ROTTEN TOMATOES: Oscar Nominations Announced! Full List Inside!

Oscar Nominations Announced! Full List Inside!

Message from Hollywood addressed to Hollywood: Congratulations!

by Alex Vo | January 22, 2008

With the writer's strike going on, just how the AMPAS will present the Oscars is still unknown. For now, though, we got the who and the what. Awards heavyweights No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood lead the way with eight nominations each, including Best Picture. Other contenders in the category include the Big Sweeping Romance (Atonement), the Annual Beloved Fox Searchlight Indie (Juno), and the Dark Horse (Michael Clayton). Zodiac continues on its snuberiffic journey, and the supporting actor and actress categories see an incredible range of nominated performances and ages.

Also, we never thought it'd be possible, but we may now introduce Norbit as "the Oscar-nominated Norbit."

Best motion picture of the year
Atonement: Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner and Paul Webster, Producers
Juno: Lianne Halfon, Mason Novick and Russell Smith, Producers
Michael Clayton: Sydney Pollack, Jennifer Fox and Kerry Orent, Producers
No Country for Old Men: Scott Rudin, Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, Producers
There Will Be Blood: JoAnne Sellar, Paul Thomas Anderson and Daniel Lupi, Producers

Achievement in directing
Julian Schnabel, The Diving Bell And The Butterfly
Jason Reitman, Juno
Tony Gilroy, Michael Clayton
Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, No Country for Old Men
Paul Thomas Anderson, 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

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; Story by Jan Pinkava, Jim Capobianco, Brad Bird
The Savages, Written by Tamara Jenkins

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 Ethan Coen and Joel Coen
There Will Be Blood, Written for the screen by Paul Thomas Anderson

Best animated feature film of the year
Persepolis: Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud
Ratatouille: Brad Bird
Surf's Up: Ash Brannon and Chris Buck

Achievement in cinematography
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford: Roger Deakins
Atonement: Seamus McGarvey
The Diving Bell And The Butterfly: Janusz Kaminski
No Country for Old Men: Roger Deakins
There Will Be Blood: Robert Elswit

Best documentary feature
No End in Sight: Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs
Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience: Richard E. Robbins
Sicko: Michael Moore and Meghan O'Hara
Taxi to the Dark Side: Alex Gibney and Eva Orner
War/Dance: Andrea Nix Fine and Sean Fine

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

Achievement in art direction
American Gangster: Art Direction: Arthur Max; Set Decoration: Beth A. Rubino
Atonement: Art Direction: Sarah Greenwood; Set Decoration: Katie Spencer
The Golden Compass: Art Direction: Dennis Gassner; Set Decoration: Anna Pinnock
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street: Art Direction: Dante Ferretti; Set Decoration: Francesca Lo Schiavo
There Will Be Blood: Art Direction: Jack Fisk; Set Decoration: Jim Erickson

Achievement in film editing
The Bourne Ultimatum: Christopher Rouse
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: Juliette Welfling
Into the Wild: Jay Cassidy
No Country for Old Men Roderick Jaynes
There Will Be Blood: Dylan Tichenor

Achievement in costume design
Across the Universe Albert Wolsky
Atonement Jacqueline Durran
Elizabeth: The Golden Age Alexandra Byrne
La Vie en Rose Marit Allen
Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Colleen Atwood

Achievement in makeup
La Vie en Rose: Didier Lavergne and Jan Archibald
Norbit: Rick Baker and Kazuhiro Tsuji
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End: Ve Neill and Martin Samuel

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 and: Marketa Irglova
Happy Working Song from Enchanted: Music by Alan Menken; Lyric by Stephen Schwartz
Raise It Up from August Rush: Nominees to be determined
So Close from Enchanted: Music by Alan Menken; Lyric by Stephen Schwartz
That's How You Know from Enchanted: Music by Alan Menken; Lyric by Stephen Schwartz

Achievement in sound editing
The Bourne Ultimatum: Karen Baker Landers and Per Hallberg
No Country for Old Men: Skip Lievsay
Ratatouille: Randy Thom and Michael Silvers
There Will Be Blood: Matthew Wood
Transformers: Ethan Van der Ryn and Mike Hopkins

Achievement in sound mixing
The Bourne Ultimatum Scott Millan, David Parker and Kirk Francis
No Country for Old Men: Skip Lievsay, Craig Berkey, Greg Orloff and Peter Kurland
Ratatouille: Randy Thom, Michael Semanick and Doc Kane
3:10 to Yuma: Paul Massey, David Giammarco and Jim Stuebe
Transformers: Kevin O'Connell, Greg P. Russell and Peter J. Devlin

