Best Picture
Babel
The Departed
Letters from Iwo Jima
Little Miss Sunshine
The Queen
Supporting Actress
Adrianna Barraza, Babel
Cate Blanchett, Notes on a Scandal
Abigail Breslin, Little Miss Sunshine
Jennifer Hudson, Dreamgirls
Rinko Kikuchi, Babel
Supporting Actor
Alan Arkin, Little Miss Sunshine
Jackie Earle Haley, Little Children
Djimon Honsou, Blood Diamond
Eddie Murphy, Dreamgirls
Mark Wahlberg, The Departed
Best Actress
Penelope Cruz, Volver
Judi Dench, Notes on a Scandal
Helen Mirren, The Queen
Meryl Streep, Devil Wears Prada
Kate Winslet, Little Children
Best Actor
Leonardo DiCaprio, Blood Diamond
Ryan Gosling, Half Nelson
Peter O’Toole, Venus
Will Smith, Pursuit of Happyness
Forest Whitaker, Last King of Scotland
Best Director
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Babel
Martin Scorsese, Departed
Clint Eastwood, Letters
Steven Frears, The Queen
Paul Greengrass, United 93
Original Screenplay
Babel
Letters from Iwo Jima
Little Miss
Pan’s Labyrinth
The Queen
Adapted Screenplay
Borat
Children of Men
The Departed
Little Children
Notes on a Scandal
Foreign
After the Wedding
Days of Glory
Lives of Others
Pan’s Labyrinth
Water
Animated
Cars
Happy Feet
Monster House
Not counting the Foreign Language nominees I’ve seen all the movies except for Half Nelson and United 93. Of the Foreign Language I’ve only seen Pan’s Labyrinth.
I’m happy for the Mexicans! Inarritu was nominated for Best Director and Original Screenplay, as well as his film being nominated for Best Picture; del Toro was nominated for Original Screenplay and his film Best Foreign Language Film; Cauron was nominated for Adapted Screenplay.
I’m thrilled with Leo DiCaprio’s nomination for Blood Diamond! I expected it for The Departed. I’m happy for everybody! I’m especially happy for Penelope Cruz, the Babel women and Jackie Earle Haley. I saw Venus last night and Peter O’Toole absolutely deserves to be there. Good for Ryan Gosling, I sure wish I’d seen his movie. Abigail Breslin must be screaming like a madgirl right about now. I’m happy Borat and Children of Men weren’t shut out.
I didn’t see it, but I’m glad that United 93 got something.
Looks like Letters From Iwo Jima knocked off Dreamgirls for Best Picture and Best Director.
I’m eagerly awaiting the Artistic nominations (often mistakenly called the Technicals) to be released . Marie Antoinette and Apocalypto had to have gotten something.
I haven’t seen the movie, but how awesome is it that someone whose last role was in Maniac Cop 3 in 1993, in 2007 gets an Oscar nomination. Way to go Kelly Leak!
ART DIRECTION
“Dreamgirls” (DreamWorks and Paramount)
Art Direction: John Myhre
Set Decoration: Nancy Haigh
“The Good Shepherd” (Universal)
Art Direction: Jeannine Oppewall
Set Decoration: Gretchen Rau and Leslie E. Rollins
“Pan’s Labyrinth” (Picturehouse)
Art Direction: Eugenio Caballero
Set Decoration: Pilar Revuelta
“Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest” (Buena Vista)
Art Direction: Rick Heinrichs
Set Decoration: Cheryl A. Carasik
“The Prestige” (Buena Vista)
Art Direction: Nathan Crowley
Set Decoration: Julie Ochipinti
CINEMATOGRAPHY
“The Black Dahlia” (Universal) Vilmos Zsigmond
“Children of Men” (Universal) Emmanuel Lubezki
“The Illusionist” (Yari Film Group) Dick Pope
“Pan’s Labyrinth” (Picturehouse) Guillermo Navarro
“The Prestige” (Buena Vista) Wally Pfister
COSTUME DESIGN
“Curse of the Golden Flower” (Sony Pictures Classics) Yee Chung Man
“The Devil Wears Prada” (20th Century Fox) Patricia Field
“Dreamgirls” (DreamWorks and Paramount) Sharen Davis
“Marie Antoinette” (Sony Pictures Releasing) Milena Canonero
“The Queen” (Miramax, Pathé and Granada) Consolata Boyle
EDITING
“Babel” (Paramount and Paramount Vantage)
Stephen Mirrione and Douglas Crise
“Blood Diamond” (Warner Bros.)
