Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Awards Watch: Oscar Nominations 2007

The nominations for the 80th Annual Academy Awards are finally here, filled with the usual surprises and snubs.

No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood are neck and neck in the lead with eight nominations apiece. Fellow Best Picture nominees Michael Clayton and Atonement (proving that no guild support means nothing to the Academy) racked up seven nods each, with Animated Feature front-runner Ratatouille scoring five. And Juno edged The Diving Bell and the Butterfly out of the BP race, with both netting four nominations each.

Surprises include unexpected nods for actors Tommy Lee Jones, Laura Linney, Ruby Dee and director Jason Reitman. Among the notable snubs: Angelina Jolie, Sean Penn, Jonny Greenwood, Eddie Vedder, The Simpsons Movie, 300 and (tragedy!) Hairspray.

See the comments section below for the complete list of nominees. The Oscar winners will be announced, with or without the strike, on February 24.

4 comments:

Kirby Holt said...

Picture:
Atonement
Juno
Michael Clayton
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood

Actor:
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

Actress:
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

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

Supporting Actress:
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

Director:
Paul Thomas Anderson for There Will Be Blood
Ethan Coen, Joel Coen for No Country for Old Men
Tony Gilroy for Michael Clayton
Jason Reitman for Juno
Julian Schnabel for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Adapted Screenplay:
Atonement
Away from Her
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood

Original Screenplay:
Juno
Lars and the Real Girl
Michael Clayton
Ratatouille
The Savages

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

Art Direction/Set Decoration:
American Gangster
Atonement
The Golden Compass
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
There Will Be Blood

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

Original Score:
Atonement
The Kite Runner
Michael Clayton
Ratatouille
3:10 to Yuma

Original Song:
"Falling Slowly" from Once
"Happy Working Song" from Enchanted
"Raise It Up" from August Rush
"So Close" from Enchanted
"That's How You Know" from Enchanted

Film Editing:
The Bourne Ultimatum
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Into the Wild
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood

Sound Mixing:
The Bourne Ultimatum
No Country for Old Men
Ratatouille
3:10 to Yuma
Transformers

Animated Feature:
Persepolis
Ratatouille
Surf's Up

Visual Effects:
The Golden Compass
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Transformers

Sound Editing:
The Bourne Ultimatum
No Country for Old Men
Ratatouille
There Will Be Blood
Transformers

Make-Up:
La Vie en Rose
Norbit
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

Foreign Language Film:
Beaufort
The Counterfeiters
Katyn
Mongol
12

Documentary Feature:
No End in Sight
Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience
Sicko
Taxi to the Dark Side
War/Dance

Documentary Short:
Freeheld
La Corona (The Crown)
Salim Baba
Sari’s Mother

Animated Short:
I Met the Walrus
Madame Tutli-Putli
Même Les Pigeons Vont au Paradis (Even Pigeons Go to Heaven)
My Love (Moya Lyubov
Peter & the Wolf

Live Action Short:
At Night
Il Supplente (The Substitute)
Le Mozart des Pickpockets (The Mozart of Pickpockets)
Tanghi Argentini
The Tonto Woman

Anonymous said...

I was so ticked that Hairspray got snubbed. I at least expected a Best Original Song nod and a costumes nod. I am still ticked about it.

Kirby Holt said...

You and me both.

New Line screwed up the song submission though. They should have submitted "Ladies' Choice". Note that all 5 nominees in the song category were performed onscreen, no soundtrack songs or end title numbers.

- kch

Anonymous said...

The Jonny Greenwood snub is an absolute travesty. His score added so much to TWBB that I can't imagine the film having the same impact with any other. Of course, as a huge Radiohead fan, I might be a LITTLE biased, but I still think it was the most effective film score in years.