oscars winner list

Best Motion Picture of the Year
Winner: No Country for Old Men (2007) - Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, Scott Rudin

Best Achievement in Directing
Winner: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen for No Country for Old Men (2007)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
Winner: Daniel Day-Lewis for There Will Be Blood (2007)

Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
Winner: Juno (2007) - Diablo Cody

Best Documentary, Features
Winner: Taxi to the Dark Side (2007) - Alex Gibney, Eva Orner

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
Winner: Marion Cotillard for Môme, La (2007)

Little buzz for top Oscar films

One film has an oblique ending that's left some viewers dissatisfied and others floored by its profundity. The other features a slowly developing plot and a brutal, operatically violent finale.

"No Country for Old Men" and "There Will Be Blood" are both gorgeous and bold, expertly crafted and intelligently acted. But most moviegoers have seen neither of them — and they never will — even though they're the two leading contenders for best picture at the Academy Awards.

Oscar-nominated films are often small, dark and unintended for mass audiences; they're about art, after all, not commerce. But that's especially true of this year's crop, which has little mainstream buzz and among the lowest box-office totals in recent years.

(The exception, of course, is the crowd-pleasing comedy "Juno," starring the hugely appealing Ellen Page as a quick-witted, pregnant teen. It had a budget of about $2.5 million and just crossed the $100 million mark at the box office. It is far and away the most financially successful of the five.)

Four of the movies nominated last week for best picture — "Juno," "Michael Clayton," "No Country for Old Men" and "There Will Be Blood" — got the so-called "Oscar bump" that comes from audiences checking them out the following weekend. (The sweeping romance "Atonement" dropped slightly.)

Still, they've only combined to make about $246.3 million domestically. In contrast, "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" already had grossed about $364 million all by itself by the time it won best picture in 2004.

In terms of ticket sales, about 7.3 million people have seen "No Country" (from Miramax and Paramount Vantage, a division of Viacom Inc.) and 2 million have seen "There Will Be Blood" (also from Paramount Vantage), compared with the approximately 51 million who saw the third "Rings" picture in theaters by Oscar night.

"I had someone ask me the other day, `Are academy voters out of touch in honoring these films that aren't popular with audiences?'" said Paul Dergarabedian, president of the box office tracker Media By Numbers. "But they're not supposed to be popular. They're honoring the cinematic merit of these films. (Or else) `Spider-Man 3' would have the most nominations. ...

"I always say it's either cinematic fast food or cinematic fine dining — you pick what you want," Dergarabedian added. "And Oscar tends to honor the films that give a cinematic fine dining experience."

The 2006 nominees did a bit bitter with a cumulative gross of about $297 million, thanks largely to the winner, "The Departed," which ended up with more than $132 million. "The Departed" also had a revered director in Martin Scorsese and an all-star cast including Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon and Jack Nicholson.

The nominees from 2005 combined for about $245 million with the winner, the ensemble drama "Crash," making only about $55 million. But that year had huge buzz thanks to "Brokeback Mountain," the gay cowboy romance, which had America talking regardless of their interest in art-house films. The perceived front-runner until the moment the envelope was opened, it made $83 million.

But it's not just the contenders in the best picture category that are drawing specialized crowds. "Michael Clayton" is the only film with multiple acting nominations: for its star, George Clooney, and supporting actors Tom Wilkinson and Tilda Swinton. The suspenseful corporate thriller from first-time director Tony Gilroy has made a decent $41.5 million.

"Away From Her," which has made a best-actress front-runner of Julie Christie as a wife suffering from Alzheimer's disease, made just under $16 million in limited release last year. "La Vie en Rose," the Edith Piaf biopic, has grossed only about $10 million, despite a wildly heralded performance from best-actress nominee Marion Cotillard.

The languid Western "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford," with its creepy, nuanced supporting turn from nominee Casey Affleck, hasn't even made $4 million. And the experimental "I'm Not There," which features six different people playing various incarnations of Bob Dylan — including supporting-actress nominee Cate Blanchett — made just about $3.5 million in its limited run.

"They're not simple fare," said Boo Allen, a Dallas-based film critic and historian.

