Oscars 2008

Zak Forsman

Zak Forsman

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No Country For Old Men leads the pack with 8 nominations, followed by Atonement with 7 and There Will Be Blood tied with Michael Clayton at 6 nods each.

the nominees for the 80th ACADEMY AWARDS are...

BEST PICTURE
"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 DIRECTOR
"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 ACTOR
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)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
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.)

BEST ACTRESS
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)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
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.)

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

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

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

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

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

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

VISUAL FX
"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

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

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

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 FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
"Beaufort" Israel
"The Counterfeiters" Austria
"Katyn" Poland
"Mongol" Kazakhstan
"12" Russia

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

DOCUMENTARY SHORT
"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

ANIMATED FEATURE
"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

ANIMATED SHORT
"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

LIVE ACTION SHORT
"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
 
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wow, there are some shock nominations.

its good to see Tommy Lee Jones nominated for Best Actor for In the Valley of Elah. I'm surprised at Jason Reitman and Ellen Page's nominations. Not that their bad in their field, its just that it was such a small film. I'm glad the Academy is branching out its nominations. I'd like to see Casey Affleck win for playing Robert Ford. His performance was great.

This is going to be an interesting Academy Awards this year.
 
I'm not particularly excited about this list. There's nothing that I'm really "rooting" for, except for Philip Seymour Hoffman. The Best Picture noms are all good movies but I don't think any of them quite deserve Best Picture.

That's just me, though.
 
Josh W said:
The Best Picture noms are all good movies but I don't think any of them quite deserve Best Picture.

That's just me, though.
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Alright, what would you put in their place?

Michael Clayton & No Country for Old Men are two of my favourites this year.
I'm still waiting to see "There Will Be Blood."


Mike
 
-first time in a long time that i've loved all 5 best pic noms.
-Go Deakins! his 6th and 7th nominations with no wins yet.
-I thought Elswit would get 2 as well with Michael Clayton.
-If Roderick Jaynes wins, who will accept the award?
-Hoffman was awesome in Charlie Wilson but so much better in The Savages. How come Linney got the love and he didn't?
-I'm proud of Casey Affleck. He's good.
-Ditto for Tilda Swinton.
 
No Country was beautifully shot, Bardem was awesome, but I have to say the story was weak. Very weak. I know it was an adaptation, but come on....how can it end that way.

Eastern promises wound up being kind of the same thing, with that half baked ending that left you hanging.

I saw both movies back to back and looked at my wife and said "Is our DVD broken? Cause it keeps cutting off the endings of these movies!"
 
Josh W said:
Hard to say. This year was a little weak as far as movies go.
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Well, I guess they do deserve the nominations. Considering the fact that it was such a weak year and all.

Really, if you can't tell me what's better.... why shouldn't they be there?

New Country for Old Men is my pick so far.
Still need to see the rest.

Mike
 
mikkowilson said:
I need to go to the movies more.

- Mikko
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Same here. But then again, this year has seemed kinda meh for inspiring cinema. Best moments I had were with Across the Universe, and that movie's story was just absolute crap (c'mon - if I'm liking a pretentious art film more than anything else, we have issues). Haven't seen Atonement yet, so maybe I'm jumping the gun a little.
 
What?! Eddie Murphy was not nominated for Norbit?! Lindsay Lohan wasn't nominated for 'I Know Who Killed Me'?! How dare they?! I spit on the academy!

I hope the Academy acknowledges once more that Daniel Day Lewis is the best living actor around.
 
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I know its a long shot, but I really would like Jason Reitman and Ellen Page to win. They're my dark horse candidates. I want Tommy Lee Jones to win for Elah, he was really good in that film.

Again Reitman and Page are probably not going to win, but it'd be awesome if they do.
 
since the awards seem to be based more on body of work than the nominated performance, I'd bet on PTA or the Coens. Actually I'll put my money on There Will Be Blood for the whole sha-bang (picture, director, actor, screenplay). But I'd bet on Deakins over Elswit (because of body of work: Shawshank, Beautiful Mind, Dead Man Walking, 9 Coens films...) And I'm really rooting for Roderick Jaynes (Joel & Ethan) to win editing, i would love to see how they deal with the fact that he's not a real person. Although Dylan Tichenor is a great editor who deserves a little recognition (Brokeback, Royal Tenenbaums, Magnolia, Boogie Nights...).

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I know its a long shot, but I really would like Jason Reitman and Ellen Page to win.
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Me too. Its impressive to see such a small movie get so big (and i loved the film).

Its also nice to see Tony Gilroy, a first time director (although he's an accomplished writer), up on the board.

and by the way, where's the love for Darjeeling Limited? I loved that one. Bob Yeoman (Drugstore Cowboy, The Squid & The Whale, all 5 Wes Anderson films) has never gotten any love!
 
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mikkowilson said:
Ugh. I've only two of the films on that list. I need to go to the movies more.

- Mikko
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Over here a lot of movies are not in theaters yet. Like Charlie Wilson's War, Not country, Juno, Clayton, Sweeny etc.

That sucks.

At least you can feel important, because so many people quoted you... and.. you're a mod :D
 
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