Achievement in visual effects
The Golden Compass: Michael Fink, Bill Westenhofer, Ben Morris and Trevor Wood
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End: John Knoll, Hal Hickel, Charles Gibson and John Frazier
Transformers: Scott Farrar, Scott Benza, Russell Earl and John Frazier

Best documentary short subject
Freeheld: Cynthia Wade and Vanessa Roth
La Corona: Amanda Micheli and Isabel Vega
Salim Baba: Tim Sternberg and Francisco Bello
Sari's Mother: James Longley

Best animated short film
I Met the Walrus: Josh Raskin
Madame Tutli-Putli: Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski
M�me Les Pigeons Vont au Paradis (Even Pigeons Go to Heaven): Samuel Tourneux and Simon Vanesse
My Love (Moya Lyubov): Alexander Petrov
Peter & the Wolf: Suzie Templeton and Hugh Welchman

Best live action short film
At Night: Christian E. Christiansen and Louise Vesth
Il Supplente (The Substitute): Andrea Jublin
Le Mozart des Pickpockets (The Mozart of Pickpockets): Philippe Pollet-Villard
Tanghi Argentin: Guido Thys and Anja Daelemans
The Tonto Woman: Daniel Barber and Matthew Brown

Before you start laying down your numbers for the office Oscar pool, for further (and fun!) research, check out the 9th Annual Golden Tomato Awards, highlighting the best and worst reviewed movies of the year.

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digitalrelic writes:
on Jan 22 2008 09:04 AM

Zodiac got THE SHAFT. That's all I have to say.

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aka_nympho writes:
on Jan 22 2008 09:13 AM

In reply to this comment (#1508424)
I agree, but when you're going up against big movies like There Will Be Blood, No Country for Old Men, and Atonement which all were incredibly well done in the arts of acting, score, and cinematography... movies like Zodiac tend to fall by the wayside

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Sadistik writes:
on Jan 22 2008 09:17 AM

That's a ****ing tragedy that Jason Reitman got nominated over Cronenberg. Any meri Juno had (and it did have much merit) came from the clever script, not the by the numbers direction. Cronenberg has been shafted. Bull****.

Also, how did Johnny Greenwood not get nominated for the score to There Will be Blood? By far the most revolutionary, daring score of the past few years.

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fresh25 writes:
on Jan 22 2008 09:19 AM

i'm sorry emile hirsh and sean penn got screwed as well as into the wild's soundtrack, tommy lee jones or johnny depp, yes, johnny depp should of got the snip before hirsch and penn as well as joe wright clearly should have been nominated before Julian Schnabel if not Juno's director Jason Reitman, yes it was funny but why not nominate knocked up or superbad than

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thetruebastard writes:
on Jan 22 2008 09:21 AM

I'm keeping my fingers crossed for a Javier Bardem win. He truly deserves it.

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sensesfail8 writes:
on Jan 22 2008 09:24 AM

I don't know if anyone else agrees, but 'Atonement' was probably one of the most boring movies I have ever seen. It has been getting way too many nominations and winning even more. I think no movies were better than 'No Country for Old Men' or 'There Will Be Blood'. 'Atonement' put me to sleep, TWICE! And if it wins best original score again, I might hang myself. A typewriter? Really? I know 4 year olds who could have thought of that. My vote is for 'No Country' across the board, but if 'Blood' gets a few in there I will be ecstatic.

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Crhualsees writes:
on Jan 22 2008 09:27 AM

Johnny Greenwood's score was deemed ineligible for Oscar contention because it contains some music not original composed for the movie...otherwise it was a shoe-in...

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Eggnog70 writes:
on Jan 22 2008 09:29 AM

Ummm... isn't it sad that Norbit will go down in history as an Oscar nominated film? I've been checking outside my window periodically to see if the sun has turned black and if Armageddon is imminent.

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MovieSamurai writes:
on Jan 22 2008 09:33 AM

norbit!? I didn't see "Sweeny Todd" but from the looks of it, it deserved a best makeup nomination over that p.o.s....

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sfsilver writes:
on Jan 22 2008 09:36 AM

apparently the score for There Will Be Blood contains significant elements that were not specifically composed for the film. I'm not what they were composed for, but it was deemed ineligible for nomination. Sad, as it was incredible.

