Oscars '08

[Sir Calumn]

http://www.imdb.com/features/rto/2008/oscars

The Date: Sunday, 24th February 2008

The nominations are now in for the 2008 80th annual Academy Awards...

THE 2008 OSCAR NOMINEES

BEST PICTURE
Atonement
Juno
Michael Clayton
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood

BEST ACTOR
George Clooney, Michael Clayton
Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood
Johnny Depp, Sweeney Todd
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
Saoirse Ronan, Atonement
Amy Ryan, Gone Baby Gone
Tilda Swinton, Michael Clayton

BEST DIRECTOR
Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will Be Blood
Joel and Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men
Tony Gilroy, Michael Clayton
Jason Reitman, Juno
Julian Schnabel, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Brad Bird, Ratatouille
Diablo Cody, Juno
Tony Gilroy, Michael Clayton
Tamara Jenkins, The Savages
Nancy Oliver, Lars and the Real Girl

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will Be Blood
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men
Christopher Hampton, Atonement
Ronald Harwood, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Sarah Polley, Away From Her

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Persepolis
Ratatouille
Surf's Up

BEST ART DIRECTION
American Gangster
Atonement
The Golden Compass
Sweeney Todd
There Will Be Blood

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
The Assassination of Jesse James…
Atonement
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Across the Universe
Atonement
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
La Vie en Rose
Sweeney Todd

BEST DOCUMENTARY
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 EDITING
The Bourne Ultimatum
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Into the Wild
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood

BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM
Beaufort (Israel) 
The Counterfeiters (Austria) 
Katyn (Poland) 
Mongol (Kazakhstan) 
12 (Russia)

BEST MAKEUP
La Vie en Rose
Norbit
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Atonement
The Kite Runner
Michael Clayton
Ratatouille
3:10 to Yuma

BEST ORIGINAL SONG
''Falling Slowly,'' Once
''Happy Working Song,'' Enchanted
''Raise It Up,'' August Rush
''So Close,'' Enchanted
''That's How You Know,'' Enchanted

BEST SOUND EDITING
The Bourne Ultimatum
No Country for Old Men
Ratatouille
There Will Be Blood
Transformers

BEST SOUND MIXING
The Bourne Ultimatum
No Country for Old Men
Ratatouille
3:10 to Yuma
Transformers

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
The Golden Compass
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Transformers

BEST ANIMATED SHORT
I Met the Walrus
Madame Tutli-Putli
Même Les Pigeons Vont au Paradis (Even Pigeons Go to Heaven)
My Love (Moya Lyubov)
Peter & the Wolf

BEST LIVE-ACTION SHORT
At Night
Il Supplente (The Substitute)
Le Mozart des Pickpockets (The Mozart of Pickpockets)
Tanghi Argentini
The Tonto Woman

Best picture definately looks like a two horse race between No Country For Old Men and There Will Be Blood. I haven't seen the latter, but No Country For Old Men was definately good enough to win, though it wasnt perfect. I will reconsider as soon as I've seen TWBB but right now I think No Country will edge it. Atonement is a possible outside bet if the academy decide to go all sentimental. My prediction is No Country for Old Men, and it's also the film I hope will win.

Best actor is wide open, I cant see Clooney taking it but all the others have a chance. I think this could be Depp's year, but Daniel Day-Lewis is looking tough to beat. Tommy Lee Jones is definately in with a chance also, but is probably an outsider, alongside Mortensan. My prediction is Day-Lewis, but my preference would be Tommy Lee Jones.

Best actress..... I am still struggling to work out why on earth Blanchett was nominated here. Linney was also a surprise, I cant see either of them winning. I think it's between Cotillard, Page and Christie, and both expect and home Cotillard to win.

Supporting actor is another pretty open group, though I dont think Wilkinson and Halbrook are anything more than outsiders. I dont think PSH has much of a chance either with quite a light role, so I see this developing into a two horse race between Affleck and Bardem. I predict Bardem but would prefer Affleck.

Supporting actress..... I'd be very surpised if Blanchett didnt wint, and I very much hope she does.

Best director I think is perhaps a little less cut and dry than it may appear, and I still think Schnabel has an outside chance, but obviously once again this is likely to be There Will Be Blood vs No Country For Old Men. I both predict and hope for the Coens.

Best foreign language film.......... REALLY delighted to see both Beaufort and The Counterfeiters getting in. I saw Beaufort several months ago at it's UK premier in a tiny cinema to a crowd of about thirty, yet thought it was excellent. Counterfeiters is one of my favourite films of the year, a real masterpiece. I dont think either will win however, but cant pick from the remaining three. It's a travesty how many great films are missing, however.