"The average moviegoer might hear that Brad Pitt is playing Jesse James, then they hear from someone who's seen it that it's two and a half hours long and very slow, it's more of a character study than a shoot 'em up, and it just doesn't touch a nerve," said Allen, who chose "La Vie en Rose" as his favorite film this season. "Something like `Juno,' that touches a nerve. You hear people say it's funny, it's about a teenager who gets pregnant. Jennifer Garner's in it, Jason Bateman's in it, the little girl's really funny. That lends itself to word of mouth and draws people in."

While they haven't exactly been boffo in terms of box office, this year's awards contenders are undeniably strong in terms of art. Veteran cinematographer Roger Deakins, who's up for two Oscars for "No Country" and "Jesse James," compared the nominees to the kinds of films that pushed boundaries in the 1970s.

"It's one of the best years because there's so many intelligent films that are provocative. They're actually about something as well as being entertaining," said Deakins, the longtime Coen brothers collaborator, who's also been nominated for the more mainstream "The Shawshank Redemption."

"It really makes you feel part of a real cinema," he added. "There's brilliant, brilliant people out there."

Who's won what leading up to the Oscars

A list of honors the top movies are winning leading up to the Oscars:

AMERICAN GANGSTER
Best supporting actress, Ruby Dee: Academy Award nomination, Screen Actors Guild Award

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THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES BY THE COWARD ROBERT FORD
Best supporting actor, Casey Affleck: Academy Award nomination, National Society of Film Critics, National Board of Review
Best cinematography, Roger Deakins: Academy Award nomination, Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association
Top 10 lists: National Board of Review, Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association

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ATONEMENT
Best picture: Academy Award nomination, Golden Globe
Best supporting actress, Saoirse Ronan: Academy Award nomination
Best adapted screenplay, Christopher Hampton: Academy Award nomination
Best cinematography, Seamus McGarvey: Academy Award nomination
Best original score, Dario Marianelli: Academy Award nomination, Golden Globe
Top 10 lists: National Board of Review, New York Film Critics Online, Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association

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AWAY FROM HER
Best actress, Julie Christie: Academy Award nomination, Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild Award, Critics' Choice Award, National Society of Film Critics, National Board of Review, New York Film Critics Circle, New York Film Critics Online, Washington, D.C., Area Film Critics Association, Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association
Best directorial debut, Sarah Polley: New York Film Critics Circle, New York Film Critics Online
Best adapted screenplay, Sarah Polley: Academy Award nomination
New Generation Award, director Sarah Polley: Los Angeles Film Critics Association

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CHARLIE WILSON'S WAR
Best supporting actor, Philip Seymour Hoffman: Academy Award nomination
Top 10 lists: Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association

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THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY
Best picture: Spirit Award nomination, New York Film Critics Online
Best director, Julian Schnabel: Academy Award nomination, Golden Globe, Spirit Award nomination, Boston Society of Film Critics
Best foreign film: Golden Globe, Critics' Choice Award, National Board of Review, Boston Society of Film Critics, Washington, D.C., Area Film Critics Association, Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association
Best adapted screenplay, Ronald Harwood: Academy Award nomination, Writers Guild nomination, Spirit Award nomination
Best cinematography, Janusz Kaminski: Academy Award nomination, Spirit Award nomination, Los Angeles Film Critics Association, Boston Society of Film Critics
Top 10 lists: American Film Institute, New York Film Critics Online, Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association

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EASTERN PROMISES
Best actor, Viggo Mortensen: Academy Award nomination

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ELIZABETH: THE GOLDEN AGE
Best actress, Cate Blanchett: Academy Award nomination

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GONE BABY GONE
Best supporting actress, Amy Ryan: Academy Award nomination, Critics' Choice Award, National Board of Review, New York Film Critics Circle, Los Angeles Film Critics Association, Boston Society of Film Critics, Washington, D.C., Area Film Critics Association
Best directorial debut, Ben Affleck: National Board of Review, Boston Society of Film Critics

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HAIRSPRAY
Best ensemble cast: Critics' Choice Award
Best young actress, Nikki Blonsky: Critics' Choice Award

