Oscars Nominations

This morning the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the nominees for the 2008 Academy Awards:

Best motion picture of the year

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

Achievement in directing

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

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

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

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

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

Adapted screenplay

• Atonement, Christopher Hampton
• Away from Her, Sarah Polley
• The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Ronald Harwood
• No Country for Old Men, Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
• There Will Be Blood, Paul Thomas Anderson

Original screenplay

• Juno, Diablo Cody
• Lars and the Real Girl, Nancy Oliver
• Michael Clayton, Tony Gilroy
• Ratatouille, Brad Bird, Jan Pinkava, Jim Capobianco, Brad Bird
• The Savages, Tamara Jenkins

Best animated feature film of the year

• Persepolis
• Ratatouille
• Surf's Up

Best animated short film

• I Met the Walrus
• Madame Tutli-Putli
• Même Les Pigeons Vont au Paradis (Even Pigeons Go to Heaven)
• My Love (Moya Lyubov)
• Peter & the Wolf

Best live action short film

• At Night
• Il Supplente (The Substitute)
• Le Mozart des Pickpockets (The Mozart of Pickpockets)
• Tanghi Argentini
• The Tonto Woman

Best documentary feature

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

Best documentary short subject

• Freeheld
• La Corona
• Salim Baba
• Sari’s Mother

Best foreign language film of the year

• Beaufort (Israel)
• The Counterfeiters (Austria)
• Katyń (Poland)
• Mongol (Kazakhstan)
• 12 (Russia)

Achievement in cinematography

• The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Roger Deakins
• Atonement, Seamus McGarvey
• The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Janusz Kaminski
• No Country for Old Men, Roger Deakins
• There Will Be Blood, Robert Elswit

Achievement in film editing

• The Bourne Ultimatum, Christopher Rouse
• The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Juliette Welfling
• Into the Wild, Jay Cassidy
• No Country for Old Men, Roderick Jaynes
• There Will Be Blood, Dylan Tichenor

Achievement in art direction

• American Gangster, Arthur Max and Beth A. Rubino
• Atonement, Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer
• The Golden Compass, Dennis Gassner and Anna Pinnock
• Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Dante Ferretti and Francesca Lo Schiavo
• There Will Be Blood, Jack Fisk and Jim Erickson

Achievement in costume design

• Across the Universe, Albert Wolsky
• Atonement, Jacqueline Durran
• Elizabeth: The Golden Age, Alexandra Byrne
• La Vie en Rose, Marit Allen
• Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Colleen Atwood

Achievement in makeup

• La Vie en Rose, Didier Lavergne and Jan Archibald
• Norbit, Rick Baker and Kazuhiro Tsuji
• Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End, Ve Neill and Martin Samuel

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)

• Atonement, Dario Marianelli
• The Kite Runner, Alberto Iglesias
• Michael Clayton, James Newton Howard
• Ratatouille, Michael Giacchino
• 3:10 to Yuma, Marco Beltrami

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)

• “Falling Slowly” from Once, Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova
• “Happy Working Song” from Enchanted, Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz
• “Raise It Up” from August Rush, Nominees to be determined
• “So Close” from Enchanted, Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz
• “That’s How You Know” from Enchanted, Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz

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