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80th Academy Awards

Nominations Tue 22.Jan.08 • Awards Sun 24.Feb.08

Rich's comments: After a bad CGI movie montage - like some sort of fanboy YouTube mash-up, Jon Stewart beams onto the stage though some sort of pipeline. He sounds off-the-cuff, which is very nice, joking that after three months of strike, welcome to the make-up sex. He makes fun of the atmosphere of self-congratulation, and the plethora of psychopath movies - "Thank god for teen pregnancy". And he works his way through the audience, joking about the films and taking small political jabs everywhere...

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MULTI - NOMINEES . . .
8 THERE WILL BE BLOOD
   NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
7 ATONEMENT
   MICHAEL CLAYTON
5 RATATOUILLE
4 JUNO
   THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY     
3 SWEENEY TODD, LA VIE EN ROSE,
   THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM,
   ENCHANTED, TRANSFORMERS.
2 THE SAVAGES, AWAY FROM HER,
   ELIZABETH: THE GOLDEN AGE, INTO THE WILD,
   THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES,
   AMERICAN GANGSTER, THE GOLDEN COMPASS,
   3:10 TO YUMA, PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN 3.
A L L   T H E   N O M I N E E S   &   W I N N E R S
P I C T U R E D I R E C T O R
Atonement
Juno
Michael Clayton
winner! No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood
Julian Schnabel (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly)
Jason Reitman (Juno)
Tony Gilroy (Michael Clayton)
winner! Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (No Country for Old Men)
Paul Thomas Anderson (There Will Be Blood)
A C T O R A C T R E S S
George Clooney (Michael Clayton)
winner! Daniel Day-Lewis (There Will Be Blood)
Johnny Depp (Sweeney Todd)
Tommy Lee Jones (In the Valley of Elah)
Viggo Mortensen (Eastern Promises)
Cate Blanchett (Elizabeth: The Golden Age)
Julie Christie (Away from Her)
winner! Marion Cotillard (La Vie en Rose)
Laura Linney (The Savages)
Ellen Page (Juno)
S U P P O R T I N G   A C T O R S U P P O R T I N G   A C T R E S S
Casey Affleck (The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford)
winner! Javier Bardem (No Country for Old Men)
Philip Seymour Hoffman (Charlie Wilson's War)
Hal Holbrook (Into the Wild)
Tom Wilkinson (Michael Clayton)
Cate Blanchett (I'm Not There)
Ruby Dee (American Gangster)
Saoirse Ronan (Atonement)
Amy Ryan (Gone Baby Gone)
winner! Tilda Swinton (Michael Clayton)
O R I G I N A L   S C R E E N P L A Y A D A P T E D   S C R E E N P L A Y
winner! Diablo Cody (Juno)
Nancy Oliver (Lars and the Real Girl)
Tony Gilroy (Michael Clayton)
Brad Bird (Ratatouille)
Tamara Jenkins (The Savages)
 Christopher Hampton (Atonement)
Sarah Polley (Away from Her)
Ronald Harwood (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly)
winner! Joel Coen, Ethan Coen (No Country for Old Men)
Paul Thomas Anderson (There Will Be Blood)
F O R E I G N   F I L M A N I M A T E D   F E A T U R E
Beaufort (Israel)
winner! The Counterfeiters (Austria)
Katyn (Poland)
Mongol (Kazakhstan)
12 (Russia)
 Persepolis
winner! Ratatouille
Surf's Up
O R I G I N A L   S C O R E O R I G I N A L   S O N G
winner! Atonement (Dario Marianelli)
The Kite Runner (Alberto Iglesias)
Michael Clayton (James Newton Howard)
Ratatouille (Michael Giacchino)
3:10 to Yuma (Marco Beltrami)
 winner! Falling Slowly (Once)
Happy Working Song (Enchanted)
Raise It Up (August Rush)
So Close (Enchanted)
That's How You Know (Enchanted)
C I N E M A T O G R A P H Y A R T   D I R E C T I O N
The Assassination of Jesse James (Roger Deakins)
Atonement (Seamus McGarvey)
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Janusz Kaminski)
No Country for Old Men (Roger Deakins)
winner! There Will Be Blood (Robert Elswit)
 American Gangster (Arthur Max, Beth A Rubino)
Atonement (Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer)
The Golden Compass (Dennis Gassner, Anna Pinnock)
winner! Sweeney Todd (Dante Ferretti, Francesca Lo Schiavo)
There Will Be Blood (Jack Fisk, Jim Erickson)
C O S T U M E   D E S I G N
 M A K E - U P
Across the Universe (Albert Wolsky)
Atonement (Jacqueline Durran)
winner! Elizabeth: The Golden Age (Alexandra Byrne)
La Vie en Rose (Marit Allen)
Sweeney Todd (Colleen Atwood)
 winner! La Vie en Rose (Didier Lavergne, Jan Archibald)
Norbit (Rick Baker, Kazuhiro Tsuji)
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (Ve Neill, Martin Samuel)
F I L M   E D I T I N G V I S U A L   E F F E C T S
winner! 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)
 winner! The Golden Compass
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Transformers
S O U N D   M I X I N G S O U N D   E D I T I N G
winner! The Bourne Ultimatum
No Country for Old Men
Ratatouillee
3:10 to Yuma
Transformers
winner! The Bourne Ultimatum
No Country for Old Men
Ratatouille
There Will Be Blood
Transformers
D O C U M E N T A R Y   F E A T U R E D O C U M E N T A R Y   S H O R T
No End in Sight
Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience
Sicko
winner! Taxi to the Dark Side
War/Dance
winner! Freeheld
The Crown
Salim Baba
Sari's Mother
A N I M A T E D   S H O R T L I V E - A C T I O N   S H O R T
I Met the Walrus
Madame Tutli-Putli
My Love
winner! Peter & the Wolf
At Night
The Substitute
winner! The Mozart of Pickpockets
Tanghi Argentini
The Tonto Woman
S P E C I A L   A W A R D S
Honorary Oscar: Robert Boyle
Gordon E Sawyer Award: David Grafton
John A Bonner Medal: David Inglish
Award of Merit: Eastman Kodak
Scientific & Engineering Awards: Digital Domain, Industrial Light & Magic
Technical Achievement Awards: Tinsley Transfers, TinyFoggers, Skater Dolly, RealFlow, Rhythm & Hues, Maya Fluid Efects, Flowline. back to the top
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© 2008 by Rich Cline, Shadows on the Wall
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