The Oscar Nominations: Clayton and Juno join TWWB and NCFOM

Michael Clayton and Juno might not have 8 nominations like my favorite two pictures of the year each have (No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood) but Jason Reitman and Tony Gilroy are the true winners with today’s announcements becoming the dark horse selections to beat out The Diving Bell and the Butterfly among others. Completing the fivesome is the depleted Atonement – a film that comes in with less clout than it had with the Golden Globes. Here is the complete list below…..:

Best Picture:

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
ACTOR
George Clooney, “Michael Clayton”
Daniel
Day-Lewis, “There Will Be Blood”
Johnny Depp, “Sweeney Todd”

Viggo Mortensen, “Eastern Promises”
Tommy Lee Jones, “In
the Valley of Elah”

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 Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford”

Javier Bardem, “No Country for Old Men”
Hal Holbrook,
“Into The Wild”
Philip Seymour Hoffman, “Charlie Wilson’s War”
Tom
Wilkinson, “Michael Clayton”

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

BEST
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Diablo Cody, “Juno”
Nancy
Oliver, “Lars and the Real Girl”
Tony Gilroy, “Michael Clayton”

Brad Bird, Story by Jan Pinkava, Jim Capobianco, Brad Bird,
“Ratatouille”
Tamara Jenkins, “The Savages”

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Paul Thomas
Anderson, “There Will Be Blood”
Christopher Hampton, “Atonement”

Ronald Harwood, “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”
Joel Coen
and Ethan Coen, “No Country for Old Men”
Sarah Polley, “Away From
Her”

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE
FILM
“Beaufort” (Israel)
“The Counterfeiters” (Austria)
“Katyn” (Poland)
“Mongol” (Kazakhstan)

“12” (Russia)

BEST ANIMATED
FILM
“Persepolis”
“Ratatouille”
“Surf’s
Up”

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
“Lust, Caution,” Pan Lai
“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”)
“Ochberg’s
Orphans”
“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
“There Will Be Blood,” Dylan
Tichenor

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

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
ORIGINAL SONG
“Falling Slowly” from “Once”
“Happy
Working Song” from “Enchanted”
“Raise It Up” from “August Rush”

“So Close” from “Enchanted”
“Come So Far (Got So Far to
Go)” from “Hairspray”
“That’s How You Know” from “Enchanted”

BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM
“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”