julian_craster

BBC News
Tuesday, 22 January 2008
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7202652.stm

Oscars 2008: The nominees

Here is the full shortlist for the 80th Academy Awards, to be held at the Kodak Theatre, Los Angeles, on 24 February:


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


Best 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


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 Mortensen, Eastern Promises



Cate Blanchett is nominated for playing Elizabeth I and Bob Dylan
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

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



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




Best foreign language film
Beaufort, Israel
The Counterfeiters, Austria
Katyn, Poland
Mongol, Kazakhstan
12, Russia



Best animated feature film
Persepolis
Ratatouille
Surf's Up


Best adapted screenplay
Atonement
Away from Her
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood



Best original screenplay
Juno
Lars and the Real Girl
Michael Clayton
Ratatouille
The Savages



Best music (score)
Atonement
The Kite Runner
Michael Clayton
Ratatouille
3:10 to Yuma


Best music (song)
Falling Slowly - Once (performed by Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova)
Happy Working Song - Enchanted (performed by Amy Adams)
Raise It Up - August Rush (performed by Jamia Simone Nash and Impact Repertory Theatre)
So Close - Enchanted (performed by Jon McLaughlin)
That's How You Know - Enchanted (performed by Amy Adams)




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



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


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




Best 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



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



Best 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



Best short film
At Night
Il Supplente
Le Mozart des Pickpockets
Tanghi Argentini
The Tonto Woman




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



Best make-up
La Vie en Rose
Norbit
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End



Best 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



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

dremble wedge

Surprised that James McEvoy didn't get a nomination for Atonement.

Also Helena Bonham Carter (Sweeney Todd) and Kelly MacDonald (No Country for Old Men) have been getting rave reviews but have missed out...

Joenoir

It's nice to see Julie Christie in the frame again. I remember when Katharine Hepburn won her second oscar at the age of sixty. She sent a telegram to the Academy saying something along the lines of 'they usually don't give awards to us old girls', and I agreed with the aged star. Now Christie is in line for her second Academy Award - and she is only sixty-six!

Start every day with a smile and get it over with.

earlb

As a youth I remember fancying Julie like hell in the series 'A for Andromeda'.

lordtednfs

I know I laughed in an earlier thread regarding Sacha Baron Cohen playing alongside Johnny Depp in Sweeney Todd, but I popped along to our local cinema, only a quid to get in, reminds me of the 70's, and I have to say that it's a brilliant movie, no sign of Ali G anywhere.

I would love Johnny Depp to win the Oscar, but in my heart, I feel it will be Daniel Day Lewis, that guy does not get out of bed for any old rubbish and if you look at his list of movies, Oscars, Baftas all over the place. A superb actor par excellence.

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lordtednfs

Would members be interested in having a choice from each category and posting it in the thread and on the day checking out to see how they have done, just for fun. Some I have not heard off or seen but I will make a choice anyway.

My choices are:
Best picture
Atonement

Best director
Tony Gilroy, Michael Clayton

Best actor
Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood

Best actress
Cate Blanchett, Elizabeth: The Golden Age

Best supporting actress
Ruby Dee, American Gangster

Best supporting actor
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Charlie Wilson's War

Best foreign language film
Mongol, Kazakhstan

Best animated feature film
Ratatouille

Best adapted screenplay
Atonement

Best original screenplay
Michael Clayton

Best music (score)
3:10 to Yuma

Best music (song)
Raise It Up - August Rush (performed by Jamia Simone Nash and Impact Repertory Theatre)

Best documentary feature
Sicko

Best documentary short subject
La Corona (The Crown)

Best visual effects
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

Best cinematography
No Country for Old Men

Best art direction
Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Best animated short film
Peter & the Wolf

Best short film
Tanghi Argentini

Best costume design
Elizabeth: The Golden Age

Best make-up
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

Best sound mixing
No Country for Old Men

Sound editing
Transformers

Best film editing
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Let's see. Looking forward to the big day now.

