The one I’m most disappointed in is Hal Holbrook for best supporting actor for “Into The Wild”.
Can’t argue with much else. I like seeing Juno getting nominated.
Why are you disappointed with Hal Holbrook being nominated?
I have seen absolutely ZERO of the nominated movies/roles, and honestly There Will be Blood and No Country for Old Men sound utterly boring and pretentious to me. But I would like to see Juno and Michael Clayton when the come out on DVD. I was a bit surprised that Sweeney Todd did not get nominated, but I guess the Academy has never much liked Tim Burton for some reason.
The big story this year of course is: Will there even be a ceremony?
These aren’t predictions, these are the actual nominees.
BEST PICTURE
Atonement
Juno
Michael Clayton
No Country For Old Men
There Will Be Blood
BEST 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
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
Viggo Mortensen - 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
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Casey Affleck - The Assassination 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 SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Cate Blanchett - I’m Not There
Ruby Dee - American Gangster
Saorise Ronan - Atonement
Amy Ryan - Gone Baby Gone
Tilda Swinton - Michael Clayton
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Juno - Diablo Cody
Lars and the Real Girl - Nancy Oliver
Michael Clayton - Tony Gilroy
Ratatouille - Brad Bird
The Savages - Tamara Jenkins
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Atonement - Christopher Hampton
Away From Her - Sarah Polley
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly - Ronald Harwood
No Country For Old Men - Ethan Coen and Joel Coen
There Will Be Blood - Paul Thomas Anderson
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Persepolis
Ratatouille
Surf’s Up
BEST 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
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford - Roger Deakins
Atonement - Seamus McGarvey
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly - Janusz Kaminski
No Country for Old Men - Roger Deakins
There Will Be Blood - Robert Elswit
BEST 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
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
No End In Sight
Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience
Sicko
Taxi to the Dark Side
War/Dance
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT
Freeheld
La Corona (The Crown)
Salim Baba
Sari’s Mother
BEST FILM EDITING
The Bourne Ultimatum - Christopher Rouse
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly - Juliette Welfling
Into The Wild - Jay Cassidy
No Country For Old Men - “Roderick Jaynes” (Ethan Coen and Joel Coen)
There Will Be Blood - Dylan Tichenor
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Beaufort (Israel, directed by Joseph Cedar)
Counterfeiters, The (Austria, directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky)
Katyn (Poland, directed by Andrzej Wajda)
Mongol (Kazakhstan, directed by Sergei Bodrov)
12 (Russia, directed by Nikita Mikhalkov)
BEST MAKEUP
La Vie en Rose
Norbit
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
BEST 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
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Atonement - Dario Marianelli
The Kite Runner - Alberto Iglesias
Michael Clayton - James Newton Howard
Ratatouille - Michael Giacchino
3:10 To Yuma - Marco Beltrami
BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM
I Met The Walrus
Madame Tutli-Putli
Even Pigeons To To Heaven (Même Les Pigeons Vont au Paradis)
My Love (Moya Lyubov)
Peter & The Wolf
BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM
At Night
Il Supplente (The Substitute)
Le Mozart Des Pickpockets (The Mozard Of Pickpockets)
Tanghi Argentini
The Tonto Woman
BEST 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
BEST 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
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
The Golden Compass - Michael Fink, Bill Westenhofer, Ben Morris and Trevor Wood
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End - John Knoll, Hal Hickel, Charles Gibson and John Frazier
Transformers - Scott Farrar, Scott Benza, Russell Earl and John Frazier
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Here’s the nomination count:
[8] No Country for Old Men
Picture
Director
Supporting Actor
Adapted Screenplay
Cinematography
