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Oscar Nominations 2008

Posted By: jcovill

Posted: January, 22 2008

Oscar Nominations 2008:

The Oscars will be presented on February 24, 2008 in Hollywood, California. A handful of films are set to dominate this year's Oscars. "No country for old men" has been nominated in eight categories, including best picture. "There will be blood", about a pioneering Californian oilman, starts on an equal footing, also with eight nominations. George Clooney's Michael Clayton has seven, with Clooney himself bidding for best actor.





Here is the complete list of the nominations for the 80th Annual Academy Awards:


 Performance by an actor in a leading role



 Performance by an actor in a supporting role

  • Casey Affleck in “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford” (Warner Bros.)
  • Javier Bardem in “No Country for Old Men” (Miramax and Paramount Vantage)
  • Philip Seymour Hoffman in “Charlie Wilson’s War” (Universal)
  • Hal Holbrook in “Into the Wild” (Paramount Vantage and River Road Entertainment)
  • Tom Wilkinson in “Michael Clayton” (Warner Bros.)


 Performance by an actress in a leading role




 Performance by an actress in a supporting role

  • Cate Blanchett in “I’m Not There” (The Weinstein Company)
  • Ruby Dee in “American Gangster” (Universal)
  • Saoirse Ronan in “Atonement” (Focus Features)
  • Amy Ryan in “Gone Baby Gone” (Miramax)
  • Tilda Swinton in “Michael Clayton” (Warner Bros.)

 

 Best animated feature film of the year

  • Persepolis” (Sony Pictures Classics) Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud
  • Ratatouille” (Walt Disney) Brad Bird
  • Surf's Up” (Sony Pictures Releasing) Ash Brannon and Chris Buck



 Achievement in art direction


American Gangster” (Universal)
Art Direction: Arthur Max
Set Decoration: Beth A. Rubino

Atonement” (Focus Features)
Art Direction: Sarah Greenwood
Set Decoration: Katie Spencer

The Golden Compass” (New Line in association with Ingenious Film Partners)
Art Direction: Dennis Gassner
Set Decoration: Anna Pinnock
     
Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” (DreamWorks and Warner Bros., Distributed by DreamWorks/Paramount) Art Direction: Dante Ferretti
Set Decoration: Francesca Lo Schiavo
     
There Will Be Blood” (Paramount Vantage and Miramax)
Art Direction: Jack Fisk
Set Decoration: Jim Erickson
 
 

 Achievement in cinematography


 

 Achievement in costume design

  • Across the Universe” (Sony Pictures Releasing) Albert Wolsky
  • Atonement” (Focus Features) Jacqueline Durran
  • Elizabeth: The Golden Age” (Universal) Alexandra Byrne     
  • La Vie en Rose” (Picturehouse) Marit Allen
  • Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” (DreamWorks and Warner Bros., Distributed by DreamWorks/Paramount) Colleen Atwood



  Achievement in directing

  • The Diving Bell and the Butterfly” (Miramax/Pathé Renn) Julian Schnabel     
  • Juno” (Fox Searchlight) Jason Reitman
  • Michael Clayton” (Warner Bros.) Tony Gilroy
  • No Country for Old Men” (Miramax and Paramount Vantage) Joel Coen and Ethan Coen     
  • There Will Be Blood” (Paramount Vantage and Miramax) Paul Thomas Anderson



 Best documentary feature


No End in Sight” (Magnolia Pictures)
A Representational Pictures Production
Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs
     
Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience” (The Documentary Group)
A Documentary Group Production
Richard E. Robbins
     
Sicko” (Lionsgate and The Weinstein Company)
A Dog Eat Dog Films Production
Michael Moore and Meghan O’Hara
     
Taxi to the Dark Side” (THINKFilm)
An X-Ray Production
Alex Gibney and Eva Orner
     
War/Dance” (THINKFilm)
A Shine Global and Fine Films Production
Andrea Nix Fine and Sean Fine



 Best documentary short subject


Freeheld
A Lieutenant Films Production
Cynthia Wade and Vanessa Roth
     
La Corona (The Crown)
A Runaway Films and Vega Films Production
Amanda Micheli and Isabel Vega
     
Salim Baba
A Ropa Vieja Films and Paradox Smoke Production
Tim Sternberg and Francisco Bello
     
Sari’s Mother” (Cinema Guild)
A Daylight Factory Production
James Longley



 Achievement in film editing

  • The Bourne Ultimatum” (Universal) Christopher Rouse
  • The Diving Bell and the Butterfly” (Miramax/Pathé Renn) Juliette Welfling
  • Into the Wild” (Paramount Vantage and River Road Entertainment) Jay Cassidy
  • No Country for Old Men” (Miramax and Paramount Vantage) Roderick Jaynes
  • There Will Be Blood” (Paramount Vantage and Miramax) Dylan Tichenor



 Best foreign language film of the year

  • Beaufort” A Metro Communications, Movie Plus Production, Israel
  • The Counterfeiters” An Aichholzer Filmproduktion, Magnolia Filmproduktion Production, Austria
  • Katyń” An Akson Studio Production, Poland
  • Mongol” A Eurasia Film Production, Kazakhstan
  • 12” A Three T Production, Russia

 

 Achievement in makeup

  • La Vie en Rose” (Picturehouse) Didier Lavergne and Jan Archibald
  • Norbit” (DreamWorks, Distributed by Paramount) Rick Baker and Kazuhiro Tsuji
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End” (Walt Disney) Ve Neill and Martin Samuel

 

 Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)

