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[icecreamdisco]

-juno for best director?
-yay for coens, bardem & no country!
-michael clayton, wtf. it was good, but, like, that's it.
-ACADEMY AWARD NOMINEE® NORBIT!!!!
-cate blanchett could turned her eyelids inside out at a cocktail party, and then the academy would make an award category for it, and she's be nominated twice for each eyelid.
-holy shit i can't wait for there will be blood go pta and dd-l!!!

1. Best Picture: "Atonement," "Juno," "Michael Clayton," "No Country for Old Men," "There Will Be Blood."

2. Actor: George Clooney, "Michael Clayton"; Daniel Day-Lewis, "There Will Be Blood"; Johnny Depp, "Sweeney Todd the Demon Barber of Fleet Street"; Tommy Lee Jones, "In the Valley of Elah"; Viggo Mortensen, "Eastern Promises."

3. 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."

4. Supporting Actor: Casey Affleck, "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford"; Javier Bardem, "No Country for Old Men"; Hal Holbrook, "Into the Wild"; Philip Seymour Hoffman, "Charlie Wilson's War"; Tom Wilkinson, "Michael Clayton."

5. Supporting Actress: Cate Blanchett, "I'm Not There"; Ruby Dee, "American Gangster"; Saoirse Ronan, "Atonement"; Amy Ryan, "Gone Baby Gone"; Tilda Swinton, "Michael Clayton."

6. 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."

7. Foreign Film: "Beaufort," Israel; "The Counterfeiters," Austria; "Katyn," Poland; "Mongol," Kazakhstan; "12," Russia.

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

9. Original Screenplay: Diablo Cody, "Juno"; Nancy Oliver, "Lars and the Real Girl"; Tony Gilroy, "Michael Clayton"; Brad Bird, Jan Pinkava and Jim Capobianco, "Ratatouille"; Tamara Jenkins, "The Savages."

10. Animated Feature Film: "Persepolis"; "Ratatouille"; "Surf's Up."

11. Art Direction: "American Gangster," "Atonement," "The Golden Compass," "Sweeney Todd the Demon Barber of Fleet Street," "There Will Be Blood."

12. Cinematography: "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford," "Atonement," "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly," "No Country for Old Men," "There Will Be Blood."

13. Sound Mixing: "The Bourne Ultimatum," "No Country for Old Men," "Ratatouille," "3:10 to Yuma," "Transformers."

14. Sound Editing: "The Bourne Ultimatum," "No Country for Old Men," "Ratatouille," "There Will Be Blood," "Transformers."

15. Original Score: "Atonement," Dario Marianelli; "The Kite Runner," Alberto Iglesias; "Michael Clayton," James Newton Howard; "Ratatouille," Michael Giacchino; "3:10 to Yuma," Marco Beltrami.

16. 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.

17. Costume: "Across the Universe," "Atonement," "Elizabeth: The Golden Age," "La Vie en Rose," "Sweeney Todd the Demon Barber of Fleet Street."

18. Documentary Feature: "No End in Sight," "Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience," "Sicko," "Taxi to the Dark Side," "War/Dance."

19. Documentary (short subject): "Freeheld," "La Corona (The Crown)," "Salim Baba," "Sari's Mother."

20. Film Editing: "The Bourne Ultimatum," "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly," "Into the Wild," "No Country for Old Men," "There Will Be Blood."

21. Makeup: "La Vie en Rose," "Norbit," "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End."

22. Animated Short Film: "I Met the Walrus," "Madame Tutli-Putli," "Meme Les Pigeons Vont au Paradis (Even Pigeons Go to Heaven)," "My Love (Moya Lyubov)," "Peter & the Wolf."

23. Live Action Short Film: "At Night," "Il Supplente (The Substitute)," "Le Mozart des Pickpockets (The Mozart of Pickpockets)," "Tanghi Argentini," "The Tonto Woman."

24. Visual Effects: "The Golden Compass," "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End," "Transformers."

 

[spiny norman]

-ACADEMY AWARD NOMINEE® NORBIT!!!!

Man, here's hoping it wins.

No Country and There Will Be Blood lead the pack with eight noms each. Interesting.

I don't get the Michael Clayton thing. Very few people saw it, and of those that did only a handful were overly impressed with it. Plus it was kind of earlier in the year. Why it got this buzz is beyond me.

 

[icecreamdisco]

i liked michael clayton fine, but it was only until reading the nominees that i even remembered it existed. that said, good to see swinton get her due, finally.

 

[katietheskatie]

-cate blanchett could turned her eyelids inside out at a cocktail party, and then the academy would make an award category for it, and she's be nominated twice for each eyelid.

hahaha fuck i know right

idk why juno got best directing, i didn't think the directing was anything special. but the best actress nomination is sweet, even though she won't win

also, no country for old men is the biggest load of wank i have seen in a long time. yawn.

 

[spiny norman]

i liked michael clayton fine, but it was only until reading the nominees that i even remembered it existed. that said, good to see swinton get her due, finally.

I exaggerated a touch. But, really, I haven't seen it in anyone's top five movies of the year list. Solid, but hardly spectacular.

Also, I just noticed that Spider-Man 3 didn't get nominated for Best Visual Effects. That's a pretty big snub when you consider that it had the largest special effects budget for any film in history. Which shocked me when I saw it, for I felt its Visual Effects were fairly average. Interesting to see the Academy agrees with me, though.

 

[Nebuchanezzar]

10. Animated Feature Film: "Persepolis"; "Ratatouille"; "Surf's Up."

They snubbed The Simpsons Movie.

 

[walrusbear]

so we have to wait for 'there will be blood' to see if it or 'no country' deserve those top accolades
big big fingers crossed for pt anderson for best director, would be awesome to see

i missed michael clayton sadly. this makes me want to see it more

also
wtf juno? is it honestly that good? anyone seen it?

 

[walrusbear]

so oscars are nearly on and most of these movies have made it to aus shores by now
anyone with their predictions/preferred winners?

Best Picture
i predict no country will win, though there will be blood is more deserving. not many complaints here though - i loved them both
if atonement wins i'll be annoyed

Actor
ddl will easily win

Actress
julie christie will win, apparently. i haven't seen 'away from her' yet

Supporting Actor
javier bardem will win
though casey affleck also did a good job in jesse james - he's established himself as the flagship affelck

Supporting Actress
i'm not sure about this. i haven't seen american gangster and everyone likes that ruby dee person. but cate blanchett will win for who she is (plus she did a decent bob dylan impression)

Director
i haven't seen the diving bell & butterfly yet. out of the rest, i really really hope pt anderson wins, but i predict a win for the coens and won't begrudge them

Foreign Film
have any of these even been released here?:
"Beaufort," Israel; "The Counterfeiters," Austria; "Katyn," Poland; "Mongol," Kazakhstan; "12," Russia.

Adapted Screenplay
go the coens

Original Screenplay
juno will win but it doesn't deserve too
the script sucks balls, the dialogue is phony, lame, the film meanders. the whole overrated project was lucky to have actors good enough to elevate above its shitty music and script
haven't seen any of the other 4 but i'm sure they deserve better

Animated Feature Film
haven't seen any but ratatouille will win

Art Direction
sweeney todd? looks like every burton film.
go for there will be blood

Cinematography "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford," "Atonement," "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly," "No Country for Old Men," "There Will Be Blood."
hopefully not atonement. jesse james, twbb and no country all looked fairly stunning. go twbb.

blah blah

Visual Effects
transformers for the oscar! (even though it sucked, the CG was not so shabby)

 

[spiny norman]

Everything more or less went for what was my first or second guess, with the only exception being the curveball of Tilda Swinton. Strange, also, that The Bourne Ultimatum won the second most awards for the night.

In that sense it wasn't a particularly exciting night, but by the same token there's no award won that particularly pisses me off (aside the snubbing of Norbit). I liked Jon Stewart's hosting, also.

 

[walrusbear]

i missed the show
but yes, very few surprises (bar tilda swinton, and i didn't realise marion cotillard(?) was favoured)
am very slightly annoyed by diablo cody, but i'm sure i'll have forgotten the name in 6 months