80th Academy Awards - Nominations

[Vic Sage]

Best motion picture of the year
"Atonement"
"Juno"
"Michael Clayton"
"No Country for Old Men"
"There Will Be Blood"

Performance by an actor in a leading role
George Clooney in "Michael Clayton"
Daniel Day-Lewis in "There Will Be Blood"
Johnny Depp in "Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street"
Tommy Lee Jones in "In the Valley of Elah"
Viggo Mortensen in "Eastern Promises"

Performance by an actor in a supporting role
Casey Affleck in "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford"
Javier Bardem in "No Country for Old Men"
Philip Seymour Hoffman in "Charlie Wilson's War"
Hal Holbrook in "Into the Wild"
Tom Wilkinson in "Michael Clayton"

Performance by an actress in a leading role
Cate Blanchett in "Elizabeth: The Golden Age"
Julie Christie in "Away from Her"
Marion Cotillard in "La Vie en Rose"
Laura Linney in "The Savages"
Ellen Page in "Juno"

Performance by an actress in a supporting role
Cate Blanchett in "I'm Not There"
Ruby Dee in "American Gangster"
Saoirse Ronan in "Atonement"
Amy Ryan in "Gone Baby Gone"
Tilda Swinton in "Michael Clayton"

Achievement in directing
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"

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

Original screenplay
"Juno", Written by Diablo Cody
"Lars and the Real Girl", Written by Nancy Oliver
"Michael Clayton", Written by Tony Gilroy
"Ratatouille", Screenplay by Brad Bird
"The Savages", Written by Tamara Jenkins

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)
"Atonement", Dario Marianelli
"The Kite Runner", Alberto Iglesias
"Michael Clayton", James Newton Howard
"Ratatouille", Michael Giacchino
"3:10 to Yuma", Marco Beltrami

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)
"Falling Slowly" from "Once" (Music and Lyric by Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova)
"Raise It Up" from "August Rush"
"Happy Working Song" from "Enchanted" (Music/Alan Menken; Lyric/ Stephen Schwartz)
"So Close" from "Enchanted" (Music/Alan Menken; Lyric/ Stephen Schwartz)
"That's How You Know" from "Enchanted" (Music/Alan Menken; Lyric/ Stephen Schwartz)

Best animated feature film of the year
"Persepolis"
"Ratatouille"
"Surf's Up"

Best documentary feature
"No End in Sight"
"Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience"
"Sicko"
"Taxi to the Dark Side"
"War/Dance"

Best foreign language film of the year
"Beaufort" - Israel
"The Counterfeiters" - Austria
"Katyn" - Poland
"Mongol" - Kazakhstan
"12" - Russia

Achievement in art direction
"American Gangster"
"Atonement"
"The Golden Compass"
"Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street"
"There Will Be Blood"

Achievement in 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"

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

Achievement in film editing
"The Bourne Ultimatum"
"The Diving Bell and the Butterfly"
"Into the Wild"
"No Country for Old Men"
"There Will Be Blood"

Achievement in makeup
"La Vie en Rose"
"Norbit"
"Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End"

Achievement in sound editing
"The Bourne Ultimatum"
"No Country for Old Men"
"Ratatouille"
"There Will Be Blood"
"Transformers"

Achievement in sound mixing
"The Bourne Ultimatum"
"No Country for Old Men"
"Ratatouille"
"3:10 to Yuma"
"Transformers"

Achievement in visual effects
"The Golden Compass"
"Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End"
"Transformers"

Best documentary short subject
"Freeheld"
"La Corona (The Crown)"
"Salim Baba"
"Sari's Mother"

Best animated short film
"I Met the Walrus"
"Madame Tutli-Putli"
"M�me Les Pigeons Vont au Paradis (Even Pigeons Go to Heaven)"
"My Love (Moya Lyubov)"
"Peter & the Wolf"

Best live action short film
"At Night"
"Il Supplente (The Substitute)"
"Le Mozart des Pickpockets (The Mozart of Pickpockets)"
"Tanghi Argentini"
"The Tonto Woman"

[Guest AG/DC]

Films I've seen on that list: Ratatoille, Once, 3:10 to Yuma. Across the Universe.

That may be how I rank them also.

Edited January 28, 2008 by Guest

[Guest sharpie]

Pictures I've seen that have nominations:

Across the Universe
Away From Her
Golden Compass
Gone Baby Gone
I'm Not There
Into the Wild
Juno
Michael Clayton
Ratatouille
Sicko
Sweeney Todd
There Will Be Blood

[Vic Sage]

I've only seen 9 of the nominated films, and I'd rank them as follows:

Michael Clayton - solid legal thriller - ***
Juno - ***
Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - ***
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Once - ** 1/2
The Bourne Ultimatum - ** 1/2
Transformers - ** 1/2
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3:10 to Yuma - **
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End - **
The Golden Compass - *1/2

[metirish]

They say the SAG awards are a good indicator for the Oscars

Daniel Day Lewis won best actor.

Julie Christie won best female

Javier Bardem - best support

Ruby Dee - Best support

No Country for Old Men won Best movie even though they don not call it that.


I saw Josh Brolin on Charlie Rose recently....what an insufferable twat he is, like hey I'm a serious fucking craftsman now..