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I'M NOT THERE
Best picture: Spirit Award nomination
Best director, Todd Haynes: Spirit Award nomination
Best supporting actress, Cate Blanchett: Academy Award nomination, Golden Globe, Spirit Award nomination, National Society of Film Critics, New York Film Critics Online
Best supporting actor, Marcus Carl Franklin: Spirit Award nomination
Top 10 lists: New York Film Critics Online

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INTO THE WILD
Breakthrough performance, Emile Hirsch: National Board of Review
Best supporting actor, Hal Holbrook: Academy Award nomination
Best adapted screenplay, Sean Penn: Writers Guild nomination
Best original song: Golden Globe
Top 10 lists: American Film Institute, National Board of Review, Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association

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JUNO
Best picture: Academy Award nomination, Spirit Award nomination
Best director, Jason Reitman: Academy Award nomination, Spirit Award nomination
Best comedy: Critics' Choice Award
Best actress, Ellen Page: Academy Award nomination, Spirit Award nomination
Breakthrough performance, Ellen Page: National Board of Review, New York Film Critics Online, Washington, D.C., Area Film Critics Association
Best original screenplay, Diablo Cody: Academy Award nomination, Writers Guild nomination, Critics' Choice Award, National Board of Review, Washington, D.C., Area Film Critics Association
Best first screenplay, Diablo Cody: Spirit Award nomination
Top 10 lists: American Film Institute, National Board of Review, New York Film Critics Online, Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association

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THE KITE RUNNER
Best young actor, Ahmad Khan Mahmoodzada: Critics' Choice Award
Best original score, Alberto Iglesias: Academy Award nomination
Top 10 lists: National Board of Review, Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association

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LA VIE EN ROSE
Best actress, Marion Cotillard: Academy Award nomination, Golden Globe, Los Angeles Film Critics Association, Boston Society of Film Critics

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LARS AND THE REAL GIRL
Best original screenplay, Nancy Oliver: Academy Award nomination, Writers Guild nomination, National Board of Review
Top 10 lists: National Board of Review

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LUST, CAUTION
Best actor, Tony Leung: Spirit Award nomination
Best actress, Tang Wei: Spirit Award nomination
Best cinematography, Rodrigo Prieto: Spirit Award nomination

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MICHAEL CLAYTON
Best picture: Academy Award nomination
Best director, Tony Gilroy: Academy Award nomination
Best actor, George Clooney: Academy Award nomination, National Board of Review, Washington, D.C., Area Film Critics Association
Best supporting actor, Tom Wilkinson: Academy Award nomination
Best supporting actress, Tilda Swinton: Academy Award nomination, Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association
Best original screenplay, Tony Gilroy: Academy Award nomination, Writers Guild nomination
Best original score, James Newton Howard: Academy Award nomination
Top 10 lists: American Film Institute, National Board of Review, New York Film Critics Online, Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association

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A MIGHTY HEART
Best picture: Spirit Award nomination
Best actress, Angelina Jolie: Spirit Award nomination
Best first screenplay, John Orloff: Spirit Award nomination

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NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
Best picture: Academy Award nomination, Critics' Choice Award, National Board of Review, New York Film Critics Circle, Boston Society of Film Critics, Washington, D.C., Area Film Critics Association, Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association, Associated Press critics Christy Lemire and David Germain
Best director, Joel and Ethan Coen: Academy Award nomination, Directors Guild Award, Critics' Choice Award, New York Film Critics Circle, Washington, D.C., Area Film Critics Association, Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association
Best ensemble cast: Screen Actors Guild Award
Best supporting actor, Javier Bardem: Academy Award nomination, Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild Award, Critics' Choice Award, New York Film Critics Circle, New York Film Critics Online, Boston Society of Film Critics, Washington, D.C., Area Film Critics Association, Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association
Best ensemble cast: National Board of Review, Washington, D.C., Area Film Critics Association
Best adapted screenplay, Joel and Ethan Coen: Academy Award nomination, Golden Globe, Writers Guild nomination, National Board of Review, New York Film Critics Circle
Best cinematography, Roger Deakins: Academy Award nomination
Top 10 lists: American Film Institute, New York Film Critics Online

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NO END IN SIGHT
Best documentary: Academy Award nomination, Writers Guild nomination, National Society of Film Critics, New York Film Critics Circle, Los Angeles Film Critics Association