Steven Rosenblum
“Children of Men” (Universal)
Alex Rodríguez and Alfonso Cuarón
“The Departed” (Warner Bros.)
Thelma Schoonmaker
“United 93” (Universal and StudioCanal)
Clare Douglas, Christopher Rouse and Richard Pearson
MAKEUP
“Apocalypto” (Buena Vista) Aldo Signoretti and Vittorio Sodano
“Click” (Sony Pictures Releasing) Kazuhiro Tsuji and Bill Corso
“Pan’s Labyrinth” (Picturehouse) David Marti and Montse Ribe
SOUND EDITING
“Apocalypto” (Buena Vista)
Sean McCormack and Kami Asgar
“Blood Diamond” (Warner Bros.)
Lon Bender
“Flags of Our Fathers” (DreamWorks and Warner Bros., Distributed by Paramount)
Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman
“Letters from Iwo Jima” (Warner Bros.)
Alan Robert Murray
“Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest” (Buena Vista)
Christopher Boyes and George Watters II
SOUND MIXING
“Apocalypto” (Buena Vista)
Kevin O’Connell, Greg P. Russell and Fernando Camara
“Blood Diamond” (Warner Bros.)
Andy Nelson, Anna Behlmer and Ivan Sharrock
“Dreamgirls” (DreamWorks and Paramount)
Michael Minkler, Bob Beemer and Willie Burton
“Flags of Our Fathers” (DreamWorks and Warner Bros., Distributed by Paramount)
John Reitz, Dave Campbell, Gregg Rudloff and Walt Martin
“Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest” (Buena Vista)
Paul Massey, Christopher Boyes and Lee Orloff
VISUAL EFFECTS
“Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest” (Buena Vista)
John Knoll, Hal Hickel, Charles Gibson and Allen Hall
“Poseidon” (Warner Bros.)
Boyd Shermis, Kim Libreri, Chaz Jarrett and John Frazier
“Superman Returns” (Warner Bros.)
Mark Stetson, Neil Corbould, Richard R. Hoover and Jon Thum
ORIGINAL SCORE
“Babel” (Paramount and Paramount Vantage) Gustavo Santaolalla
“The Good German” (Warner Bros.) Thomas Newman
“Notes on a Scandal” (Fox Searchlight) Philip Glass
“Pan’s Labyrinth” (Picturehouse) Javier Navarrete
“The Queen” (Miramax, Pathé and Granada) Alexandre Desplat
ORIGINAL SONG
“I Need to Wake Up” from “An Inconvenient Truth”
(Paramount Classics and Participant Productions)
Music and Lyric by Melissa Etheridge
“Listen” from “Dreamgirls”
(DreamWorks and Paramount)
Music by Henry Krieger and Scott Cutler
Lyric by Anne Preven
“Love You I Do” from “Dreamgirls”
(DreamWorks and Paramount)
Music by Henry Krieger
Lyric by Siedah Garrett
“Our Town” from “Cars”
(Buena Vista)
Music and Lyric by Randy Newman
“Patience” from “Dreamgirls”
(DreamWorks and Paramount)
Music by Henry Krieger
Lyric by Willie Reale
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
“Deliver Us from Evil” (Lionsgate)
A Disarming Films Production
Amy Berg and Frank Donner
“An Inconvenient Truth” (Paramount Classics and Participant Productions)
A Lawrence Bender/Laurie David Production
Davis Guggenheim
“Iraq in Fragments” (Typecast Releasing)
A Typecast Pictures/Daylight Factory Production
James Longley and John Sinno
“Jesus Camp” (Magnolia Pictures)
A Loki Films Production
Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady
“My Country, My Country” (Zeitgeist Films)
A Praxis Films Production
Laura Poitras and Jocelyn Glatzer
DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT
“The Blood of Yingzhou District”
A Thomas Lennon Films Production
Ruby Yang and Thomas Lennon
“Recycled Life”
An Iwerks/Glad Production
Leslie Iwerks and Mike Glad
“Rehearsing a Dream”
A Simon & Goodman Picture Company Production
Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon
“Two Hands”
A Crazy Boat Pictures Production
Nathaniel Kahn and Susan Rose Behr
ANIMATED SHORT FILM
“The Danish Poet” (National Film Board of Canada)
A Mikrofilm and National Film Board of Canada Production
Torill Kove
“Lifted” (Buena Vista)
A Pixar Animation Studios Production
Gary Rydstrom
“The Little Matchgirl” (Buena Vista)
A Walt Disney Pictures Production
Roger Allers and Don Hahn
“Maestro” (Szimplafilm)
A Kedd Production
Geza M. Toth
“No Time for Nuts” (20th Century Fox)
A Blue Sky Studios Production
Chris Renaud and Michael Thurmeier
LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM
“Binta and the Great Idea (Binta Y La Gran Idea)”
A Peliculas Pendelton and Tus Ojos Production
Javier Fesser and Luis Manso
“Éramos Pocos (One Too Many)” (Kimuak)
An Altube Filmeak Production
Borja Cobeaga
“Helmer & Son”
A Nordisk Film Production
Soren Pilmark and Kim Magnusson
“The Saviour” (Australian Film Television and Radio School)