[Guest sharpie]

Day Lewis and Christie were both extraordinary. I got no problems with those two winning the Oscar (would be the second one for each).

[nymr83]

wow, what a bad year for movies.

[Guest themetfairy]

Nymr83 wrote: wow, what a bad year for movies.

I agree. I'm not enthusiastic about any of these films.

[Willets Point]

Award shows, YAWN.

[metsmarathon]

what, no harry potter? its the only movie keeping me from claiming to have seen only academy award nominated movies this year:

ratatouille
the bourne ultimatum
transformers

i didn't get to the theaters much...

[Vic Sage]

2007 films that i have seen (with # of nominations):
ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS - ** not good, but not as bad as the reviews
ARE WE DONE YET? - * awful
BECAUSE I SAID SO - ** mediocre chick flick
BEOWULF - *** visually stunning but sterile
BLADES OF GLORY - ** a few laughs
THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM (3) - *** best of series
BRIDGE TO TERABITHIA - *** touching
DAN IN REAL LIFE - *** nice
EVAN ALMIGHTY - * awful
FANTASTIC FOUR: RISE OF THE SILVER SURFER - **1/2 add a * if you're a geek
THE GAME PLAN - ** treacly crap
GHOST RIDER - **1/2 cool effects, incomprensible story
THE GOLDEN COMPASS (2) - **1/2 stunning, dull
GRINDHOUSE - *** for Rodriguez's PLANET TERROR, ** for Tarentino's DEATH PROOF
HAIRSPRAY - **** one of the best films of the year got zero nominations!
HAPPILY N'EVER AFTER - * awful animation
I AM LEGEND - ** 1/2 impressive visuals, mood; flawed storytelling
JUNO (4) - *** 1/2 one of my faves this year
KNOCKED UP - **1//2 strange combo of stupid and sweet
LICENSE TO WED - ** flat romantic comedy
LIVE FREE OR DIE HARD - *** good entry in series
MEET THE ROBINSONS - *** solid
MICHAEL CLAYTON (7) - **** best film of the year
MR. MAGORIUM'S WONDER EMPORIUM - ** floundering fantasy
MUSIC AND LYRICS - *** sweet romantic comedy
OCEAN'S THIRTEEN - * unwatchable
ONCE (1) - *** simple, pure, moving
PATHFINDER - * edited with pruning sheers
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: AT WORLD'S END (2) - ** enough already
SHREK THE THIRD - ** ditto
THE SIMPSONS MOVIE - **1/2 solid tv episode
SPIDER-MAN 3 - **1/2 going downhill
STARDUST - *** underrated fantasy
SUPERBAD - * i couldn't get through it
SURF'S UP (1) - **1/2 just ok
SWEENEY TODD THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET (3) - ***1/2 dark musical adaptation works well
TMNT - ** feh
300 - **** my favorite movie of the year
3:10 TO YUMA (2) - **1/2 some good action, some good perfs, lame remake
TRANSFORMERS (3) - *** very solid action pic
28 WEEKS LATER - **1/2 more zombie fun
UNDERDOG - ** like ALVIN; bad, but not terrible
WILD HOGS - ** the boys need another hobby
ZODIAC - **1/2 dull thriller

Other films with Oscar nominations:
ACROSS THE UNIVERSE - (1)
AMERICAN GANGSTER - (2)
ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES - (2)
ATONEMENT - (7)
AUGUST RUSH - (1)
AWAY FROM HER - (2)
CHARLIE WILSON'S WAR - (1)
THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY - (4)
EASTERN PROMISES - (1)
ELIZABETH: GOLDEN AGE - (2)
ENCHANTED - (3)
GONE BABY GONE - (1)
I'M NOT THERE - (1)
IN THE VALLEY OF ELAH - (1)
INTO THE WILD - (2)
THE KITE RUNNER - (1)
LA VIE EN ROSE - (3)
LARS AND THE REAL GIRL - (1)
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN - (8)
NORBIT - (1)
PERSEPOLIS - (1)
RATATOUILLE - (5)
THE SAVAGES - (2)
SICKO (1)
THERE WILL BE BLOOD - (8)

Well-reviewed films with no nominations:
BEFORE THE DEVIL KNOWS YOU'RE DEAD
THE BRAVE ONE
BREACH
THE DARJEELING LIMITED
THE HOAX
THE LOOKOUT
LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA
MAN IN THE CHAIR
A MIGHTY HEART
RENDITION
WAITRESS
THE WIND THAT SHAKES THE BARLEY
YEAR OF THE DOG

This year's most egregiously overlooked film: (tie) HAIRSPRAY, 300

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Most critics savaged 300. Why should I go?

And you should post more reviews here.

[Vic Sage]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Most critics savaged 300. Why should I go?.

Because, first of all, I think it is a foundation-shifting film that may well alter the basic paradigm of filmmaking the way that JAZZ SINGER, GONE WITH THE WIND, EASY RIDER, THE GODFATHER, BLADERUNNER and THE MATRIX did.

Secondly, most critics who DID savage it did so more for thematic (i.e., political) reasons than aesthetic ones. There were also a core of critics who praised it highly.

[Vic Sage]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: And you should post more reviews here.

don't have as much time these days.