I hope Sicko wins best documentary but dont think it will.

So yeah, many of the categories seem to boil down to No Country vs There Will Be Blood, and it's very hard to pick between them. However, I think the academy will pick one and roll with it wholeheartedly, leaving the other with far fewer wins rather than dividing equally. Right now I think No Country will edge it pretty much across the board.

 

[Bonzi]

I enjoyed No Country for Old Men very much, but felt like something was missing there, though... I don't think it will win. Still would love to see Bardem getting the award. And the Coens as the directors also deserve some recogintion.

 

[Hakeem]

Bardem is pretty much a lock I think, and Blanchett for supp actress is a semi-lock, but because she already won once and these are her 4th and 5 noms, maybe Amy Ryan gets momentum and wins it. she's new which always helps in these supporting categories.

director and best pic is a coin toss between No Country and TWWB. I cannot wait to watch PTA's but it seems to be the one everybody is talking about and actually feeling. right now I would say PTA wins director and No Country wins best picture. The Coens win adapted screenplay. and TWWB wins cinematography via Roger Deacon.

Day-Lewis is a lock for best actor I think, and only Clooney could steal it from him but I dont think so.
best actress should go to Julie Christie though Ellen Page could take it from her for her excellent work in Juno. and speaking of that, Diablo Cody I think is a lock to win original screenplay.

animated shopuld go to Ratatouille, but Persepolis could make an upset.

 

[Parra Power]

Juno nominated? Best picture? Are you ******* kidding?


Bourne Ultimatum was this year, right? One of, if not THE, best action/spy movie i've ever seen? And a forgettable teen pic gets best picture nomination? Hell, I enjoyed Simpsons more.

Which retards decide this thing?

 

[SlayerDeuS]

Juno nominated? Best picture? Are you ******* kidding?


Bourne Ultimatum was this year, right? One of, if not THE, best action/spy movie i've ever seen? And a forgettable teen pic gets best picture nomination? Hell, I enjoyed Simpsons more.

Which retards decide this thing?

A group of very old white male Americans.

Anyway, I just saw There Will Be Blood. That music was scary as hell, the ambiance of the entire film was just freaky intense while nothing was going on....I thought I was gonna have a heart attack. Whoever wrote that score should win an Oscar because I was totally enthralled by the film because of it.

The film it is good however I liked No Country better because I thought it had better direction but TWBB has by far the best acting.

DDL will win lead actor but I was so surprised that Paul Dano, the young actor who played the character of Eli/Paul Sunday was totally snubbed for supporting actor. Phillip Seymour Hoffman gets a nomination for his cameo, and yeh all it was is a cameo....while Dano provided perhaps one of the best performances I have ever seen. Which brings us back to the topic of very old white male Americans voting and being a good ol' boy network.

 

[Hakeem]

PSH's part was not a cameo, he was there a good part of the movie. I agree that he shouldn't have been nominated though, but it was kind of a reward because of his work also in Before The Devil Knows You're Dead and The Savages.

 

[Hakeem]

Juno nominated? Best picture? Are you ******* kidding?

did you see the movie? I mean, I dont think it should've been nominated either, but because its such a small movie, but I did love it and thought it was excellent. and its a comedy-drama with some very over-writte pop-language, no teen comedy at all.

teen comedy is that piece of sh1t Meet The Spartans that will be number 1 in the US this weekend over Rambo

 

[Sir Calumn]

I've heard that Juno is like Little Miss Sunshine but even better.

I like it when a smaller more unlikely film get's the not. And I love it that Into the Wild missed out because Sean Penn is a cock.

 

[SlayerDeuS]

did you see the movie? I mean, I dont think it should've been nominated either, but because its such a small movie, but I did love it and thought it was excellent. and its a comedy-drama with some very over-writte pop-language, no teen comedy at all.

teen comedy is that piece of sh1t Meet The Spartans that will be number 1 in the US this weekend over Rambo

Dude Rambo is an 8.8 on IMDb....not that IMDb is the most reliable source but I def didn't see that coming. It should go lower though.

 

[King]

THE 2008 OSCAR NOMINEES

BEST PICTURE
No Country for Old Men

BEST ACTOR
Johnny Depp, Sweeney Todd

BEST ACTRESS
Ellen Page, Juno

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Javier Bardem, No Country for Old Men

BEST DIRECTOR
Joel and Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Diablo Cody, Juno

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Ratatouille

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
No Country for Old Men

BEST DOCUMENTARY
Sicko

BEST EDITING
The Bourne Ultimatum

BEST MAKEUP
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

BEST SOUND EDITING
The Bourne Ultimatum

BEST SOUND MIXING
The Bourne Ultimatum

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Transformers

Juno nominated? Best picture? Are you ******* kidding?


