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Oscar Nominations 2008
Surprised that there isn't already a thread on this! Oscars are this Sunday night.
Here they are:
BEST PICTURE
Atonement
Juno
Michael Clayton
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood
BEST ACTOR
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'
BEST ACTRESS
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'
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
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'
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
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'
BEST DIRECTOR
Paul Thomas Anderson 'There Will Be Blood'
Joel and Ethan Coen 'No Country for Old Men'
Tony Gilroy 'Michael Clayton'
Jason Reitman 'Juno'
Julian Schnabel 'The Diving Bell and the Butterfly'
I didn't see too many of these films this year, though I probably need to catch There Will Be Blood and No Country For Old Men to see what the big fuss is.
My picks: Viggo Mortenson for Best Actor. Loved his portrayal of Nicholai, the driver/hitman/ [SPOILER - highlight to read]: undercover operative in the Russian mafia.
Casey Affleck for Best Supporting, though he won't get it. I think he's due an Oscar, he really stepped up this year with the Jesse James movie and his first starring role in Gone Baby Gone (which is EXCELLENT, btw) and then even though it'll go to Cate Blanchett, I say Amy Ryan from Gone Baby Gone. Her degenerate, looser/boozer mom who gets put into a crisis situation was so real, so spot on.
Well I'm glad American Gangster was not big in the awards, nothing special about the film imo, it's good but not WOW, same for The Departed last year or the year before, can't remember. I haven't seen the other two you mentioned, so can't say.
The only two Best Pictures I saw were No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood. I liked both of them a lot but I'd like to see There Will Be Blood win.
I agree with Sith and I'd like to see Viggo win Best Actor, I think he did a tremendous job in Eastern Promises.
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Same here...I have to see No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood. I heard Juno is plain overrated and overhyped. So those two things always keep me away from films.
The fact that it is even nominated for an Oscar makes me lose all respect for whoever chooses the nominations. There were so many more films that were better than Juno.
Unfortunately, I haven't seen There Will Be Blood, so with that being said, I'd like to see the Coens pick up some awards this year.
Saoirse Ronan should win for Atonement as Supporting Actress. Day-Lewis is a bit of a runaway winner. His only real contender is Viggo Mortensen, and considering Nickolai had no way near as much screentime to be as effective as Daniel Plainview, Daniel Day-Lewis kind of has it in the bag.
I'd like Ellen Page to win for best actress; was just a great character at the end of the day, although all the characters in Juno were well drawn out (Even George Michael).
Again, I'd like Atonement to win for cinematography, even if the Dunkirk scene takes alot of praise away from the rest of the film, which was also brilliant. No Country or There Will Blood will probably win though.
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