80th Annual Academy Award Nominees
Well, if you are a MovieGeek like me, you know that, at last, our Ramadan is here! Our holy month - Oscar season is finally, at long last, upon us!
The Oscar Nominees were announced this morning (I intended to post my predictions yesterday, but I got caught up in the Cloverfield hype, and let it slip up on me).
So here are the major category nominees:
Best Supporting Actress
- Cate Blanchett - I’m Not There
- Ruby Dee - American Gangster
- Saoirse Ronan - Atonement
- Amy Ryan - Gone Baby Gone
- Tilda Swinton - Michael Clayton
Best Supporting Actor
- Casey Affleck - The Assasination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
- Javier Bardem - No Country for Old Men
- Philip Seymour Hoffman - Charlie Wilson’s War
- Hal Holbrook - Into the Wild
- Tom Wilkinson - Michael Clayton
Best 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
- Vigo Mortenson - Eastern Promises
Best 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
Screenplay
- Juno
- Lars and the Real Girl
- Michael Clayton
- Ratatouille
- The Savages
Direction
- Julian Schnabel - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
- Jason Reitman - Juno
- Tony Gilroy - Michael Clayton
- Joel and Ethan Coen - No Country for Old Men
- Paul Thomas Anderson - There Will Be Blood
Best Picture
- Atonement
- Juno
- Michael Clayton
- No Country for Old Men
- There Will Be Blood
I really hope that Ellen Page wins for Juno! I love her. I am excited to see so many nominations for Juno, but not so much about the equally large number of Michael Clayton nods… I thought that movie was…eh.
Saoirse Ronan was awesome in Atonement as well I would be happy if she won for Supporting Actress (but I would bet that Cate Blanchett wins). I think Daniel Day-Lewis will win for Best Actor and Javier Bardem for Best Supporting Actor.
It would make me VERY happy if Juno won for Best Picture, but I bet that Atonement (good) or Michael Clayton (not so good) will take that honor.
Well…. Only time will tell.
Happy Oscar Season, everyone!
