Liz ([info]despotliz) wrote in [info]instant_fanzine,
@ 2008-01-22 16:05:00
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2008 Oscar Nominations
The 2008 Oscar nominations are out. Full list here.

Best picture
Atonement
Juno
Michael Clayton
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood

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

Best actor
George Clooney, Michael Clayton
Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood
Johnny Depp, Sweeney Todd
Tommy Lee Jones, In the Valley of Elah
Viggo Mortensen, Eastern Promises

Best actress
Cate Blanchett, Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Julie Christie, Away from Her
Marion Cotillard, La Vie en Rose
Laura Linney, The Savages
Ellen Page, Juno

Best supporting actress
Cate Blanchett, I'm Not There
Ruby Dee, American Gangster
Saoirse Ronan, Atonement
Amy Ryan, Gone Baby Gone
Tilda Swinton, Michael Clayton

Best supporting actor
Casey Affleck, The Assassination of Jesse James...
Javier Bardem, No Country for Old Men
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Charlie Wilson's War
Hal Holbrook, Into the Wild
Tom Wilkinson, Michael Clayton

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

Best animated feature film
Persepolis
Ratatouille
Surf's Up

Best adapted screenplay
Atonement
Away from Her
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood

Best original screenplay
Juno
Lars and the Real Girl
Michael Clayton
Ratatouille
The Savages

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

Best visual effects
The Golden Compass
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Transformers


Well, it's a bit hard to say what should win since I'm in a country which has not yet seen Juno, There Will Be Blood, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, In the Valley of Elah, Sweeney Todd, etc etc. I didn't see Michael Clayton, either, because it didn't seem that exciting and had good but not stellar reviews, but it's got two acting nods and a directing one. Cate Blanchett in Elizabeth was the high point of an average film, so nice to see that, and Saoirse Ronan in Atonement was brilliant. I am surprised American Gangster is not up there for anything bar Best Supporting Actress, which is a really weird nomination given how crap that film is for female roles.

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[info]andrewducker
2008-01-22 04:56 pm UTC (link)
Having seen Charlie Wilson's War yesterday I'm feeling it should have got a screenplay nod, but I hear it didn't do too well in the US.

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[info]surliminal
2008-01-22 09:02 pm UTC (link)
Yeh it's all pretty dull init? i'm in same boat as Liz re ones not here yet, also didn't catch Michael Clayton, am not interested in Dylan, and decided the Coen Bros one sounded far too bleak and depressing for January. I am pleased as well about Cate Blanchett for Elizabeth, a much under rated film, and the nod to PDH for Charlie Wilson's War. I continue to think Atonement has been wildly over praised in a bad year generally, and a particularly bad year for women (La Vie en Rose especially is worthy biopic tedium.) . Viggo for Eastern Promises is the only even slight surprise I think; he does do his absolute best with a part that is not particularly well written , in a rather dodgy film, but he won't win (even despite the naked bathhouse scene :))

Best thing: Ratatouille getting a nomination for something OTHER than being Best Animated Film. YAY! is this a first I wonder?

One wonders what we'll talk about on the Orbital films of the year panel!!! Crap year for sf/fantasy. Wouldn't it be lovely if the Academy ever did something mad like give Amy Adams a nomination for Enchanted? (And she's in CWW too!) Will see Sweeney Todd on Friday..:) (have you booked Andy!!)

Oh and nothing for Once. Bloody typical..

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[info]johnnyeponymous
2008-01-22 05:07 pm UTC (link)
There are a lot of possibilities in this year's nominations. I think that There Will Be BLood will take Director, Picture and Adapted Screenplay and most likely Actor (though I could see Johnny Depp winning because he sang and they might feel that he's due [see Kidman, Nicole for The Hours]). There's no question that Marion Cotillard deserves Best Actress, but Icon Status might give it to Julie Christie.

The biggest battle is Tilda Swinton vs. Cate Blanchette. I think Tilda is the World's Greatest Actress and Cate's right up there too.
Chris

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[info]communicator
2008-01-22 05:24 pm UTC (link)
I think both Casey Affleck and Javier Bardem were brilliant, I couldn't choose between them for best supporting actor

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[info]iainjclark
2008-01-22 10:00 pm UTC (link)
I think I may have to track down Michael Clayton; it appealed to me but it's one of the ones that got away from me last year. No Country For Old Men is very good, and I'm aiming to see several of the other contenders in the coming weeks.

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[info]abigail_n
2008-01-22 10:09 pm UTC (link)
I saw Michael Clayton this evening. It's made up of lots of good parts - George Clooney and Tom Wilkinson are fantastic - but doesn't really amount to much. Worth a look, but a little surprising on the best picture shortlist.

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[info]nuttyxander
2008-01-22 11:28 pm UTC (link)
I just have to see Juno

NOW!

Shame for Cera, mind.

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