The Online Film Critics Association has now joined in on the 2007 awards fray by announcing the nominees for their yearly awards. Considering their history (which includes against the grain, director-driven top wins by A History of Violence and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind in recent years), it is no big surprise then that they have picked the critical darlings No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood to lead their nominations with seven each, including Best Picture nods for both.However, despite some BP love for Zodiac (which has been pretty much out of the game so far), the rest of their slate is more of the usual suspects that we have seen popping up in all the awards races of late. This is a bit of a surprise, since the OFCS is usually good at injecting some fresh blood into the by January staid list of honorees.
Atonement and Juno round out their Best Pic picks. See the comments section below for a quick look at the full list of nominations.
Link via OFCS.rottentomatoes.com.
Best Picture:
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Juno
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood
Zodiac
Best Actor:
George Clooney in Michael Clayton
Daniel Day Lewis in There Will Be Blood
Emile Hirsch in Into the Wild
Frank Langella in Starting Out in the Evening
Viggo Mortensen in Eastern Promises
Best Actress:
Julie Christie in Away from Her
Marion Cotillard In La Vie En Rose
Angelina Jolie in A Mighty Heart
Laura Linney in The Savages
Ellen Page in Juno
Best Supporting Actor:
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
Best Supporting Actress:
Cate Blanchett in I'm Not There
Jennifer Garner in Juno
Kelly MacDonald in No Country for Old Men
Saoirse Ronan in Atonement
Amy Ryan in Gone Baby Gone
Tilda Swinton in Michael Clayton
Best Director:
Paul Thomas Anderson for There Will Be Blood
Joel Coen, Ethan Coen for No Country for Old Men
David Cronenberg for Eastern Promises
David Fincher for Zodiac
Julian Schnabel for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Best Screenplay - Original:
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
Eastern Promises
Juno
Michael Clayton
Ratatouille
Best Screenplay - Adapted:
Atonement
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood
Zodiac
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 Editing:
Atonement
The Bourne Ultimatum
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood
Zodiac
Best Original Score:
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Atonement
Into the Wild
Once
There Will Be Blood
Best Documentary:
In the Shadow of the Moon
Into Great Silence
The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
No End in Sight
Sicko
Best Foreign Language Film:
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
The Host
La Vie En Rose
The Lives of Others
The Orphanage
Best Breakthrough Performance:
Nikki Blonsky in Hairspray
Glen Hansard in Once
Sam Riley in Control
Carice Van Houten in Black Book
Tang Wei in Lust, Caution
Best Breakthrough Filmmaker:
Ben Affleck for Gone Baby Gone
Juan Antonio Bayona for The Orphanage
John Carney for Once
Tony Gilroy for Michael Clayton
Sarah Polley for Away from Her
Best Animated Feature:
Beowulf
Paprika
Persepolis
Ratatouille
The Simpsons Movie