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PERSEPOLIS
Best animated film: Academy Award nomination, New York Film Critics Circle, New York Film Critics Online, Los Angeles Film Critics Association
Best foreign language film: New York Film Critics Online

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RATATOUILLE
Best animated film: Academy Award nomination, Golden Globe, Critics' Choice Award, National Board of Review, Los Angeles Film Critics Association, Washington, D.C., Area Film Critics Association, Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association
Best original screenplay, Brad Bird: Academy Award nomination, Boston Society of Film Critics
Best original score, Michael Giacchino: Academy Award nomination
Top 10 lists: American Film Institute

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THE SAVAGES
Best director, Tamara Jenkins: Spirit Award nomination
Best actor, Philip Seymour Hoffman: Spirit Award nomination
Best actress, Laura Linney: Academy Award nomination
Best original screenplay, Tamara Jenkins: Academy Award nomination, Writers Guild nomination, Spirit Award nomination, National Society of Film Critics, Los Angeles Film Critics Association
Best cinematography, Mott Hupfel: Spirit Award nomination
Top 10 lists: American Film Institute

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SICKO

Best documentary: Academy Award nomination, Writers Guild nomination, Critics' Choice Award, New York Film Critics Online, Washington, D.C., Area Film Critics Association

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SWEENEY TODD
Best picture: Golden Globe
Best director, Tim Burton: National Board of Review
Best actor, Johnny Depp: Academy Award nomination, Golden Globe
Top 10 lists: National Board of Review, New York Film Critics Online

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THERE WILL BE BLOOD
Best picture: Academy Award nomination, National Society of Film Critics, Los Angeles Film Critics Association, New York Film Critics Online
Best director, Paul Thomas Anderson: Academy Award nomination, National Society of Film Critics, Los Angeles Film Critics Association, New York Film Critics Online
Best actor, Daniel Day-Lewis: Academy Award nomination, Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild Award, Critics' Choice Award, National Society of Film Critics, New York Film Critics Circle, Los Angeles Film Critics Association, Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association, New York Film Critics Online
Best adapted screenplay, Paul Thomas Anderson: Academy Award nomination, Writers Guild nomination
Best cinematography, Robert Elswit: Academy Award nomination, National Society of Film Critics, New York Film Critics Circle, New York Film Critics Online
Best score, Jonny Greenwood: Critics' Choice Award
Best production design, Jack Fisk: Los Angeles Film Critics Association
Top 10 lists: American Film Institute, New York Film Critics Online, Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association

Coens win for 'No Country for Old Men'

LOS ANGELES - Joel and Ethan Coen won the top prize from the Directors Guild of America on Saturday for "No Country for Old Men," giving them the inside track for the same honor at the Academy Awards — assuming the Oscars go on amid the writers strike.

"Oh, we get two of them," Ethan Coen said when he and his brother were presented with their trophies.

The Coens were only the second two-person team to win the Directors Guild honor, following Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins for 1961's "West Side Story."

"Ethan and I have a bookshelf in our office where we keep various plaques and such that we've gotten over the years that we call our ego corner," Joel Coen said.

When brother Ethan is having a bad day, he goes over with Windex and silver polish and "spit shines his medals for an hour or two," Joel Coen said. "It makes him feel better. This is a really big one, in every respect. It's going to keep him busy."

As with Martin Scorsese, who as last year's winner for "The Departed" presented the award to the Coens, the Directors Guild winner almost always goes on to win the same prize at the Oscars.

Adapted from Cormac McCarthy's novel, "No Country for Old Men" stars Josh Brolin as a good old Texan who makes off with loot from a drug deal gone bad, Javier Bardem as a ruthless killer on his trail, and Tommy Lee Jones as a sheriff tracking both men.

With the Directors Guild honor, "No Country" also may emerge as the favorite to win best picture at the Oscars.

The fate of the Oscars remains uncertain, though. Writers, who have been on strike for nearly three months, have refused to work on some major awards shows, among them the Golden Globes, whose ceremony was scrapped for lack of stars.

The Coens' former cinematographer, Barry Sonnenfeld, also was a guild winner. Sonnenfeld, whose films include the "Men in Black" series, won a small-screen prize, receiving the award for television comedy for directing an episode of "Pushing Daisies."

