OSCARS - 80th Annual Academy Awards - Nominations LIVE Telecast: Sunday, February 24, 2008 The Reel Guy and Family Betting Pool

KEY

RG = Reel Guy

ML = Mother-in-Law

W = Wife

FL = Father-in-Law

M = Mother

BL = Brother-in-Law

S = Sister

Performance by an actor in a leading role

W, M, S, FL
• George Clooney in "Michael Clayton" (Warner Bros.)


ML
• Daniel Day-Lewis in "There Will Be Blood" (Paramount Vantage and Miramax)



• Johnny Depp in "Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" (DreamWorks and
• Warner Bros., Distributed by DreamWorks/Paramount)


BL
• Tommy Lee Jones in "In the Valley of Elah" (Warner Independent)


RG
• Viggo Mortensen in "Eastern Promises" (Focus Features)






Performance by an actor in a supporting role




• Casey Affleck in "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford"(Warner Bros.)


RG, W
• Javier Bardem in "No Country for Old Men" (Miramax and Paramount Vantage)


FL, BL
• Philip Seymour Hoffman in "Charlie Wilson's War" (Universal)


ML
• Hal Holbrook in "Into the Wild" (Paramount Vantage and River Road Entertainment)


M, S
• Tom Wilkinson in "Michael Clayton" (Warner Bros.)








Performance by an actress in a leading role



W, S, FL
• Cate Blanchett in "Elizabeth: The Golden Age" (Universal)



• Julie Christie in "Away from Her" (Lionsgate)



• Marion Cotillard in "La Vie en Rose" (Picturehouse)



• Laura Linney in "The Savages" (Fox Searchlight)


RG, M, ML
• Ellen Page in "Juno" (A Mandate Pictures/Mr. Mudd Production)








Performance by an actress in a supporting role



M
• Cate Blanchett in "I'm Not There" (The Weinstein Company)


ML
• Ruby Dee in "American Gangster" (Universal)



• Saoirse Ronan in "Atonement" (Focus Features)



• Amy Ryan in "Gone Baby Gone" (Miramax)


RG,W, S, FL,
• BL Tilda Swinton in "Michael Clayton" (Warner Bros.)








Best animated feature film of the year



BL


• "Persepolis" (Sony Pictures Classics): Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud


ALL BUT BL


• "Ratatouille" (Walt Disney): Brad Bird



• "Surf's Up" (Sony Pictures Releasing): Ash Brannon and Chris Buck








Achievement in art direction



FL
• "American Gangster" (Universal): Art Direction: Arthur Max; Set Decoration: Beth A. Rubino


RG
• "Atonement" (Focus Features): Art Direction: Sarah Greenwood; Set Decoration: Katie Spencer


M, S, ML
• "The Golden Compass" (New Line in association with Ingenious Film Partners): Art Direction: Dennis Gassner; Set Decoration: Anna Pinnock


W
• "Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" (DreamWorks and Warner Bros.,
• Distributed by DreamWorks/Paramount): Art Direction: Dante Ferretti; Set
• Decoration: Francesca Lo Schiavo


BL
• "There Will Be Blood" (Paramount Vantage and Miramax): Art Direction: Jack Fisk;
• Set Decoration: Jim Erickson








Achievement in cinematography



BL
• "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford" (Warner Bros.):
• Roger Deakins


RG, M, ML, FL
• "Atonement" (Focus Features): Seamus McGarvey



• "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" (Miramax/Pathé Renn): Janusz Kaminski


W, S
• "No Country for Old Men" (Miramax and Paramount Vantage): Roger Deakins



• "There Will Be Blood" (Paramount Vantage and Miramax): Robert Elswit








Achievement in costume design



S
• "Across the Universe" (Sony Pictures Releasing) Albert Wolsky



• "Atonement" (Focus Features) Jacqueline Durran


ALL BUT S
• "Elizabeth: The Golden Age" (Universal) Alexandra Byrne



• "La Vie en Rose" (Picturehouse) Marit Allen



• "Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" (DreamWorks and Warner Bros., Distributed by DreamWorks/Paramount) Colleen Atwood








Achievement in directing




• "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" (Miramax/Pathé Renn), Julian Schnabel


W
• "Juno" (A Mandate Pictures/Mr. Mudd Production), Jason Reitman


M, S, FL
• "Michael Clayton" (Warner Bros.), Tony Gilroy


RG, ML
• "No Country for Old Men" (Miramax and Paramount Vantage), Joel Coen and Ethan Coen


BL
• "There Will Be Blood" (Paramount Vantage and Miramax), Paul Thomas Anderson








Best documentary feature



ML
• "No End in Sight" (Magnolia Pictures) A Representational Pictures Production:
• Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs


M, FL
• "Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience" (The Documentary Group) A
• Documentary Group Production: Richard E. Robbins


W, BL
• "Sicko" (Lionsgate and The Weinstein Company) A Dog Eat Dog Films Production: Michael Moore and Meghan O'Hara


RG
• "Taxi to the Dark Side" (THINKFilm) An X-Ray Production: Alex Gibney and Eva Orner


S
• "War/Dance" (THINKFilm) A Shine Global and Fine Films Production: Andrea Nix Fine and Sean Fine








Best documentary short subject



M, BL
• "Freeheld" A Lieutenant Films Production: Cynthia Wade and Vanessa Roth


FL
• "La Corona (The Crown)" A Runaway Films and Vega Films Production: Amanda Micheli and Isabel Vega


W, S
• "Salim Baba" A Ropa Vieja Films and Paradox Smoke Production: Tim Sternberg and Francisco Bello


RG, ML
• "Sari's Mother" (Cinema Guild) A Daylight Factory Production: James Longley








Achievement in film editing



RG, FL, BL
• "The Bourne Ultimatum" (Universal): Christopher Rouse



• "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" (Miramax/Pathé Renn): Juliette Welfling


M, ML
• "Into the Wild" (Paramount Vantage and River Road Entertainment): Jay Cassidy


S
• "No Country for Old Men" (Miramax and Paramount Vantage) Roderick Jaynes


W
• "There Will Be Blood" (Paramount Vantage and Miramax): Dylan Tichenor








Best foreign language film of the year



M
• "Beaufort" Israel



• "The Counterfeiters" Austria


ML, BL
• "Katyn" Poland


S, FL
• "Mongol" Kazakhstan


RG, W
• "12" Russia








Achievement in makeup




• "La Vie en Rose" (Picturehouse) Didier Lavergne and Jan Archibald


BL
• "Norbit" (DreamWorks, Distributed by Paramount): Rick Baker and Kazuhiro Tsuji


ALL BUT BL
• "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" (Walt Disney): Ve Neill and Martin


Samuel





Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)



ML
• "Atonement" (Focus Features) Dario Marianelli



• "The Kite Runner" (DreamWorks, Sidney Kimmel Entertainment and Participant Productions, Distributed by Paramount Classics): Alberto Iglesias


RG
• "Michael Clayton" (Warner Bros.) James Newton Howard


W, M, FL
• "Ratatouille" (Walt Disney) Michael Giacchino


S, BL
• "3:10 to Yuma" (Lionsgate) Marco Beltrami








Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)



BL
• "Falling Slowly" from "Once" (Fox Searchlight) Music and Lyric by Glen Hansard and: Marketa Irglova



• "Happy Working Song" from "Enchanted" (Walt Disney): Music by Alan Menken; Lyric by Stephen Schwartz


FL
• "Raise It Up" from "August Rush" (Warner Bros.): Music and Lyric by Jamal Joseph, Charles Mack and Tevin Thomas


M, S, ML
• "So Close" from "Enchanted" (Walt Disney): Music by Alan Menken; Lyric by Stephen Schwartz


RG, W
• "That's How You Know" from "Enchanted" (Walt Disney): Music by Alan Menken; Lyric by Stephen Schwartz








Best motion picture of the year



FL
• "Atonement" (Focus Features) A Working Title Production: Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner and Paul Webster, Producers


RG, S
• "Juno" (A Mandate Pictures/Mr. Mudd Production) A Mandate Pictures/Mr. Mudd Production: Lianne Halfon, Mason Novick and Russell Smith, Producers


W, M, BL
• "Michael Clayton" (Warner Bros.) A Clayton Productions, LLC Production: Sydney Pollack, Jennifer Fox and Kerry Orent, Producers


ML
• "No Country for Old Men" (Miramax and Paramount Vantage) A Scott Rudin/Mike Zoss Production: Scott Rudin, Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, Producers



