Oscar/Academy Award Nominations

Nominations for the 80th Academy Awards have just been announced at the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2007 will be presented on Sunday, February 24th, 2008, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center.

Here is the complete list of nominees:

Best motion picture of the year:
* Atonement
* Juno
* Michael Clayton
* No Country for Old Men
* There Will Be Blood

Performance by an actor in a leading role:
* 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)

Performance by an actor in a supporting role:
* 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)

Performance by an actress in a leading role:
* Cate Blanchett (Elizabeth: The Golden Age)
* Julie Christie (Away from Her)
* Marion Cotillard (La Vie en Rose)
* Laura Linney (The Savages)
* Ellen Page (Juno)

Performance by an actress in a supporting role:
* Cate Blanchett (I'm Not There)
* Ruby Dee (American Gangster)
* Saoirse Ronan (Atonement)
* Amy Ryan (Gone Baby Gone)
* Tilda Swinton (Michael Clayton)

Best animated feature film of the year:
* Persepolis
* Ratatouille
* Surf's Up

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 (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)

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 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 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

Achievement in 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 foreign language film of the year:
* Beaufort (Israel)
* The Counterfeiters (Austria)
* Katyn (Poland)
* Mongol (Kazakhstan)
* 12 (Russia)

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, Martin Samuel)

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 music written for motion pictures (Original song):
* Once ("Falling Slowly" - Music and Lyric by Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova)
* Enchanted ("Happy Working Song" - Music by Alan Menken, Lyric by Stephen Schwartz)
* August Rush ("Raise It Up" - Nominees to be determined)
* Enchanted ("So Close" - Music by Alan Menken, Lyric by Stephen Schwartz)
* Enchanted ("That's How You Know" - Music by Alan Menken, Lyric by Stephen Schwartz)

Best animated short film:
* I Met the Walrus
* Madame Tutli-Putli
* Meme Les Pigeons Vont au Paradis (Even Pigeons Go to Heaven)
* My Love (Moya Lyubov)
* Peter & the Wolf

Best live action short film:
* At Night
* Il Supplente (The Substitute)
* Le Mozart des Pickpockets (The Mozart of Pickpockets)
* Tanghi Argentini
* The Tonto Woman

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)

Achievement in 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)

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)

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