An Australian Film Television and Radio School Production
Peter Templeman and Stuart Parkyn
“West Bank Story”
An Ari Sandel, Pascal Vaguelsy, Amy Kim, Ravi Malhotra and Ashley Jordan Production
Ari Sandel
I’m very pleased. **An Inconvenient Truth, Marie Antoinette, Apocalypto, The Good German, The Good Shepherd, Flags of Our Fathers, Curse of the Golden Flower, The Illusionist, The Prestige ** all got recognized. Lots of share-the-wealth this year.
Only real disappointment is that Shut Up And Sing missed the Documentary nomination, but I don’t know what I’d take off. I’ve only seen An Inconvenient Truth but I know about most of the others and they’re worthy nominees.
As usual I don’t know anything about the Short Subjects.
I have not seen a single nominated film, performance, anything. I think this is the first year that’s ever happened for as long as I’ve been aware of the Oscars. Since I have no rooting interest in any of the nominees, I am free to pursue my true Oscar campaign, which is to wrest last year’s Best Picture Oscar out of the hands of that horrible Crash movie and give it to Brokeback Mountain where it belongs.
I’ll help ya Otto! I’m still in shock about that loss.
Here are total nominations for films receiving more than one nomination:
Dreamgirls - 8
Babel - 7
Pan’s Labyrinth - 6
The Queen - 6
Blood Diamond - 5
The Departed - 5
Letters From Iwo Jima - 4
Little Miss Sunshine - 4
Notes on a Scandal - 4
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest - 4
Apocalypto - 3
Children of Men - 3
Little Children - 3
Cars - 2
The Devil Wears Prada - 2
Flags of Our Fathers - 2
An Inconvenient Truth - 2
The Prestige - 2
United 93 - 2
Here’s a title-by-title list of nominations received:
AFTER THE WEDDING
Best Foreign Language Film of the Year
APOCALYPTO
Achievement in Makeup
Achievement in Sound Editing
Achievement in Sound Mixing
BABEL
Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
Achievement in Directing
Achievement in Film Editing
Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score)
Best Motion Picture of the Year
Original Screenplay
BINTA AND THE GREAT IDEA (BINTA Y LA DRAN IDEA)
Best Live Action Short Film
THE BLACK DAHLIA
Achievement in Cinematography
BLOOD DIAMOND
Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
Achievement in Film Editing
Achievement in Sound Editing
Achievement in Sound Mixing
THE BLOOD OF YINGZHOU DISTRICT
Best Documentary Short Subject
BORAT
Adapted Screenplay
**
CARS**
Best Animated Feature Film of the Year
Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song)
CHILDREN OF MEN
Achievement in Cinematography
Achievement in Film Editing
Adapted Screenplay
CLICK
Achievement in Makeup
CURSE OF THE GOLDEN FLOWER
Achievement in Costume Design
THE DANISH POET
Best Animated Short Film
DAYS OF GLORY
Best Foreign Language Film of the Year
DELIVER US FROM EVIL
Best Documentary Feature
THE DEPARTED
Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
Achievement in Directing
Achievement in Film Editing
Best Motion Picture of the Year
Adapted Screenplay
THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA
Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
Achievement in Costume Design
DREAMGIRLS
Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
Achievement in Art Direction
Achievement in Costume Design
Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song)
Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song)
Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song)
Achievement in Sound Mixing
ERAMOS POCOS (ONE TOO MANY)
Best Live Action Short Film
FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS
Achievement in Sound Editing
Achievement in Sound Mixing
THE GOOD GERMAN
Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score)
THE GOOD SHEPHERD
Achievement in Art Direction
HALF NELSON
Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
HAPPY FEET
Best Animated Feature Film of the Year
HELMER & SON
Best Live Action Short Film
THE ILLUSIONIST
Achievement in Cinematography
AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH
Best Documentary Feature
Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song)
IRAQ IN FRAGMENTS
Best Documentary Feature
JESUS CAMP
Best Documentary Feature
THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND
Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA
Achievement in Directing
Best Motion Picture of the Year
Achievement in Sound Editing
Original Screenplay
LIFTED
Best Animated Short Film
LITTLE CHILDREN
Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
Adapted Screenplay
THE LITTLE MATCHGIRL
Best Animated Short Film
LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE
Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
Best Motion Picture of the Year
Original Screenplay
THE LIVES OF OTHERS
Best Foreign Language Film of the Year
MAESTRO
Best Animated Short Film
MARIE ANTOINETTE
Achievement in Costume Design
MONSTER HOUSE
Best Animated Feature Film of the Year
MY COUNTRY, MY COUNTRY
Best Documentary Feature
NO TIME FOR NUTS
Best Animated Short Film
NOTES ON A SCANDAL
Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score)
Adapted Screenplay
PAN’S LABYRINTH
Achievement in Art Direction
Achievement in Cinematography
Best Foreign Language Film of the Year
Achievement in Makeup
Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score)
Original Screenplay
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN’S CHEST
Achievement in Art Direction
Achievement in Sound Editing
Achievement in Sound Mixing
Achievement in Visual Effects
POSEIDON
Achievement in Visual Effects
THE PRESTIGE
Achievement in Art Direction
Achievement in Cinematography
THE PURSUIT OF HAPPYNESS
Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
THE QUEEN
Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
Achievement in Costume Design
Achievement in Directing
Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score)
Best Motion Picture of the Year
Original Screenplay
RECYCLED LIFE
Best Documentary Short Subject
REHEARSING A DREAM
Best Documentary Short Subject
THE SAVIOUR
Best Live Action Short Film
SUPERMAN RETURNS
Achievement in Visual Effects
TWO HANDS
Best Documentary Short Subject
UNITED 93
Achievement in Directing
Achievement in Film Editing
VENUS
Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
VOLVER
Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
WATER
Best Foreign Language Film of the Year
WEST BANK STORY
Best Live Action Short Film
Haven’t seen much of them – I wait for DVDs – but Meryl Streep’s nomination for The Devil Wears Prada is well deserved. I doubt she’ll win again, but the performance was amazing and I can’t think of any actress smart enough to play it the way he did – understated and soft spoken.
I have to admit I am shocked and thrilled that Little Miss Sunshine was nominated for best picture. I don’t think it has a snowballs chance in hell of winning, but being nominated is victory in and of itself, I think. I saw it after I made my top ten list, but Letters from Iwo Jima is my favorite picture of the year this year so I’ll be pulling for that one. I wouldn’t be surprised if either Babel, The Queen, or The Departed won though.
I fear that Marty won’t get his best director award this year either. I dunno, maybe fear is the wrong word, but Clint really deserves it this year. The fact that he has already won it shouldn’t matter, he deserves it this year as well.
The fact that Ken Watanabe wasn’t nominated is disappointing but I’m not sure who I’d remove. I could give about 10 nominations this year. I’m pretty sure Forest Whitaker will win it running away. Same thing with Helen Mirren.
Monster’s House was the only animated movie that I liked this year, so naturally I think that should win.
Letters - original screenplay, Little Children - adapted, and Pan’s Labyrinth for foreign would make my day (I’ve only seen three of those and water was released in 2005 so I’m confused about that one).
I’d love to see Pan’s Labyrinth win Art Direction and anything else it can.
I’m reasonably happy with the nominations overall with the exception of Little Children not being nominated for best picture. Oh well.
Wow, I haven’t seen any of the nominated performances or movies. What’s wrong with me??!! Then again, I have yet to see Jamie Fox in Ray…and that was 2 Oscars ago.
What a kick it would be to have Eddie Murphy win an Oscar! I’d really like to see Leo Dicaprio win also, he is very underappreciated as an actor. Could this be Marty Scorsese’s year finally? I think Peter O’Toole should have just taken the honorary Oscar, I don’t see him winning this year either. We’ll see if backlash will start to affect Jennifer Hudson’s chances.