• "There Will Be Blood" (Paramount Vantage and Miramax) A JoAnne Sellar/Ghoulardi Film Company Production: JoAnne Sellar, Paul Thomas Anderson and Daniel Lupi, Producers








Best animated short film



M, FL
• "I Met the Walrus" A Kids & Explosions Production: Josh Raskin


S
• "Madame Tutli-Putli" (National Film Board of Canada) A National Film Board of Canada Production Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski


W, ML
• "Même les Pigeons Vont au Paradis (Even Pigeons Go to Heaven)" (Premium Films) A BUF Compagnie Production Samuel Tourneux and Simon Vanesse


BL
• "My Love (Moya Lyubov)" (Channel One Russia) A Dago-Film Studio, Channel One Russia and Dentsu Tec Production Alexander Petrov


RG
• "Peter & the Wolf" (BreakThru Films) A BreakThru Films/Se-ma-for Studios Production Suzie Templeton and Hugh Welchman








Best live action short film



RG, M
• "At Night" A Zentropa Entertainments 10 Production: Christian E. Christiansen and Louise Vesth



• "Il Supplente (The Substitute)" (Sky Cinema Italia) A Frame by Frame Italia Production: Andrea Jublin



• "Le Mozart des Pickpockets (The Mozart of Pickpockets)" (Premium Films) A Karé Production: Philippe Pollet-Villard


W, S, FL
• "Tanghi Argentini" (Premium Films) An Another Dimension of an Idea Production: Guido Thys and Anja Daelemans


ML, BL
• "The Tonto Woman" A Knucklehead, Little Mo and Rose Hackney Barber Production: Daniel Barber and Matthew Brown








Achievement in sound editing



FL, BL
• "The Bourne Ultimatum" (Universal): Karen Baker Landers and Per Hallberg



• "No Country for Old Men" (Miramax and Paramount Vantage): Skip Lievsay



• "Ratatouille" (Walt Disney): Randy Thom and Michael Silvers


M
• "There Will Be Blood" (Paramount Vantage and Miramax): Christopher Scarabosio and Matthew Wood


RG, W, S, ML
• "Transformers" (DreamWorks and Paramount in association with Hasbro): Ethan Van der Ryn and Mike Hopkins








Achievement in sound mixing



BL
• "The Bourne Ultimatum" (Universal) Scott Millan, David Parker and Kirk Francis



• "No Country for Old Men" (Miramax and Paramount Vantage): Skip Lievsay, Craig Berkey, Greg Orloff and Peter Kurland


FL
• "Ratatouille" (Walt Disney): Randy Thom, Michael Semanick and Doc Kane


W
• "3:10 to Yuma" (Lionsgate): Paul Massey, David Giammarco and Jim Stuebe


RG, M, S, ML
• "Transformers" (DreamWorks and Paramount in association with Hasbro): Kevin


O'Connell, Greg P. Russell and Peter J. Devlin







Achievement in visual effects



M, S, FL
• "The Golden Compass" (New Line in association with Ingenious Film Partners): Michael Fink, Bill Westenhofer, Ben Morris and Trevor Wood



• "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" (Walt Disney): John Knoll, Hal Hickel, Charles Gibson and John Frazier


RG, W, ML, BL
• "Transformers" (DreamWorks and Paramount in association with Hasbro): Scott Farrar, Scott Benza, Russell Earl and John Frazier








Adapted screenplay



RG, M, S
• "Atonement" (Focus Features), Screenplay by Christopher Hampton


FL
• "Away from Her" (Lionsgate), Written by Sarah Polley



• "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" (Miramax/Pathé Renn), Screenplay by Ronald Harwood


W, ML, BL
• "No Country for Old Men" (Miramax and Paramount Vantage), Written for the screen by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen



• "There Will Be Blood" (Paramount Vantage and Miramax), Written for the screen by Paul Thomas Anderson








Original screenplay



RG, W, M, S, ML
• "Juno" (A Mandate Pictures/Mr. Mudd Production), Written by Diablo Cody



• "Lars and the Real Girl" (MGM), Written by Nancy Oliver


FL
• "Michael Clayton" (Warner Bros.), Written by Tony Gilroy



• "Ratatouille" (Walt Disney), Screenplay by Brad Bird; Story by Jan Pinkava, Jim Capobianco, Brad Bird


BL
• "The Savages" (Fox Searchlight), Written by Tamara Jenkins




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Jeremiah 'The Reel Guy' Rancourt
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