"Mad Men" earned the TV drama honor for Alan Taylor, while Yves Simoneau won the TV movie award for "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee."

Other TV winners included Glenn P. Weiss for musical variety for "The 61st Annual Tony Awards"; Bertram Van Munster for reality programming for "The Amazing Race"; Paul Hoen for children's programs for "Jump In"; and Larry Carpenter for daytime serials for "One Life to Live."

Asger Leth won the documentary honor for "Ghosts of Cite Soleil," his portrait of two brothers who are gang leaders in a notorious Haitian slum.

Unlike other major honors, such as Sunday night's Screen Actors Guild Awards, the DGA ceremony is untelevised, making it a more laid-back gathering of Hollywood's elite and shielding it from some of the attention the industry's labor strife has brought to other ceremonies.

The Golden Globes banquet was canceled after stars made clear they would stay away in support of the Writers Guild of America strike, and the Oscars may face the same dilemma come Feb. 24.

Still, the writers' strike did cast a pall over the directors' big night, even though their guild last week negotiated a new contract after just days of meetings with producers. A fair number of Directors Guild members also belong to the writers union, whose strike has shut down TV shows and postponed movies, throwing thousands in the entertainment industry out of work.

Hal Holbrook, nominated for the supporting-actor Oscar for Directors Guild nominee Sean Penn's "Into the Wild," said before the Directors Guild awards that the "strike is becoming really dangerous. They're losing their homes. ...

"All I can hope is since we all have to share in producing anything — from the studio to the actors to the camera person to the costume lady, whatever, the set dresser — we all share," Holbrook said.

Many in Hollywood hope the Directors Guild deal will help resuscitate talks between writers and producers, whose negotiations broke down Dec. 7, a month after guild members walked off the job.

Dan Glickman — who heads the Motion Picture Association of America, Hollywood's top trade group — said before the directing awards that the union's new contract "offers a very good template for the other guilds," which could jump-start the labor impasse in time to let the Oscars go on.

"I sure hope so. The Oscars are kind of the link between the world of consumers and the world of entertainment," Glickman said. "I mean, a billion people or more watch the Oscars, and so it would be a real shame if we weren't able to keep that precedent, that history of this event going."

Winners, presenters and host Carl Reiner generally ignored Hollywood's labor problems during the Directors Guild ceremony, keeping the tone celebratory. There were only a few passing references to contract negotiations.

Oscar nominations

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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

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

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

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

Art Direction
American Gangster
Atonement
The Golden Compass
Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
There Will Be Blood

Cinematography
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Atonement
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood

Costume Design
Across the Universe
Atonement
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
La Vie en Rose
Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Directing
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Juno
Michael Clayton
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood

Best Documentary Feature
No End In Sight
Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience
Sicko
Taxi to the Dark Side
War/Dance

Documentary Short
Freeheld
La Corona (The Crown)
Salim Baba
Sari's Mother

Film Editing
The Bourne Ultimatum
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Into the Wild
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood

Foreign Language Film of the YearBeaufort
The Counterfeiters
Katyn
Mongol
12

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

Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score)
Atonement
The Kite Runner
Michael Clayton
Ratatouille
3:10 To Yuma

Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song)
Once
Enchanted
August Rush
Enchanted

Best Motion Picture of the Year
Atonement
Juno
Michael Clayton
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood

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

Best Live Action Short Film
At Night
Il Supplente (The Substitute)
Le Mozart des Pickpockets (The Mozart of Pickpockets)
Tanghi Argentini
The Tonto Woman

Sound Editing
The Bourne Ultimatum
No Country for Old Men
Ratatouille
There Will Be Blood
Transformers

Sound Mixing
The Bourne Ultimatum
No Country for Old Men
Ratatouille
3:10 To Yuma
Transformers

Visual Effects
The Golden Compass
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Transformers

Screenplay
AtonementAtonement
Away From Her
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood

Original Screenplay
JunoJuno
Lars and the Real Girl
Michael Clayton
Ratatouille
The Savages

The 80th Academy Award® nominations

The 80th Academy Award® nominations will be announced on Tuesday, January 22, 2008, at 5:30 a.m. PST, in the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater.