I just can't really bring myself to make a list of what I THINK will will the Oscars on Sunday so I'm posting my list of things I would like to win (of the ones nominated). Here it is:
80th Academy Awards - Nominations
Sunday, February 24, 2008
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..."
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"
Best animated feature film of the year
"Persepolis"
"Ratatouille""Surf's Up"
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 directing
"The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" Julian Schnabel
"Juno" Jason Reitman
"Michael Clayton" Tony Gilroy"No Country for Old Men" Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
"There Will Be Blood", Paul Thomas Anderson
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 makeup
"La Vie en Rose" "Norbit"
"Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End"
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"
"Raise It Up" from "August Rush"
"So Close" from "Enchanted"
"That's How You Know" from "Enchanted"
Best motion picture of the year
"Atonement"
"Juno"
"Michael Clayton" "No Country for Old Men"
"There Will Be Blood"
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": Christopher Scarabosio and 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. DevlinAchievement in visual effects
"The Golden Compass"
"Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End"
"Transformers"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; Story by Jan Pinkava, Jim Capobianco, Brad Bird
"The Savages" Written by Tamara Jenkins
****how does one really choose in this category?!?!?!?*****-------------------------------------------------------------------
The categories below I didn't see ANY of the films so can't really say what I WANT to win:
Best documentary feature
"No End in Sight"
"Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience"
"Sicko"
"Taxi to the Dark Side"
"War/Dance" (THINKFilm)
Best documentary short subject
"Freeheld"
"La Corona (The Crown)"
"Salim Baba"
"Sari's Mother"
Best foreign language film of the year
"Beaufort" Israel
"The Counterfeiters" Austria
"Katyn" Poland
"Mongol" Kazakhstan
"12" Russia
Best animated short film
"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"
Best live action short film
"At Night"
"Il Supplente (The Substitute)"
"Le Mozart des Pickpockets (The Mozart of Pickpockets)"
"Tanghi Argentini"
"The Tonto Woman"
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