Overall I think the best pic nominess are kind of meh…none of them really interest me all that much. Some of my friends saw Babel and weren’t all that impressed with it. But will be watching for the DVD releases on lots of these. Can’t wait for the show!!!
I think Babel will win. Like Crash last year, everyone is in it so lots of insiders will be rooting for it. Plus, like Crash it seems to have the whole weighty issue thing with a healthy dose of coincidence going for it. I have no interest in the movie though (like Crash) and I won’t bother to even put it on my Netflix queue.
It might be worth noting that The New York Critics Circle winner for best picture (United 93) wasn’t nominated. This ensures that for the 12th time in the last 13 years the Academy will pick a different movie than what is probably the most esteemed critics award.
This is the first year in a long time I have not seen any of the nominated films, but I feel secure in saying Cate Blanchett should win any category she is in. Cate Blanchett should win every frigging category she is ever nominated for. Can anyone guess I am a Cate Blanchett fan?
I’m glad Letters got a Best Picture nom. I’m a little surprised that LMS got one. It was amusing enough but a little fluffy to be called Best Picture material (IMO). It certainly doesn’t deserve to nominated ahead of United 93 or even Dreamgirls.
I thought Leo was better in The Departed than in Blood Diamond but he was sill pretty good in the latter once you got past the accent. I think that Forest Whitaker* is going to get the statue, though.
Helen Mirren is a lock for Best Actress.
I’m predicting Eddie Murphy for Best Supporting Actor and I couldn’t really argue with it. I was glad to see both Alan Arkin and Mark Wahlberg get recognized. Both stole scenes in their movies. I haven’t seen Little Children but…Jackie Earle Haley? Wasn’t he the delinquent in the Bad News Bears movies? How random is that? I didn’t know he was still even working, much less that he’d gotten any Oscar buzz. He must be good in that movie, huh?
I think J-Hud is the odds on favorite for Best Supporting Actress but that girl from Babel might be a dark horse.
Best Picture is probably between The Departed and Letters From Iwo Jima. Actually, who am I kidding. They’ll probably give it to Babel. Babel is this year’s Crash.
I must go out and catch the few nominated films I have yet to see (frankly, the Best Picture line-up is looking pretty abysmal), though the only category or person I even care about in the entire line-up is Ryan Gosling in Half Nelson. He’ll never win, too understated, but I’ll be damned if that wasn’t truly the finest performance I’ve seen all year.
I’m hoping Paul Greengrass wins for United 93. I cannot definitively say it deserves it, since I, in fact, have not seen any of the other movies. But I cannot imagine a more deftly and brilliantly handled directing job.
Did it just win the Screen Writer’s Guild award for best picture? Shouldn’t be surprising that it got this nomination, or could win.
A funny year. No 600 Pound Gorilla.
I’ve never heard so many people comment on a movie’s sound effects that I’ve heard from people who saw Pan’s Labyrinth, so it’s surprising that didn’t get a Sound Nomination.
I have to say that in most cases, where I was wrong about my predictions, I was happier with the final result. I’ll gladly take Gosling over Cohen, Haley over Nicholson, and Greengrass over Condon.
And Dreamgirls doesn’t get a Pic nod–Hooray! I was actually quite shocked at how not-good that movie was (certainly leagues behind any in the current Pic field) and couldn’t believe so many people would be enamored with it. Looks like I was wrong to doubt the Academy! :eek: Across the board, in the major categories, it’s a particularly strong slate, and any really probs seem like nit-picking given the bigger picture.
I just hope the DG snub doesn’t bring up the spectre of alleged “racism” (this in a year where 5 of the 20 acting nominees are black–an Oscar record).
Glad to see Pan’s Lab get 6 and Children of Men score 3. I didn’t like United 93 as much as a lot of people, but its two nods are quite appropriate. Glad The Prestige got more nods than The Illusionist. Overall, a very impressive tally.
But since both DG & Babel are competing against themselves in some categories, the most any film can possibly get (barring a very unlikely tie) is 6.
Some random trivia/facts:
Cate Blanchett films tally an impressive 12 nods total, including 3 of the 5 Score nominations.
The Departed becomes the 10th Jack Nicholson movie to get a Best Picture nomination. Babel is Cate Blanchett’s 6th.
