Just announced this morning. (Films I've seen marked with an *)
Let the speculation begin!
BEST PICTURE
Atonement
Juno
Michael Clayton
No Country for Old Men*
There Will Be Blood*
BEST ACTOR
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
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 SUPPORTING ACTOR
Casey Affleck, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Javier Barden, No Country for Old Men*
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Charlie Wilson's War
Hal Holbrook, Into the Wild
Tom Wilkinson, Michael Clayton
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 DIRECTOR
Julian Schnabel, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Jason Reitman, Juno
Tony Gilroy, Michael Clayton
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men*
Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will Be Blood*
6 comments:
I am stunned that Will Smith didn't get a nomination for I Am Legend. The part is tailor-made for an Oscar nomination: he is the movie, present in 99% of the scenes and the only character who can take decisive action to move the story. That said, it was always a long shot that a zombie movie would get attention from the Academy.
I haven't seen I Am Legend yet, but if Jeff Bridges can get a nomination for Starman, for crying out loud, why not Smith?
I keep hearing mixed reactions about the I am Legend remake.
Me too. If you haven't read the book yet, it's a must-read.
I Am Legend is one of those book movies that is a good book and a good movie, though the two formats don't really have all that much in common. Honestly, I was scared witless during the movie. Part of that comes from being a total weakling for any sort of movie scariness. And there was this terrible sense of loss and isolation that they went to great lengths to generate in the movie without just slathering it on with a brush. Nice touch. Definitely worth seeing, and likely far better in the theater than at home.
Let me amend that to read "absolutely nothing in common." Yes, it's post-apocalypse, yes, the character's name in Robert Neville. Yes, there's a dog. But that's it. At least Matheson got a decent movie and a lot of money (we hope).
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