Editing
Sound Editing
Sound Mixing
[8] There Will Be Blood
Picture
Director
Actor
Adapted Screenplay
Cinematography
Editing
Art Direction
Sound Editing
[7] Atonement
Picture
Supporting Actress
Adapted Screenplay
Cinematography
Art Direction
Costume Design
Original Score
[7] Michael Clayton
Picture
Director
Actor
Supporting Actor
Supporting Actress
Original Screenplay
Original Score
[5] Ratatouille
Animated Film
Original Screenplay
Sound Editing
Sound Mixing
Original Score
[4] The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Director
Adapted Screenplay
Cinematography
Editing
[4] Juno
Picture
Director
Actress
Original Screenplay
[3] The Bourne Ultimatum
Editing
Sound Editing
Sound Mixing
[3] Enchanted
Original Song x3
[3] Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Actor
Art Direction
Costume
[3] Transformers
Sound Editing
Sound Mixing
Visual Effects
[3] La Vie en Rose
Actress
Costume Design
Makeup
[2] 3:10 to Yuma
Sound Mixing
Original Score
[2] American Gangster
Supporting Actress
Art Direction
[2] The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Supporting Actor
Cinematography
[2] Away from Her
Actress
Adapted Screenplay
[2] Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Actress
Costume Design
[2] The Golden Compass
Art Direction
Visual Effects
[2] Into the Wild
Supporting Actor
Editing
[2] Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
Makeup
Visual Effects
[2] The Savages
Actress
Original Screenplay
I haven’t checked to see how I did in predicting, but I know I missed on on Atonement. Silly me. At least I hedged about it. I missed on Angelina Jolie and Laura Linney (I’m THRILLED about her nomination!), and I never thought the director of Juno would make it. That’s a shocker. Hooray for Sarah Polley too!
No Country For Old Men is thrilling end to end.
Hal Holbrook wasn’t even the best supporting actor in THAT movie. It’s one of those “give it to the old man” awards.
He’s one of those choices where for some reason the first person who saw the movie went, “Hal Holbrook was amazing” and then everyone just started going, “yeah, Hal Holbrook was amazing.”
Hello Kitty took the words right out of my mouth!: "honestly There Will be Blood and No Country for Old Men sound utterly boring and pretentious to me. " From their descriptions I can’t imagine putting down money to see those in a theatre.
Don’t understand why Tim Burton or Angelina Jolie weren’t nominated. Then again, I never understand these things. Hope this is Johnny Depp’s year, but it probably won’t be. Getting nominated is honor enough, I suppose.
No Country for Old Men is about a guy who steals a briefcase full of money in a drug deal gone wrong, and gets chased by a hired killer.
You can choose not to see it if you want, but let’s try different adjectives than “pretentious” and “boring”.
Trunk - you are right. “Old Men” simply doesn’t sound like my kind of movie; “There will be Blood” sounds pretentious and boring.
OK, I will give you that maybe No Country for Old Men is not pretentious nor boring, but like well he’s back said, it’s not my kind of movie. I guess it just doesn’t appeal to me. Neither does There Will be Blood. For the record, I’ve never seen Titanic, Mystic River or Million Dollar Baby for the same reason…none of them appeal to me. At all.
I see a similar thing with Daniel Day Lewis’s nomination as you do with Hal Holbrook’s…a few people see the movie and say “he’s amazing” and then everyone else starts saying “wow what a performance”, and because he’s DDL (or the Old Guy as in Holbrook’s case) well he’s got to be nominated, right? Just from the clips of the movie I’ve seen it looks like he’s playing a variation of the same character from Gangs of New York.
Well, that’s why the Oscars are so much fun…everyone has an opinion, right!!? 
I’m happy to see *Juno * get four nominations, though I’m surprised it get a directing nod for Jason Reitman. I think Tim Burton was more deserving. I do think that Juno has an outside shot at Best Picture though, so the directing nod is sort of obligatory.
I haven’t seen many of the nominated films this year, but I do really want to see both *No Country For Old Men * and There Will Be Blood.
It’s neither.
Wrong. DDL’s performance is the best of the year, period. The girl from Juno, I think, better fits your description of a “buzz” nomination. She isn’t that great and her performance is actually kind of irritating but she’s riding the wave of a good script.