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Frank63

Best Foreign Film

The Counterfeiters

" I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception" Groucho Marx

Wolfgang

It is wide open this year, with only Julie Christie perhaps being clear favourite. I think Johnny Depp will get best actor over Daniel Day Lewis - it will be one of those times when someone is awarded for their collective body of work rather than just one single performance.

AdrianTurner

It’s been a while since I cared much about the Oscars and I wonder how many other Britmovie Forumites think the same as the 80th ceremony approaches.

I had always loved the Oscars though it was years before I saw my first ceremony, mainly because British TV never took the whole thing, preferring a cheap highlights programme the next day. My first Oscar show coincided with my first trip to the States - on 9 April 1979 I sprawled in my room of the Mark Hopkins Hotel in San Francisco and soaked up every minute of it. That was the year of the Vietnam war - between Coming Home and The Deer Hunter and Coppola presenting Best Director and the Duke presenting Best Picture.

I caught many Oscar shows in the States after that, and then Rupert Murdoch appeared on the scene and suddenly the Oscars were available in the UK. But not for me. No dish ever sullied my pristine Victorian brickwork. So I booked rooms at hotels and saw the show there. Then the BBC took over for a year or two and then it went to Sky for keeps. The last time I saw an Oscarcast was in Florida in 1999. It was hosted by Whoopi Goldberg and was unspeakably awful. I vowed then I’d never watch another.

I think the reason was Billy Crystal. I was turning up, so to speak, to see his unfailingly brilliant breeze through the show. And then you also had people like Beatty, Nicholson, Billy Wilder, Audrey Hepburn and Fellini show up and give the proceedings a touch of class. And there was also Chuck Workman’s annual workout at the Moviola, a dependably stunning compilation on some theme or other. Then Crystal bowed out - he never lost his sparkle - and the show went downhill. It also meant less and less to me. I stopped going out to the movies, I stopped going to Hollywood, my heroes and heroines died.

So here I am, wondering if I can be bothered next Sunday. I will actually be in Guatemala, so I looked up an Oscar website to see which channel is running it. It’s on Channel Hey Gringo at 6pm. Perfect. And then I scanned down the other countries and saw that the UK appears to be the only country in the entire world that the Oscars is on a pay-per-view subscription basis. Everywhere else it’s on a free-to-air sort of state or national network. Is this true? Is Murdoch actually demanding extra money on top of the annual subscription? Is this yet another British rip-off? And how many of you are wondering if you’ll wake up to see how jittery Julie Christie is and to see if Daniel Day Lewis has combed his hair.

penfold

I'm hoping Atonement does well, I've yet to see There Will be Blood, so can't comment. IIRC the BBC will be running an edited repeat the next day, so I won't have the pleasure of trying to stay awake until 4.00am throughout the interminable ad breaks......

Bit of a Bay Window, what??

grillreaper

haven't seen atonement yet, but am pretty sure Daniel Day-Lewis will get the award.
There will be blood is worth watching so enjoy.

David Brent

I'm not really bothered although I do like to see the Brits and the Aussies doing well.

The whole awards thing is too political for my liking.

Dave.

Scorpio1156

I haven't been interested in the Oscars in a long while--they are politically motivated
and reek of the whole 'A list/big box office' thing.

samkydd

They would be more valid if they suspended the ceremony indefinitely until someone made a decent film!

"...the chairman of Littlewoods stores made a Keynote speech!"

David Brent

British actor Daniel Day-Lewis, as expected. has won this years Academy Award for best actor. He won it for his performance in the film 'There Will Be No Blood'.

Brit actress Tilda Swinton won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in 'Michael Clayton'.

A good night for the Brits.

It was also a good night for Europe. Spain's Javier Bardem won best supporting actor for his part in 'No Country For Old Men' and French actress Marion Cotillard won best actress for her role as Edith Piaf in the film 'La Vie En Rose'.

The Coen brothers film 'No Country For Old Men' won the best film Academy Award.

Dave.