When it first opened, Boogie Nights only had 1 Oscar nominee in its cast. Less than 10 years later, it has 7.
Rinko Kikuchi’s nomination is only the 2nd in its category’s history for a foreign-language performance.
The 5 Best Actress nominees have, between them, 15 lead and 9 supporting prior Oscar nominations.
He did take the Honorary Oscar, and gave one of the best speeches ever too.
Thanks for the trivia ArchiveGuy. I love tidbits like that.
It won the Producers Guild, which sounds about right. They like those Little Movies That Could. The Writers Guild will announce their winner on February 11. I keep a Guild list here.
Or Children of Men. Little Miss Sunshine is the Babe/Full Monty/Chocolat of this year. There often seems to be one of these little movies that for some reason pique the interest of voters and get in over other, heavier films.
I loved him in both and of course his Departed character is a nice guy, very sympathetic, but his Blood Diamond role was one of the best of his career (though The Departed was, IMO, the better of the two movies). By nearly all accounts that I’ve read from People Who Would Know, his accent was dead on. Or do you know how a Rhodesian who’s lived in South Africa for many years sounds? I’m not saying I do, but I believe the people who’ve said it was right.
Yes, he is. He hadn’t worked on film since 1993, then he got the role of Sugar Boy (Willie Stark’s driver/bodyguard) in All The King’s Men, and Ronnie McGorvey in Little Children. Both roles were good ones, but he really stood out in LC. His character was disgusting and dispicable, and yet you felt sorry for him anyway. I’ve never seen the Bad News Bears movies, and I don’t remember him in the movies I have seen (Breaking Away and Damnation Alley) and I’ve never seen any of his television work, so for me he was an unknown quantity that turned out to be the best thing about the movie (the best performance, that is). I’m very happy for him. His is one of those stories that provide proof that anyone can make a “comeback” in Hollywood.
Some new Director tallies (lifetime body of work, updated for today’s news):
Martin Scorsese: 13 films, 64 nominations (including 20 acting nods, 7 writing nods, and 6 Pic & Director nods)
Clint Eastwood: 10 films, 33 nominations (including 4 Pic & Director nods)
Stephen Frears: 6 films, 21 nominations (including 4 Actress & 5 writing nods)
Ed Zwick: 4 films, 17 nominations
Mel Gibson: 3 films, 16 nominations
Wolfgang Petersen: 6 films, 15 nominations
Steven Soderbergh: 5 films, 14 nominations
The Curse of the Golden Flower is also the 6th film by Zhang Yimou to be nominated for an Oscar, putting him just 1 behind Akira Kurosawa (who holds the record for Asian directors)
New Nominee Tallies
Kevin O’Connell (Sound, Apocalypto): 19 nominations, 0 wins
Randy Newman (Song, Cars): 17 nominations (8 for Song, 7 for Score), 1 win
Gary Rydstrom (Animated Short, Lifted): 14 nominations (6 Sound, 7 Sound Editing, 1 AnimShrt), 7 wins
Andy Nelson (Sound, Blood Diamond): 13 nominations, 1 win
Steven Spielberg (Picture, Letters from Iwo Jima): 12 nominations (6 Picture, 6 Director), 3 wins (1 Thalberg award)
Greg P. Russell (Sound, Apocalypto): 11 nominations, 0 wins
Christopher Boyes (Sound & Sound Editing, PotC: DMC): 10 nominations (6 Sound, 4 Sound Editing), 4 wins
Clint Eastwood: 10 nominations (4 Pic, 4 Director, 2 Actor), 4 wins
Michael Minkler (Sound, Dreamgirls): 10 nominations, 2 wins
Anna Behlmer (Sound, Blood Diamond): 9 nominations, 0 wins
Milena Canonero (Costumes, Marie Antoinette): 8 nominations, 2 wins
Thomas Newman (Score, The Good German): 8 nominations, 0 wins
Peter O’Toole (Actor, Venus): 8 nominations, 0 wins (1 Honorary Oscar)
Martin Scorsese: 8 nominations (6 Director, 2 Scrnply), 0 wins
George Watters II (Sound Editing, PotC: DMC): 8 nominations, 2 wins
Holy Cats! I sent JEH a “congratulations” email and got a response back! Whee! OK - it was only a “Thanks, Pam” from “j”, but it counts, right? Made my day! 
VCNJ~