He’s not. The characters are not remotely similar.
Some of them are more informed than others.
The characters are nothing alike. The only similarity is they both have a mustache. Daniel Day-Lewis’s performance is easily the best of the year.
I only wish that** Sweeney Todd** was nominated for Best Picture instead of Juno, which was cute but I wouldn’t say it was the best film of the year.
Juno is this year’s Little Miss Sunshine. But it has no chance of winning up against TWBB and NCFOM.
I think Daniel Day-Lewis is a lock for Best Actor, which is too bad for Johnny Depp, because I think this would have been his year otherwise. I am disappointed James McAvoy wasn’t nominated for Atonement, but am glad to see it got a couple nods anyway.
I would like to see TWBB win Best Pic but I would be ok with NCFOM winning. I just hope it doesn’t go to Atonement, which is overrated and hampered by an underwritten central relationship and weak acting by Keira Knightly or Michael Clayton which is kind of pretentious and boring, not to mention borderline incomprehensible. It has a few good scenes and a few good performances but it’s also kind of ponderous and convoluted. Juno is amusing and has heart but is really too lightweight to be a BP.
DDL should win easily for Best Actor but I’m glad to see Viggo Mortenson get some recognition. The other nominees were fine in their roles but none of them were really utstanding and none of them came close to what DDL did.
In the Best Actress category, I think Marion Cotillard might be a surprise winner. Blanchett was good in a terrible movie (but I thought it was terrible in a good way. It’s high camp). I haven’t seen Linney’s or Christie’s performances so I can’t comment on them. I can’t see Ellen Page getting the win, despite Juno’s popularity. This category is kind of wide open, though.
Supporting actor will be Javier Bardem. This is probably the biggest cinch of the year. Anton Chigurh rules. I liked PSH’s performance in Charlie Wilson’s War, though. He was really the best thing in an ultimately forgettable movie.
Supporting Actress I think will go to Blanchett for her novelty performance but my choice would be Amy Ryan. I really bought her as a drug addicted skank. She gave a very realistic performance in a role that could have easily lent itself to cheesy histrionics and melodrama. I would have liked to see Jennifer Garner get a nomination for Juno.
Best director I think will go to the Cohen brothers, though by all rights it should go to PTA.
I predict that the only award Juno walks away with is screenplay.
Yeah, I forgot to mention Viggo.
He was great in Eastern Promises and I thought that was a great movie.
He had the look, the voice. It was a great physical performance, and when you look back on it after the movie ends, you realize how subtle he was about so many things. . .maybe a longer look at someone, or a touch. He was completely manipulative of everyone without seeming to try at all.
That said, I have yet to see TWBB, but I’m a fan of DDL, and I expect that if this performance was as good as any of his others, he’s deserving of the win.
I was really kind of hoping they’d give the editing nomination for No Country for Old Men to Roderick Jaynes, I thought it’d be kind of amusing. After all, they did give a screenplay award to Donald Kaufman if I remember correctly.
Overall, I really like the nominations. I’m constantly surprised that Atonement gets the amount of love that it gets - and I did like it - but I thought it missed on a few notes. Opinions and all…
It was nice to see Roger Deakins get a few nominations, he did some pretty good work.
We all know what will happen in the original song category. Enchantment’s three songs will split votes and the award will got to Once. It always happens.
…and good for Juno. It’s more than worthy. Can’t win though, which is unfortunate. I think Best Actress category is slightly more wide open so if it wins, it’ll be there or maybe even original screenplay.
Best nominations:
Tommy Lee Jones (a genuine surprise) & Viggo Mortensen
Away From Her for Adapted Screenplay
Blood and No Country lead the pack with 8 each
Bourne finally gets some love (3 nods)
2 nods for Roger Deakins (Cinematography)
Worst Nominations
Norbit for Makeup :eek: (over Sweeney Todd, Hairspray et al.)
