2008 Oscar Nominations Announced

by Jennifer M. Wood | Published January 22, 2008

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the nominees for the 80th annual Academy Awards, which will be presented on Sunday, February 24, 2008, at Hollywood’s Kodak Theatre. The list includes:

Best motion picture of the year
“Atonement” (Focus Features), Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner and Paul Webster, Producers
“Juno” (Fox Searchlight), Lianne Halfon, Mason Novick and Russell Smith, Producers
“Michael Clayton” (Warner Bros.), Sydney Pollack, Jennifer Fox and Kerry Orent, Producers
“No Country for Old Men” (Miramax and Paramount Vantage), Scott Rudin, Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, Producers
“There Will Be Blood” (Paramount Vantage and Miramax), JoAnne Sellar, Paul Thomas Anderson and Daniel Lupi, Producers

Performance by an actor in a leading role
George Clooney in “Michael Clayton” (Warner Bros.)
Daniel Day-Lewis in “There Will Be Blood” (Paramount Vantage and Miramax)
Johnny Depp in “Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” (DreamWorks and Warner Bros., Distributed by DreamWorks/Paramount)
Tommy Lee Jones in “In the Valley of Elah” (Warner Independent)
Viggo Mortensen in “Eastern Promises” (Focus Features)

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
Cate Blanchett in “Elizabeth: The Golden Age” (Universal)
Julie Christie in “Away from Her” (Lionsgate)
Marion Cotillard in “La Vie en Rose” (Picturehouse)
Laura Linney in “The Savages” (Fox Searchlight)
Ellen Page in “Juno” (Fox Searchlight)

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

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

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
“The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford” (Warner Bros.) Roger Deakins
“Atonement” (Focus Features) Seamus McGarvey
“The Diving Bell and the Butterfly” (Miramax/Pathé Renn) Janusz Kaminski
“No Country for Old Men” (Miramax and Paramount Vantage) Roger Deakins
“There Will Be Blood” (Paramount Vantage and Miramax) Robert Elswit

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”, Cynthia Wade and Vanessa Roth
“La Corona (The Crown)”, Amanda Micheli and Isabel Vega
“Salim Baba”, Tim Sternberg and Francisco Bello
“Sari’s Mother”, 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,” 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,”

Best animated short film
“I Met the Walrus”, Josh Raskin
“Madame Tutli-Putli” (National Film Board of Canada), Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski
“Même Les Pigeons Vont au Paradis (Even Pigeons Go to Heaven)”, Samuel Tourneux and Simon Vanesse
“My Love (Moya Lyubov)” (Channel One Russia), Alexander Petrov
“Peter & the Wolf” (BreakThru Films), 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 Argentini” (Premium Films), Guido Thys and Anja Daelemans
“The Tonto Woman”, Daniel Barber and Matthew Brown

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

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