  • Atonement” (Focus Features) Dario Marianelli    
  • The Kite Runner” (DreamWorks, Sidney Kimmel Entertainment and Participant Productions, Distributed by Paramount Classics) Alberto Iglesias
  • Michael Clayton” (Warner Bros.) James Newton Howard    
  • Ratatouille” (Walt Disney) Michael Giacchino    
  • 3:10 to Yuma” (Lionsgate) Marco Beltrami



 Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)


Falling Slowly” from “Once
(Fox Searchlight)
Music and Lyric by Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova
     
Happy Working Song” from “Enchanted
(Walt Disney)
Music by Alan Menken
Lyric by Stephen Schwartz
     
Raise It Up” from “August Rush
(Warner Bros.)
Nominees to be determined
     
So Close” from “Enchanted
(Walt Disney)
Music by Alan Menken
Lyric by Stephen Schwartz
     
That’s How You Know” from “Enchanted
(Walt Disney)
Music by Alan Menken
Lyric by Stephen Schwartz



 Best motion picture of the year


Atonement” (Focus Features)
A Working Title Production
Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner and Paul Webster, Producers
     
Juno” (Fox Searchlight)
A Dancing Elk Pictures, LLC Production
Lianne Halfon, Mason Novick and Russell Smith, Producers
     
Michael Clayton” (Warner Bros.)
A Clayton Productions, LLC Production
Sydney Pollack, Jennifer Fox and Kerry Orent, Producers
     
No Country for Old Men” (Miramax and Paramount Vantage)
A Scott Rudin/Mike Zoss Production
Scott Rudin, Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, Producers
     
There Will Be Blood” (Paramount Vantage and Miramax)
A JoAnne Sellar/Ghoulardi Film Company Production
JoAnne Sellar, Paul Thomas Anderson and Daniel Lupi, Producers



 Best animated short film


I Met the Walrus
A Kids & Explosions Production
Josh Raskin
     
Madame Tutli-Putli” (National Film Board of Canada)
A National Film Board of Canada Production
Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski
     
Même Les Pigeons Vont au Paradis (Even Pigeons Go to Heaven)” (Premium Films)
A BUF Compagnie Production
Samuel Tourneux and Simon Vanesse
     
My Love (Moya Lyubov)” (Channel One Russia)
A Dago-Film Studio, Channel One Russia and Dentsu Tec Production
Alexander Petrov
     
Peter & the Wolf” (BreakThru Films)
A BreakThru Films/Se-ma-for Studios Production
Suzie Templeton and Hugh Welchman

 

 Best live action short film


At Night
A Zentropa Entertainments 10 Production
Christian E. Christiansen and Louise Vesth
     
Il Supplente (The Substitute)” (Sky Cinema Italia)
A Frame by Frame Italia Production
Andrea Jublin
     
Le Mozart des Pickpockets (The Mozart of Pickpockets)” (Premium Films)
A Karé Production
Philippe Pollet-Villard
     
Tanghi Argentini” (Premium Films)
An Another Dimension of an Idea Production
Guido Thys and Anja Daelemans
     
The Tonto Woman
A Knucklehead, Little Mo and Rose Hackney Barber Production
Daniel Barber and Matthew Brown



 Achievement in sound editing

  • The Bourne Ultimatum” (Universal), Karen Baker Landers and Per Hallberg    
  • No Country for Old Men” (Miramax and Paramount Vantage), Skip Lievsay    
  • Ratatouille” (Walt Disney), Randy Thom and Michael Silvers    
  • There Will Be Blood” (Paramount Vantage and Miramax), Matthew Wood    
  • Transformers” (DreamWorks and Paramount in association with Hasbro), Ethan Van der Ryn and Mike Hopkins



 Achievement in sound mixing


The Bourne Ultimatum” (Universal)
Scott Millan, David Parker and Kirk Francis
     
No Country for Old Men” (Miramax and Paramount Vantage)
Skip Lievsay, Craig Berkey, Greg Orloff and Peter Kurland
     
Ratatouille” (Walt Disney)
Randy Thom, Michael Semanick and Doc Kane
     
3:10 to Yuma” (Lionsgate)
Paul Massey, David Giammarco and Jim Stuebe
     
Transformers” (DreamWorks and Paramount in association with Hasbro)
Kevin O’Connell, Greg P. Russell and Peter J. Devlin



 Achievement in visual effects


The Golden Compass” (New Line in association with Ingenious Film Partners)
Michael Fink, Bill Westenhofer, Ben Morris and Trevor Wood
     
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End” (Walt Disney)
John Knoll, Hal Hickel, Charles Gibson and John Frazier
     
Transformers” (DreamWorks and Paramount in association with Hasbro)
Scott Farrar, Scott Benza, Russell Earl and John Frazier



 Adapted screenplay

  • Atonement” (Focus Features), Screenplay by Christopher Hampton    
  • Away from Her” (Lionsgate), Written by Sarah Polley    
  • The Diving Bell and the Butterfly” (Miramax/Pathé Renn), Screenplay by Ronald Harwood    
  • No Country for Old Men” (Miramax and Paramount Vantage), Written for the screen by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen    
  • There Will Be Blood” (Paramount Vantage and Miramax), Written for the screen by Paul Thomas Anderson



 Original screenplay

  • Juno” (Fox Searchlight), Written by Diablo Cody    
  • Lars and the Real Girl” (MGM), Written by Nancy Oliver    
  • Michael Clayton” (Warner Bros.), Written by Tony Gilroy    
  • Ratatouille” (Walt Disney), Screenplay by Brad Bird, Story by Jan Pinkava, Jim Capobianco, Brad Bird    
  • The Savages” (Fox Searchlight), Written by Tamara Jenkins
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