Cate Blanchett for Actress (for her Elizabeth snoozer)
Atonement for Picture
3 Enchanted songs nominated (over anything from Into the Wild or Hairspray)
Visual Effects for Pirates 3
Sad shutouts–Zilchola for Zodiac, Hairspray, Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead, The Kingdom and only 2 for Into the Wild
Blessed shutouts–The ugly (in a variety of ways) 300 gets nothing
Though I agree Bardem is the heavy, heavy favorite, I can think of one that’s even more of a slam-dunk: with 5 nominations (the most for any Pixar movie ever), I’d say Ratatouille is a lock for Animated Feature.
Disappointing to see Into the Wild get so little attention.
Atonement is, in my view, overblown and overrated. But a long, pointless tracking shot won it points with the film school crowd. (And when I say the tracking shot was pointless, I mean it added nothing to the story. It was just a film-geek wank inserted awkwardly into the movie.)
The other nominated films are all worthy picks. Since Into the Wild didn’t get nominated, I would give the nod to No Country for Old Men.
ETA to say Thanks SkipMagic!
They did. Roderick Jaynes was nominated for No Country For Old Men.
Here are some trivia points about this year’s Academy Award nominations (I got most of these from Awards Daily but I didn’t just cut and paste one list. I scanned through a thread and copied them over one by one, and added things of my own). This is not a complete list. I haven’t checked every one of these so there might be disputes.
Sound Mixer Kevin O’Connell now has 20 nominations (no wins yet).
Three people recieved multiple nominations:
Paul Thomas Anderson - Best Director, Best Screenplay, both for There Will Be Blood
Cate Blanchett - Best Actress for Elizabeth: The Golden Age, Best Supporting Actress for I’m Not There
Roger Deakins - Cinematography for The Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford, and No Country For Old Men
Two of the acting nominations are over 80 years old. Ruby Dee (83) is now the 2nd oldest acting nominee ever (in ANY category) behind Gloria Stuart (87 when getting nominated). Also, Ruby Dee now holds the record for shortest performance nominated for an Oscar.
Ruby Dee is the only black acting nominee.
There’s an an age difference of 70 years between two nominees in the Best Supporting Actress category (Ruby Dee and Saorise Ronan)
Saorise Ronan is the youngest ever Irish actor to be nominated. She was born in New York while her father was working there.
Saorise is pronounced “Sear-sha.”"
Hal Holbrook is not only the oldest Best Supporting Actor nominee, he’s the oldest nominee ever.
Out of 20 acting noms, 17 are from different films.
Cate Blanchett is the first woman to ever be nominated for reprising a role.
Cate Blanchett is now one of 50 actors with 5 or more nominations and one of 11 with double nominations in the same year.
Half of the actors nominated are not American.
Marion Cotillard receives the 10th nomination for a French actress. No French actress has ever won the Academy Award.
Julie Christie won her first Lead Actress Academy Award in 1966, for the film Darling. If Christie wins for Away From Her, there will be 42 years difference between her first and 2nd win. This is Christie’s 3rd nomination. She was also nominated in 1972 for McCabe & Mrs. Miller.
Four of the screenplay nominations were by women screenwriters (Diablo Cody for Juno, Nancy Oliver for Lars and the Real Girl, Tamara Jenkins for The Savages and Sarah Polley for Away From Her)
Tommy Lee Jones is the first actor to be nominated for a SAG for one film and for Oscars for another film.
Marjan Satrapi is the first woman ever to be nominated in the Best Animated Feature category (for Persepolis).
Michael Clayton is the only movie with multiple nominations in acting.
Julian Schnabel (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly) is the second consecutive American to be nominated for having directed a foreign language film. (Last year, Clint Eastwood was nominated for directing the Japanese-language Letters From Iwo Jima).
Costume Designer Marit Allen receives her first nomination posthumously for La Vie en Rose.
Editor “Roderick Jaynes” is the first fictional person to receive multiple nominations. (Roderick Jaynes is actually Joen Coen and Ethan Coen)
Juliette Welfling is the first French woman to be nominated for best editing, for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.