The Nominees for the 80th Annual Academy Awards

2007 was a pretty good year for cinema. Accordingly, this morning 24 categories of celebrated nominees among last year’s movies were announced to compete for Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements. These are listed below.

The Academy Awards will be presented on Sunday, February 24, 2008, at the Kodak Theatre. This information was gathered from www.oscars.org

Note: “Academy Awards” and “Oscars” are copyrighted and belong to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. That being stated, I hope they don’t sue me for using those terms on this blog.

1. Best motion picture of the year:
“Atonement”
“Juno”
“Michael Clayton”
“No Country for Old Men”
“There Will Be Blood”

2. Achievement in directing:
“The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”
“Juno”
“Michael Clayton”
“No Country for Old Men”
“There Will Be Blood”

3. 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”

4. 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”

5. 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”

6. 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”

7. Adapted screenplay:
“Atonement”
“Away From Her”
“The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”
“No Country for Old Men”
“There Will Be Blood”

8. Original screenplay:
“Juno”
“Lars and the Real Girl”
“Michael Clayton”
“Ratatouille”
“The Savages”

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

10. Best documentary short subject:
“Freeheld”
“La Corona (The Crown)”
“Salim Baba”
“Sari’s Mother”

11. Best foreign language film of the year:
“Beaufort” (Israel)
“The Counterfeiters” (Austria)
“Katyn” (Poland)
“Mongol” (Kazakhstan)
“12” (Russia)

12. Best animated feature film of the year:
“Persepolis”
“Ratatouille”
“Surf’s Up”

13. 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”

14. Best live action short film:
“At Night”
“Il Supplente (The Substitute)”
“Le Mozart des Pickpockets (The Mozart of Pickpockets)”
“Tanghi Argentini”
“The Tonto Woman”

15. 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”

16. Achievement in visual effects:
“The Golden Compass”
“Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End”
“Transformers”

17. Achievement in film editing:
“The Bourne Ultimatum”
“The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”
“Into the Wild”
“No Country for Old Men”
“There Will Be Blood”

18. Achievement in sound editing:
“The Bourne Ultimatum”
“No Country for Old Men”
“Ratatouille”
“There Will Be Blood”
“Transformers”

19. Achievement in sound mixing:
“The Bourne Ultimatum”
“No Country for Old Men”
“Ratatouille”
“3:10 to Yuma”
“Transformers”

20. Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score):
“Atonement”
“The Kite Runner”
“Michael Clayton”
“Ratatouille”
“3:10 to Yuma”

21. Achievement in music written for motion pictures (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”

22. Achievement in art direction:
“American Gangster”
“Atonement”
“The Golden Compass”
“Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street”
“There Will Be Blood”

23. Achievement in costume design:
“Across the Universe”
“Atonement”
“Elizabeth: The Golden Age”
“La Vie en Rose”
“Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street”

24. Achievement in makeup:
“La Vie en Rose”
“Norbit”
“Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End”