Bourne Ultimatum was this year, right? One of, if not THE, best action/spy movie i've ever seen? And a forgettable teen pic gets best picture nomination? Hell, I enjoyed Simpsons more.

Which retards decide this thing?

Dude, I wouldn't say that about Juno. Juno is actually really good. And Ellen Page surely deserves an award for it!

But I definitely agree about The Bourne Ultimatum as one of the best action/spy movies ever!

Dude Rambo is an 8.8 on IMDb....not that IMDb is the most reliable source but I def didn't see that coming. It should go lower though.

Dude I have seen some weird ratings on IMDB. 8.8 for Rambo......like if it is as good as The Return of the King........

 

[Hakeem]

this will probably be the most predictable Oscars since Return of the King.

SAG awards last night, NCFOM, Daniel Day-Lewis, Julie Christie, Javier Bardem and Ruby Dee won.

Ruby Dee was the only "surprise" beating Cate (:/)

 

[Sir Calumn]

Ruby Dee wont win the oscar.

However Christie now looks like a certainty. Bardem and Day Lewis are now 90% but I still dont think they're guarantees.

 

[Hakeem]

yeah, Day Lewis is a lock for sure. his speech about Heath Ledger made everyone cry. he's got it. plus he doesnt even have an older actor to compete against like Javier Bardem has in Hal Holbrook.

I predict only 1 older actor will win the oscar and that is Julie Christie (Holbrook and Ruby Dee being the others) cause if Ellen Page didnt win last night then she's not winning the Oscar. Juno will have to settle for only a best original screenplay win, if that.

 

[Help?]

Is it just me or did 90% of those movies come out in the last 3 month? Anyway, the nominations are crap anyway. Where is Smockin' Aces? The Kingdom? Spiderman? 300? Really, not even for Best Costume or Best Makeup?

When was the last time we had a comedy nominated? Yeah there is Norbit for Best Makeup but how ******* hard is it to give a man a wig and stuff his cheecks to make them look fat? Just one fact alone that there is no Best Comedy nomination proves that this whole thing is complete bull****. Why not rename "The Oscars" into "The Most Emotional Movie" awards. What does Spiderman have to do to get nominated, since outselling every single movie in human history is not enough? Oh that's right, it can't because its a superhero feature based on a kids comic book.


I used to think that people chosing the nominees were just sophisticated, now i realize that they are dumb and tangled up in as much politics as the white house itself.

 

[ShiftyPowers]

Juno nominated? Best picture? Are you ******* kidding?

That's exactly what I was thinking. That has to be a joke right?

On another note, you guys don't think the Academy will give Clooney a look because of his politics? I think Clooney would give a tremendous speech in front of a massive audience, and that has to play a role for an organization like the Academy.

 

[Sir Calumn]

Clooney can never be a write off for that very reason. And they've got him and Michael Moore together this year.

I disagree with Hakeem that Best Actor is a complete lock, like I said I think Day Lewis is now 90% certain but NOT a guarantee given the nature and quality of the competition.

Juno did well to get nominated but I think you guys are being harsh, I havent seen it but from what I've heard it's really quite special in it's own way.

And Help?, isnt Juno something of a comedy? Little Miss Sunshine definately was, and that was last year. Sideways is another recent example of a comedy to recieve lots of nominations. Sure, the academy prefer the prestige pieces, but they're not entirely biased against comedy.

 

[Help?]

Well no, they gotta throw in a few flicks that would pass as action, comedy thriller etc so that the whole thing will have at least a bit of variability, but overall almost all the movies are about some emotional subject. No diversity whatsoever. Like even comedies like Juno, Little Miss Sunshine and Sideways all have some emotional topic about them, they are more like moral movies with funny parts. Superbad and Knocked Up, now those are comedies.

 

[Sir Calumn]

Well Sideways and Little Miss Sunshine are also damn funny.

I havent seen Superbad or Knocked Up but I find it very hard to believe they can be anything close to oscar worthy.

If anything I think the last couple of oscars have been edging away from the "issues" based movies which are often thought to dominate the academy.

 

[ShiftyPowers]

Knocked Up dragged on way too long and could have been better. Superbad didn't maintain it's humor the entire movie either.

The one recent comedy that was flawless for what it was and got snubbed, was Borat. Little Miss Sunshine was a good movie.

 

[twosmiths]

It's too bad Javier Bardem wasn't nomintated for Best Actor, because I have to say he played one of the most riveting characters I ever watched in cinema. I would put his performance, up there with the caliber of Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump, and Kevin Spacey's character in American Beauty.