Coens to make refernce to Jaynes and the fake reasons he couldn’t be there to accept his award. Remember 9 out of 10 times whatever wins Best film editing wins the Oscar. So when you’re doing your pools and looking at your cheat sheet, if you don’t have Best editing you’re basically fucked.
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.”
The 80th Academy Awards will be presented on Sunday, February 24, 2008 live on at 5 p.m. PST.