Atonement is the movie for the old guard traditionalists, it's the safe, pretty, historical film with a hint of epic sweep, and a nice love story and pretty costumes. It makes the older voters comfortable. It's old fashioned except for of course the giant C*NT across the screen.

Reitman's nomination is a bit of a joke. I really loved Juno, but it was so not about the directing.

And I'm going to say it: Ruby Dee? This year's, "I can't believe she's still alive" nomination.

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notimpressed writes:
on Jan 22 2008 09:42 AM

Juno gets four noms?! The Academy is still pandering to instill an illusion of hipness, I guess.

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BjornFree writes:
on Jan 22 2008 09:48 AM

Well, at least "Once" earned one nomination. As for Zodiac, it really did get the shaft.

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Oblivioncry writes:
on Jan 22 2008 09:49 AM

juno is sooo overrated, hell it wasnt even the best quirky indie film ofthe year (rocket science was)

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SlyDante writes:
on Jan 22 2008 09:50 AM

Strike 1: No nomination for Amy Adams in Enchanted (all I can say is that Ellen Page better win).

Strike 2: No nomination for The Simpsons Movie in Best Animated Picture.

Strike 3: No nomination for Tim Burton in Best Director.

Foul Ball: No nomination for Sweeney Todd in Best Pic, though that's a bit more understandable, I guess (I just hope Attonement or Michael Clayton doesn't take it).

Hit By Pitch (Running out of baseball metaphors): Zodiac gets shafted. Can't the Academy have someone remember the first four months of cinema for them already?

You're Out: Motherf***ing NORBIT actually gets an Oscar nomination. I don't even care if it's for something as minor as Best Makeup, something like that should never have been allowed to happen. Ever. I now dread the Wikipedia entry (or anyone, for that matter) describing it as "An Acadaemy Award-winning comedy..."

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Dane Cook is NOT Funny writes:
on Jan 22 2008 09:58 AM

I am happy for Juno. It was terrific. But I am shocked about no noms for Into the Wild. And the Simpsons for animated movie? It should have at least been nominated.

NORBIT should not have been nominated for anything. Oh great they made Eddy Murphy into different people. He's been beating that dead horse for years now. The movie isn't even watchable.

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CowboyMovieJunkie26 writes:
on Jan 22 2008 09:59 AM

Just give Page the best actress staute and I'll be good. Blancett gets best supporting because everyones talking about her as dylan. Juno wont get best picture. It'll get best screenplay probably. I'm going to pick Day-Lewis for best Actor. Cohens for best Directors and No Country as best Picture along with best adapted screenplay. And Seymore as best supporting actor because they'll be dumb like that.

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dahluzz writes:
on Jan 22 2008 10:00 AM

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thanks for the note, cause otherwise i was gonna be pissed about greenwood.

biggest screw job had to go to the simpsons movie, which inexplicably got bested by surf's up. what the christ? oh well, rat was gonna win anyways, and rightfully so.

while 3:10 got ignored in the acting categories, i'm glad to at least see it represented in some of the technical areas. yeah, zodiac got snubbed, but the thing came out in march. it was forgotten by voters long ago.

i know 'diving bell' was half-produced in america or something, but couldn't it still be nominated for best foreign language pic? if so, what up with it's absence? also puzzled by the no-show for '4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days' and less so for 'the orphanage.'

macavoy, knightly and joe wright are probably grumbling to one another via conference call. whatever.

now i guess i have to see michael clayton upon rerelease in theaters. no huge surprises this year, but it should make for an interesting PRESS CONFERENCE. although based on the DGA deal, the writers ought to have something settled just in time.

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tarantinoism writes:
on Jan 22 2008 10:06 AM

I think that Juno deserves everything, but Emile Hirsch definitely got screwed. I think that Clooney and even Jones were swing votes that one of which should have lost to Hirsch for a nom. and the cinematography should have definitely got a nod. but why the hell did Golden compass get any nominations?? It had mediocre-at-best effects and sound. Spiderman or even beowulf deserved it over that.

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ajmk123 writes:
on Jan 22 2008 10:07 AM

No one honestly thinks that Surfs Up is better than the Simpsons Movie, more proof that the award shows are pointless.

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rmar123 writes:
on Jan 22 2008 10:13 AM

"I now dread the Wikipedia entry (or anyone, for that matter) describing it as "An Acadaemy Award-winning comedy..." lmao the exact same thing that i said when i first read norbit for makeups

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