Oscar Nominees 2008

Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2007 will be presented on Sunday, February 24, 2008, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center. ‘No Country for Old Men’ and ‘There Will Be Blood’ are both tied with 8 nominations a piece, but ‘Sweeney Todd’, ‘Michael Clayton’ and ‘Juno’ are strong performers as well. ‘Ratatouille’ racked up quite a few non-animated nominees. 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” Best animated feature film of the year “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 Achievement in art direction “American Gangster” Art Direction: Arthur Max, Set Decoration: Beth A. Rubino “Atonement” Art Direction: Sarah Greenwood, Set Decoration: Katie Spencer “The Golden Compass” Art Direction: Dennis Gassner, Set Decoration: Anna Pinnock “Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” Art Direction: Dante Ferretti, Set Decoration: Francesca Lo Schiavo “There Will Be Blood” Art Direction: Jack Fisk, Set Decoration: Jim Erickson Achievement in 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 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 Best motion picture of the year “Atonement” Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner and Paul Webster, Producers “Juno” Lianne Halfon, Mason Novick and Russell Smith, Producers “Michael Clayton” Sydney Pollack, Jennifer Fox and Kerry Orent, Producers “No Country for Old Men” Scott Rudin, Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, Producers “There Will Be Blood” JoAnne Sellar, Paul Thomas Anderson and Daniel Lupi, Producers Achievement in visual effects “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” Screenplay by Christopher Hampton “Away from Her” Written by Sarah Polley “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly” Screenplay by Ronald Harwood “No Country for Old Men” Written for the screen by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen “There Will Be Blood” Written for the screen by Paul Thomas Anderson Original screenplay “Juno” Written by Diablo Cody “Lars and the Real Girl” Written by Nancy Oliver “Michael Clayton” Written by Tony Gilroy “Ratatouille” Screenplay by Brad Bird, Story by Jan Pinkava, Jim Capobianco, Brad Bird “The Savages” Written by Tamara Jenkins Best foreign language film of the year “Beaufort” Israel “The Counterfeiters” Austria “Katyń” Poland “Mongol” Kazakhstan “12” Russia 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 film 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 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 song) “Falling Slowly” from “Once” Music and Lyric by Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova “Happy Working Song” from “Enchanted” Music by Alan Menken Lyric by Stephen Schwartz “Raise It Up” from “August Rush” Nominees to be determined “So Close” from “Enchanted” Music by Alan Menken Lyric by Stephen Schwartz “That’s How You Know” from “Enchanted” Music by Alan Menken Lyric by Stephen Schwartz 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 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